The Home Machinist!

Does this work? http://youtu.be/CbLBiCdgRi4 Im not the most experienced with iron, but I have figured out how to go about melting it and having a good machinable grey iron. I had tried a couple of times to melt iron (without success) but then one day after a bronze pour I said Im going for it!! I wa...

crucible furnaces are fine for iron casting. Clay graphite crucibles are fine for iron melts. Silicon carbide is just more durable than the clay graphite. Iron casting has been around a long time, much longer than alot of this new high tech stuff. I don't agree with your assessment that crucible fu...

Looking forward to seeing the finished castings....

Holy shiney molten metal bat man.....

crucible furnaces are fine for iron casting. Clay graphite crucibles are fine for iron melts. Silicon carbide is just more durable than the clay graphite.
Iron casting has been around a long time, much longer than alot of this new high tech stuff.

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Your welcome. I have only use it a couple of times but it did give the aged look I wanted. I just used off the shelf ammonia from the local drug store, nothing fancy... try a test piece like you were planning to see if it gives the desired results. Then leave it in there for a long time and watch wh...

Put the wood in a bag, then add a swatch soaked in ammonia in it and let it sit a few hours....presto aged oak.
the process is called ammonia fuming if you would like to google it

John, If you made a mold that you could use to cast about 10 at a time then the resin casting would go very quick.there are tints to color the resin any color you would like. Some of the resins are very very tough. I would suggest that they are cast under vacuum though. 3D printing is a possibilitie...

why not take a mold off of a few of them and then resin cast some new ones? http://www.smooth-on.com/

i get crucibles from here..http://www.lmine.com/mm5/merchant.mvc? thier clay graphite have been holding up well for iron melts...

Harold, I have 2 furnaces, one is propane fueled and melts 10lbs iron the other is diesel fueld and melts about 65 lbs. I have been doing alot of lost pla casting lately, thats where you directly investment cast the 3d printed part. I am interested in casting ductile and trying to locate small quant...