Casting

[aonemarine]

WOW! Those casting are amazing. That what I am shooting for. I did use wax on my casting but only as a filler. Look's like more time spent on the mold before pouring. Question what type of foam did you use? I used Styrofoam the stuff that you're TV and Electronics come in. I used a hot wire to cut the foam but it seem to leave a poor result on the mold. I am going to have to start to account for lost after the casting is completed. But like I said before there's a learning curve.

He uses the pink insulation type foam then coats it with drywall mud. Once dry its bedded in sand then the aluminum is poured. Kelly, the guy who cast the above parts makes it look real easy...

 

[MrMetric]

I hate to be a bother but.... If you are talking about the home foundry forum on HMEM, then I still don't see that user. I did a search for 'foundary al203' but the problem there is that Al203 is Aluminum Oxide which, of course, pops up all over the place... My real goal is to find some of the postings relating to "lost foam", but it is interesting that even that search term didn't produce good results in the HMEM search utility. I am trying to be a good self-service person and attempt to find some of this stuff myself, but I'm not too successful right now.

 

[gadabout]

I hate to be a bother but.... If you are talking about the home foundry forum on HMEM, then I still don't see that user. I did a search for 'foundary al203' but the problem there is that Al203 is Aluminum Oxide which, of course, pops up all over the place... My real goal is to find some of the postings relating to "lost foam", but it is interesting that even that search term didn't produce good results in the HMEM search utility. I am trying to be a good self-service person and attempt to find some of this stuff myself, but I'm not too successful right now.

There is a link in message 5 for where to find him

 

[MrMetric]

There is a link in message 5 for where to find him

Argh! I hate it when that happens. Thank you for demonstrating to me again that the ***** is firmly planted between the keyboard and the chair.... wait, that would be me!

OK, off to that site. Looks like they have a lot of interesting reading too. This is a great hobby!

 

[aonemarine]

Argh! I hate it when that happens. Thank you for demonstrating to me again that the ***** is firmly planted between the keyboard and the chair.... wait, that would be me!

OK, off to that site. Looks like they have a lot of interesting reading too. This is a great hobby!

LOL Happens to the best of them...
The forum is still pretty new (only 2 years old) But has some really good content..

 

[jacobball2000]

Well I tried to cast a piece of old gas cap for a friend that help me out a lot. but one my sand slide out of the drag and the sand sticks to the cap even after I put parting powder on it. Going to try tomorrow after the sand dries out a little