The Home Machinist!

The furnace is a pop corn can lined with fire brick scraps/cut off ends from a fire place store. I then packed behind the fire brick with a mix of perolite, silica sand, and portland 2 cement. Same for the floor its about 2" thick. I used a 1 1/8" dia bicycle frame tube for the inlet pipe ...

I'm new here. I'm building the Dave Gingery shaper. I have one casting left to do, it is the table casting. I'm assembling the shaper now and doing the scrapping etc. I stayed close to the plans as far as dimensions of all the parts , I've bought nut and bolts from Fastenal. I bought the cold rolled...