1. Charcoal Foundry

Take an old metal 5-gallon pail. a few dollars worth of fire- clay, some sand. a hair drier or vacuum cleaner and grocery store charcoal to melt aluminum. Learn how to pour it into sand molds to produce all the castings you’ll need for Dave’s other machines. Simple. Inexpensive, but so powerful a tool Highest recommendation!

2. Metal Lathe

Build a sturdy, precision metal cutting lathe. Your lathe will have a 7" swing over the bed about 5" over the saddle. with 12" between centers. You can bore the headstock spindle and tailstock to No. 1 Morse taper if you wish. You can scale it up but you’ll need larger castings than the charcoal foundry can provide

You will use this versatile lathe to build the other machines. Can’t afford to buy a lathe? Then build one. It doesn’t take much money, just sweat. And just think of the bragging you could do!

3. Shaper

There is hardly a cheaper, quicker way to cut keyways, splines, gears, flat and angular surfaces, dovetail slides, irregular profiles and more than with a so-called obsolete shaper. A shaper, for instance, can cut gear teeth with a 50¢ piece of tool steel. No expensive cutters needed.

Your shaper will have a 6" maximum stroke and a mean capacity of 5" by 5." The tool head rotates through 180 degrees for angular cuts, and features a graduated collar with a simple lock. The down feed has a graduated collar, and the exact stroke length can be set. Your shaper will have variable speed. automatic variable cross feed and adjustable stroke length. It will be a machine worth bragging about.
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