New member from Alberta, Canada

Hello fellow casters. Just beginning here with much to learn.

 

Welcome! What type of casting do you do?

 

Started with a candy dish Christmas present that on fourth go achieved about 85% success. Next I want to build Dave Gingery’s metal shaper

 

Making progress with Gingery shaper

 

Awesome, this dude hit the ground a RUNNING! And no KOR silly furnace questions.... He's a keeper!

 

Thanks fellas

 

I'd say that candy dish turned out pretty darned good for a casting that thin. The as-cast finish from greensand can be a bit counfounding at times.
You've jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire with that large plate casting. That looks like it came out really nice too. Any warping?
Welcome to the forum.

Pete

 

Thank you Pete. Surface finish on candy dish was imo due to lightly rammed sand. It was a ceramic dish borrowed so afraid to over do it. Shaper side zero warpage

 

Thank you Jeff. A friend of mine put me onto this site and specifically mentioned your stuff. He is an Alberta boy as well
(Thanks Al)
Iirc the Gingery series inspired me so much back when purchasing machinery was not happening. Work provided much in the way of scrap aluminum. In approx 15 years my collecting resulted in close to 2000 pounds or better of high grade aluminum mainly pistons. At 35 pounds per it adds up. Anyways your scrapping technique has my interest.
Anyhow building the shaper is now underway lol

 

David, you have me curious wrt unfinished shapers? I am not aware of many started let alone never finished? If you could point me to those fellas maybe we could reignite the passion!
Cheers
Walter

 

I'd hazard a guess and say that all the woodworking throws an anchor in those projects sometimes. Although Gingery lays things out pretty simply, there's a lot of it.
I actually have a complete set of lathe and mill patterns that I will probably never use. Not for sale but I'd consider a loan.

 

You're right. I didn't finish it. I did redesign some of the patterns, and acquired a pair of sprockets. Even got one of the side plates cast. Don't know why I set it aside. I might get around to it next summer.

 

Hi Chuck. Interested in what the redesigned oatterns entail?
Thanks for posting

 

The patterns I had were made by a former friend who was a carpenter. He made all his patterns one piece. I remade some of them as multi-piece(forget what they're called). For example, the side plate I made from plywood, added the upper and lower ledges as pinned pieces to make molding easier. Got them cast but never machined them for assembly. Did the same with the ram, but never cast it.