The Home Foundry
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New member introductions
Introduce yourself here, and tell us a little about yourself and you casting experience.
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Halloween Casting contest
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Latest: Halloween casting Jason, Aug 25, 2020
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Foundry Construction
Here you will find what it takes to build a working home foundry
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Furnaces and their construction
Build threads on the construction of home foundry furnaces
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Foundry tools and flasks
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Latest: diy clay molds for low pressure aluminum casting thomas o'brien, Jan 21, 2021 at 7:59 PM -
Burners and their construction
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Latest: Recommendations for a burner OMM, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:23 PM -
Sand Mullers
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Latest: Tobho's HT1-Inspired Cement Mixer Muller Build thomas o'brien, Jan 14, 2021
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Casting practices
A place to post how you made your castings
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Sand Casting
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Lost wax casting
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Latest: Sprue a bracelet Help Scv, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:59 AM -
Lost foam casting
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Latest: Motorcycle Cylinder Sample Al2O3, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:46 PM -
Lost PLA casting
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Latest: small part in cast iron oldironfarmer, Jan 15, 2021 -
Investment casting Block method
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Latest: Stacked Plaster mold Al2O3, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:53 PM -
Investment casting Ceramic shell method
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Pattern making
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Latest: Core Making Supplies John Homer, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:42 AM -
Castings, finishing/ repair/ and patina's
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Latest: Zinc manganese electroplating experiment TreeHouseUnited, Jan 2, 2021
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Links of interest.
Links to various resources
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Links to useful information
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link to various suppliers
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Latest: Cheap Graphite Source—-NAPA of all things! DavidF, Jan 4, 2021
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General foundry chat
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General foundry chat
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Latest: Foundry Tutorial Sticky Billy Elmore, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:44 AM
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Buy Sell Trade
Have something to sell of looking to buy, post it here. If you are looking for services or to have a part cast see the request casting services forum
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Request casting services
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Request casting service
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Latest: Aluminium thumbring for archery Quibriya Gulam, Aug 9, 2020
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Metal casting projects
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CNC machining projects
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Black smithing projects
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3D Printing
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Other metal working projects
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Latest: 1/4 scale '41 Willys ESC, Jan 14, 2021
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