It's likely been posted here before, but it's amazing to watch the ramming up and casting of a Wright Cyclone aluminium cylinder head at the 3:41...
So starting on the 14th December through to the 18th December, Cairns, the City I live in, experienced the worst floods since records began in...
So I rejoined the local gem club after a long break and recently started using the machine I've been pouring all that aluminium and making parts...
Are there any bronze alloys as hard as annealed copper or softer?. Ideally it would be copper in appearance but and be easier to cast than pure...
Found a film about making the Chrysler Astron 2 and 2.6 litre engines at their South Australia plant in the 1970's (judging by the old style...
So the plumbing shop next door threw out eight manhole covers and surround rings about 30 Kg each today and they landed in the tray of my ute. It...
I have about four matchplate patterns I'm regularly using so I'm wasting time carving runners and then having to inevitably repair the broken...
I cast these replica stove parts in aluminium today for a friend, they are being used in a decorative stove so they won't be getting hot, in fact...
So I did a bit of online looking around at silicon carbide and clay graphite crucibles and India seems to be a big supplier of crucibles, mainly...
Today I ran some more experiments in getting my particular 28cm/11" bore furnace hot enough to melt iron. The plan was to have 50 PSI diesel feed...
So some guy in Queensland Australia has a bit of spare time on his hands and decides to build a a 1970's Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper in...
I guess these are a lasting advertisement of where a given locomotive came from. They are traded and collected within antique and train groups,...
This is just a loose collection of my experiences with using phenolic urethane resin sand binder for mould making in a small non ferrous foundry...
So I was casting aluminium today and made a test casting of what will ultimately be a brass part for desktop stained glass lamps. This guy's wife...
This posting directly relates to some earlier threads and is an update of them kind of lumped together. I'm at the point where I'm successfully...
So recently I melted down some scrap zinc ingots I'd made from recycled boat anodes. I wanted aluminium in the alloy to get something similar to...
I'd like to use some 15% phos copper shot to de-oxidize pure copper scrap and would like to know what dosage is used commercially for this...
Fitting a large K type thermocouple on the inside of my furnace bore has really made a difference to tuning the furnace fuel/air ratio for the...
This is what I have so far for a vibratory riddle: a 1m x 1m frame with some woven stainless steel architectural mesh welded to it. The frame is...
I'd been thinking of how useful it would be to have a crucible pouring tool that could move across the foundry floor in all directions. There's a...
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