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This build is unreal! Beautiful work!!

Hi and welcome from Western Sydney :)

Hi Cogsy. Over the weekend I did what you said and it worked perfectly. The brand of kitty litter was Catsan. After the water is added there is no need for a blender. Thanks for the tip

Hi Gus, Thanks for the heads up! ☺

Hi Cogsy, Thanks for the tip. Bunnings and Big W are only a few minutes away. So once the kitty litter has soaked up the water, does it become slurry with just a little bit of mashing? I noticed some people use blenders. Surely doing that will drastically shorten the life of the blender...

The weekend has passed and I now have a furance, that will sit for a week to fully cure. I will have the burner finished saturday morning and then I shall light it up to let it dry out. To the people in sydney, Where are you guys getting your green sand from? Or are you all making it? Google...

Hi Aonemarine, Thanks for your input. I ended up purchasing commercial castable refractory and cloth. I agree that there is no point in putting in all this work only to redo it later down the track.

Hi Everyone, Thanks so much for all your input, link, experience and information. Its much appreciated! :D I think ill just stick to starting with aluminum. Michael porter's book looks like a good buy! I will get my hands on this :) I have some old aluminum engine blocks that need a face...

Hi Joe. Very nice work there. And I like your furance. Do you have any action videos of it? Cheers Ethan

Hi Joe. Very nice work there. And I like your furance. Do you have any action videos of it? Cheers Ethan

Hi there everyone. I would like to build a smallish furance to cast mostly aluminum and cast iron. There are alot of DIY stuff I have found on the Internet but I would like to see what others have done and if they have used or based there furance on these Internet ones? Also, to my fellow...

Welcome Ian! It's good to have a local with similar interests. I'm from mulgoa, so your not far away at all. It sounds like you have a nice collection of tools. Are there any projects on your mind for the future?

This is going to be amazing! the detail is crazy! Can't wait to see updates :)

Just a little update with this nice little lathe. I had some time to play with it this weekend. Though I have not experienced any smaller lathes this little beast has some real grunt! I'm now going to build a little flood coolant base/ tray for it. How is yours going Simon?

Damn! They did pack that roughly! I hope it all works out to be ok. It would be annoying having to return it as they are discontinued! Fingers crossed and update when you can :)

Woohoo! Congrats man :) That's weird about the faceplate. Mine all came at the same time lol but my faceplate did come in some random box that looked recycled haha I guess you will be playing this weekend?

I have purchased from aliexpres which is pretty much the same as alibaba. I brought some hrc60 carbide bull nose cutters, flat cutters and ball nose cutters for cheap. They so far work amazingly well however I have only been cutting aluminum. I guess I'll find out when I cut harder material.

Yeh my x2 was covered in the same red thick grease to. Haha good old recycled timber! Lol You will have more soon to add onto the beer crate lol

Some pictures hehe. Over the weekend I'll try and set it up. It's partner in crime :) And the safety man.

Haha the good news about this is our lathes will be friends haha.