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    Revised cases too shortly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    Cast in LM13.
    EXCELLENT....
    "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    Cast in LM13.
    That's brilliant!! - looks fantastic! - almost too good to be real!
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    The morning after.

    Straight into roughing it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    The morning after.

    Straight into roughing it out.
    Guess most foundries look like the morning after permanently! but that's quite an impressive "industrial strength" furnace! and that mobile "10 in 1" crucible holder/ladle/pouring mechanism .....um .....whatsitsname !! - pretty good as well!
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    Ive made out that the uniflow casting was a success, truth is its got a blow hole in it. From the water cores not being able to out gas. Could be welded but I'll use this first one as a machining test dummy, so I need to make up another mold or two. I've copy cast my wooden core boxes into LM13 aluminium core boxes. Much stronger cores and added another core print so they can gas out without sending the gas through the aluminium.
    Water core box and hot to cold end transfer core box, the troublesome ones.
    Shown here the water core boxes, wood and now metal, plus a Shell Sand core.
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    Almost, as I look closer I see a water core has broken away and floated up causing the problems. Only one third as there are three cores, bugger it. So not a gassing issue after all.
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    Devcon mate.

    That said i glued an LC head conversion with Devcon as figured it would stay below 70 easy.

    Didn't make practice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Devcon mate.

    That said i glued an LC head conversion with Devcon as figured it would stay below 70 easy.

    Didn't make practice.
    No, Ill cast again now that I know how to fix the problem. To be fair Im shocked it came out as good as it did, considering the bitch the mold was to assemble, lessons learnt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flettner View Post
    No, Ill cast again now that I know how to fix the problem. To be fair Im shocked it came out as good as it did, considering the bitch the mold was to assemble, lessons learnt.
    Best way to learn - by mistakes!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WilDun View Post
    Best way to learn - by mistakes!
    Yes, but...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frits Overmars View Post
    Yes, but...
    I now know that to be true - but could you have told me that when I was making them? - life was "forever" then!

    God designed us all that way (ie unable to get off the starting block) in case we got too "uppity"
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    Jolly old NZ aye, sent my cases to get them heat treated in Auckland. Oven broke down, one week, two weeks.
    With a refurbished oven, the transformer on the poll outside their factory blew up. One week ...... finally have them back, not melted thankfully and nice to machine, clearly at T6.

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    I heard that Heat Treatments was in recievership (or was it McGregor Furnaces??) - who does your treatments in Auckland?
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