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I don't know what's in that kit, but it better be good and comprehensive! I've built more than several furnaces over the course of my "career" and if all you want to do is pour a couple of pounds of Al, you should be able to get yourself setup for under $200, maybe even less than that if you...

Tin - Thanks for all the definitions! What you laid out there is in line with what I was thinking, right down to the final commercialization of the casting set. I would be machining my own engine from the castings first, and my hope was that I could find someone else with more model engine...

I've been digging around for casting related threads, and I've come across the term(s) - Casting Sets and Casting Kits. What are they? Are the a set of castings to be machined? Or a set of patterns to cast, then machine? Second - Until recently, I've been geared more toward casting than...

You bring up some good points that I wanted to elaborate on: First, my definition of antique. Granted a bit vague. It's an older lathe, I would peg it in the mid to late sixties. Gear head headstock? I don't know the exact definition of that... but, all gears, save for a belt between the...

Wow! Thanks for all the great feedback. To much to process and keep up with until later this evening... This is looking to be a great forum! Hope I can return the favor(s) in the future.

In the process of doing a CNC conversion on an antique Clausing lathe... I have the cross slide + compound slide tore apart, cleaned and in bags... While I'm tore into it, I'm evaluating the backlash in the cross slide. Compensating for it in software (Mach3) is certainly an option, but I'm...

It creates a reducing atmosphere in the mold, preventing oxidation of the hot metal, other than that, to my knowledge contributes little to nothing.

I seem to keep winding up here... I've been a long time metal caster (mostly aluminum) on and off for over a decade. I've recently tore into my Clausing lathe as part of a CNC conversion, and whether or not that is successful, will be instrumental in a Stirling Engine build. I have some lathe...