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The Shop => Metal Stuff => Topic started by: RobWilson on March 13, 2015, 04:49:20 PM
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Hi Lads
Here a a couple of photos of some foundry moulding tools that came last week , all forged steel :thumbup:
(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1080658_zpsi4vpphud.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1080658_zpsi4vpphud.jpg.html)
Need a bigger box , a dom perignon 1958 may do :lol: :lol: :lol:
(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1080663_zps7bzw86c9.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1080663_zps7bzw86c9.jpg.html)
Rob
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Rob
You look like you are getting serious about casting. I'm putting my order in now for tickets for front row and center when the activities begin. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
ps: I'll handle the popcorn sales and we will both make a mint. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I'm sure I've seen Tiger Woods play with a set just like them ones. :lol: :lol:
Sorry Rob,I couldn't resist......OZ.
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Beats my modified spoon :Doh: :Doh: :Doh:
John
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Hi Rob , are you sure some of them are not surgical instruments :bugeye: ......................... looks good kit are they new / hand made/ or old stock ?? a dam nice set either way :thumbup:
John your spoon seems to have done all you have ever asked of it and never let you down :dremel:
Cheers Mick
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Looks like what you'd find in a 1900's era surgeon's bag.
Care to educate us as to the use of each, or maybe you don't know yet? ;) Agreed, some sweet (read: expensive) looking instruments.
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What a fine collection of tools! :bow:
Yes, I'd like to know how they are used, too. Some you can figure out by looking at them, but others......?
Seems almost like you could carve sand without a pattern for some things, with a set like that. Is that the reason for them? :coffee:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Cheers Lads :thumbup:
Basically they are for repairing / smoothing the surface of the mould cavity , thats why they have different arch's , curves and sections . Also used for cutting gates and runners . These are of the forged high carbon steel variety , opposed to the cheaper cast brass type .
Sand box tools :)
Now I better put the wife's cutlery back in the draw :lol: :lol:
Just need to get round to making a few trowels of different shapes and sizes :dremel:
Rob
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Really smart set of tools you have there Rob, have you got a project in mind?
Cheers David
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Really smart set of tools you have there Rob, have you got a project in mind?
Cheers David
Cheer David ,
I have allot of projects I would like to cast , parts for my Clarckson TCG , lathe fixed and travelling steady's to name just a few . Just need to finish the Cupola . :palm:
(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1080685_zpsjmtk5mw0.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1080685_zpsjmtk5mw0.jpg.html)(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1080684_zpsdb2v4xzw.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1080684_zpsdb2v4xzw.jpg.html)
Rob
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They are very nice Rob, I am looking forward to the videos of the cupola, I must admit I have an urge to build one!
Phil
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Yes, the cupola will be amazing! :thumbup: :thumbup:
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This is like "Memory Reloaded"!
We had a Buck and Hickman shop in Salford!
When the mates GF bought a beach buggy in 1973 we needed to get the rear drums off!
B&H: 36mm 3/4 socket and a big breaker bar please? "Certailnly sir - no problem!"
Very good price too
Where are they now?
Also for anyone who lived in Manchester:
On the way up to Piccadily station (on the concouse approack) there was a tool shop/engineering shop with Myfords in the Window!
Bought a few bits and pieces for my ML7 there (Forget the name though!)
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Yes I remember that shop Will back in 1972/3 when I spent 6 months in Manchester :thumbup:
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This is like "Memory Reloaded"!
We had a Buck and Hickman shop in Salford!
When the mates GF bought a beach buggy in 1973 we needed to get the rear drums off!
B&H: 36mm 3/4 socket and a big breaker bar please? "Certailnly sir - no problem!"
Very good price too
Where are they now?
Also for anyone who lived in Manchester:
On the way up to Piccadily station (on the concouse approack) there was a tool shop/engineering shop with Myfords in the Window!
Bought a few bits and pieces for my ML7 there (Forget the name though!)
Will,
The shop on Piccadilly Sation approach was Joseph Gleave & Son. I must have been in there hundreds of times when I was at college in Manchester. I remember a new Myford ML10 was £150 - but I couldn't afford it! They're still going at Chester Road in Stretford. I don't know if they still have a showroom.
Buck & Hickman are still going but they don't appear to sell machine tools any more. I have a catalogue with 1985 prices. An ML10 was £496 without any chuck or a motor. A Super 7b (again without a chuck or motor) was £1,436 (+VAT).
Cheers.
Phil.
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Speaking of Cupola's , bet Buck & Hickman dont stock them any more ,aarh the good old days when you could nip doon the road and pick up a furnace or two :lol:
(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1080691_zpsfuqljpxm.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1080691_zpsfuqljpxm.jpg.html)
And sadly the only thing worth a look at on Whitechapel Rd London , is the "Whitechapel Bell Foundry" Big Ben , Liberty Bell and the 9/11 bell to name but a few .
(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u410/RobWilson100/Foundry/P1070790_zpsnnctmuh4.jpg) (http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/Foundry/P1070790_zpsnnctmuh4.jpg.html)
Still maintaining many original features , the shop front is a very interesting wee museum . One day I hope to be in London when there is a workshop tour on :ddb:
Rob
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"I'd like an emergency cupola please...."
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Ah Nostalgia!
Right:! Whos building the full size time machine!
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Sounds like a plan Will :lol: :lol:
Rob