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Forum: THE FOUNDRY

If casting is your thing then this one is for you. weather it's lost-wax, plaster or sand casting, iron, bronze, precious metals or anything else. This is the forum for you,

  1. casting aluminium

    Started by mic-d, 17th May 2006 09:34 PM
    aluminium, base, broken, cast, casting, cheers, cold, father, fine, flies, information, links, lost, michael, model, neck, plane, product, propeller, spitfire, step, welding
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 7,174
    23rd May 2006, 01:18 AM Go to last post
  2. Wanted Petrobond info.-supplier

    Started by impalabazz, 25th Mar 2007 10:16 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    500kg, advised, article, buy, called, casting, clay, company, contacted, contacts, dynaref, forum, imported, imports, infosupplier, intentions, nolonger, petrobond, product, products, quantities, readily, reading, sands, similar, sold, supplier, venture, wanted, world
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 19,098
    28th Mar 2007, 01:20 PM Go to last post
  3. Oil Burners for Casting Furnace.

    Started by impalabazz, 15th Apr 2007 09:50 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    abundance, air, alternative, aluminium, babington, barry, basic, bronze, burners, casting, cheaper, compressed, diesel, doubt, downloaded, feed, forward, furnace, gravity, guys, heating, method, net, oil, petrobond, plans, responces, simple, stage, type
    • Replies: 42
    • Views: 29,950
    2nd Jun 2007, 11:04 AM Go to last post
  4. Small scale Casters in Melb

    Started by Gra, 27th Jun 2007 10:39 PM
    aluminium, bronze, casters, guys, melb, melbourne, metal, priced, resonably, run, scale, small
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 5,692
    30th Jun 2007, 08:47 PM Go to last post
  5. Melting aluminium

    Started by Ch4iS, 3rd Aug 2009 07:38 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    $1000, $500, 15kg, alot, alu, aluminium, bed, business, call, charge, chinese, cnc, companies, expect, found, furnace, hunting, larger, melt, melting, nsw, offcuts, price, projects, recomend, roof, router, steel, tommorow, wondering
    • Replies: 32
    • Views: 24,056
    15th Aug 2009, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  6. The Charcoal Foundry

    Started by silentC, 11th Apr 2007 04:59 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    aluminium, assumed, black, book, bottom, called, charcoal, charcoal-fuelled, david, describes, fire, foundry, furnace, gingery, left, lumpy, melting, simple, stuff
    • Replies: 63
    • Views: 39,859
    5th Sep 2009, 10:44 PM Go to last post
  7. Some aluminium casting results

    Started by 19brendan81, 16th Dec 2009 02:55 PM
    aluminium, bought, brendan, cast, casting, chopper, concrete, cone, cones, couple, explosion, finished, fourth, frame, jig, molten, petrobond, photo, photos, product, remotely, resembling, resulted, results, rough, sand, spills, straight, threaded, wood
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 9,773
    22nd Dec 2009, 06:49 AM Go to last post
  8. Home Foundry Advice

    Started by Greg Q, 6th May 2011 09:37 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    advice, alternative, alternatives, aluminium, bronze, burner, cast, casting, fellas, foundry, greg, guys, home, hot, immediately, iron, listing, local, melbourne, metal, oil, pieces, read, stink, suppliers, thread, understand, units, urge, waste
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 18,591
    11th May 2011, 09:07 PM Go to last post
  9. Small Furnace

    Started by foccacia, 27th May 2011 05:35 PM
    327, alloy, degrees, fired, furnace, lpg, melts, pictures, plans, set, small
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 8,025
    31st May 2011, 11:24 PM Go to last post
  10. Forced Air LPG Burner Mk2

    Started by RayG, 26th May 2011 11:15 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    addition, air, block, blower, burner, ceramic, cleaner, complicated, develop, flare, flared, forced, free, furnace, hope, inside, interim, lpg, mk2, mounting, planning, pressure, ray, running, spa, temporary, testing, tuning, vacuum, variac
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 18,016
    6th Jun 2011, 12:50 AM Go to last post
  11. Metal casting furnace details

    Started by Graziano, 9th Aug 2010 09:22 PM
    1/2, 2/2, avoid, bonded, bronze, cast, caster, casting, caused, details, experienced, explosions, furnace, gas, hand, hot, inch, injury, load, melting, metal, moist, mould, porosity, preheating, resin, sand, scrap, silica, worth
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 12,402
    14th Jun 2011, 11:14 AM Go to last post
  12. Casting Tools Part 1

    Started by RayG, 3rd Nov 2011 01:37 PM
    bronze, cast, casting, critical, crucible, crucibles, determined, dimensions, flat, furnace, gloves, handling, iron, lifting, liquid, metal, nice, plate, pour, pouring, radiation, shield, skimming, suggest, suit, time, titanium, tongs, tools, wearing
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 10,878
    3rd Nov 2011, 04:15 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 11,604
    6th Nov 2011, 10:13 PM Go to last post
  13. Casting Tools Part 3 - Furnace Design and Construction

    Started by RayG, 6th Nov 2011 07:11 PM
    blanket, bottom, cast, casting, ceramic, construction, crucible, design, fibre, furnace, hole, inside, iron, layer, lid, lift, melted, melting, metal, picture, plinth, pure, pyrocrete, rotate, steel, stop, temperature, temperatures, tools, wires
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 15,543
    7th Nov 2011, 01:27 PM Go to last post
  14. Casting Tools Part 4 - Sand Casting Tools

