Looking locally, a 6"W x 1/2" thick x 36"L piece of CRS is $160. For ~$20 more I can get precision ground O1 stock, however, it would be at 3/8" thickness and not 1/2".

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Wouldn't drilling the holes be a form of machining? Has anyone in the group ever experienced warping or creepage from using CRS? I did see someone had a wear issue that looked quite minor. I also did

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So actually, someone made a 1:1 scale model of the Atlas 10, so thats my base. I may do the ways like gingery did (one full sheet) or separate. I was going to do separate ways and then align them, but

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Hmm, I was wondering if those were robust enough for this use…I was looking at a small bench top mill build using those. https://www.instructables.com/Mini-Milling-Machine-DIY-Super-Robust-and-Precise

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Look. If you are going to build your own larger lathe there are lots of ways to do this. There have been youtube videos on building a slant bed lathe. Look at how the high end systems now use the line

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Dave used CRS because it’s flat and parallel from the vendor and is reasonably cheap. Yes, CRS is full of stresses from the rolling process; but those aren’t really evident unless you machine it. If y

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Hello everyone I am 34 and Im from CT. Ive been interested in gingery for sometime, but eventually I did buy a mini lathe and a mini mill, 7x16 and a G0704 from grizzly. They have both served me well.

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Hi, My name is Billy Smith. I've been a member of the Gingery groups since i found it on YahooGroups. Been working on designing, building, and maintaining machine tools, and, furnaces since 2010. http

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