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