Backyard Aluminum Casting

Author : One Street Components
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985988913
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backyard Aluminum Casting written by One Street Components and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own aluminum casting foundry. Cast bicycle shift levers or whatever else you have in mind. Learn to melt and cast scrap aluminum for profit or just for fun. While much of this book discusses the Bike Shift Lever project (read more at OneStreet.org under Programs, One Street Components), readers will learn how to cast just about anything using scrap aluminum and make a profit doing so. In addition to casting, the book also offers guidance on product marketing and sales. Starting with foundry and casting basics, readers learn how to build an inexpensive charcoal-fired furnace using a flowerpot or fired-clay bricks. An entire chapter is dedicated to sorting and melting scrap aluminum so that readers will always have an ample supply of quality metal for casting. The book wraps up with product marketing and sales, using Bike Shift Levers as the example, but showing how any cast aluminum product can be profitably produced in a backyard foundry. In the back of the book, readers will find: a detailed table of aluminum alloys to help them sort their scrap, the design drawings for the Bike Shift Lever. For readers interested in making Bike Shift Levers, they will learn how to become one of our license partners and receive a permanent casting mold that will hold up to many, many castings. License partners are critical to this project as we work to provide affordable, durable, and repairable shift levers to people worldwide who rely on their bicycles everyday. We also offer our license partners ongoing support for foundry solutions, marketing in their area, and bulk purchases of foundry and shift lever supplies. Backyard Aluminum Casting is for anyone who wants to try casting scrap aluminum into Bike Shift Levers or just about anything else that can be made out of aluminum."

Author : David J. Gingery
Publisher : David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1878087363
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charcoal Foundry written by David J. Gingery and published by David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charcoal Foundry, the first book in the "Metal Working Shop From Scrap Series", gives you plans for building a metal melting furnace and instructions on basic pattern making and molding. All the information needed to set up a foundry in your work shop can be found in this book. Simply stated, if you can build a sand castle or make a mud pie, you can make a sand mold to produce castings for your metal shop projects. The main ingredient in these projects is scrap aluminum and pot metal. The only tools you need to get started are ordinary home shop hand tools, many of which are probably already in your possession. Much of the remainder is found as salvage or cast-off and little expense need be involved. The charcoal foundry is simple to build and operate and the initial cost is so low that it can be in the reach of nearly anyone. And the fundamentals of pattern-making and molding are easily understood and mastered. Once you have built the charcoal foundry and the metal lathe in book 2, there is little beyond your reach by way of shop equipment. Build as large or small as you wish and you are your own parts supply company. If you already have some machine shop equipment, you will find that adding a foundry to your shop greatly expands your capacity. Being able to produce your own castings for accessories and equipment is a great advantage. Design your own, make a copy or follow a plan. It's easy when you're in control and can produce your own castings.

Author : B. Terry Aspin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565238657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backyard Foundry for Home Machinists written by B. Terry Aspin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertake casting with confidence! This informative resource is a go-to guide to learn everything you need to know to create your own home foundry for custom casting. Providing a wealth of useful information on materials and techniques, pattern-making, molding boxes, cores and core-boxes, and melting metals, each stage and subject is thoughtfully photographed and illustrated for a comprehensive look to get started in foundry.

Author : C. W. Ammen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830619108
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casting Aluminum written by C. W. Ammen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. Terry Aspin
Publisher : Specialist Interest Model Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781854861467
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backyard Foundry written by B. Terry Aspin and published by Specialist Interest Model Books Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For small casting jobs by model engineers; how to set up a home foundry, and explaining the basic principles of foundrywork.

Author : Nicholas Tomihama
Publisher : NickTomihama
ISBN 13 : 0983248109
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backyard Bowyer written by Nicholas Tomihama and published by NickTomihama. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 step-by-step pictures, the Backyard Bowyer is geared for the beginning bowyer, backyard hobbyist, and anyone who has ever pondered building a wooden bow. Easy to read and follow steps go down to even the smallest detail in the design and construction of basic archery bows. Learn to craft fine wooden bows without huge investment in equipment and materials, and without being bound by location and limited workspace. Learn to construct: A classic target flat bow, an English Longbow suitable for hunting, and even your own strings and arrows for traditional and primitive archery.

Author : Steve Chastain
Publisher : Stephen Chastain
ISBN 13 : 9780970220318
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Build an Oil-fired Tilting Furnace written by Steve Chastain and published by Stephen Chastain. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Gingery
Publisher : David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1878087460
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building A Gas Fired Crucible Furnace written by David J. Gingery and published by David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that you have established your metalworking shop and progressed in the various skills of the crafts you may want to expand your metal casting operation. Build this gas fired crucible furnace so that you can turn out castings for your projects faster and easier. Designed especially for the home shop foundry. Very quiet in operation. Easy to light and simple to operate. The body and lid raise for safer crucible handling. Operates on natural or bottled gas. Costs only a fraction of the price of a commercially built unit and it will melt aluminum, brass and even gray iron. This unit will really upgrade your shop and you will enjoy the convenience of gas fired melting.

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Publisher : Skipjack Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781879535206
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, & Kilns written by and published by Skipjack Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Navy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410109002
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundry Manual written by United States Navy and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Manual is intended primarily for use by foundry personnel aboard repair ships and tenders. The recommended practices are based on procedures proved workable under Navy conditions and are supplemented by information from industrial sources. The Manual is divided into two general sections. The first section, chapters 1 through 13, contains information of a general nature, such as "How Metals Solidify," "Designing a Casting," "Sands for Molds and Cores," "Gates, Risers, and Chills," and "Description and Operation of Melting Furnaces." Subjects covered in these chapters are generally applicable to all of the metals that may be cast aboard ship. The second section, chapters 14 through 21, contains information on specific types of alloys, such as "Copper-Base Alloys," "Aluminum-Base Alloys," "Cast Iron," and "Steel." Specific melting practices, suggestions for sand mixes, molding practices, gating, and risering are covered in these chapters. This manual has been written with the "how-to-do-it" idea as the principal aim. Discussions as to the "why" of certain procedures have been kept to a minimum. This manual contains information that should result in the production of consistently better castings by repair ship personnel.