Welcome! I never started the lathe but my book 1 charcoal furnace has been sitting neglected out in my backyard covered up and slowly returning...
Update on the sand situation. We heard back from chasft aka petrobondforsale. David placed an order for the two of us for a few hundred pounds....
Some do use a slightly reducing furnace for copper alloys, which can otherwise oxidize badly during a melt. For aluminum casting, a reducing...
The rollers came in, now he's just waiting for the ink to arrive. Sent me these pics. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Finally got a bunch of clips cobbled...
Day 3. By the time I got back there a cement mixer boulder muller had been built and the second pattern that kept jumping out of the mold on day...
Day 2, here's the first mold, first the cope then the drag with the pattern still in it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is one of those ~18x18 flasks...
Day 1 we built flasks, figured out some logistics, then rammed up and poured the first big mold. I think it was 18 x 18 with a 2x4 cope and 2x6...
Small world! I met a local 'one of us', and damned if it didn't happen through YouTube of all places. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] He did get signed up...
Surprising to me that the auto engine castings gave you troubles that you didn't see when using 'wheelium'. The defects remind me of the time I...
Easy enough to turn a cement mixer into a wheel and plows muller. Tack in a wear plate for the wheel to roll on and suspend the wheel and plows...
I've ordered from them (Foundry Supply Source) but I haven't been in person to their new location in Milton. They were still getting settled in...
For anyone else making foundry tools and wanting to get something close to what the pros would use, there are pages from Smelko Foundry Products...
Liked yours so much I had to do mine too. Thanks for the idea... [ATTACH] The ones you got look the same as mine which came in a pack of 8....
Yeah you did, they look great! Jeff
I've glued 3D printed details onto handmade patterns before too. In a limited sense a cheap 3D printer could replace a whole wood shop in a much...
Letting it dry out and periodically doing a squeeze test will help you dial in how wet your sand as-is has to feel in order to have the strength...
Welcome, the aluminum skull came out great! You have the know-how to build and upgrade your foundry gear already by the sound of it, that's a...
You guys have seen those buckles before, no? People were passing one around back in the day on alloyavenue, but that was mostly before I showed...
The do look like the ones I got. All I did was cut off the blue plastic sleeves, which got a bit melty when I left them on (as Kelly warned me...
Weekend project! I doubt it works any better than the cheap marking gauges you can get for $20 at Home Depot, but I didn't have one of those yet...
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