I feel like as the son of a shop teacher my woodworking should be a little slicker :D The porosity isn't anything that would affect functionality...
This is the pattern I made. Pretty lame but it got the job done. I also machined the faces of it which revealed lots of tiny inclusions. No...
I made the pattern out of poplar. It was my 4th or 5th try because I went into this with the incorrect assumption that bodgy wood work was okay....
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I had it in my head that one of the things I wanted to try casting a piston in a drain pipe. I thought I could band saw an old piston in half for...
There's a documentary shot by the same director many years prior that where the actual guy is doing the same thing, although you can't see the...
[MEDIA] About four minutes in I was re-watching this and the urban legend was always that he cast positions in a drain pipe. In the movie,...
And 5mm hex key
Sorry, just found it in the list. I swear to God I looked through them like five times.
Thanks. I like the wood screws. Where are you getting enough epoxy so that you can soak MDF in it? I made the bore 1" so I could just make the...
Kinda surprised there's not a pattern making section on here. This isn't a real project, still in the testing phase of learning this process. I...
Nothing, really, just a test to get the hang of it. I needed to make a pattern and there was an MG knockoff laying next to the band saw so I made...
Far from perfect, but WAY better
I got my petrobond today and comparing it to what I made I think my sand was way too coarse. That's okay though, I called this thread scheduled...
God I hope it gets better! I only did an open mold because I realized I didn't have enough sand to fill both halves of the flask. I ordered 50lbs...
I got bored waiting for the petrobond to get here so I figured I'd give the greensand another shot now that some of the water has evaporated. I...
Honestly I think I'm going to buy a bag of petrobond. I just sold some mg parts and there's money sitting in PayPal. I'll leave the experimenting...
Just tried my first casting. I made my own greensand using a really fine decorative sand for houseplants and bentonite clay. The sand is like...
Definitely not doing that, then. I live in Philadelphia where we have roaches the size of skateboards.
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