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makeing aluminum parts

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oliverdave

02-19-2005 18:00:14




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Can someone tell me how to cast small aluminum parts or recommend a good book on it.




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Bob - MI

02-21-2005 05:58:42




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
Dave,

There are lots of way to make aluminum castings. From green sand, air-set sand, permanent mold, plaster cast, investment cast, lost foam, and high pressure die casting. There is often a process that is better suited to what you need than an other. Lots of factors come into play and it"s often best to look at the casting application with an experienced foundryman to help make the best choice.

If you just want generic info the web is propably full of stuff. NADCA.org is the website for die casting, the American Foundry Society likely has some good referance materials.

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Taylor Lambert

02-20-2005 17:21:11




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
Try metal web news I bought a foundry a friend made from refractory bricks and they even ad a fella named Ron Reil The gives a blueprint for the same burner. I cast alot of parts with lost foam casting where your molding sand encases styrofoam replica of the part the foam vapozes and leave a cavity. I use Petrobond oil mixed casting sand.



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RayP(MI)

02-20-2005 14:50:37




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
Met a highschool shop teacher a while back who taught his students the art of casting in aluminum. If it acn be taught in HS, it is probably in the reach of many home shops. Story he told me, they couldn't get small amounts of aluminum from the suppliers - they wanted to talk in truck loads. So his kids starter an aluminum scrap drive - collected non-returnable drink cans, got the cafeteria to serve on aluminum food trays like TV dinners come on. Offered a cast aluminum trinket to kids who brought in a certaon number of cans, paid a couple special needs students a few bucks a week to wash off the food trays. They got their aluminum cheap, and since it was recycled, it was already pretty clean material. When they cast it, they got very fine results.

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george md

02-20-2005 18:13:09




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to RayP(MI), 02-20-2005 14:50:37  
Ray, When my step son was in school shop they had the same problem,3 pounds of aluminum total for all the classes for a year. Being and engine rebuilding shop , I have barrels of pistons left over, took him 2 barrels and he had alum for several years.

george



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DaveInMI

02-20-2005 03:05:54




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
I'd suggest that you check into both dry-sand casting with styrofoam patterns and green sand casting with traditional patterns. I use green sand but dry sand fits some people's needs better.



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Coloken

02-19-2005 20:55:29




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
sevaral good places on the web.

foundry101.com



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napaguy

02-19-2005 19:38:20




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 Re: makeing aluminum parts in reply to oliverdave, 02-19-2005 18:00:14  
dave, have you ever heard of lindsey books? they have books and some videos on sandcasting. not only methods for pattern making but also how to make a furnace. they offer books on building furnaces that are gas,electric, even charcoal fired.they do have a website and used to advertise in popular mechanics. i have ordered many times with a personal check and had my books in four or five days.they also have books on machine shop techniques, lathe and mill operations, pattern making..the list goes on and on.check em out..napaguy

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