Nice. I have a wood fired version of the same thing that melts 3 wheels at a time, but the water container that goes under it has rusted out....
What they said... Welcome back! Jeff
Looks great! Bill Jurgenson is a member who ran a lost wax art foundry specializing in sand, plaster and ludo molds, for 40 years. His info...
It's entirely possible I've simply been ramming too hard all this time. All I really have had to go by is people's written descriptions here, on...
Found it. Martin discusses reasons why black spots appear at 3:25 here: [MEDIA] To sum up, he mentions air bubbles floating through the...
I can see how that might cause a similar defect. But I'm not sure that is what happened here... I found the footage of the toe-gated shoe pours....
Here's the high points version. Smelko greensand and a different sort of gating system: [ATTACH] And (toe option) gating for one of the shoes....
Hmm, I'm sure I kept the sprue full and taking metal as fast as it could through these pours. I might have some video footage of that but I'll...
Yup. It's on both sides. I've recently started using diatomaceous earth for parting, but I've had molds parted with talc and chalkline dust come...
I gated into the back side at the toe on these ones. I picked the toe hoping that area was narrow enough for the metal flow not to split, after...
Made these for a local guy with a laser cutter who is building a fancy display shoebox for his customer. I never heard of fancy display shoeboxes...
Wow, that is crazy. Too bad, I had nothing but great experiences dealing with Tim Smelko. Jeff
You already know I'm in. Jeff
Thanks! I'll pass that along too. FWIW he sent this earlier, so he may already have decided on a solution: "I am working to procure a 4kg(Gold)...
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