08-09-2013, 04:06 PM
goaly I bought them tubes in a store in New Rochelle New York when there on a job one time and they have never had dough wrapped around them.
John I found one of the best gating tools is a set of tin measuring spoons that come on a metal ring in the standard measuring sizes. there being thin lets them cut thru the sand without busting up the edges of the channel your making. but then in one of the old casting books I have they say to make your gate cutter out of a tobacco tin. I try to make the runner long enough so that any trash and dross will get washed pass the gate before the mold starts to fill.
The pour that this thread is about was done in too small of a flask, when I do the parts in cast iron I'll have to drag out the bigger one which should allow me to put four of the parts in it.
John I found one of the best gating tools is a set of tin measuring spoons that come on a metal ring in the standard measuring sizes. there being thin lets them cut thru the sand without busting up the edges of the channel your making. but then in one of the old casting books I have they say to make your gate cutter out of a tobacco tin. I try to make the runner long enough so that any trash and dross will get washed pass the gate before the mold starts to fill.
The pour that this thread is about was done in too small of a flask, when I do the parts in cast iron I'll have to drag out the bigger one which should allow me to put four of the parts in it.
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