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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. A Saturday at the backyard foundry

    Started by MuellerNick, 3rd Aug 2012 07:09 PM
    5 Pages
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    backyard, day, foundry, foundy, minus, nick, saturday, weekend, youtube
    • Replies: 64
    • Views: 29,962
    21st Aug 2012, 09:54 PM Go to last post
  2. The Charcoal Foundry

    Started by silentC, 11th Apr 2007 04:59 PM
    5 Pages
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    aluminium, assumed, black, book, bottom, called, charcoal, charcoal-fuelled, david, describes, fire, foundry, furnace, gingery, left, lumpy, melting, simple, stuff
    • Replies: 63
    • Views: 39,865
    5th Sep 2009, 10:44 PM Go to last post
  3. 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: 47,455
    28th Apr 2012, 11:41 PM Go to last post
  4. Casting about for cast iron casting ideas

    Started by Graziano, 22nd Mar 2012 10:03 PM
    4 Pages
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    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: 33,556
    1st Apr 2012, 12:05 PM Go to last post
  5. Furnace Build(likely to be very slow)

    Started by Stustoys, 22nd Jun 2013 04:04 PM
    3 Pages
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    • Replies: 43
    • Views: 25,517
    15th Jul 2013, 04:18 PM Go to last post
  6. 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: 29,953
    2nd Jun 2007, 11:04 AM Go to last post
  7. Melting aluminium

    Started by Ch4iS, 3rd Aug 2009 07:38 PM
    3 Pages
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    $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: 24,068
    15th Aug 2009, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  8. Diesel Powered FURNACE build

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 28th Sep 2012 09:38 PM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 17,553
    24th Oct 2012, 02:36 PM Go to last post
  9. Furnace build

    Started by Ueee, 29th Aug 2014 11:53 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 19,465
    9th Apr 2015, 12:20 PM Go to last post
  10. Home Foundry Advice

    Started by Greg Q, 6th May 2011 09:37 PM
    2 Pages
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    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: 18,596
    11th May 2011, 09:07 PM Go to last post
  11. Wanted Petrobond info.-supplier

    Started by impalabazz, 25th Mar 2007 10:16 PM
    2 Pages
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    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: 19,103
    28th Mar 2007, 01:20 PM Go to last post
  12. 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: 18,022
    6th Jun 2011, 12:50 AM Go to last post
  13. Pros and cons of electricity vs gas for crucible furnace

    Started by Gunnaduit, 19th Oct 2016 09:41 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 22,336
    28th Oct 2016, 08:45 AM Go to last post
  14. Cast iron english wheel.

    Started by clear out, 10th Apr 2013 11:55 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 21,604
    29th Nov 2014, 06:28 AM Go to last post
  15. Identifying Aluminium

    Started by Oldneweng, 3rd Aug 2013 05:01 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    aluminium, bits, casting, collect, dean, egt, found, identify, identifying, method, unsure
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 13,328
    18th Aug 2013, 10:33 AM Go to last post
  16. Lightbulb Vacuum assisted casting in core-sand moulds.

    Started by MuellerNick, 23rd Oct 2012 04:44 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 15,731
    30th Oct 2012, 03:09 PM Go to last post
  17. They are getting big

    Started by vin, 10th Feb 2022 07:45 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 21
    • Views: 10,170
    3rd Sep 2022, 05:28 PM Go to last post
  18. Local-ish Caster Wanted (QLD 4020) for Sword Copying Project

    Started by Jislizard, 24th Jan 2018 09:06 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    cast, metal, sword
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 16,238
    1st Feb 2018, 10:20 AM Go to last post
  19. Moulding machinist wax in sand issue

    Started by variant22, 6th Apr 2013 07:28 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 17,223
    15th Aug 2014, 11:59 PM Go to last post
  20. Recommendation for first furnace

    Started by OxxAndBert, 20th May 2020 04:51 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 11,446
    18th Jun 2020, 05:01 PM Go to last post
  21. Suitable Oil/Diesel Burner?

    Started by Ueee, 11th Jun 2013 09:06 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 12,640
    20th Jul 2013, 07:20 PM Go to last post
  22. Farewell John Heine after 120 years.

    Started by clear out, 20th Jun 2023 06:46 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 6,062
    19th Aug 2023, 07:55 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: 15,639
    14th Nov 2012, 06:03 PM Go to last post
  24. Ideas for zinc castings

    Started by snapatap, 8th Nov 2015 07:47 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 12,236
    5th Jan 2016, 08:31 AM Go to last post
  25. Making a foundry for a one off pour?

    Started by simonl, 27th May 2013 08:03 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 14,463
    30th May 2013, 11:25 PM Go to last post
  26. Looking for someone to cast a small milling table

    Started by KBs PensNmore, 29th Jan 2015 01:38 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    cast, milling, small, table
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 12,151
    25th Feb 2015, 07:52 PM Go to last post
  27. casting a brass nut

    Started by kenny_10, 25th May 2019 10:08 AM
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 12,871
    27th Sep 2019, 01:45 PM Go to last post
  28. Patternmaker's letters

    Started by Pete O, 3rd Jun 2019 03:00 PM
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 21,857
    24th Oct 2023, 08:08 PM Go to last post
  29. Six kilo bronze casting

    Started by Gestalt, 9th Mar 2017 12:03 PM
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 7,906
    21st Mar 2017, 07:29 PM Go to last post
  30. KEG Foundry Furnace biuld

    Started by Turbine Builder, 8th Jul 2018 08:00 PM
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 10,437
    10th Apr 2019, 06:25 PM Go to last post

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