Those are very nicely the finished, looks like mirrors. How thin are they?
I did some casting today made a new sanding disc for the sander,cast a couple of aluminum blocks to make a vice for the shaper,and cast a small sheave for the motor on the shaper.
I ran out of metal on the sheave it was a 3 step sheave got 2 of the three poursed,so I melted more and poured in on the other. I seemed to have bonded, I don't plan on using it that way. I
only want one groove and its the small one so I'll cut off the rest. I was really surprised that the 2 different pours stuck together. I even beat on it with a hammer and tossed it up in the air letting it fall on the concrete drive , it would not come apart.
I was going to take photos of my progress today but it was so hot and things didn't go as planned.
I spilled some oil filling the burner tank made a small mess, ran out of melted metal on the last pour had lots of dross on all pours that I had to skim off and then melt more metal to fill the crucible. I guess I need to make some flux to wring out the aluminum on the next melt.
Norman
I did some casting today made a new sanding disc for the sander,cast a couple of aluminum blocks to make a vice for the shaper,and cast a small sheave for the motor on the shaper.
I ran out of metal on the sheave it was a 3 step sheave got 2 of the three poursed,so I melted more and poured in on the other. I seemed to have bonded, I don't plan on using it that way. I
only want one groove and its the small one so I'll cut off the rest. I was really surprised that the 2 different pours stuck together. I even beat on it with a hammer and tossed it up in the air letting it fall on the concrete drive , it would not come apart.
I was going to take photos of my progress today but it was so hot and things didn't go as planned.
I spilled some oil filling the burner tank made a small mess, ran out of melted metal on the last pour had lots of dross on all pours that I had to skim off and then melt more metal to fill the crucible. I guess I need to make some flux to wring out the aluminum on the next melt.
Norman