Hm, I see those strips for sale on Amazon. I could try just sticking one to the dip coat and watching for the color change, although I'm a little...
Interesting idea!
I’m thinking of a setup with a small fan circulating air through desiccant, plus maybe something to increase the temp.
Hi, does anyone have a source for small amounts of a dryness indicator like Remet or ReDip? Everything I've seen is in large, expensive...
Basically, a food dehydrator!
I built my sieve into a bucket lid... now may have something even more elaborate in my future.
Any recommendations for one? I'm not sure where to start looking. They get a good profuse advance apology that things probably won't come out...
I've started doing small workshops where I have attendees make a little styrofoam thingamabob, and then I add a sprue and cast it. Everyone...
Aha, solution #1 is to get rid of the galvanized surface around the rim. Any suggestions on the easiest way to do this? I'm kinda thinking flap...
I do worry just a little bit about getting zinc fever when this happens, but I think the amount of metal fumes this produces would be very very...
This past weekend, I took my furnace out to an artist meetup and let attendees make small foam thingawhatevers for me to cast. It turned out to be...
Thanks for humoring my broad question :) I think one of my earlier mistakes was making my runners horizontal (and also keeping them the same size...
Can anyone recommend resources for best practices in creating a lost foam sprue tree? Or are these no different from doing that for a lost wax...
Just finished the project! Given that I'm very new to lost foam casting, I'm happy with the results - success with two out of the four pallinos....
I'm experimenting with casting some flaming bocce pallinos* and need some advice on the best way to sprue them up. They're 1.6" hollow spheres...
I'm curious - I think my molten aluminum was on the hot side. Is there something in the casting that made it appear so though? I'm thinking that...
Thanks for the ideas. A steel wire brush, Simple Green and elbow grease got a lot more of the residue off. However, I'm not sure if the Simple...
This is my first lost foam aluminum casting. Any recommendations on ways to get in to clean all of the narrow nooks and crannies without spending...
I'm going down a rabbit hole looking at various options for a parting compound to use. I want to share what I've found because I haven't seen a...
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