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Metal Casting at Home Part 12. When Castings Go Bad

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:08 +0000

Things don’t always go well in the home foundry.

Duration : 0:4:58

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry – Casting Ingots

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:22:33 +0000

Finishing a full day of casting by pouring some ingots. This was the third pour of the day. Check out www.budgiemetalworks.ca for details on the furnace. Thanks for watching!

Duration : 0:3:58

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Metal Casting at Home Part 10 Another Day in my Home Foundry

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:02 +0000

How to make a casting from making the sand mould to the finished item. The video has been edited to fit the 10 minute time limit of You tube. It takes much longer than this!

Duration : 0:9:25

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Umha Aois – Bronze Casting Demonstration 2008

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:26:09 +0000

Video by Robert Clarke. A bronze casting demonstration held May 2008 at Glendarragh Studios, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

http://www.umha-aois.com

“Umha Aois” (Irish for “Bronze Age”) is an ongoing experimental project organised on a volunteer basis by a committee formed of artists & archaeologists. Through research and experimentation we are attempting to rediscover our Bronze Age ancestors’ casting methods, and in the process empower the artists involved with unique approaches to working in bronze.

This video demonstrates our discovered techniques to date, using bellows to power a small charcoal fired furnace, melting bronze in a hand made crucible, and casting into a clay mould. The mould is broken open afterwards to reveal a typical Irish Bronze Age axehead.
Please note that although we are striving for “authenticity”, some aspects are still in development, such as the lifting tongs, forged by Umha Aois member Mary Jane Verniere. Also we have not allowed “authenticity” to stifle any creative ideas, and as such we do not pretend that our methods reflect any specific time period or place, but rather we strive for a reproducible approach to working small scale bronze with ‘primitive’ technologies, taking the Irish Bronze Age as our main inspiration.

Duration : 0:2:51

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DIY Aluminium Casting experiment

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:35:10 +0000

This is a clip of us pouring our molten aluminium from our crucible into our mould. Aluminium from a bell housing, a gearbox, a rocker cover and an alloy wheel. It worked a treat! We do other stuff too. Click here. http://sites.google.com/site/wecanmakethat/

Duration : 0:2:11

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