Casting
More blobs to blocks
At the show earlier in the month I was looking for a 4 jaw chuck but failed to find anything small enough. I managed to get one online for a very good price, one of the jaws is a bit
Terry Brown’s Shed – Casting, Maching, Projects and Gingery Shaper
Today I stumbled across a goldmine of information. Terry Brown’s shed stuff pages contain a large number of project he’s completed over the last 7 years. There’s a section on foundry work making furnaces and melting aluminium, this is complemented
Melt 12th Oct
For the latest aluminium melt, I build a new two part flask and tried casting a couple of letters. After a trial run putting the sand in there was an issue with the sand falling out of the cope (the
Posted in: Casting
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot furnace
Building the flowerpot furnace
2020 Vision said: “Just wondering how you got the air into the flowerpot? Was it through the holes at the bottom or did you somehow cut a hole in the side? I would have thought the latter could weaken it.”
Posted in: Casting, Projects, Projects
Tags: Flowerpot furnace, Hole cutting, Teracotta
Blobs to blocks 2
From my second cast, I produced the following two blobs. The left hand one was much better than previous attempts with a large section of straight sides and a better finish. I expect the right one would have been better
Posted in: Casting, Lathe, Machining
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: faceplate dogs, Metal Work
Machined blob
This weekend I machined up one the castings from last week’s melt. Here’s the stages from scrap to machined results. Step 1Some scrap ali that I found round the back of the shed, sawn up into suitable sized pieces to
Posted in: Casting, Lathe, Machining
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Metal Work, Scrap
Red Hot – Casting
This morning the flower pot furnace was lit and I cast my first aluminium. I’d finally got good weather, all the safety gear and tools were finished and I’d sawn up an old strip of aluminium into small chunks to
Posted in: Casting, Furnace
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot
Furnace kit
Given the price of Aluminium in large pieces and the problems with shipping I decided to build a cheap “flowerpot” / “coffeecan” furnace from scrap and cheap materials to do some simple casting which could then be machined. Everyone on
Posted in: Casting, Furnace
Tags: Coffeecan, Cruicible, Flowerpot, Liftout, Tongs
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
