Green sand casting

[gb]

Can anyone direct me to where I can get information and supplies for Sand
casting. I am looking for everything from the sand to a furnace.
Information on this is very hard to find...or has been for me. Thanks.

[fred veenschoten]

http://www.budgetcastingsupply.com/
http://jetsinc.com/casting4.html
http://www.legend-reno.com/minesupply/m58.htm
http://www.sculpt.com/
http://www.bronzefoundry.com/
http://www.egroups.com/group/hobbicast
http://www.rockisland.com/~marshall/
http://home.earthlink.net/~xmas4lites/
http://www.jagmold.com/pattern/pattmake.htm
http://minorjewelry.com/sand.htm
http://www.castinghub.com/
http://www.reil1.net/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/arts/metal/TOC/proces/cast/ag_cast.html
http://www.condor.d2g.com/

this can get you started. there are tons of web sites on the subject.
good luck,
Fred

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[Roy Hauer]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 09:30:28 -0700, "gb" <gb...@cableone.net> wrote:

>x<>-Can anyone direct me to where I can get information and supplies for Sand
>x<>-casting. I am looking for everything from the sand to a furnace.
>x<>-Information on this is very hard to find...or has been for me. Thanks.
>x<>-

What part of the country are you from. Shipping on these items is kind
of high, due to the weight. Look in your phone book under Foundry
Supplies.

There is lots of good information on making your own furnace and
burner on the web. For hobby casting and foundry I would have to say
Cameron McKeons, The Quiet Genius, and Jeff Bell's website lay it
out as simple as can be.

Info on burners:
http://www.reil1.net/design.shtml
http://www.cable-lynx.net/~rwenig/

Home foundry sites:
http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/quietgenius/
http://home.iprimus.com.au/cmckeown/foundry.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/hite/furnace.html
http://home.att.net/~chipmaker/default.html
http://www.condor.d2g.com/
http://www.cable-lynx.net/~rwenig/

Supplies:
http://www.mifco.com/
https://www.perrysupply.com/
http://www.porterwarner.com/Intro.htm

Hobby foundry web ring:
http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=hobbyfoundry&id=10&hub

What do you intend to cast?
If your in the southeast there must be at least 15 or more foundry
supply places located in Birmingham, Alabama.

Opinions are strictly those of my wife....I have had no input whatsoever.
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Regards

Website: http://home.att.net/~chipmaker/default.html
Foxeye

[John Hofstad-Parkhill]

Hi "gb":

Here is some stuff for starters:

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/quietgenius/
http://budgetcastingsupply.com/
http://www.ray-vin.com/casting/

There are also the Gingery series on both charcoal and gas-fired furnaces.
As well as doing a search on this newsgroup.

So far, I've found that actually melting & pouring the metal is the easy
part. Getting a good quality result out of sand has eluded me. I am happy to
say that investment casting (lost wax) has been quite a bit more successful.

I was watching "Modern Masters" last Sunday and saw a large scale lost wax
broze pour. It was facinating.

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[The Baron@flash.net]

I am considering doing some brass and iron castings, either myself or having
it done. What I have seen cast in iron from foundries is not impressive.
What I have seen cast 100 years ago, is outstanding! What are we not
doing now that was done 100 years back that makes the difference? The
sand?

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[Mark Winlund]

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> I am considering doing some brass and iron castings, either myself or
having
> it done. What I have seen cast in iron from foundries is not
impressive.
> What I have seen cast 100 years ago, is outstanding! What are we not
> doing now that was done 100 years back that makes the difference? The
> sand?

Experience.

Mark

[Bill Nyland]

In our foundry we copy cast iron legs that were made from about 1890-1930 or
so. A lot of these original castings that we see are just awful looking.
They are filled with porosity, or crud in the metal. Most weren't even
cutoff and ground down. They just hit them with a hammer to knock the gates
off the casting and left the contacts and parting line un-sanded. We see a
lot of these legs that come in broken because of internal problems in the
metal. I don't know how they were able to sell these originally. I think
people must not have cared as much 100 years ago what their bathroom looked
like as long as it worked. There aren't that many real molders left any
more but there but there are a few of us still going. The big foundries
around here have automatic molding machines so the molders just need to know
how to press a button. I need to higher a molder soon but I can't hire
someone that was layed off at the big iron foundry in town because he
doesn't know how to mold the old-fashioned way. But the quality standards
now are very high even at the big cast iron foundries. The guys that mass
produce the storm drain covers have to do all sorts of testing to make sure
they can handle the strengths. I believe that all U.S. made castings are a
lot better now than they were 100 years.

-- Bill Nyland
_____________________
Creative Casting Company
www.creativecastingco.com

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