Alloy rocker cover

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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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dallen wrote:
mite5255 wrote:
dallen wrote:Mite have you made any progress on this

DA
Short answer Dave no, its been very hot here, so all casting is on hold till the weather cool and the humidity drops.....I've made the flasks and they are going to be very heavy full of packed sand, so I'll also need to find a way to handle them
I remember the year we had 100 plus temps for like almost three months,

me I would be wanting the weather to cool and the humidity to go up as in rain so the fire danger will drop like a rock in a barrel of water.

rig you up some sort of lift, I made me a swing arm with a boat wench on it so as to handle large flasks and curcibles if need be like the flat belt pulley that I made last fall. that whole mold weighted well over 300 pounds.

DA
Can you post a photo of your lift Dave

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sure, I can take one tomorrow and post it for you, its just an arm made from pipe mounted on a telephone pole

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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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forgot to take the picture I said I was going to take and with it cold as a witchs ass I'm not going to do it today suppose to warm up tomorrow will hopefully get one then.

DA
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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[quote="dallen"]forgot to take the picture I said I was going to take and with it cold as a witchs ass I'm not going to do it today suppose to warm up tomorrow will hopefully get one then.

DA[/quot When your ready Dave
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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heres what I did
foundry-swing-arm.jpg
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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dallen wrote:heres what I did
foundry-swing-arm.jpg
Thanks Dave, I thought it was something like that.... I think I may have to put the larger items on the back burner for awhile, at the moment I'm off work for a few days with ligament damage around three ribs, I think I'm falling apart :shock:

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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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I was thinking of welding two pieces of 3 inch channel back to back or get a small I beam and run it through the center of my shop with a girder trolly on it, but I can only go east west
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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mite5255 wrote:
dallen wrote:heres what I did
foundry-swing-arm.jpg
Thanks Dave, I thought it was something like that.... I think I may have to put the larger items on the back burner for awhile, at the moment I'm off work for a few days with ligament damage around three ribs, I think I'm falling apart :shock:

Mike
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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mite5255 wrote:I was thinking of welding two pieces of 3 inch channel back to back or get a small I beam and run it through the center of my shop with a girder trolly on it, but I can only go east west
that would work to give you access across your shop, but then you have to do all the heavy work under it, me I'm limited to a 6 foot radius for the heavy stuff but I can stick an extension in the end of the arm.

so any heavy flask will get rammed up on the pouring bench with the muller only a step away, not like it was last summer when I did the big flat belt pulley and I had to carry the sand out in the yard to the pouring bench where I rammed up the pattern.

But it SURE is nice to have everything under the roof with the ability to set the furnace out from under it, this damn weather ever warms up I hope to get back to casting.

Plus I have most of the stuff ordered or bought for the router so no reason to not move on with that project.
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Re: Alloy rocker cover

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I made a crane from 3/8 inch re-bar:

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Everything has to be in a straight line (furnace and burnout kiln) but I can pour my #30 crucible full of bronze single handed. (I do not use that old steel pot for the bronze, by the way.)

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