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The link belt for the cables is a nice idea!

Looking good so far Harold!

I can see now how the grooves in the flasks are important, to hold the sand while lifting the cope off the drag correct?

It's a bit hard to imagine folks that don't know these things. :-) The last time I actually did them was 9th grade, 1946, ...lew... They never taught foundry work when I went to school....but if I had the notion to know, I would! My only experience with it was a few years ago when I had a riser cas...

Foundry Flasks are a frame, usually wood, that you put sand in and press the lower half of a part (or something representing the part) of what you want to cast in metal (or some other material). Thanks Charles, great explanation! I pretty much figured it out after seeing the cut pieces of wood Haro...

One good part of this project is it's forcing you to relearn things like programming the code for the CNC. That's a good thing.

Boy, from reading the first post it sounds like a whole lot of work but as you said, you need something to occupy your time. Not really knowing what Foundry flasks are I'm intrigued to see more of your adventures so please continue to post as I'm keen to learn what you are up to!

Thanks Harold!

I'd like to think some of that success came from learning and listening to others here!

I've been following this thread from the beginning and it confounds me how, despite all of the good advice (and warnings) about using this machine as a mill the OP still pushes forward. I get not having enough money or trying to DIY something but in this case it's just not practical or safe! By the ...

That's what they tell me! I bought a pneumatic graver system to try to learn but found the learning curve to be steep so I'll need practice.....lots of it.

Harold_V wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:18 am I think the term is bead set for that kind of setting, but I'm not sure.

They tell me it's called Pave setting which has small beads of metal protruding to hold the diamonds. After a quick review I decided it was far beyond my scope to do so many pieces. I'm glad I opted out....

Harold_V wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 4:12 pm Outstanding!
Did you set the diamonds?

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I set the three larger (.4 Karat) diamonds. I was going to attempt the smaller ones but decided I didn't have enough time to learn the art properly so the customers jeweler did them, besides, there were 763 of those to do.

Thanks guys!