I have been pondering making ductile iron for a while, and Jammer gave me some additive to try (ferro-mag I think). As I read about magnesium...
The Soule Live Steam Festival 2019 will be November 1st and 2nd, Friday and Saturday, at the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum, Meridian...
I think this was posted before, but I am not sure where. This is really the horse's mouth information about the bi-film theory (basically Bob P's...
This has nothing to do with foundry work, but..... Work has been intense beyond words this year, and while I am holding my own so far, I have...
Clarke is going all out in the iron business. He does things in a big way, at least big as far as anything I am doing. GOT IRON ? [MEDIA]
I just started watching this video, and have a long way to go to finish it, but it seems to have a lot of iron work in it, so here is the link:...
For those who have followed the ytube phenomena, KOR with 11 million subscribers is dead today. These guys just get too wacky for their own good,...
The weather was fantastic on the north rim today. That is a serious hole in the ground. [ATTACH]
Here is the gear-pump pressure nozzle burner I am building to replace my siphon nozzle burner. My siphon nozzle burner will become my backup...
They were demonstrating a 15KW water-cooled induction heater today at the Metal Museum. It heated a 1" steel rod red hot in seconds. I think it...
There will be a F.I.R.E. Exhibition at the Metal Museum May 16th - May 19th. I had the Metal Museum folks over a few months ago to demonstrate...
Anybody going to NAMES? I am in transit. .
I use snap flasks for making molds. My flasks are generally all custom made one-off items that basically fit as tight as possible around the...
Ahhh, the glory days of life before OSHA. As much as I dislike OSHA, I approve of the safety aspects of it as long as it is reasonable stuff, and...
I recently got a Prusa 3D printer (about a week ago), and have been having good luck with it (so far) printing patterns for a steam engine. The...
I was able to find a used copy of this book, and bought it in order to try and establish a baseline of information on cast iron was reasonably...
This is a cool story. This guy made his own patterns and cast his own engine. [MEDIA] Some photos here:...
"Treva" on AA contacted me to try to cast a bearing cap for him. I am not in the foundry business, and only do this as a hobby, but I need some...
Abom79 got some good video of porositymaster (Clarke) at the recent Soule show (first week of November each year in Meridian Mississippi). Note:...
I was trying to verify what the letter in front of a crucible designation meant, and ran across this book from 1922 that has some info on what the...
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