The dominant themes of the series are recycling, using inexpensive and free materials, and bootstrapping the shop's capabilities. There is another book by Gingery, not usually counted as part of the series, entitled Building a Gas Fired Crucible Furnace, which can be substituted for that describing the charcoal foundry. Designing & Building The Sheet Metal Brake.The books in the series are, in the suggested sequence of construction: The lathe and foundry are then used to make more complicated machine tools. The lathe is the first machine built since it can be used to help build itself. Then green sand castings are used to make a metal lathe. The hobbyist starts by constructing a small foundry capable of melting silicon- aluminum and zinc alloys from recycled automotive parts. Gingery is most famous for his Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap series, which details how to build a reasonably complete machine shop at low cost, often from scrap metal and other items.
Gingery ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ ŋ ɡ ər i/ Decem– May 3, 2004) was an inventor, writer, and machinist, best known for his series of books on how to build machine tools. ( August 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭavid J. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.
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