Here's a link about melting aluminum and brass in a cupola using store bought charcoal: http://www.artmetal.com/brambush/forum/bramyak2/messages/686.html ...
Dan, No, haven't tried bronze, not yet. But the Stewart Marshall book I have says it can be done in a cupola, as long as the furnace has been cleaned of any...
Your aluminum castings wouldn't be very clean and you'd really have alot of gas porosity. Aluminum really absorbs gas and the large surface area combined with...
-- Doug This sound like one of ICP,s products (Industrial Chemical Products Div. Foundry Service & Supply Co., Inc.) This stuff is an airset next genaration...
Heres one I havnt heard yet. Take your store bought charcoal, soak it for a couple days in your drain oil. Put a coffee can full of this dripping charcoal in...
No it doesn't work well as a muller. It will mix greensand but petrobond needs to be squeezed. I have heard that some are using a mortar mixer with some...
Scared me fer a minute there. When I first read that, I thought ya said "Martha Stewart" an instantly thought "Awwww Nawwwww". I spose my dyslexia mus be...
Speaking of petrobond guys, What's the best way to recondition it once it's used? ... photos and stuff: join Sandcrabs by sending a blank message to: ...
... wax . Or ... The lost wax seems very expensive ($200 for a basic kit with far more material than I would need). I have never heard of a shell mold. How...
LL, yeah we use propane w/ some stacked up fire bricks. We don't have alot of aluminum castings to do (maybe 10-15 lbs at a time). I'm interested in your...
Fertilizer..........I dipped some pieces in Miracle Grow (Mir-acid) and placed it in a plastic bag, and within 3 days had a nice blue green patina, some rubs...
I'm a little confused, ( I know, that's beside the point). Are you using a cupola or a crucible furnace? Jeff DRF <dfree@...> wrote: Heres one I havnt...
The Shell Process is strictly for high volume precision casting. The pre-mixed/mulled resin impregnated sand is riddled onto a HOT pattern. The sand within a...
200 dollars for a kit. someone is trying to get rich. 20 Lbs microcrystiline wax for 16.00 at http:\\www.sps.com. Investment ceramics from J.F.McCaughin Co...
Hi guys....long time no see Question..I cast with a batch of greensand that had dried out a bit and a fair amt of sand washed into the casting. right now, it's...
WE have problems with names for processes. There are two meanings for "spin casting" and two names for "shell molding". Shell molding can also apply to a lost...
Im using the charcoal foundry almost verbatim as described in the gingery book. I tried again tonight , and although not what I expected in the way of results,...
Hey there, Tom No, a cement mixer won't work as a mullor... not without modifications, that is. All the mullors I've seen had big wheels that really put a...
What you have is an oil cupola, not a charcoal cupola. The oil will always burn off first because it is more volatile (vaporizes easier) and the charcoal just...
Why mess with it? While oil soaked charcoal will reach high temperatures (if I remeber correctly there are about 150,000 BTU's in a gallon of used motor oil,...
Charcoal for a cupola, Wood charcoal should work in a cupola all by its self. However trying to use store bought charcoal brickettes will not work because of...
Just remelt The sand will come out as dross. Dan in Auburn sugilac <sugilac@...> wrote: Hi guys....long time no see Question..I cast with a batch of...
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