Found Dreaming

Actually I'm currently seperated geographically from my tools. I took a rather long break not from the foundry, but rather from the computer. I come to believe that people where less then willing to listen to my advice, so I simply stopped sharing

Routing out a solid piece of wood is not the easiest way to make a pattern of this sort, cut and glue to build up http://s1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/HT1/ check out this album on a plaque I made, it shows the way to make a recessed plaque fronts by sanding and glueing, it is much easier, and le...

yes, it worked out, I had to make the piece joining the rocket and the base larger, it was mostly a tear, caused by the two pieces shrinking away from each other

Your riser is not close enough to the part it's also not tall enough, The shrinkage in the riser clearly drops below the top of the casting, so you are not getting complete feeding. if you have no more metal capacity, shortening the gate will help alot, you might get away with losing the sprue, and ...

I was casting the two parts for the master pattern of this project, I also cast a piece to see if I had the gating and risering perfect before I put it all on a matchplate. my risering technique was not perfect, I did not well the riser bases, so I probably did not get optimal feeding. looking for s...

Calcium hypochlorite should be all you need. and if memory serves, that is exactly what the old blue pucks where. you can order it in a granular form, from any chemical supply house, probably requires ground shipping since it is corrosive. It will bleach your clothes wonderfully also, so dont spill ...

I'm back, sort of, you will see some of my new work very soon, I'm suffering from a case of walking pneumonia I got on the Appalacian trail. so It will be a slow start. but watch my facebook link for new stuff

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A little heads up, Kindt Collins products have been acquired by Paramelt and Freeman Manufacturing & Supply. the quality of their pattern letters immediately slipped. I ordered a half dozen 3/8 tablet letters, they came in, and where half as thick as the older Kindt Collins letters that where be...

Click My signature to see what I was making, I was making Plaques mostly. eBay was all but a bust, I moved alot for a few months, then things just dried up, I know there are people out there that want what I offer, Just cannot seem to find them
"shrug"

Well I gave it a serious try, and just cannot make enough money casting to make ends meet. the problem was not in the casting or patternmaking side of the house, but in getting items in the hands of potential customers, I suppose Marketing killed me in the end. Ebay was a dismal failure, I never tho...