Oh, I'd suspect there are far better overall forms to use. First off, these baking pans are good for Aluminum, but try copper, bronze, or brass...
So... I came across some brass bits and bobs cheap at an estate sale (lots of smaller plumbing connectors, plus a a piece of ugly wall decor...)....
I have been using the "piece of cardboard" method and it's made it where my crucibles don't stick to the firebrick on the bottom. There were no...
In the case of this crucible, it was stored for around a week after it's initial dry run on a metal shelf in my garage. And it's been a normal...
So I've been tinkering and playing around with this hobby for a while now. Prior to today it was all aluminum. Today I was going to do my first...
A little wrap up update on this one... I sanded down the inside of the molds where the aluminum had stuck to the steel. Then decided to test...
OK, odd story. I got ahold of an old exterior light fixture that was being tossed out. I immediately saw what looked like an aluminum shade...
As an example of #2 above today I did my first sandcasting. Took one of the polished ones, applied some adhesive foam numbers to make this......
Thanks for the heads up Mach! I'll give them a shout. Now , I tried using this super fine sand (which literally poured straight through my...
Wow Mark, that resin bound sand stuff looks like it could be a solution for something I want to make. Are those turntable molds reusable? (I...
Well, the point of the Skull muffins has been that they've given me interesting starting points to learn a few things. I'm all of around a month...
Hello all, I've only recently gotten into this whole melting/casting thing. I've been focusing on doing Aluminum melts, and about to do my...
I usually always toss in a chunk of aluminum dross first when I'm going an aluminum melt since it provides some "surface coverage" to keep the...
I will probably roll this as green sand then and just deal with remoisturizing it from time to time then. Thanks for the catch everybody, like I...
I'm getting ready to try my first mix of home made petrobond. Rather than do a ton of filtering I went to my local aquarium store and bought "the...
Interesting note about that cooking pan. The first cast of each one came out with the teflon apparently cooked and all over the surface. But it...
Yeah, right now I'm starting to look at some different molding options. Need to find somewhere here in Dallas to get the ingredients for a sand...
I had read that. In this case since it was the first use, I wore a respirator (do enough DIY and painting to have one around). Not to mention it...
Hello everybody! I'm from Dallas and recently got into this hobby because of a combination of my packrat habits, my overly paranoid security...
Cool, thanks for the heads up. I only plan on doing Aluminum, copper and maybe bronze. So I guess I will see how long it lasts. Already looking...
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