The Bucket Foundry

[Flettner]

revs? what ever is appropriate, its running a vairable speed unit, 3 phase.
I just throw in some aluminium blocks to rumble around with the sand.

[husaberg]

i hadn't seen this before expoxy and sand core.

Stronger and maybe more durable less brittle by the look of it.
I found it as he was making a rather nice Muller

[lohring]

I have a lot of experience with molding and coating things in epoxy resins. I might try some castings with this method. I think the tiny transfers in the opposed piston cylinder will be a problem to clean out. Pistons would be my first thought since they will need to be machined over most surfaces in any case.

Lohring Miller

[husaberg]

i thought this was the stuff till, I seen the price.
https://www.kiwitooling.co.nz/
https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...ng_Pricing.pdf

[Flettner]

Lovely stuff but bend over if you wants some.

[husaberg]

Lovely stuff but bend over if you wants some.

i found some other stuff though. not sure re the price in NZ

CORAFOAM®/DUNABOARD



High Density Urethane


PVC Foamboard
https://www.hobbycity.nz/products/3i...gn=sag_organic

[Flettner]

20 bags of sand, sodium silicate, spare crucible and a 210L drum of ethanol turning up this week, all set for Christmas.

[husaberg]

20 bags of sand, sodium silicate, spare crucible and a 210L drum of ethanol turning up this week, all set for Christmas.

no mater what you still have the ethanol.........

[husaberg]

[Flettner]

Im getting a real job next year, I wonder how that might go.
Havent had to work with people for over twenty years, I'll have to switch the social gene back on I guess. Im just getting too old for this hit and miss business stuff, combined with the previsional tax system, you need a reasonable float, I dont have that, so back to the real world for me, it will be intetesting if nothing else. Im just jolly lucky no one has been training CNC staff for years so people like me still have some worth, after all. I was starting to think I might be unenployable at my age.

[breezy]

Im getting a real job next year, I wonder how that might go.
Havent had to work with people for over twenty years, I'll have to switch the social gene back on I guess. Im just getting too old for this hit and miss business stuff, combined with the previsional tax system, you need a reasonable float, I dont have that, so back to the real world for me, it will be intetesting if nothing else. Im just jolly lucky no one has been training CNC staff for years so people like me still have some worth, after all. I was starting to think I might be unenployable at my age.

i would think that your wealth of experience will see you through Neil....but i think you may have to get them shorts extended a bit mate...

[Flettner]

You know how these managers are, try to make you feel like shit at the interview so you will not ask for too much money, but they gave it away a little by locking the door behind me, saying 'year nah', you need to stay here, run our machines, you are not going home tonight. Desparate I read that as.
It just might be nice to have a regular income for a change, so I might plan ahead a little less stress.
Ive just come through prostate cancer, thankfully they got it all, clear margins, havent been able to work for two months (officialy) that kind of was the last straw business / income wise. But IRD still want their money, or else, fuckers.
But it does leave me with a well equiped workshop, for my work only, yay.

[F5 Dave]

Sometimes life needs to change gears to suit the terrain ahead. Glad they sorted you out medically. We are lucky in this age and this country if not perfect at least tries to fix you.

[Flettner]

Yes Ive been lucky and very well serviced. We are well off here in that reguard.
Yes nicely put, change down and carry on.
Picked up by a simlpe PSA test, get one.

[F5 Dave]

Have done and will continue, sage advice.