Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap

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1. pugworthyMar 2024
   If you really want to start from the beginning, get “Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap” by David Gingery.

   Quoting the description from Amazon (link below)…

   “[It] is a progressive series of seven projects. Beginning with a simple charcoal fired foundry, you produce the castings for building the machine tools to equip your shop. Initially the castings are finished by simple hand methods, but it is not long before the developing machines are doing much of the work to produce their own parts.”

   https://a.co/d/cIqbQCD

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2. hacknewsloginJul 2023
   For anyone looking for an awesome series of books, these will expand your backyard workshop. Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap: https://www.gingerybookstore.com/

   You start with learning how to cast, then work on casting parts for a lathe and other projects.

   edit: It looks like the site's author has some of these books! He has a page detailing building the lathe: https://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/lathe1.html

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3. raintreesJul 2023
   For those interested, a fairly comprehensive book on backyard metalcasting from scrap (from the ground up) is David Gingery's Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/build-your-own-metal-working-s...

   Starting with green sand, scrap metal, charcoal, and a pot, pour parts to build a lathe, and so on.

   It looks like he has put out quite a few "how to" books: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/david-j-gingery/381968/

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4. AnimatsJun 2022
   This was taken seriously in 1950s US Civil Defense. Since Europe had already been through that process recently, there was a lot of knowledge available.

   There's a classic set of books, "Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap", on this.

   The kid's version: "A Boy and a Battery" (1942).[1] There's also "A Boy and a Motor", on how to build your own electric train set from old metal cans, some wire, a hammer and tinsnips, and the skills of a master machinist.

   [1] https://archive.org/details/boyandbatteryrev00yate

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5. NegativeLatencyJun 2022
   "Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap" I have that on my bookshelf, it's worth a read if you're just curious about how machine tools are made/work.

   Might build the shaper out of there someday but currently it seems like it would be a better use of my time to buy an import lathe (assuming no natural disaster)

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6. webmavenJan 2022
   > As far as I'm concerned, it's black magic and truly an incredible achievement for humanity.

   Fabs seem to be the far edge of tools-to-make-the-tools dependency stack, with some of the necessary sorcerous gadgets (like EUV lithography) themselves only having a single supplier with the necessary secret incantations on the other side of the planet.

   Does the knowledge even exist to bootstrap things back up again should the present infrastructure and supply chains be sufficiently disrupted?

   I've long admired David J. Gingery's 'Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap' and wondered whether anything like it is even possible for integrated circuits.

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