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Homemade brass signal Cannon

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:20:15 +0000

Homemade marine 1880 saluting cannon replica brass cannon look at my other project videos and rate

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DIY Foundry: Demolding Foam+Petrobond Experiment

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:45:06 +0000

Demolding my an address sign for the house, which I cast from aluminum using a simple investment casting technique. See my other video for the pour. The pattern is foam, which is vaporized by molten aluminum, which then fills the cavity.

I design plastic housings for a living and so constantly think about the part as it exists in a mold. A lot of effort goes into designing parts that are manufacturable and then chosing gating and mold constructoins that work.

Some of that experience has been proving useful in my DIY casting efforts, even though plastic injection tooling is a totally different world.

If there’s interest, I’ll keep posting videos of my metal casting experiments.

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Cast Aluminum Intake Manifold Repair

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:33:32 +0000

This Toyota Land Cruiser cast aluminum intake manifold had a 3 inch cut across it. Super Alloy 5 is ideal for fixing cast aluminum, so we used an oxyacetylene torch to make the repair. We recommend using oxy-acetylene on all thicker aluminum because it can sometimes be difficult to keep the base metal at the correct temperature with propane or MAPP gas.

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RoboCNC Router : Part 08 :Casting a aluminium dust collector. (Lost foam)

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:32:19 +0000

[ Full info @ http://www.robocnc.nl/?page_id=381 ]

Making a dustcollector for my cnc router.
Used the lost foam method.

Result is very rough, how can i improve this?

Thanks…

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Aluminium Foundry 1.0 INGOT MAKING

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:43:10 +0000

Im doing some ingots (with recicling junk aluminium) to making some castings in some future projects i alredy have in mind

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Aluminum Ingots From The $30 Backyard Foundry.

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:10 +0000

After the pour. Aluminum, like any heavy metal will recycle 100% (save the stuff still stuck in the crucible). The ingots are perfectly size for the crucible. Once I get my first foam carving done I can just throw these in and re-melt them.

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:37:36 +0000

Check out my website: http://www.budgiemetalworks.ca
This is the first casting in my homemade aluminum foundry. Approximately 5 lbs of aluminum was poured here which took about 2 hours to melt. The furnace draws 20A on 220VAC.
It was built from plans bought at http://www.dansworkshop.com/
The element was custom made for me at a pottery kiln shop, the body of the furnace is made from firebricks and commercial refractory. The tools for handling the crucible were made by myself. The amperage controller is sitting on the pink foam on the floor, I’ll be enclosing it properly but wanted to try it out first. The crucible was bought from Canadian Thermix, a really nice company to work with. The final furnace took about 6 months to complete, working on it every couple weekends, and I expect to get a lot of use from it.

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$30 backyard aluminum foundry – TURBOCHARGED

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:14:06 +0000

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! The hair dryer was enough to heat aluminum cans but not aluminum rods. I switched to an air compressor to push more air in and it definitely did the trick. Even though I was wearing safety glasses, a hot ember managed to get under them and burn off three of my eye lashes.

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Sand Casting with Pattern Resin

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:28:08 +0000

Panic button lettering and design are made on a computer and created by exposing pattern resin to blacklight. The pattern is molded in petrobond sand and a casting is made. Visit www.granthams.com/Projects for more of my projects.

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Aluminum casting session pt. 2

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:30:21 +0000

Shake-out of castings poured in pt. 1

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