I’ve been busy working on my main project, my foundry. It’s been running for a few weeks now, and very successfully at that. The latest on the whole project is that I’ve melted down just about all the drives I had taken home from work. It’s a lot of work to take them apart but it’s some high quality aluminum! Time to start working on the lathe again. Coming up this weekend, hopefully, is a final burn of my last stash of drives and then hopefully create some ZA-27 alloy with zinc, aluminum, and copper. Stay tuned!

Update!

Just after I posted this I got the bronze bushings for the headstock. Woohoo! I should have the shaft collars tomorrow, Friday the 7th. What a day. 🙂