The Home Foundry
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New member introductions
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Forum suggestions
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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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Latest: The PortaMelt Portable Metal Melting Furnaces And Foundry Equipment PortaMelt, May 6, 2022 -
Foundry tools and flasks
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Latest: Radio Control/Foot Pedal Foundry Hoist Prototype Melterskelter, May 11, 2022 -
Burners and their construction
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Sand Mullers
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Latest: Another cement mixer muller Melterskelter, May 5, 2022
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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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Lost foam casting
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Lost PLA casting
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Latest: PolyCast burn out schedule? Henrik Troelsen, May 13, 2022 at 12:29 PM -
Investment casting Block method
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Latest: Using sturdy metal can for single use flask? mytwhyt, Mar 11, 2022 -
Investment casting Ceramic shell method
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Pattern making
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Latest: Today I started a new pattern to make a metrology parallel/level Melterskelter, May 17, 2022 at 9:05 PM -
Castings, finishing/ repair/ and patina's
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Die casting
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Latest: Casting a minature coffee pot mytwhyt, Oct 27, 2021
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Links of interest.
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Links to useful information
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link to various suppliers
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Latest: I cast 50n Gadabout, Jan 29, 2022
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General foundry chat
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General foundry chat
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Latest: Scrapping a Radiator Petee716, May 17, 2022 at 4:15 AM
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Buy Sell Trade
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Buy Sell Trade
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Latest: Mull-All Muller Auction Eugene Elstein, Dec 4, 2021
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Request casting services
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Request casting service
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Latest: Wheel center cap needed. Al2O3, Dec 30, 2021
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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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Latest: Vintage blacksmith vieo. Melterskelter, Oct 6, 2021 -
Other metal working projects
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Latest: Need a Conveyor Jason, May 16, 2022 at 2:02 AM
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