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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Moore View Post
    https://www.facebook.com/pete.hehir/...7461048&type=1

    photos of patterns and castings for replica TZ750 crankcases.

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    Just stumbled on that a few minutes ago and came here to post it
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    The is some incredible work, TZ750 I have never seen one in the flesh yet I have drooled over them for years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Moore View Post
    patterns and castings for replica TZ750 crankcases.
    Michael
    Michael,
    Guess the photos are from a reasonably big concern? - whoever they belong to, it looks like they've put a lot of work into them and I'm sure an awful lot of money as well!

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    They are in Melbourne, and it does look like they are a pretty busy shop

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelgr...8488?ref=br_tf

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    Plunder from up north, crucible still to come ( from Australia no less ).

    Now to find the shed that blew over in the wind a year or two ago. Might be down at the storage cow shed? Will need this to make a moulding / casting shop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    Plunder from up north, crucible still to come ( from Australia no less ).

    Now to find the shed that blew over in the wind a year or two ago. Might be down at the storage cow shed? Will need this to make a moulding / casting shop.
    The Woodhill forest track is probably composed of that stuff!

    Sounds like you're getting serious about this casting lark - we'll soon all be sitting here saying "I could do that" but more likely it'll be "why couldn't I have done that?"

    I won't give up, I'll get there sometime but you'll have moved on by that time.

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    The Foseco crucibles are made in Mexico, this one ( still on it's way ) was sent to Australia for a customer that later decided he didn't want it, so I got it, now it's off to NZ.
    Still need a CO2 bottle, Rockwool, CC601 / LM13 billet and see if I can find my old sand mixer? Cowshed?
    The sand is cheap, $17.00 a 25kg bag.
    I still have half a drum of F9 fuel so I imagine that's what I'll be firing the furnace with.

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    Hi Will, Im still alive, a bit sore from a crash a couple of weeks ago. Havnt done much in my foundry, got a nice old bandsaw given to me, so getting a bit more enthusiastic again.

    Flettner, the solosil 133 is that sodium silicate that you add to the sand to make the cores? What is the other stuff?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    The Foseco crucibles are made in Mexico, this one ( still on it's way ) was sent to Australia for a customer that later decided he didn't want it, so I got it, now it's off to NZ.
    Still need a CO2 bottle, Rockwool, CC601 / LM13 billet and see if I can find my old sand mixer? Cowshed?
    The sand is cheap, $17.00 a 25kg bag.
    I still have half a drum of F9 fuel so I imagine that's what I'll be firing the furnace with.
    Sodastream...........
    What's in the pics that looks like rolls of tape?
    Next to the high temp glue
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    The stuff next to the glue is de gassing tablets, also there should be some grain modifyer but that was fogotten to be loaded on it seems.
    Yes the 133 is to mix with the sand as a binder, CO2 activated. Also there is a bag of flux, to use in the melt to drag the impurities out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    The Foseco crucibles are made in Mexico, this one ( still on it's way ) was sent to Australia for a customer that later decided he didn't want it, so I got it,
    What size of crucible are you going to use? - what's it made of?

    Is LM 13 the old piston type alloy they've used for years?

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    bogan posted this today......
    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
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    Probably should have posted this picture here, it's in ESE at the moment. This is the FOS pattern starting out, exhaust port arrangment has been covered up for the moment. I'm looking for smaller 3mm beads this time so as to make the alloy thickness less. There is a lot going on at the moment with these two 700 twin engines being sold to Heat Ranger. Cases are being cast in Auckland but the cylinders I will be casting at home here, I wish that crucible would hurry up.

    Will, yes same old piston LM13, crucible is silicon carbide? I think. Size? 350 tall, 280 round ish, not very big but big enough for casting cylinders and small M/C cases.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post

    The original parts used to build the core boxes are on the shelf never to be used again unless somthing gets very wrong and I need to remake the core boxes.
    Hi Neil, was this project finished? More photos please

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    Quote Originally Posted by kel View Post
    Hi Neil, was this project finished? More photos please
    After a short search, this project was found on the pattern bench. Yes it needs to be finished, it's not. I've started a water core but thats were it ended. FOS seems like so much more fun.
    I have a number of pattern jobs to finish in the next few weeks, this RG cylinder is one of them. Soon I'll be able to cast them as well, crucible turns up on the 5th.

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    More pictures? Ok, I've been to the dress shop again, see.
    I like these beads on the string, should make laying them out much faster, 4mm, will sand back about 3.5mm. That will do.
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