Aluminium
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
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
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
Bezel making
The latest mini project is the making of a doughnut shaped ring in 3mm sheet aluminium. The inner diameter is 54mm and the outer diameter is 70mm. The outer edge needs to be rounded off. The part is to act
Posted in: Bezel, Lathe, Machining, Trepanning, Work Holding
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: boring
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
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
