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| Ooompa:
What sort of temperature do I need to achieve to melt Aluminium? I quite fancy having a go at a small casting and althought I have used lead in the past (lead soldiers) I fancy trying my hand at Aluminium.I have some very fine sand (not builders sand) and is it that I just need to add water to it to make "Green Sand" or is there a bit more to it? Thanks in Advance. |
| Mike K:
Ooompa, there are several inexpensive books on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Charcoal-Foundry-Build-Metal-Working/dp/1878087002/ http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Foundry-Workshop-Practice-No/dp/1854861468/ http://www.amazon.com/Foundrywork-Amateur-Workshop-Practice/dp/1854861689/ |
| Dawai:
Casting Videos, if you enjoy youtube like I do? search "user" "myfordboy" There is another fella in England also that really impresses me with his casting and pattern making skills. (forget the user name). At the end of each segment he "cooks something" over the flame, getting around the local restriction on fires, a cooking fire is excluded from the local zoning laws here too. Wife said he is just a bachelor. I rigged my LED television through a $50 blueray player, plugged in the networking cable, and now I watch Youtube on television, it is a pain to search for things thou, have to scroll the "ONE letter at a time like the kids do phone texting". If that remote disappears or dies, all that fun is over. |
| hermetic:
. (forget the user name). Dawai, I think you mean Doubleboost, he generally cooks bacon on his cooling furnace! |
| vtsteam:
--- Quote from: Dawai on November 26, 2013, 06:38:39 AM ---...a cooking fire is excluded from the local zoning laws here too. --- End quote --- You can't even have a barbecue? :bugeye: And they want to put in zoning here....... :loco: |
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