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RayG
26th Oct 2012, 02:27 PM
Hi All,

I found this video very informative...

Foundry myths - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWUF6wuYDt0)

Not that I'd be all that keen to repeat the experiments...

There are a number of good videos by the same guy

luckygen1001's channel - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/luckygen1001)

Regards
Ray

PS. I think he's somewhere down Gippsland way.

.RC.
26th Oct 2012, 03:49 PM
Would like to have seen the experiments done with cast iron rather then aluminium....

MuellerNick
26th Oct 2012, 07:14 PM
I know this video.
But as soon as the water gets below the molten metal's surface, the fun is over.
I spilled half a crucible of aluminium in 0.1 seconds that way. :o


Nick

clear out
26th Oct 2012, 07:41 PM
When I was an apprentice back in the 60s there was an explosion at Ultimo Tech when the Patternmakers where doing some casting. The sand was too wet and as a result the apprentice 2 years my senior copped metal in his leg.
I recently did the night TAFE foundry course at the 'gong where after showing you how to, it was open slather on doing your own projects.I had just made the pattern for a plaque for a navy LST and thought I would prove it using scrap brass plumbing taps etc for the melt. There was no way they would put my scrap in the pot because of the risk of water in the tap chambers.
So whilst good entertainment the video is very dangerous for all the amateurs out there.
The TAFE had been set up by BHP but they never put anyone thru it.
It survived for a while on car restorers and steam nuts and sculptures etc.
They had a great furnace it would melt cast iron in 20 minutes but you could only pour what 2 people could lift. Much better than the old cupola we used at the Ballina slip where we used wine flagons for flux.
H.

Steamwhisperer
27th Oct 2012, 06:24 AM
It survived for a while on car restorers and steam nuts and sculptures etc.


Steam nuts?? ouch. :D:D

Head nut Phil

clear out
27th Oct 2012, 10:16 AM
Steam nuts?? ouch. :D:D

Head nut Phil
Sorry about that.:doh: I am obviously not at all nuts.:roll:
Just in from the shed where I'm restoring a 3 wheel Mazda ute.:no:
Also a timber framed convertable (Morgan).:q
Ive even kept 20ft of line shafting in the roof.:o
Have a Buzacott to hook up to it 'one day' but would love a small steam engine.:U
H.

RayG
7th Mar 2013, 10:52 PM
Would like to have seen the experiments done with cast iron rather then aluminium....

Hi .RC.

Still not sure I'd be game enough to try, but here's the cast iron version Foundry myths revisited - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kho0iVN0wg)

Regards
Ray

clear out
7th Mar 2013, 11:14 PM
How would these turkeys go if the plug didn't stop the pour from the cupola and they had to run through an inch of molten iron on the foundry floor to try and stop it all from covering the entire foundry.
Ballina Slipway and Engineering 1975.
We had a 'few beers' at the "Pot" after that one
SG was also using the black zircon sand for blasting in the boiler shop
To say nothing of the welding leads the fork used to run over.
Maybe the Chinese or Indians will see this and think it's a safety film.
H.

BobL
11th Jun 2016, 10:18 AM
When I was an apprentice back in the 60s there was an explosion at Ultimo Tech when the Patternmakers where doing some casting. The sand was too wet and as a result the apprentice 2 years my senior copped metal in his leg.
I recently did the night TAFE foundry course at the 'gong where after showing you how to, it was open slather on doing your own projects.I had just made the pattern for a plaque for a navy LST and thought I would prove it using scrap brass plumbing taps etc for the melt. There was no way they would put my scrap in the pot because of the risk of water in the tap chambers.
.

I realise this is an old thread but am wondering if anyone else has done this.
What about if the taps are dismantled and then heated in a forge before being melted?

eskimo
13th Jun 2016, 07:16 PM
I realise this is an old thread but am wondering if anyone else has done this.
What about if the taps are dismantled and then heated in a forge before being melted?

shouldnt be a problem....but what if some wet was accidently mixed with dry?

Even galvanising companies will not hot dip hollow tube unless there is a hole in each section

berniezarzoff
22nd Oct 2021, 01:41 AM
luckygen1001's channel - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/luckygen1001)

Regards
Ray

PS. I think he's somewhere down Gippsland way.

Does anyone know if Luckygen1001 does commission work and how to contact him if he does?

Cheers
Pete

Turbine Builder
19th Nov 2021, 09:48 PM
Does anyone know if Luckygen1001 does commission work and how to contact him if he does?

Cheers
Pete You could ask this chap. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC90RoN_IjSRF18jAG0HIA6g/videos