Casting and Machining Diary for the Gingery Metal Shaper
Entries
Updated Gingery Metal Shaper Drawings 11/24/2007
Column Side Plates 11/29/2007
Defects but no Failures 12/15/2007
Casting the Column Front Plate and the Ram, version 2; 12/21/2007
Any Easy way to Test Your Sand's Strength, Version 1
Casting the Ram Cap, an Angle Plate, and lots of Ingots 12/23/2007
The First day of Machining the Ram 01/10/2008
The Second day of Machining the Ram and Machining the Ram Cap 01/13/2008
The Third day of Machining the Ram and Machining the Ram Cap 01/15/2008
The Forth day of Machining the Ram and Machining the Ram Cap 01/17/2008
Attaching the CRS Plate to the Ram 01/23/2008
The finished Ram 01/25/2008
Assembling the column 01/27/2008
Fitting the Ram to the column 02/01/2008
A Redesigned Crank Yoke 02/05/2008
A Redesigned Cone Pulley and Outboard Sheave 02/10/2008
The Building of the Crank Plate 02/14/2008
The Casting and Machining of the Crank Bearing Support 02/26/2008
Casting Pulleys, Feed Crank, Protractor Disc, and Rotating Head 04/13/2008
Machining the Pulley 05/02/2008
Machining the Crank Yoke and Support 06/08/2008
Installing the Crank Yoke and Support 06/12/2008
The Ram Clamp, Clamp Guide, and Bolt Fabrication 06/17/2008
A short Quicktime movie of the shaper so far 06/17/2008
Machining the Feed Crank Casting 06/22/2008
Final Assembly of the Feed Crank 07/11/2008
Machining the Downfeed Head and Protractor 07/15/2008
Making the Down Feed, Clapper Box, Cross Slide Support, and
Cross Slide Patterns plus Fitting the Slide to the Rotating Head 07/21/2008
The Casting of the Down Feed, Clapper Box, Cross Slide Support, and Cross Slide 08/05/2008
Machining and Assembling the Down Feed 08/10/2008
Machining and Fitting the Clapper Box 08/17/2008
Fitting the Clapper To the Clapper Box 08/17/2008
Machining The Clapper Pin and Hole 08/27/2008
Fitting the Vertical Slide on the Cross Slide Casting 08/30/2008
Installing The Cross Slide Ways 08/31/2008
The Cross Slide and Cross Feed Assembly 09/11/2008
The Vertical Screw Assembly 09/16/2008
Casting Ball Cranks 09/18/2008
The Downfeed Dial 09/23/2008
My First Try at a Shaper Table 09/24/2008
Fabricating the Table 10/04/2008
Fitting the Table to the Cross Slide 10/04/2008
Fabricating the Automatic Cross Feed 10/07/2008
A short Quicktime movie of the shaper cutting Paraffin Wax (60 MB file!) 10/07/2008
Ram Stroke Adjustment 10/18/2008
Casting and Machining An 8" Pulley 10/19/2008
Casting A Ball Handle using Plastic Wrap 10/19/2008
Machining The Handwheel 10/21/2008
The Shaper Power Train, so far... 10/24/2008
Motor Support and Belt Tensioner 10/26/2008
Belt Guards and Electrical Control 11/13/2008
Building a Vise For the Gingery Shaper 11/24/2008