Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

I wouldn't say highly skilled just and old fart with lots of time on his hands, hell if I was skilled I'd still have a job.

it looks better on the shaper out in the sunshine where you can see the big shrink in the boss on it.

[dallen]

mike here's the picture of the shop monster that I like

[mite5255]

He has that, your pissing me off look

[dallen]

it sure enough is that I just crapped in your shoes look.

no casting today have to see if I can make a pattern for the handle in this photo the straight one



I have a sort of nut I made on there now, but would be nice to have something that looks close to the original one, anyway its going to be a fun one to make. Now where did I hide that spoke shave at.

DA

[Jammer]

I wouldn't say highly skilled just and old fart with lots of time on his hands, hell if I was skilled I'd still have a job.

No David, if you were Young, you would still have a job. You have all the skills. They hold youth over experience and I think it will come back to bite them down the road.

[dallen]

todays casting I redid the handle I made yesterday to make sure that the pattern would pull clean from the sand, rammed it a lot harder today then yesterday, as you can tell from the surface finish it was poured a little on the cold side

[dallen]

started on a new pattern today this one goes up on top of the ram to lock it in place after you set the stroke.




and I was told a long time ago my wood caving skills suck so go ahead and laugh all you want as long as it works I won't be ashamed

DA

[dallen]

did a little more work on the handle that I am making, ran out of green paint so this one is Caterpillar Yellow

[dallen]

what I been messing with today.

some of my molding stuff, and no I don't have a nice sturdy bench to pound molds on, I use the top of my muller from which I can dip sand and spill the required amount for the casting gods on the ground.

the green tub (actually a classifier screen) contains an assortment of pallet tools from the art store, some canoli tubes I use for sprue cutters, a couple regular slicks from Freemans supply, big heavy hacksaw blade I use to strike off flask with. and a cookie can.

whats in the cookie can

my parting dust bags one with regular foundry parting dust the other with graphite, another canoli tube and some screws, plus a pattern for and end plate for my mini mill table.

now back to the handle I started the other day. need to do some work on the dowel pins they hung up with I went to open the mold, reason for the tear at the boss end.



gating worked good no shrinks any place on the handle, part was poured a little cold, handle has that frosted look feels like 300 grit sand paper nothing that won't knock down. but if I was making them to sell it would go back in the pot.

and the pattern in the mold


found a enough energy to drill and thread the handle so heres the shot of it on the shaper, don't look to bad if I don't look too hard at it.


now for the other two or three missing broken parts that I can waste time on while the grass dries.

DA

[Jammer]

I think your handles look great. Did you have any trouble tapping the threads. I seem to have trouble tapping Aluminum.