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| tom osselton:
That looks great! :beer: I know what you mean I haven’t cast anything in 2 years. I use bolts instead of pins for my cope and drag and never have had a blow through. |
| vtsteam:
Bolts sound like a good idea. I built a bunch of stacking steel flasks back when I was casting iron but I used tapered pins to locate faster when closing up. I seem to have reverted to my oldest wooden flasks for this lathe. They have quite a few burn marks now -- mainly from pouring the hotter metals. They were clean during the all-aluminum days. But I really appreciate their lightness, and they are easier to handle and pack bare handed for me. I just like the feel. They have lasted nineteen years and through the construction of two lathes and countless castings. They were made from scrap lumber in the first place. And I could make a new set in a couple hours probably when these get beyond use. They remind me of when I first got started, and all the excitement of it, reading the Gingery books, lunch hours at work, and casting lathe parts on the weekends. It was an amazing learning experience. :dremel: |
| awemawson:
As I mentioned I'm about to embark on making a range of steel copes and drags and plan to have 50 mm angle iron on each end with a pin & hole for location and a pair of holes for hold down bolts to prevent lifting on the 'keep it simple' theory! The Induction Furnace Resurrection is here Steve but is rather lengthy : https://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,13100.0.html |
| AdeV:
Several years ago, I bought the late Rob Wilson's casting setup, complete with a bunch of steel flasks that he'd made from what looks like armco and rebar.... I can take some photos of those, if anyone's interested? |
| russ57:
Yep.. (interested that is) -russ |
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