Recently there was a several-day period when the forum was off-line. There was no splash screen to indicate the reason for the outage. And since...
I make a little 8" prism casting for sale. I must have cast it a hundred or more times. It is a somewhat chunky casting and does require a riser...
I have been casting a 48" camelback pattern that has "islands" of sand hanging down in the drag as the drag is dropped onto the cope. (The cope...
I have a friend I have known for fourty years and who has done me a number of favors in the past. He has approached me about possibly casting him...
Here is one good one. http://www.atlasfdry.com/glossaryf.htm Denis
I another thread some time ago I rported on making steel flasks from angle iron and flat bar. The arrangement was to use angle iron about 1X1X1/8...
Today I had a runout of one of my molds for reasons that are unclear to me. Of course, a few cuss words resulted. But it also presented an...
A friend recently asked me to cast an antique-style "white metal" key that he broke. It goes to a secretary desk and the desk is important to...
Background: In another thread (http://forums.thehomefoundry.org/index.php?threads/mixing-up-k-bond-sand-similar-to-petrobond.1759/) on mixing...
I am soon to commission a new large(for me) match plate. It will produce a mold cavity 48” long, 10” high and 3” deep. I know from past...
29 melts ago I placed a pretty clapped-out crucible in my furnace to see how it would work as a plinth. I was going to otherwise toss it and I...
This forum seems unusually fussy about cookies. Much more often than any other forum I use this site just quits allowing me to log in and then I...
One of the patterns that I use over and over for casting I feel should be reproduced in plastic to save wear and tear on the pattern. The pattern...
I have been toying with changing the wheel I've been using on my muller from a flat-faced steel 4" wide by 8" diameter wheel to a lugged face...
In another thread...
I have been printing patterns for a few months now. And, in some cases, using them on match plates. One annoying factor associated with putting...
I recently have been having trouble with the cope half of a split pattern falling out of the sand as I split the packed cope off the underlying...
This is likely a very old idea, but I have not seen anyone do it or recommend it be done. So here goes... Since I pour with a trolley that puts...
When drawing a pattern, I have often found it challenging to maintain left-right as well as fore-aft alignment all the while lifting the pattern....
I think most folks that have an interest in fabrication have seen folks hotspot shafts, weldments, sheet metal, and other items as a means of, in...
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