Topic: My shop and sandcast

[johnny-from-bel]

Some of you have visited it in person. Yes I do tours . But with your permission I want to post some pictures.
The shop is located in my basement.
Here are the band saw and lathe

The bench

The slip roll machine

The milling machine

The Lathe in full.

Here is some sandcast stuff





* EDIT * Better pictures

[andy750]

Excellent work Johnny and having seen it in person I can testify to Johnnys ingenuity! Just getting the lathe down those narrow twisting stairs to your basement was a magic trick in itself!! Looking forward to seeing more sandcast parts!

Have fun at the WER and have a beer with Axl for me.
cheers
Andy

[johnny-from-bel]

More sandcast. Here are a few pictures of an attempt to cast a points cover.

After opening the mold

After clean up

Bummer, it faild.

[johnny-from-bel]

And here is the actual casting of the liquid aluminium. Click the image, its a film.

[andy750]

Too bad about the points cover but its looking not too bad. How much aluminium do you need to use? Can you use recycled coke cans and the like? How do you melt it down?

thanks for the updated pics -better!
cheers
Andy

[SteveD CB500F]

What's a "slip roll"?

[hopterfixer]

What's a "slip roll"?

Used to bend sheetmetal.

[johnny-from-bel]

Too bad about the points cover but its looking not too bad. How much aluminium do you need to use? Can you use recycled coke cans and the like? How do you melt it down?

thanks for the updated pics -better!
cheers
Andy

The cover uses about 1/2 litre of liquid aluminium. I recycle coke cans and anything I can find on the scrapheap.
Look at the pictures I made an electic oven myself. Its 3000W and reaches 1000 deg/celcius. It takes about one hour to melt 1 A5 size curbicle of aluminium.