Found Dreaming

About two more months and Ill be back casting the end of october will cool off the house and outside projects will end and time to hit the toy box again.. this summer left me with no extra time for casting.. but gave me plenty of ideas for new patterns!

About two more months I will be casting again as well. My foundry is at my house in Mexico and I am at my shop in California where I do metal shaping.

Let's hear about your ideas for patterns.

Richard

It's been tough on me this summer, we have our house for sale. I have plenty of time for projects but it hard to do much and keep everything neat in case someone wants to see the house. I just work with the electric furnace and the CNC machine, it makes a good mess it'self.
A couple more months and we'll take it off the market. We don't want to move in the winter.

Have you settled on where you want to go?

Richard

We have pretty much decided on the Chattanooga area of southern Tennessee. Just a little warmer winters than central Ohio.

Its cooling off I might even go fill up my propane bottles.... Casting Soon!!!

From a newbie to the guys chatting about fall casting... does it cause more porosity or casting problems when the air is signigicantly denser in the winter versus the summer? Just curious as I already know to expect my furnace to take longer to dry/cure... but does it affect the castings themselves?

I wouldnt think so! I would think it would just take a tiny bit longer to get up to temp.

Silver, Porosity is caused by multiple things, none having to do with temperature. Depending on where your work is being performed, as in "outside" and "what kind of climate condition", you may have problems with cooling the melt in the mold too quickly which would cause a crystaline effect in the metal matrix and make it brittle. Porosity is an entirely different dragon to slay.

Would also give you problems filling the mold entirely if it's a thin casting.