"Uncle"
Dave Gingery's
Shop Notebook
Yup. That Weeerd Dave Gingery guy over the years has accumulated a good many small hints, tips, tricks and projects in his notebooks that never made it into his famous machine shop series.
You, of course, DO keep a notebook, don't you? Real inventors and engineers ALWAYS keep notebooks. Very smart thing to do.
Here, poor ol' Vince has dug through years of the accumulated chicken scratch (I said "scratch") and has laboriously deciphered it, built the projects, produced drawings and photographs along with text that makes sense.
In effect, this is by Dave Gingery, but since Dave is too busy in his retirement sittin' in his easy chair drooling on himself, Vince has actually produced this small but useful booklet.
If
you can't find just one useful idea in it, you're in real trouble. You must
be brain dead!
You'll find a great jig, very simple to build, that will allow you to grind lathe cutters at precise angles with a standard grinder. And Dave's notes on building a miniature rotary table and its use is worth the price of the booklet alone.
Included are plans for a truly useful wooden workbench and rod rack, tricks and advice on layout, drilling, reaming, thread tapping, grinding, holding square stock, sacrificial faceplates, making lathe fixtures, and more.
You'll see examples of how Dave overcame
problems in finishing a head for a small engine as well as special jigs and
tooling that have served him well over the years.
Discussions of each topic are short and to the point with the typical Gingery detail and illustrations. Great stuff. Worth having. More to come if Vince's eyesight holds up. Geez... the chicken scratch.... Scratch! I said scratch... 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 56 pages
No. 1528 ... $7.95
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