They are in Melbourne, and it does look like they are a pretty busy shop
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cheers,
Michael
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.
What happened to Yow Ling? - still with us?
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.
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?
My neighbours diary says I have boundary issues
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.
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.
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.
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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