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Archive for June, 2010

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At one time most towns of any size had somewhere a small foundry which would undertake small casting jobs, often more out of interest and good neighbourliness than for commercial gain. Those days are no more and model engineers in many areas must either adapt commerically available castings or send away to a specialist foundry which will undertake small work, often at some expense and with some delay. The alternative is to set up a home foundry and to make one’s own patterns and castings. This text covers all the basic principles of foundry work, describes materials and techniques, pattern-making, moulding boxes, cores and core-boxes, metals, all types of furnaces, and includes step-by-step procedures with examples of cylinders and wheels.

The Backyard Foundry

A ghost gets mixed up with some molten steel at a steel mill & anything that gets made from the steel there is possessed by the ghost.

Lecture Series on Manufacturing Processes – I by Dr.DBKarunakar, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee. For more details on NPTEL visit nptel.iitm.ac.in

I’ve been trying to look for a tutorial online that teaches the proper way to encase insects in resin for jewelry and other things…..they are so neat to look at! However, I cannot find a step-by-step guide on how to do so (without someone saying its “cruel” or some ridiculous thing).

From the info I HAVE gathered, once you get your catalyst and resin mixed, you pour a thin layer and THEN place the bug down—-let it dry a bit—-and pour the rest over??? I also read something about needing to remove the air/oxygen from inside the bug before casting so it doesn’t rot?

Can anyone who HAS DONE INSECTS IN RESIN please tell me your experiences and the proper way to do so……and please save the “animal cruelty” crap for someone else…..don’t act like you wouldnt have killed the bug, anyways! LOL

P.S.—-I really want to resin a black widow spider……but I could assume that spiders may be more difficult to do given their thread-like legs. Any experience is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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A-to-Z guide to low-volume metalcasting

There’s plenty of demand for one-shot or low production metalcasting job work, but the work often goes begging for lack of anyone to do it. Interested? Metalcasting by C.W. Ammen is packed with step-by-step guidelines for getting started and working effectively and efficiently in this time-honored craft. You get hands-on advice and cost-cutting tips, plus sound ideas for safety and productivity. In easy-to-understand language, this guide shows you how to use metalcrafting’s tools and processes, casting and mold making…molding sands…molding equipment….metal melting, handling, and pouring devices…alloys…and more, including: *Patination of cast metals *Working with chemically-bonded molds *Newest molding, casting, and pattern-making techniques

A Frequently Asked Questions section anticipates and responds to typical beginner’s queries about applications and repair techniques and other metalcasting issues.

Metalcasting

Learn about the many tools needed to get started in professional metal jewelry making. Expert: Courtney Gray Contact: www.courtneygrayarts.com Bio: Courtney Gray is an artist and professional jewelry maker who creates jewelry from the design stage all the way through to the final product.

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Each chapter of Professor Cambell’s new book Castings Practice will take a look at one of his 10 rules. It is to be expected that the Rules wil one day be taken as an outline or blueprint for an international specification on the methods for making reliable castings.

John Cambell has over two decades of experience in the casting industry and is the author of over 40 technical papers and patents. He has become well-known in the foundry industry as the originator of the Cosworth casting process, which is becoming accepted throughout the world as a new production process for the casting of cylinder heads and blocks. He is now Federal Mogul Professor of Casting Technology at the University of Birmingham.

* Must-follow rules of castings, from one of the world’s leading experts
* Companion volume to the renowned book ‘Castings’
* Accessible and direct, provides essential information for students of metallurgy and foundry professionals alike

Castings Practice: The Ten Rules of Castings

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Foundry Technology brings together basic metal casting phenomena, foundry techniques and product characteristics in a single work of reference.

Peter Beeley was a foundry manager before he became a senior lecturer in metallurgy, and subsequently maintained continuous links with the castings industry and associated research activities and publications.

His book is designed to serve as a bridge between the study of the basic principles of metal founding and their application in the producing and user industries.

A particular aim of Foundry Technology is to assist engineers and engineering students in appreciating the role of castings in design and materials selection.

Orthodox and specialized casting processes, and both ferrous and non-ferrous founding are considered on a comparative basis, and the place of castings in design is critically examined and related to other products.

The revised edition takes account of the main changes in casting processes and products since the publication of the original edition in 1972. While retaining treatments of basic aspects of molding, solidification, cast structures and feeding, newer developments in modeling and rapid prototyping are reviewed, together with quality, environmental, health and other issues of growing importance.

New edition of well-known book.

Fully updated with latest technology.

Foundry Technology, Second Edition

Very scary.

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SAVE BY ORDERING THIS COMPLETE SET!! This complete set contains all items shown, vacuum caster with accessories, deluxe burnout oven, centrifugal casting unit, pyrometer, mixing bowl, timer, graduated cylinder, investment scale, dwt. Scale, non-asbestos gloves, 25 lbs. of investment, four 2-1/2″ x 3″ investment flasks, two 3-1/2 x 4″ flasks, sprue bases, borax flux, vacu-cast, jewelry cleaner and a casting book. Shipping weight is 222 lbs.

CASTING KIT WITH CENTRIFUGAL UNIT AND BURNOUT OVEN COMPLETE