After skimming off the dross, I poured the 1400 degree metal into the sand mold. About 20 minutes later, I had a face plate casting for a small lathe. Since then I've made lots more castings, and you can too. This is the first book in Gingery's series showing you how to build a complete metal working shop from scrap for almost nothing. You must have the foundry setup in order to build the lathe, milling machine and other tools described in each of the other books.
Castings make strong and precise machine tool components.
You'd go broke buying the castings, if they were available, but you can make them for almost nothing in your own foundry. Building machine tools takes hours and hours, but building the charcoal foundry is far simpler, and loads of fun. You can make castings for any purpose. Every page is loaded with practical how-to and useful advice. This is the book to get started with.