![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
SO anyway, onto the pics...
Below, you can see the parting line is all messed up where I had to "fix" some sand that came loose while extracting the pattern Here is a shot of the decent surface finish I got, despite the poor ramming. This was all previously ingoted metal, so there was minimal dross This should show a little about how I run and gate...I try to keep them as short as possible. I run my sprue cutter down, its about 1.5" on the end, but is tapered (its an old vacuum cleaner extension that I sharpened the end to cut through the rammed sand). I cut my runners with a melon baller - stole the idea from Harry. I try to keep my runners wedge shaped. And a shot of the interior - you can see the dogs I added to help grip the sand, and ad some rigidity to the somewhat thin flask side. Like others here, I will add an alignment piece when I figure out how that will be done...
now only 7 more to go
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