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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. 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
  2. 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: 39,866
    5th Sep 2009, 10:44 PM Go to last post
  3. 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: 33,558
    1st Apr 2012, 12:05 PM Go to last post
  4. 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: 29,963
    21st Aug 2012, 09:54 PM Go to last post
  5. 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
  6. 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: 25,518
    15th Jul 2013, 04:18 PM 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: 24,070
    15th Aug 2009, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  8. Pros and cons of electricity vs gas for crucible furnace

    Started by Gunnaduit, 19th Oct 2016 09:41 AM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 22,338
    28th Oct 2016, 08:45 AM Go to last post
  9. Patternmaker's letters

    Started by Pete O, 3rd Jun 2019 03:00 PM
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 21,860
    24th Oct 2023, 08:08 PM Go to last post
  10. Cast iron english wheel.

    Started by clear out, 10th Apr 2013 11:55 PM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 21,606
    29th Nov 2014, 06:28 AM Go to last post
  11. Casting Tools Part 5 - Casting a part

    Started by RayG, 5th Jan 2012 12:48 AM
    avoids, bit, bits, casting, clumps, completely, continued, core, covered, drag, exceed, flip, light, nice, pack, pattern, petrobond, pictures, powder, proper, rammer, riddle, screed, sheet, shovel, simple, split, step, tight, tools
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 21,237
    30th Jul 2018, 12:46 PM Go to last post
  12. Furnace build

    Started by Ueee, 29th Aug 2014 11:53 PM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 19,466
    9th Apr 2015, 12:20 PM Go to last post
  13. 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: 19,104
    28th Mar 2007, 01:20 PM Go to last post
  14. Casting small amount its of brass

    Started by BobL, 22nd Sep 2020 11:01 AM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 18,934
    23rd Oct 2020, 10:53 AM Go to last post
  15. 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: 18,596
    11th May 2011, 09:07 PM Go to last post
  16. small sand mulling machine

    Started by ericg, 13th Feb 2019 10:25 AM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 18,231
    13th Feb 2019, 10:06 PM Go to last post
  17. 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: 18,023
    6th Jun 2011, 12:50 AM Go to last post
  18. Diesel Powered FURNACE build

    Started by SawDustSniffer, 28th Sep 2012 09:38 PM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 17,554
    24th Oct 2012, 02:36 PM Go to last post
  19. Brass Casting, Poor Surface Finish

    Started by NedsHead, 16th Oct 2017 08:13 PM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 17,323
    30th Jul 2018, 12:40 PM Go to last post
  20. Moulding machinist wax in sand issue

    Started by variant22, 6th Apr 2013 07:28 PM
    2 Pages
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    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 17,223
    15th Aug 2014, 11:59 PM Go to last post
  21. melting copper

    Started by eskimo, 12th Nov 2017 04:29 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 16,858
    13th Nov 2017, 02:43 PM Go to last post
  22. 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
  23. 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: 16,104
    2nd Oct 2012, 07:34 PM Go to last post
  24. Boat bits in bronze?

    Started by riverbuilder, 21st Jun 2018 10:22 PM
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 15,977
    13th Jul 2018, 09:52 AM Go to last post
  25. Lightbulb Vacuum assisted casting in core-sand moulds.

    Started by MuellerNick, 23rd Oct 2012 04:44 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 15,732
    30th Oct 2012, 03:09 PM Go to last post
  26. 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
  27. 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: 15,544
    7th Nov 2011, 01:27 PM Go to last post
  28. 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: 15,074
    9th Dec 2011, 12:03 PM Go to last post
  29. 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
  30. Ceramic fiber rigidizer, where to buy?

    Started by Com_VC, 31st Aug 2016 06:46 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 14,266
    7th Sep 2016, 10:57 PM Go to last post

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