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    Jackpot!!

    Thank you guys for a most informative thread,
    I have been looking everywhere for this sort of stuff especially in NZ and hadn't actually thought of consulting a biker forum!

    I am 70 now (near enough) and retired from 'hands on' engineering and trying to set up a home workshop.
    Engines, especially bikes and aircraft were my life when I was younger, but I never lost interest.
    Got a chance during one period of my career to do draw up some patterns and coreboxes (and manufacture them) and loved it, but family pressures kept me out of foundry work (ie as a hobby).

    I'm much too old and infirm to be riding bikes now and too poor to be flying planes, but I'm still keen on foundry work and machining and now that I've found this site right here in NZ, I think I've got the inspiration to at least have a go at it! - I do hope that I may be able to ask you a few questions now and again. :-

    First question being, where's the best place to buy a decent crucible, clay,sand etc. around here? (ie Auckland/upper North Island).

    Cheers,
    Will.

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    Hi Will, welcome and please post about your progress with pictures if you can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    Neil the bridges on the Cylinder and head fining Is it because it is a 4 piece mold, and it makes it easier to make a neat join? or to support the mold? or both?
    Remember, what you are looking at ( in the sand mould ) is a hole ( to allow metal to flow through ), not a sand connecting bridge.

    Where you want metal, no sand core where you do want metal, sand core.

    Those connections you are looking at are gaps in the sand, not sand joining the cores together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TZ350 View Post
    Hi Will, welcome and please post about your progress with pictures if you can.
    Thanks for the welcome, I'm still finding my way on this forum even though I had joined it a while ago.
    All this foundry stuff for me is a windfall, finding it right on my doorstep after looking all over the net and is of great interest to me at the moment.
    My expertise in this area is very limited at best but they say it's never too late to learn!

    I am also interested in new engine ideas (as a hobbyist) and I am trying to decipher the design of the uniflow two stroke experiment from the pics of the patterns and castings on this forum.
    No doubt, there is a good explanation for it all somewhere else but I'll have to do some checking through the posts.

    As I see it so far, it is an experiment in the development of a reciprocating (and non oscillating?) sleeve valve two stroke uniflow engine, with the sleeve reciprocating at engine speed and maybe driven by a twin crank? - but then, I've probably gone right off course here!

    With a lack of info on it, I can't see how the sleeve will actually seal the compression going to tdc as there seems to be no seal, but as I say the info is a bit sparse as yet, but hopefully as I become more familiar with the forum, I will be enlightened by someone - maybe even by HUSABERG, FLETTNER, or whoever is behind it all.

    I'm sorry, but I don't as yet know what team ESE actually is, but my guess is, it's a bucket racing team. I haven't really had much to do with Bucket Racers but my local track is probably Mt. Wellington and I haven't been there for a very long time!


    PS. How wrong could I be about ESE - sorry!
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    You got it right about ESE. They are a bucket racing team and do a bit of environmental engineering on the side. You only need to check the workshop and around Rob's desk upstairs to confirm it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WilDun View Post
    Thank you guys for a most informative thread,


    First question being, where's the best place to buy a decent crucible, clay,sand etc. around here? (ie Auckland/upper North Island).

    Cheers,
    Will.
    Foseco Ltd

    David at 09 267 7658

    And

    Industrial sands Ltd 09 833 7576

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    360 engine cases are being machined, as time allows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WilDun View Post
    Thanks for the welcome, I'm still finding my way on this forum even though I had joined it a while ago.
    All this foundry stuff for me is a windfall, finding it right on my doorstep after looking all over the net and is of great interest to me at the moment.
    My expertise in this area is very limited at best but they say it's never too late to learn!

    I am also interested in new engine ideas (as a hobbyist) and I am trying to decipher the design of the uniflow two stroke experiment from the pics of the patterns and castings on this forum.
    No doubt, there is a good explanation for it all somewhere else but I'll have to do some checking through the posts.

    As I see it so far, it is an experiment in the development of a reciprocating (and non oscillating?) sleeve valve two stroke uniflow engine, with the sleeve reciprocating at engine speed and maybe driven by a twin crank? - but then, I've probably gone right off course here!

    With a lack of info on it, I can't see how the sleeve will actually seal the compression going to tdc as there seems to be no seal, but as I say the info is a bit sparse as yet, but hopefully as I become more familiar with the forum, I will be enlightened by someone - maybe even by HUSABERG, FLETTNER, or whoever is behind it all.

    I'm sorry, but I don't as yet know what team ESE actually is, but my guess is, it's a bucket racing team. I haven't really had much to do with Bucket Racers but my local track is probably Mt. Wellington and I haven't been there for a very long time!


    PS. How wrong could I be about ESE - sorry!
    Before you go designing a new engine (even if you arent it would be interesting read anyway) see if you can get hold of "Some Unusual Engines" by L. J. K Setright (1975) . Almost none of these "new" engines you see CAD images of on the net are actually new and the problems are still the same as they were 40 years ago, although material development and manufacturing processes can mitigate to some degree.

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    Smile A Long Way to Go!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cheesy View Post
    Before you go designing a new engine (even if you arent it would be interesting read anyway) see if you can get hold of "Some Unusual Engines" by L. J. K Setright (1975) . Almost none of these "new" engines you see CAD images of on the net are actually new and the problems are still the same as they were 40 years ago, although material development and manufacturing processes can mitigate to some degree.

    Thanks to Flettner etc.for pointing me in the right direction re: crucibles and foundry supplies.

    Yes CHEESY,
    I have read the book, it's a very good book indeed - I went to the library around 1980 and photocopied the lot and read the most relevant stuff (to me) over and over and got plenty of inspiration for a few things as well, managing to use those original descriptions and drawings for myself and build on them, I have had this on paper for quite some time and thought it was time to get moving and at least TRY to make them work.

    So I have the book in a ringbinder! - it seems that an original is now an expensive collector's item!

    However, I am old enough and wise enough to realise that as they say, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". so, until the time I get them actually working, I will be regarded by many as a complete "tosser".

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    Quote Originally Posted by WilDun View Post
    However, I am old enough and wise enough to realise that as they say, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". so, until the time I get them actually working, I will be regarded by many as a complete "tosser".
    Hey, join the club!

    Half the fun is in building anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    Hey, join the club!
    I was going to go to the "recluse convention" and see if I could join their club, but the "tossers" club sounds (marginally) more appealing now that I know that there are a few others around!

    I don't really want to hijack this good thread, but thanks for all the replies, so now I'll concentrate on getting things gradually set up.

    Think I'll just follow Tubal Cain's foundry tutorials from square one and that should at least get me started, - anybody know how I can get them (the videos) downloaded permanently?

    Thanks,
    Will.

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    Hi Will, if you want to capture a youTube video you can use download helper, its a plugin for firefox

    Here is link http://www.downloadhelper.net/

    Seems to work ok
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yow Ling View Post
    Hi Will, if you want to capture a youTube video you can use download helper, its a plugin for firefox


    Bit wary about downloading these things unless Norton etc. verify that they're safe, I do have Firefox though, but seldom use it.

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    Pouring the metal for the YZ360 Crankcases. These could just a s easily be cases for a bucket.......

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