Cincinnati Shaper

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part of the mess I made today, click the photo to view the video

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a better video

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what I got out of a bottle of propane and an afternoon in the sunshine yesterday

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this fell out after tapping it with a piece of rebar, crucible doesn't show any cracks

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worked on the burner on monday and hopefully I have all the bugs (literally it had bugs in it) and the nozzle cleaned and everything tightened back up, test fired it and it seems to be back to normal.

started on a new pattern for the leadscrew support seeing as the first one I did would have to have way to much rework done to it to make it work. hopefully should have it done in a day or three.

photos when available

[dallen]

Update for 8/14/13

been working on this thing off and on all day as the glue would dry and the finished doing the lawn, double checked this one to make sure the shaft center was the right height and throwed in a core print just for something to make it more complicated.

hacking off a hunk of 2 inch PVC for a core mold was the easy part.

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been working on this thing off and on again all day as the weather and wood filler would allow.

the front or top side



the bottom or back side



pattern with core box



I have it on the paint hanger getting some color as i type, just need to do a little final sanding finish the paint and if it doesn't rain tomorrow I should be able to cast it, I have the core already made used some extra fine silica sand and sodium silicate

DA

[Jammer]

That looks great, a little sanding and fire up the furnace.

[dallen]

a little sanding I sanded on that damn thing all day to get it there, no not really but it took forever to do because the Elmer's wood filler didn't want to dry very fast.

But I got it there and like the next line say's

if I'm lucky and it doesn't rain I get to play with the hot stuff tomorrow, I got the paint on and the dowels in

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OK the part that everyones been waiting for the actual part, well I get to do it all over again the damn patterns a 1/4" too long. and I figure it will be easier to make a new patten then to try an cut this one down.

anyway heres the photos, it has some sand inclusions from where sand washed loose in the gate and one little sand tear that must of fallen loose when the mold was closed. anyway this shows the part clamped up in position but to fit right it needs to be like within 1/8" of the side of the gear.



DA