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Sorry to hear about your loss Bob, I too recommend two sources for backing up data. I use two different USB drives for the purpose__ formatted FAT32 to avoid a proprietary format. After many years of restoring MS operating systems for my friends, I've resolved to never store data on the...

When I mess up a casting and the quiet profanity subsides, I just throw the piece that annoyed me into the crucible. There's a certain glee that comes watching the thing melt into a pool of metal. Then it's onto the next mistake :D

Hi Buzzsaw, You would melt cast iron in a clay-graphite crucible, but it is much hotter than melting aluminum. Also there are many other things to learn about melting the hotter stuff, like having to weight your molds, judging the temperature of the melt, the different alloys of cast iron and...

Well you're getting me excited to see this engine run too. I don't think you are cheating to running in your engine this way, I use a similar technique by wrapping rubber bands around the cordless drill's chuck and spinning it against the flywheel. But then I don't leave enough crankshaft...

It's been a long time since I've posted to any board (heck since I've even joined any board) but I'm impressed with the friendliness of this one. So it's time to join in. I've been building model engines for a while, both bar stock and my own castings/designs. I've learned enough to know that...