FOUNDRY PATTERN MAKING part 3 Steam Engine metal casting tubalcain

February 22, 2010 - 6:37 am 9 Comments

This will be a multi part video on foundry pattern making. A wooden pattern is used to make an impression in the sand mold. A silica sand core is inserted to produce the cylinder bore in the casting. A wood pattern of the cylinder is turned on the Clausing lathe.

Duration : 0:9:44


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9 Responses to “FOUNDRY PATTERN MAKING part 3 Steam Engine metal casting tubalcain”

  1. catforce Says:

    Perfect work..

    Perfect work..
    THX for posting

    Andy

  2. mrpete222 Says:

    I would stay away …
    I would stay away from branch wood and unseasoned lumber. I did that once and ended up with lots of splits & cracks after it dried.

  3. whotoinfinity Says:

    Sir, a question …
    Sir, a question please. If you had Maple limb stock (I’m not sure if thats a word or not… ) but say a bit of 5 inch limb, could you cut that, insert the dowels, glue and turn? So that you didn’t have to do the bandsaw triming of excess wood, and then work all the squareness off of the piece?

    Be nice everybody else.. I am a complete rookie at this.. LOL

    Thanks in advance.

  4. jfco61 Says:

    nice
    nice

  5. fly2000jtb Says:

    Now that was cool, …
    Now that was cool, many of us out here have the modern lathe set ups. I love yours the modern ones out here now days you can barely do any left hand cuts. The quick change posts arent made for it without alot of tool changing. Anyway very cool video keep posting please gave a 5 for both video and subject. Is the cylinder head going to be made from Al, iron, steel etc..? Thanks again Joseph T (fly2000jtb)

  6. TheBattleWagon Says:

    ot of the same as …
    ot of the same as soon as my lathe arives. I have ordered a 4 speed 14″x24″
    wood lathe, but it is for the sake of cuting patterns in the same fashion.

  7. EmperorAst Says:

    The beauty of …
    The beauty of precision cutting wood on a metal lathe.

  8. mrpete222 Says:

    Very astute and …
    Very astute and accurate observation.

  9. baconsoda Says:

    Very interesting. …
    Very interesting. I use high speed tool bits on my wood lathe because they give a very clean and controlled cut freehand and are marvellous for roughing wood down because they hold an edge for ages.

    Brendan

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