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I believe you made mention of foundry work where you teach, in an earlier post. I had a small foundry at the high school where I taught. We did lots of candle holders and lamps with brass and aluminum. The neat thing about foundry work at the high school level was that if the pour went south, you didn't waste any material. I had a student one year whose father was a locksmith and gave the school buckets of brass keys. There wasn't an aluminum can in a ditch for miles. It was great fun and also segued into lathe turning. To keep this tractor related I also made some light brackets for a tractor once. Hope you are getting through quarantine ok. Ellis
 
I remember sand casting aluminum in high school. I made a perfect pair of clay pigeons and painted them to match. They turned out perfect. When i was 16 i went trap shooting on wed nights and to pay off my bill i would go set trap in the trap house. Well i showed the aluminum birds to the owner and we all had a chuckle and a plan that i was to set the bird on a certain time. It would end up on a guy that never missed. We all had a good laugh. It would put out a slight ring but not break. But i never did find the bird.
 
We do a required casting in ETS 345 Manufacturing Processes. We stay with aluminum for class projects but do pour some Brass/Bronze.

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We have them mill the castings to produce finished products. We have made Cell Phone charging stands, Pen holders, Automotive parts, and a few tractor parts. Each casting used for requirements gets a CNC engraving on it, and milled to be flat enough to be fixtured solidly. All students in this class make folded and brazed sheet metal bread pans, A center punch 1144 tempered steel, the casting and associated milling, CNC work, Stick, MIG, Oxy acetylene, and spot welding. Plasma cutting and CNC plasma cutting. Thread forming male and female, grinding and sharpening using blanchard, center, flat bed, pedestal, and belt processes.

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The Lab looks crouded from this view, but there is ample room around the machine tools. Jim
 


The high school shop where my step son went didn't have any money

in the budget for al for casting . I knew the teacher ,and being

in the engine machine shop biz . I took a barrel of used pistons to

them to use for material for casting, they would melt the pistons and

remove the steel , and pour into blocks to use later.

george
 
Great photo Jim ..... I love those big windows. Remind us where you teach. What is ETS, some abbreviation for a course of study? The #345 would be the course level? I like it !!!
 

I am surprised you guys were using aluminum for casting projects.
Versus zamak (diecast/pot metal) just because of the extra energy needed to melt aluminum.
 

Nice shop. That guy is well covered unless he splatters some molten metal on his knees.
 
Free Scrap. Makes a bunch of sense. We had a source of aluminum from High Tension wire snipped ends. They had a nasty alloy that melted Ok, but was
shrinking like 8% on cooling, and dulled HSS like a whet stone. We had 400 pounds of it and it was finally taken by a scrap yard (for free) Jim
 
I teach the Lecture portion of the class described due to current circumstances. I also teach a course in Production on line with lots of home work (it is usually a Lab based course for a cross section of our majors that are not in the industrial content area.
Jim
 
Saint Cloud State University Department of Environmental and Technological Studies 345 is the Manufacturing Processes class
 
I do teach a class in Computer aided Design ETS 312 Offered this semester You can register as a non- degree seeking student. The Website is stcloudstate.edu I can and would teach it by Zoom for you. As aa student you could download Inventor from nnalert. Jim
 
I see your Huskies have 3 kids from Alberta on the men's hockey team. Is that your campus? No college or university hockey up here this winter at all, completely shut down. Your team is doing pretty good so far in a tough division I schedule Jan.
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