machine#construction: casting#materials: concrete

Concrete

Concrete is sometimes used for the construction of giant machine tools but it may also be a suitable medium for the home-builder. Techniques for building machine tools from concrete were developed by the Germans during WWII when steel and iron were in short supply.

more on this topic later

Links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShopTools/files/general%20shop%20tooling/

SN22BenchMill.pdf below
A small bench-top horizontal milling machine from Popular Mechanics Shop Notes, 1922

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lathe_2000/files/
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