Disposable faceplate's etc.

[Bernd]

OK, I'm guilty for being the "nit-wit" that kept this going. :big: :big: :big:

Bernd

P.S. Won't it be nice if we could take aluminum chips and press them into a kind of particle board. (OK, I'm running and ducking now) ;D

 

[Lew Hartswick]

Bernd

P.S. Won't it be nice if we could take aluminum chips and press them into a kind of particle board. (OK, I'm running and ducking now) ;D

Now there is an idea. I wonder if it was done in a reducing atmosphere at a temp near melting it would
result in something like the porus stuff in an "Oilite" bearing. ????
{ no charge for the idea}
...lew...

 

[Loose nut]

Isn't there a version of Devcon that is for aluminum, thats basically the same thing, form it into a mold with some pressure and you might have a rough part. It would save you from having to have a foundry and you could avoid excess machining just like a casting, just a little finish machining and your done.

You might have something here but how much do you want to bet that someone has already though of it and is making parts already.