myfordboy - 2018-11-02
Greensand https://www.artisanfoundry.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=38 Sodium Silicate https://www.artisanfoundry.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=89 Drossing flux https://www.artisanfoundry.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=34 Silica sand https://www.artisanfoundry.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=155 Oil fired furnace http://myfordboy.blogspot.com/p/oil-burner.html Essex hot air full size replica engine. Castings and plans for sale. http://myfordboy.blogspot.com/p/the-essex-hot-air-engine.html
Thorough, methodical, and fascinating. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, tips, and techniques.
From a pure comfort point of view, and to protect your knees! why don't you have a mould making table? I cringe every time I see you on your knees on that cold hard garage floor!
Your sifting machine is sweet! Kudos, brother!
There should be a good fan blowing the silica dust away from you at all times.. That dust is dangerous...
Best aluminum casting YouTube channel 👍.
Totally agree with you, this guy has done it all, and looking at his blog too is just super informative pop, when I have completed my current jobs then I will buy the materials and make some casting work for my American van, between the videos and the blogs it must save lots of time and expense, by doing it right first time. Thank you so very much in advance....phil
As always another thumbs up from my side.
Just keep uploading ,we are always there to encourage you 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
8:38 forgot use talc 🙏
Suggestion : Make a hard plastic drill-bit for boring in that kind of materials, like removing the core. It would be so much easier then whit that flat head. Otherwise pro as usual !
Perfect cure for my Myfordboy withdrawal symptoms, need more casting vid's sir!
THE BEST VIDEOS!
I really enjoy seeing home casting ideas. I have a thought: is it better to sandcast or cnc mill?
Hmm🤔
Love the power sieve! So simple and effective.
Great job of tempering the sand, experience shows how nicely the finished casting came out, I am very impressed, cheers!
I've been watching a lot of casting videos learning about methods and you blew my mind with the core. and your castings come out ultra clean due to your sifting machine techniques. I tip my hat to you sir, thank you for this knowledge.
Thank you, learned a lot!
always interesting to watch the process of a craftsman.
I wish I had the tools and the knowledge you have sir, I would very much enjoy the fact of being able to make my own small engine castings 👍
That's an awesome shaker contraption. I now have the desire to build my own.
I agree that is one creative vibration setup!
now thats the most ingenious sand sifter i have ever seen !!
I'm amazed how you make foundry work so easy. Another great video, thank you.
Merci beaucoup pour le partage de votre maitrise technique (Thank you very much for sharing your technical mastery)
Love the ingenious sand sieve brilliant idea , very entertaining and informative thank you .
The natural movements of a person that has done it a million times.
It’s all in the wrist a brick layer told me.
You have amazing skill and a great deal of experience. Loving your channel. Impeccable workmanship
Great job!
I always admire how you work!
Thankyou, that is very informative.
Your videos area joy to watch! I love the way your processes have developed over the years.
I'm a mechanical engineer, I worked for Hamilton Jet in NZ for 8 years. We ran two large, sand casting aluminium foundries where I spent a lot of time doing installations and upgrades.
Watching you work brings back memories of the various processes required to make good castings.
One little observation which may be of interest to you - We never put bare metal steel tools into the liquid aluminium, they were always coated with a thick green 'paint', this was to prevent iron from dissolving into the melt and reducing it's tensile strength. The tools were also always preheated to drive off surface moisture to avoid adding traces of water and hence additional hydrogen into the melt. Sorry, I can't recall the name of the green paint, it needed to be reapplied regularly. Regards Paul
I think it's a ceramic coating that's baked on.
Greetings from Tunisia .thank you for the detailed processes. GOD bless you
man.. you made it looks easy..
what I like most is your way to turn papers and woods into something amazing
Always a treat, to see another one of your videos. Cheers
Your improvised electric sifter is truly inspirational! First class video as usual. :)
really nice casting as always. a little in awe.
That core mold is genius.
Informative. I had long suspected that the green-sand was not prepared by magical elves.
Well I worked in a foundry many years ago and I know I would never think of those guys as elves but they sure we're magical when it came to their experience. I was just a young kid!
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You did not talc the outside back of the second half of the mould? ~( ,m,)~
No, the talk just stops the cope sticking to the drag.
Always been a fan of your ingenuity! Thanks for sharing. Still hoping to order one of your kits.
Thank you for sharing knowledge.
4:25 pure genius!
Hi, congratulations for another great video! one question, how many time do you need with the core into the CO2 to hardened? an what is the proportion between sand and sodium silicate? thank so much
I gas for 30 seconds. It can be quicker but safer to make sure it has hardened.
i use the ration the supply gives here https://www.artisanfoundry.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=89
Thanks so much! Best regards!
Love the step by step video format.
I love your videos. So informative and concise, no endless comments. Just knowledge!!!
Very good video. Most people don't know the amount of work involved in making a set of these castings. I've been working on the set you sent me. I have the cylinders completed. These are top quality castings at a fair price.
Lonnie
when your melting aluminum, do you add borax salt in it to change the material or is it just an option. and does that apply to brass and bronze?
Borax is for brass and bronze. For aluminium you need to degass and and add a drossing flux.
Thank you, great share. 9:28 :)
I would like to know where you got those lifting tongs
I made them https://youtu.be/FK5wjqzvY-I
Funny and ingenious at the same time thankyou for the inspiration
Great video and understood the process nice and simple, obviously takes practice as i screw up a lot...although guess like my forge that runs on coal, been wanting to go gas for couple years but can't afford a bottle of gas (first world problem)
Its why we need more people teaching real skills like this man, least then some of us might survive a new world order
I love the sieve construction!!!
Hello, thanks for taking the time to make the video. Do you ever find that when you tip up the flask to blow away any loose sand that it all falls out? I use commercial greensand so there should be nothing wrong with the mix. Maybe my water content, flask design or compaction is the issue.
I don't have that problem. I have grooves in the side of most of my flasks but even on the ones without the sand stays in place. I can handle the completed mould quite roughly. It could be your sand is too wet if yours is falling out.
Thank you for your sharing. Very good sand casting process video, i learnt more from your video.
Tim Saunders - 2018-11-03
forgotten in public schools all over the world are shops-where kids learned how to make things. All they teach kids today is to buy things. Your hobby is an art, worth it's weight in gold.
Gf - 2019-12-08
@Butty Bobber I dont think kids know that you can go in and use it themselves or book it, under supervision
openworld poland - 2019-12-23
@Greg Benwell Światem zaczął rządzić komunizm i feminizm.
openworld poland - 2019-12-23
@bug feet Komunizm..., trzeba zdać sobie z tego sprawę.
Idziemy prostą drogą do roku 1984 Orwella.
Ben Kenobi - 2020-02-17
@Gf It was typically called Vocational Education or VocEd for short... and they taught all sorts of "trades", Carpentry, Metalsmithing, Auto Body / Mechanic, HVAC, Animal Husbandry (4H), and more. I think one would be hard pressed to find ANY of this in schools today. In a rural midwest school I am familiar with, they closed down the last VocEd shop about 5 years ago, it was a carpentry/cabinet building class. They claim they don't have the funds for that - yet built a $10+ million dollar sports complex instead! >:o
Bob Cartwright - 2020-04-25
@Greg Benwell What you say is so true. I'm so fortunate to of had a father that grew up in the depression and was mechanically inclined.