Todays Project - What did you do today?

[dallen]

redid the flywheel casting

Ok, here's some photo's

first up is the pattern it got wet and warpped Friday night.


So I used it anyway.


Then I tried to straighten it out.


The inside of the Furnace, yes it been used hard and put up hot!!


The crucible I used today this is its fourth melt


The Burner setup with RedNeck Damper Control, which is a hell of a lot cheaper then a Honeywell setup and more dependable.


stove up and running with ingots preheating


its kinda hard to take stills of the pour when your working alone, so here's the shot of the finished pour.


Sorry no shot of the shake out in the still's I took today hope to post a video of it later this evening

Shot of the broken runner after I cut the gating off the art, note color of the iron


Crucible after clean out not as clean as I would of liked it to be, but I was working alone


Part in the lathe after a small trim job


Today was a good pour, the mold filled, the iron was machineable, and the part looks like it may be ok, so far I haven't found any slag hole of hot tears or shrinkage problems.

Yesterday I sliced a piece off of a hunk of DuraBar Cast Iron (Durabar is a continues cast product and is very consistent and absolutely the best to work with if you have to machine cast iron) which is some really nice iron to work with, stuff saws like cutting butter I mean my little 4X6 grizz Horizontal saw smiled at me when I put the bar in it and turned it on and less then ten minutes later I had my slice, the riser that I cut off the Flywheel casting today cut like DuraBar it was that soft.

DA