| 2004/05/30 | No, I haven't given up yet. I am still here but I am being held back by space, noise, and dust. It has gotten very difficult (and frustrating) to work in a 6 square meter (64 square foot) apartment room. In particular, I need to figure out a good way to deal with noise and dust containment. I'm really not sure what I am going to do yet. Please be patient... |
| 2004/04/11 | Motor test, acquisition of a small arc welder, (and start of carriage cross slide ways, but not very interesting yet). |
| 2004/03/25 | Once again another big gap with little progress. Things will continue to be a little slow for a couple more weeks and then I should be able to do a bunch more. In the meantime, I put together a simple tool post. |
| 2004/03/07 | Unfortunately, there was very, very little progress this week (too much work!). I cut a nut in half for the split nut mechanism though... |
| Old news | At the bottom of this page. |
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Warning!
These pages only describe what I have done.
I can't make any guarantees that anything will work for you.
Simply put, melting metal is a dangerous hobby.
I am not responsible for anything that you do with this information.
... keep in mind my friend Boris, the world's best Russian Roulette player, whose record was 384-1... (http://www.frii.com/~katana/castindex.html)
Remember, a hobby is only fun until you're standing in the middle of the street with your family watching your house burn. (http://home.earthlink.net/~jschwytzer/first_melt.html)
Another warning...
These pages contain a bunch of images.
Depending on your internet connection it may take a bit to load the pages.
Almost all of the images are linked to larger images so click on a picture
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| 2004/02/29 | More work on the carriage. |
| 2004/02/28 | Finished the bed and ways and made a little more progress on the carriage. |
| 2004/02/27 | Things are going pretty slowly, but I have found a couple of tools and a motor and also started scraping the edges of the ways. |
| 2004/02/20 | More work done on the lathe's leadscrew. |
| 2004/02/15 | Started on bearings for the lathe's leadscrew. |
| 2004/02/11 | Updated lathe introduction, attached ways to bed, and cast a few more parts for the carriage. |
| 2004/02/05 | Added frusta page (for flare geometry) |
| 2004/02/02 | Added casting equipment page (still incomplete) |
| 2004/01/31 | Everything is new! |
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