Build a Metal Shaper by Dave Gingery

Hello,

Has anyone Built one of Dave Gingerly's shaping machines without having to do any casting, by building the frame up from steel plate and nuts n bolts instead? I have been thinking of buying the dave gingery shaper book for the plans/dimensions

Regards

lee

Lee,

Dias Costa has built one in Aluminium Alloy

... He posted some details in my thread

MichaelG.

Michael,

Thanks for the Link,

Hello Lee, good afternoon.



Lee: - Has anyone Built one of Dave's Gingerly shaping machines without having to any of the casting, by building up the frame from steel plate and nuts n bolts instead?
DC: I started building a Dave Gingery's shaping machine and just missing me build a base and apply an engine. In the construction of the shaping machine I did not use any cast element. Basically I used aluminium plate from where I carved and cold rolled steel. And, yes, many nuts and bolts as you can see in my album...

Lee: - I have been thinking of buying the book dave gingery shaper for the plans / dimensions
DC: - Dave Gingery's book was my starting point and my guide. However I made some modifications.
Following is the list of the most important:
1 - I did not use bicycle chain and sprocket-wheel for movement and instead use synchronized wheel and belt in mechanical conversion of rotary motion to reciprocating motion.
2 - I did not used bronze bearings on the main shaft. Instead used a double needle bearing.
3 - In each of the remaining bearings, for lubrication, I built a hole and a small cavity where a piece of felt fits dipped in oil.
4 - The ram does not move on aluminium tabs. They move on a bar cold rolled steel (in each side) and I intend to use UHMWPE tape (see, please, http://www.theptfeshop.com/product.php/28/uhmw-tape---0-25mm-thick/8b342268fcfea1fbcf234c54629ebc51. This alternative was recommended to me by Mr. Rick Sparber, who used it in its shaper and also helped me with valuable opinions in building the shaping machine.
5 - Also the automatic horizontal advance, at least temporarily, will be automatic in one direction only. I only need to build a new "ratchet pawl".
6 - Instead of building an aluminium  work table, I will apply an angle plate bought from Chronos (see, please, http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/info%5f110710%2ehtml).

If I can help you with any thoughts or information, I will do it with pleasure.

P.S.: I'm sorry I couldn't get rid of the white background. Don't know how it appeared in the post...

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 26/10/2013 17:35:08

Dias,

I presume that the white background appears when you paste-in HTML from your off-line wordprocessor.

... It seems all-too-easy to accidentally insert HTML when pasting into this editor.

You made a great response to Lee though.

MichaelG.

Dias,

Thank you very much for your reply post, most appreciated

Why I am thinking of using heavy steel is for the weight? am I not right in thinking any sort of alloy would be too light weight for what a metal shaping machine is used for, But saying that, if yours works perfectly , I have got it wrong

Regards

lee

Hello Lee, good after noon.

Lee: - Why I am thinking of using heavy steel is for the weight? am I not right in thinking any sort of alloy would be too light weight for what a metal shaping machine is used for
DC: - There is a gentlemen in Belgium who is building a shaping machine from "steel plate and nuts and bolts". His site address is . There you can find lots of useful information.

Lee: - But saying that, if yours works perfectly , I have got it wrong
DC: - In another thread I wrote "Let me tell you that I have not had conditions to test the cutting capabilities of my shaper machine because the fire in my workshop. However you can look up some movies on Youtube by Mr. Rick Sparber. He built a shaping machine strictly following the book of Mr. Gingery and shows it on Youtube cutting some metal.". This is still true.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello MichaelG, good afternoon.

MG: - ... It seems all-too-easy to accidentally insert HTML when pasting into this editor.

DC: - Yes you are right. But even after having made a copy to a plain ASCII editor and back, I was unable to free the text from the HTML tags.

Than you.

Best regards
Dias Costa

I have a copy of the book to pass along if anyone wants it.

Mark,

I ordered the book before you posted that up, what a shame, could of had thet book off you

Regards

lee