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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...

Thanks Pat, It has not been an easy ride for sure having made 3 rear casings and two front so I have to be careful how I work on this...

Today I managed to squeeze a three hour session in the workshop and managed to bore out the cylinder mounts which was very tedious...

Thanks Peter. I did my best to achieve that using a snug fitting dowel rod from the spindle nose. I don't have sophisticated measuring...

Hi Ollie, Thanks for the kind comments but I think it looks better in the photos than in the eye :) This is not quite a radial but a...

Boring the rear casing whilst locating from the nose bore went without a glitch and the assembly was transferred to the mill to face off...

Progress has not been great. So far I have cast three rear crankcase halves and all manner of niggles with all of them. I machined the...

Next challenge was casting the rear case which was the afternoons task. The first attempt showed bad shrinkage at the cylinder mounts...

Today was started with my first problem. I clocked up the bore on the mill as datum for drilling the eight crankcase bolt holes and on...

Peter, Most of my castings are from an alloy wheel rim as it is a castable alloy and cheap to obtain. Machining properties are pretty...