Casting
Old books on casting
No one is quite sure when people first started melting metals and casting them in sand, however there are plenty of old books with descriptions and details of techniques. The Archive.org site has a few of these books including the
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews, Casting
Tags: Pattern Making, sand
Blobs to blocks another way
When I was making the flea eyes, I also cast a simple rectangular bar of aluminium with a second crucible of metal. Although it was quite a good casting it was open cast and hence had a rounded top and
Posted in: Casting
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: density, PSTOIC
Other Furnace Users
I’m not the only person using a small furnace in my back garden. West Texas RC Dog has made his own furnace and completed some lost foam casting. He’s created some tools and some orniments for the house. The site
Posted in: Casting
Casting results and metal candy canes
Here’s the polished up results of the aluminium R made during the other weekend’s casting session with the flowerpot furnace. I used files to remove any spru and large bumps then a couple of sizes of sanding drum on a
Sunday sandcasting
It’s been over a year since I last fired up the flowerpot furnace. A multitude of factors have got in the way from weather to needing to work on the gates to being too busy enjoying other things. I switched
Posted in: Casting
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot furnace, petrobond, sand
Steam Punk Magazine
The other month, Steam Punk Magazine was kind enough to offer me a slot in their periodical, to enthuse about brass and making the flea chariot. The article should be appearing in edition #6 “The Pre-Industrial Revolution” which is out
Posted in: Casting, Flea Chariot
Tags: magazine, steampunk
Flying cutting blobs
Earlier in the year, I bought some fly cutters at a model engineering exhibition. The intention was to tidy up some of the castings I’d made last year. The first issue was how to hold an irregular shaped piece whilst
Posted in: Casting, Milling
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: fly cutting
Metal experts
Arthur Ganson Machines Arthur Ganson has been creating wonderful machines since the 1970s. The video below shows a technique for making wire gears which I think is quite ingeneous. Arthur Ganson’s Sculptures Eugene Sargent Whilst looking for some topics on
Posted in: Casting, Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: Kinetic Sculpture
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
