Hello! As the title says, I have some experience. Sand casting and investment casting. All before 3D printing became common. I am looking to start up again when my new garage gets finished here in Florida. Here are my YT videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/rbrandes1/videos And here is my foundry page: http://www.foundry.ray-vin.com/ Regards, Ray
Welcome Ray. I think a lot of us here are already familiar with your foundry pages, great stuff there.
Hey Ray, welcome. That's a very nice website you have built with a lot of interesting pages. I'll take it all in with time. I have seen some of it before. Were you previously an AA forum member? I took the shop tour. The two cnc machining centers did not go unnoticed.....not you average hobbyist! Best, Kelly
Welcome to the home foundry! A while back I made a sand cast matchplate vibrator loosely based on the one on your site. Jeff
Kelly, I remember being on Hobby Casting or was it Casting Hobby (or both) ten or 15 years ago. AA does not ring a bell.
Funny! I came across your yt channel the other day. Your old car stuck out to me as I thought it was a trabant. Funny how it resembles a trabby. Or is it the trabby resembles the 700? That's a rare beast indeed. Anyhow, welcome to the nuthouse!
Jason, I never heard of the Trabant. I had to look it up. What I get most is that it looks like an Amphicar. I had one in the 60's when I was young. Back then there was a 750cc racing class and the 700 dominated. When it became a one liter class, the car could not keep up with the bigger engines. Here is the one I had back around 1968.
amphicar maybe .. The trabby was a fiberglass, air cooled front engine, fwd 2stroke east german piece of shit. The 700 is no doubt a distant cousin or served as competition for the time to the dreadful "sparkplug with a roof" They did however sell millions of the things and kept a lot of poor people on the road. How it moved out of it's own way is still a mystery to me. Funny, I had never heard of the 700, but knew about the trabby and rustprone amphicar. I spent a lot of time in Germany in the airforce, so if it was weird, cheap or unique, I probably knew about it or owned one. The 700 I missed and was probably busy drooling over the coveted 507. Wish I knew about the 700 back in the 90's. I would have had one for sure to putz around in instead I did the 2cv. You do know the germans pronounce it (B-M-Vee) right? W's are spoken as V. As we say work, the say, verk. Kinda similar to their ch or th issue if I remember. Had a frauline there with a hilarious issue saying birshday. (birthday) Good times, lots of beer, brats and chasing tail. Tchuss!
Jason, I worked with a lot of Germans when I served my apprentiship. The saying in the shop was "Don't get your tit caught in the wise."
Welcome! Got lost in your website for a long time! I quite enjoy the gun projects. I'll have to check out the youtube channel when I get home from work. What kind of gun related castings have you done?
