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Save a little money and a whole lot of time and get them both at one shot! A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry Here is the first half of what I think should be called the Home Foundryman's Reference. You'll find not only useful plans and projects but important details about flasks, cores, sand, furnaces, binders, coatings and thermocouples that apply to your home foundry operations. o How to build a 2450° F furnace from a steel bucket. o How to make your own foundry tools and equipment. o About green sand, skin dry and baked sand molds. o The effect of sand grain types and distribution. o The surface area of various sands and why it matters. o Core boxes, core baking and core buoyancy in various molten metals. o Core filing and setting jigs. o How to easily build a thermocouple to measure high temperatures. o Optical pyrometers and emissivity. You get more than just a "do-this do-that" text. Steve has extracted essential detail from industrial handbooks, tempered it by his own experiences, and delivers it in a no nonsense style that you can use. This is info you can adapt to your own operation. Chapters include how to make a matchplate vibrator, wooden flasks, flask hardware and an aluminum flask. This section on making your own flasks is especially useful. Have you priced these things? They cost hundreds of dollars - each! Just knowing how to make your own will save you big bucks! And they'll do the same job as the expensive "professional" ones. You get construction details on the basic "Gingery" charcoal furnace, and construction details on a 2450°F crucible gas furnace with cam operated lid. You'll get details on forming sheet metal into the transition pieces that you'll probably need for blowers. You get useful details on thermocouples and their use in making a homemade pyrometer. Anyone trying to make castings without a means of knowing the temperature of the melt is like trying to find your way around a new country without a map. Using a pyrometer from the start will save you countless hours and days of failures and frustration. You get details on the types of sand, bonding agents, their effect on molds and coremaking, Petrobond and more. Steve covers coremaking: cement bonded cores, bolted, pasted and leaded cores, core setting jigs and more. You'll even see cores used to cast the old Packard V-12 engines. This is effective foundry operations on the cheap. You get simple formulas you can punch into a pocket calculator to help in design of ladles, avoid problems with core buoyancy, calculate the weight of a crucible full of molten metal and more. He talks about problems, for instance, encountered with ramming up molds with Petrobond and how to solve them. This is wall-to-wall information. If you're looking for a basic book on foundry, I still think "Unka Dave" Gingery's charcoal foundry is still the best place to start. Once you've poured some castings, and get "hooked", you'll want to do bigger and better things - the things Steve is doing, like making repair parts for antique engines. This is a book you'll want to read and refer to. Loads of practical ideas and information from someone who knows both the theory and the practical how-to. Get a copy! 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 Softcover 208 pages very well illustrated with photos, drawings and tables A Metal Casting Manual For The Small Foundry Vol. 2 Here's the second half of Steve's comprehensive foundry manual, and I think it's even better than the first volume! I never could understand all those otherwise talented craftsman who insist on machining every part out of solid stock when it's so much fun, and a lot easier, to make a casting. Especially when the original part, on the full size engine or model was a casting. Making a casting for a model you're making will make the model look more authentic. I look on casting much like welding. Once you acquire some basic skills there's no limit to what you can make! I'm an International Casting Consultant and I'm telling you that making your own castings is no more difficult than what you're doing now - it's just different. Here, Steve will be at your side all the way through the process! He'll not only show you how to make aluminum castings, like most casting books for the backyard tyro, but he'll show you how to pour brass & bronze and even cast iron! You'll be able to make just about anything you can imagine! And I can guarantee that once you make your first casting you'll be hooked! Chapters include solidification of metals: the differences between pure metals and alloys. Then aluminum alloys are discussed: effect of alloying, grain refiners, heat treatment, (Pay attention here!), hardening, melt reactions, practice and more. Chapter 3 covers copper alloys: brass, bronze, aluminum bronze, and more. Chapter 4 launches into iron: the effects of carbon and silicon, ductile iron, alkali fluxes, alloying elements, etc. The next three chapters cover gating, directional solidification, heat loss from risers, making insulated riser sleeves, pattern allowances for shrinkage, match plates, making rubber molds, making a vacuum chamber (for rubber molds), making a match plate, and more. Chapter 8 provides useful foundry projects: a sturdy flask lock, a knee operated air valve, (Those suckers are pricey but now you can make your own for a few cents!), variations of the aluminum flask, making piston castings, cylinder head castings, and casting piston rings. You'll even see old photos of Ford flathead V-8's being produced. And you get the usual bibliography, appendices, list of suppliers and all that. You don't have to become a professional foundryman to pour useful castings, and have fun doing it. Once you try it, though, you run the risk of becoming addicted to melting metal! And once that happens you'll want to get beyond the basics and become a "sand rat" and pour some really impressive castings. Check out the photos of Steve's pistons and engine head, and you'll see what I mean! 5-1/2" X 8-1/2" Softcover 208 pages profusely illustrated. Visit my MarketplaceAdvisor Gallery! Power Tools for Power Sellers! Phone: (***) 744-4449 M-F 9:00 to 4:00 Pacific Standard Time This item has been seen by alt people! (We do not proofread any ads submitted by members) |
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