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I dont know what he was melting, but there was probably only a little bit of silver in it. He should have checked for little balls of metal under...
You dont need vents as the air can simply rise up and exit out the top
I'm no sand casing expert. In fact Ive never done it. But just from a basic understanding of physics, with horizontal casting gravity is being...
If your purpose is to sell the aluminium. I would just crush them they will be worth the same and the person buying them will know exactly what...
That wont be an issue if you proceed with the melting of powdered bronze. However I am curious why you would try this over the tried and tested...
The oxide would form a crud as the bronze melted and float to the top or stick to the sides of your shell or investment. Its standard practice to...
You are better off melting small ingots of bronze rather than bronze powder. The surface area of bronze powder would be very large resulting in...
Im suprised that the people there who are struggling with bills are not using all their land to grow fruit and vegetables and even have a few chickens
If you are able to weld I would just leave a fairly large hole in the wax and allow the ceramic shell to flow inside to crate the core. Then weld...
Hi Mike There are a hand full of us here that do art type bronzes. Im sure you will find them after a few weeks. I have used cores out of plaster...
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Looks like you are wanting Nordic Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Gold
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I melt a bit of silicon bronze in the crucible then add the silicon and manganese and they dissolve in the puddle. Then feed in the remaining...
I think a ceramic shell core will be fine without going through such drastic measures. Just pour into the current hole. If your not sure about...
Thats a shame. Im not sure about the vent failiure in the head. The top of the head filled. I think a vent failiure wouldnt have allowed the metl...
Put them in place as accurately as you can and paint some thickned slurry over the crack, sprinkle with stucco allow to dry and repeat a few times...
Another thing you could do is to have the core protruding out of the wax so when you apply your shell it is also gripped by the shell at both...
Great job. I was going to use bronze rod for my core pins in a piece i did but I was concernedcthat maybe they would melt or soften at the shell...
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