Comments on: Spindle Indexer and Lock Update for my Gingery Lathe http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/ My Projects, Interests, etc... Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rick http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/#comment-3709 Rick Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:05:15 +0000 http://morgandemers.com/?p=938#comment-3709 Found the files and the downloads on the blog. Thanks, Rick.

]]> By: Rick http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/#comment-3708 Rick Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:28:27 +0000 http://morgandemers.com/?p=938#comment-3708 Trying to find you and search for the info i had already got from you on the blog or online groups where i had found you a year ago; i found you, YEAH!

Have just bought a treadmill and tour it down to get the motor, drive board, control board and wiring. Was glad to get the one i did, only 25 bucks and all seems to work on it. The only thing i see that may be a problem and yet may not be is the motor is just 1.5 horse power, while most i’ve seen are 2hp.

Been searching your blog for any downloads you may have in any help i can get on wiring up the motor and maybe some programming and hardware i may need to get this thing off the ground. Got all my patterns made for the lathe and should not take me that long to pour them up. Finishing them a bit longer of course.

Are you on one of the google or yahoo groups in metal casting or gingery lathes that maybe you’ve already uploaded wiring diagrams and such i can go and download them from?

Sorry for this post on this blog, remove it need be. Just glad to find you again and get my motor and wanted to get started collecting info i’d need to get things rolling on this project. Please email me any info you have or let me know where i may download it.

Thanks, Rick.

]]> By: Steve King http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/#comment-3605 Steve King Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:54:13 +0000 http://morgandemers.com/?p=938#comment-3605 Just a note! I saw a home made tool in Home Shop Machinsts magazine awhile back where a simple alignment tool was made for holding a metal stamp just for the purpose of stamping the numbers on round items such as indexing wheel/coller parts for a lathe or mill or fixture or, whatever! The tool was machined from bar stock and was made of steel, could be made of aluminum or brass as well. Once I find the back issue, I’ll send you the instruction for review. Made some adjustment to my lathe yesterday, took up the running slack in the carriage and it wasnt much, about .003. I have a gear train on the aprom, rack and gear assembly to move the carriage when the split nut is not engaged. My shop got really cold during the night and I was out there a while ago and tried to run the carrige back and forth, steel and aluminum cool at different rates, as I could not move the apron or carrige! Once the heat of the day and the shop heater warmed things up, all was well! I remember my Dad starting up all his machines in his shop at the start of the days machine work, sure made a difference in consistant tolerance! Hope all is well!

Regards;

Steve

]]> By: Morgan http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/#comment-3498 Morgan Thu, 02 Jan 2014 01:22:09 +0000 http://morgandemers.com/?p=938#comment-3498 Hey Steve,

Thanks for the reply, yes I purchased book #6 right off when I got the lathe book and there is a lot of neat information / accessories in there ( I used the plans from #6 to make the 2-jaw faceplate chuck, and setscrew chuck ) – my goal was to someday make gears in my home shop. At this point, time and money wise, I’ll most likely skip the dividing head build for now, though it does look interesting. The cost of the worm gear is a bit staggering, and I have other tools I would rather spend the money on. I really would like a 4-jaw chuck at this point, and will most likely buy one and machine the backplate as I did with the 3-jaw. I intended to build the gingery 4-jaw, but I have other projects I would really like to get to at this point. I feel that I could spend the rest of my life making things for my lathe ;)

Cheers,
Morgan

]]> By: Steve King http://morgandemers.com/spindle-indexer-and-lock-update-for-my-gingery-lathe/#comment-3497 Steve King Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:48:23 +0000 http://morgandemers.com/?p=938#comment-3497 Hi Morgan, Happy New Year! Good looking face plate and indexing tool set up, Gingery has a book, number 6, that shows how to build the dividing head and other related equipment. To me, it looks like it will be a fun project. There are some indexing tables as well as heads,(fair to good in quality) costs are pretty much across the board on the tool suppliers catalogs, Gingery built his for a hundred bucks and some change, I am sure the worm and gear are a bunch more than that now! Keep us posted!

Steve

]]>