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A Thimble Full of Hell: A simple hardface for a furnace.
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. A simple hardface for a furnace. It's a flu liner for a stove. It's petty much the same material as dense fire brick. I've used a slightly longer one for my new gas fired furnace. It sits on a packed sand base, it has Ceramic wool around it, and the lid is fire cement and perlite. It's survived a few melts at this point. It has quite a few cracks. But it was free so it's a win. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Living with Source Code.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: April 2013
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Monday, April 22, 2013. And this is what he looks like after a little cleaning up. Tuesday, April 16, 2013. It's turtles all the way down! I've moved up from aluminium to bronze. I started by making a stand for the crucible. That way it stays upright when the charcoal burns. Makes life easier. I also prepared a bucket of charcoal broken into small lumps, about 2cm on the longest side. They would be easier to load, and burn fast and hot. Thursday, April 4, 2013. They cleaned up ok.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: May 2013
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Friday, May 17, 2013. My first Thin Ceramic Shell Lost Wax. It turned out pretty well for a first attempt. There was some charcoal in the pour. And I have what looks like bubbling along in patches. But there's lots of really great detail. I'm moving up to Propane next, less charcoal, less ash. I think the finger tips may have been ruined by charcoal ash getting into the ceramic mold while I baked it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Living with Source Code. View my complete profile.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: June 2015
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Not bad but nearly a mess. To cast this I ran the crucible quite full. With the last aluminium ingot floating in the melt, it was about 8 mm to the top. Of course as this melted, and the rest of the melt got hotter, the crucible ended up pretty much brim full - stuff expands when you heat it up - who knew? That makes for a touchy time pouring it. Spilling liquid aluminium is probably a bad way to end the evening. A simple hardface for a furnace.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: March 2013
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Saturday, March 30, 2013. I melted down 3/4 of an Alloy Wheel to make ingots. They are much easier to deal with later when I want to focus on making something, rather than focus of getting the odd shaped aluminium bits to melt into the crucible. I think my furnace is a little small, but it will do, I can easily get 3 of these from one melt, 4 would be brim full. When it's running right, it's HOT. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. First you need some tools. A furnace to melt it in. The furn...
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A Thimble Full of Hell: My first Thin Ceramic Shell Lost Wax
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Friday, May 17, 2013. My first Thin Ceramic Shell Lost Wax. It turned out pretty well for a first attempt. There was some charcoal in the pour. And I have what looks like bubbling along in patches. But there's lots of really great detail. I'm moving up to Propane next, less charcoal, less ash. I think the finger tips may have been ruined by charcoal ash getting into the ceramic mold while I baked it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Living with Source Code.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: Shiny Turtles
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Monday, April 22, 2013. And this is what he looks like after a little cleaning up. June 28, 2013 at 12:50 AM. So what do you use to clean them up? All I have is a file and am electric hand sander, I dunno if that will be good enough, for aluminum at least? June 28, 2013 at 5:39 AM. A drill and a wire wheel. The light weight brass sort. Ive also started to make a tumbler, fill it with sharp sand, and tumble the casting in it. I need a motor, spinning it with a handle is no fun.
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A Thimble Full of Hell: It's turtles all the way down !
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A Thimble Full of Hell. Tuesday, April 16, 2013. It's turtles all the way down! I've moved up from aluminium to bronze. I started by making a stand for the crucible. That way it stays upright when the charcoal burns. Makes life easier. I also prepared a bucket of charcoal broken into small lumps, about 2cm on the longest side. They would be easier to load, and burn fast and hot. And I kept it topped up. Once the furnace calmed down from a raging fury, I added more fuel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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A Thimble Full of Hell: Overview
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A Thimble Full of Hell. This is my on-line record of learning to cast Metal. Ultimately I want to learn to cast bronze hands.But I'm going to start with Aluminium, and work my way up. I got the name from a warning I read on one of the Groups. It read somewhere along the lines of "Casting is perfectly safe, just so long as you remember that you are handling a small cup of Hell". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Living with Source Code. Not bad but nearly a mess. A simple hardface for a furnace.