I can't speak for anyone else, but since my employer makes parts for emergency generators, we were deemed essential, and never shut down. If anything, we've been busier than usual. I had signed up to

I'm not sure how to reply to a specific post, but I tried the links above. I'd subscribed to PGS so long ago, I'd forgotten about it, so I bookmarked it. (I have WAY too many YouTube subscriptions!)

Thanks! I just subscribed.

Just found someone currently making a Gingery Lathe. https://www.youtube.com/user/Davhttps://www.youtube.com/user/DaveBoatBuilder/videoseBoatBuilder/videos

For those that haven't discovered it yet. PGS has a YouTube series om making a Gingery milling machine, and the indexing head. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOYaMSY8f8t-YgvdMJXFRRA/videos

It's a lebond regal lathe, built in the latter half of 1950. 17" center and over 60" working length, it was a bear to get into my garage. I'm about halfway through the restoration now, having taken

The castings were definitely troublesome. Headstock and the bed were the worst. Although over time it did get better and when I picked up the book by John Campbell, it all started to turn a corner.

Personally, I kinda gave up on building my gingery machines. Had a lot of trouble with castings, and in the end got an import lathe on sale. Instead of building my own machines I switched over to

I can tell you his videos really helped me as I built and finished my Gingery lathe last year. Great editing and super helpful. As for posting my own videos... that's a lot of work! The expectation

You do bring up an interesting subject. Why so many of these forums are virtually inactive and it appears no one is making things. One would think with COVID and people working from home that there

I quite enjoyed his videos as well, so seeing this popped up I did a little digging. Seems he's still alive and well, looks like a case of life getting in the way and his channel/brand not being the

Never heard of him before, but looks like a good one to be looking at. Last video is about a year old. He may have been overcome by financial disaster that has overtaken a lot of us in this age of

I've been watching Cressel Anderson's excellent YouTube videos on his Makercise channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZnQYVCCnNnwqiJRIYQuYdA He built a Gingery lathe and shaper, and started the

https://sanantonio.craigslist.org/tld/d/mountain-home-lathe-mill-tooling/7293304368.html And a lot of other stuff. Not mine, no relation. Just saw it in a search today.

Finally got around to mounting my 3 slotted sensors in the 3D printed holder onto the Gingery Lathe. It's been on the to-do list for more than a year. Tonight I drilled all the appropriate holes

There was an article or maybe in one of Gingery's books about floating the glass onto something to keep it flat. Like concrete in a form or plaster. Don't remember. Like a surface plate, the glass

Many thanks, I'm using a much thinner coat, and not pressing down at all. I've also found that the glass bends. It need to be carefully supported to get the same results each time

Dave, Sorry in the USA. For proper blue thickness on glass, put a sheet of lined paper underneath the glass. Roll or squeegee the blue until you can just see the lines on the paper. Then it is thin

I was pushing the laid bed down too hard. And I had a very thick layer of blue. Now I'm working with a much thinner layer and I don't push the bed down at all. I'm getting there slowly but there's a

I don't know why some of the more experienced people have not replied. My opinion on scraping isn't worth much. But if I remember the theory, when you rub the blued surface across a flat plate