Olfoundryman made a reply on my video and will share it on this thread. In regards to that BMW rim I will have to cut a sample piece off and melt...
The weird thing is some lawn mover engines do it and some don't make that defect so I stopped using them altogether. To give you an example one...
Not many scrap yards where I live and none have an XRF gun.
I do have some heavy gauge aluminium wire and it would be barely 2 kg. Getting over 200kg of wire might be a problem. When I fractured the ingot...
I don't cast a lot of aluminium but when I do there is a defect that I cannot identify so I made a video showing those defects. [MEDIA]
That is a lot of hydrogen porosity so it could be from overheating or rich mixture. If the plaster was the problem there would be a lot of...
I visited that museum in April 2012. Well worth the visit and if you are in the Hamilton Ontario area make an effort to see it.
In hindsight I should have done that because the two broken pieces moved out of alignment when the mold was rammed up. After casting the bicycle...
Looks like you came up with that idea long before I did.
It is a great melting stock to use because unlike car rims which do take a lot of effort to break into bit size chunks for melting. Also they are...
It is never a good idea to straighten an old die casting, so it broke. I made a video about recasting a new part and if you are a beginner there...
I do have a thermocouple that can measure high temperatures but it is a pain to use. My furnace always takes 55 minutes to melt 14 kgs of iron so...
I watched this cylinder head video months ago on another youtube channel called All process of the world, it seems that they steal videos of each...
Were all the castings the same thickness? If so your iron is not hot enough.
In the second video I had a look at his videos and found one where he tried to melt steel with that furnace. No surprise that it failed. I know...
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Here is a very strange twin burner furnace but it is not not what I thought of when using two burners in a furnace. So what do you all think,...
I hope this is not the case but in last nights TV news they said there was another cyclone headed your way.
I was wondering if that flood was effecting you, for about four days the evening TV news had a lot of coverage about that flood. Years ago I was...
I found this video on youtube on how to deal with a magnesium fire. This video would be good for beginners to metal casting as aluminium and...
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