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Offline framey

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2010, 12:18:04 PM »
Hi framey

Shout up if you or anyone  need something cast , i will give it my best shot ,,,,,,,,,,, i could do with more things to cast  :dremel:

Cheers Rob

awesome i'll get some photos for you so you can get an idea

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2010, 04:00:43 PM »
Hi framey

Shout up if you or anyone  need something cast , i will give it my best shot ,,,,,,,,,,, i could do with more things to cast  :dremel:

Cheers Rob

awesome i'll get some photos for you so you can get an idea

You have my attention  :D


Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2013, 01:05:39 PM »
Forgot I added a chimney  :)




Found a few photos from back in the day , when I was a lad just getting into casting , first furnace , coke fired melting Iron








Happy days  :med:


Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2013, 08:00:41 PM »
Wow, fantastic thread, beautiful job of everything! Very inspiring.  :bow:

That firebrick furnace looks like a first class version of the one Terry Aspin shows in his metal casting books, and the chimney is great to see -- nice job there, too.

Terry Aspin also had an outdoor furnace built against the brick wall of a shed -- I have two of his books -- great drawings and text for such small paperbacks.

Thanks for all your fine workmanship!
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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #29 on: February 16, 2013, 03:10:13 AM »
Thanks Steve


It is the furnace from Aspin's  Foundry work for the amateur , the book that kick started my foundry adventures .And as you say a cracking book  :med:


Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2013, 03:34:06 AM »
Wow, Thanks Rob for another great post. Easy to read and follow with exelent pics too.   :nrocks:
Converting good metal into swarf sometimes ending up with something useful. ;-)

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2013, 03:52:06 AM »
Thanks SwarfnStuff  :beer:


If anyone out there is interested in building there own furnace blower I can recommend the "how to design and build centrifugal fans for the home shop "   by David J Gingery , Great book with all the info you need to build a good blower .

I used it to build my furnace blower .



Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #32 on: February 16, 2013, 05:55:16 PM »
Great write up, a truly talanted craftsman, I enjoy all write ups, thank you.

John

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #33 on: April 14, 2013, 11:30:07 PM »
Missed the last part of this. Now I am inspired to try this... Nice job Rob.

I will pick up those books to start reading.
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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #34 on: June 15, 2013, 09:04:55 AM »
Hi Rob - I note that you said that you used 10 bags of refractory and I'm curious as to the size of those bags.  I spoke to one of the foundry suppliers and was told that a 25Kg bag of 1600*C refractory was just under $100.00.  I asked how far a 25Kg bag goes and was told that he didn't know!

So I am hoping that you are going to tell me they only had 2.5Kg bags and that is why you needed 10.  Otherwise, I may have to use some home made stuff to do the bulk and then maybe use the real stuff for a hard face.

I've read numerous recipes for home made stuff and there are so many variables - each with an equal number of people saying it is the best, the worse or it simply wont work...

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #35 on: June 15, 2013, 09:31:30 AM »
Hi Darren

Yes that was 10 25kg bags , not cheap gear , its about £60 a bag here in the UK .

cant say much about home brewed linings as i have never had ago at making my own

Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #36 on: June 15, 2013, 09:50:03 AM »
 :bugeye: that would be my beer money gone for a while

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2013, 11:04:11 AM »
:bugeye: that would be my beer money gone for a while

Haahahaha...thats just a night out in Newcastle for Rob...... :lol:

I'm intrigued by the blower that you made Rob....Do you think it could be turned round and used in a cyclone? I need something to create a negative pressure in my blasting cabinet to clear out all the 'smoke' (dust) as I cant see a damn thing when I'm grit blasting...
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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #38 on: June 15, 2013, 12:51:28 PM »
Hi John

Yes is would work fine  :thumbup: , try getting hold of the book i mentioned


Rob

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Re: The story of My foundry
« Reply #39 on: August 27, 2013, 11:25:50 PM »
Ive been reading a lot on furnace making and seeing the different designs, this looks like it would serve me well given my limitations to handling heavy weight not to mention it being hot.