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I would like to say to treat this with caution. It may well work with models printed in vase mode/spiralise as the walls are only 0.4mm...

Fascinating stuff! Thank you for your input. However, after chipping away the thick skull on the lip of the crucible you can see that...

I have taken a pic showing how the burner is deployed. I put a piece of white pipe into the entry tube to show direction. This is to the...

I have cast Brass many many times and to be honest it's my favourite metal to cast. Also I had no problems doing homebrew tin bronze and...

Hi fellow foundrymen. Yesterday I trialled my updated diesel burner where I had increased the potential flow rate. This burns much more...

Awesome work!

Here’s a work in progress picture of test fitting a Seal Major engine in a model of a Caterpillar Sixty crawler tractor. This is not the...

Today was taken up mainly with the weekly food shop but I did get a couple of hours in the workshop so I knocked up a mould in Petrobond...

Not much progress to date as I am waiting a delivery of fresh bar stock so in the meantime I machined the flywheels to accept the...

That is fabulous ! Very nice castings. Especially impressive as 1st iron casting attempt. No going back to aluminum now. .

Nice looking iron castings and they look great after machining.

I managed a couple of hours in the shop and did the turning part of the cast iron flywheels. Breaking off the sprue revealed a nice even...

I have a few appointments tomorrow but hopefully will get some time to try machining one. Cheers

Thanks Pat I am running a standard Danfoss nozzle via my home made gear pump. I did add ferrosilicon slightly above the 1:800 ratio I...

After having a week off on vacation I got back into the workshop. I decided to bite the bullet and try my first go at casting iron using...