    Started by RayG, 10th Nov 2011 09:06 PM
    bonded, book, bottom, called, casting, compound, connections, cope, covers, cutting, drag, fine, flask, flasks, home, oil, overview, pattern, patterns, powder, quick, recommend, sand, snap, talcum, time, told, tools, top, trowell
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 15,069
    9th Dec 2011, 12:03 PM Go to last post
  15. Casting Tools Part 2 - Burners

    Started by RayG, 3rd Nov 2011 04:58 PM
    air, aspirated, blower, blue, burner, burners, cast, casting, cone, fine, flame, flare, forced, gas, hot, inlet, iron, jet, mixture, over-engineered, section, sliding, speed, temperatures, tinge, tools, tub, tubing, variac, velocity
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 10,242
    12th Dec 2011, 10:07 AM Go to last post
  16. Casting about for cast iron casting ideas

    Started by Graziano, 22nd Mar 2012 10:03 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    bit, bronze, camelbacks, carbide, cast, casting, coating, edge, flour, forming, future, guru, hard, ideas, iron, local, melts, moulds, nasty, par, perform, prevent, sack, silicon, straight, supposed, surface, tells, temperature, zirconium
    • Replies: 49
    • Views: 33,548
    1st Apr 2012, 12:05 PM Go to last post
  17. Melbourne Foundry Suppliers

    Started by RayG, 9th Jul 2009 08:42 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    $80, 1425, 3175, alloy, aluminium, bags, bronze, cast, cerachem, ceramic, crucible, crucibles, dandenong, fluxes, foundry, ingots, melbourne, metal, pint, pouring, powder, roll, scrap, sell, silicon, street, stuff, suppliers, tablets, temperature
    • Replies: 55
    • Views: 47,443
    28th Apr 2012, 11:41 PM Go to last post
  18. A Saturday at the backyard foundry

    Started by MuellerNick, 3rd Aug 2012 07:09 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    backyard, day, foundry, foundy, minus, nick, saturday, weekend, youtube
    • Replies: 64
    • Views: 29,949
    21st Aug 2012, 09:54 PM Go to last post
  19. how can you melt aluminum without a furnace

    Started by welder, 20th Sep 2011 10:27 PM
    aluminium, aluminum, cast, cylinder, cylinders, extrusion, furnace, furncance, gas, helium, ingots, melt, pile, size, wondering
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 16,102
    2nd Oct 2012, 07:34 PM Go to last post
  20. Casting 'Pewter'

    Started by foccacia, 7th Oct 2012 06:52 PM
    alloy, appearance, casting, cheers, due, filing, flat, foccacia, low, mercury, moulds, pewter, raised, section, similar, suggestions, suitable, surface, temperature, tension, thermometer, tin/copper, top
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 5,172
    7th Oct 2012, 10:00 PM Go to last post
  21. Diesel Powered FURNACE build

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 28th Sep 2012 09:38 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 17,552
    24th Oct 2012, 02:36 PM Go to last post
  22. Lightbulb Vacuum assisted casting in core-sand moulds.

    Started by MuellerNick, 23rd Oct 2012 04:44 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 15,727
    30th Oct 2012, 03:09 PM Go to last post
  23. Molding Lead Sinkers

    Started by hotspur, 8th May 2011 08:42 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    bit, brisbane, clean, cooling, drilled, feel, lead, leads, lot, merchant, metal, mold, molding, molds, pointers-chris, pointers.i, pour, scrap, sell, sinker, sinkers, snapper, starts, wondering
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 15,636
    14th Nov 2012, 06:03 PM Go to last post
  24. Aluminium Foam

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 18th Nov 2012 02:27 PM
    ,heat, 0723081758.htm, 10%, absorption, adding, additive, adjusting, aluminium, bubbles, calcium, carbonate, chemical, energy, foam, hand, happen, hollow, larger, melt, page, pool, powder, properties, readily, shield, size, sound, steel, weight, _mjom_1603.pdf
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 6,882
    20th Nov 2012, 09:20 PM Go to last post
  25. Home made green sand

    Started by giesser, 18th Jan 2013 05:10 PM
    addition, aluminium, brass/bronze, cast, coal, dust, green, home, iron, leave, molding, recipe, sand, video, youtube
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 4,977
    18th Jan 2013, 05:10 PM Go to last post
  26. Regenerating oil bound casting sand

    Started by MuellerNick, 12th Oct 2012 07:42 PM
    ability, add, adding, alcohol, binder, binding, bit, bound, breaking, casting, completely, detect, ductility, effect, evaporates, free, harmful, impression, increases, intended, oil, petrobond, positive, reduces, regenerating, results, sand, skills, time, wetness
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 9,165
    20th Jan 2013, 09:24 PM Go to last post
  27. Foundry sand mixer

    Started by giesser, 25th Jan 2013 04:30 PM
    breaking, casting, follwing, foundry, homemade, lot, lumps, mixer, mixing, post, sand, saves, video, youtube
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 5,526
    28th Jan 2013, 01:04 PM Go to last post
  28. Homemade 9" cupola

    Started by giesser, 8th Feb 2013 04:20 PM
    200kg, access, cast, char, check, coke, cupola, foundries, furnace, furnaces, homemade, homemade 9, hour, induction, iron, melt, melted, melting, melts, video, youtube
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 7,034
    21st Feb 2013, 10:50 PM Go to last post
  29. Aluminium course :-) INFO

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 27th Feb 2013 11:38 PM
    3000, alloys, aluminium, days, home, info, lol, page, pages, papers, reading, talat, worth, writon
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 5,338
    2nd Mar 2013, 01:42 PM Go to last post

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