Interim level casting can be done with Delft clay, and it will give a surprising result with mapp gas heating. Besides, it's fun to play with!
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Interim level casting can be done with Delft clay, and it will give a surprising result with mapp gas heating. Besides, it's fun to play with!
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Oh definitely, I actually use Delft clay sometimes, with a little $10 crucible and the map torch I sometimes get surprisingly good results. If youβre interested check my blog the last post I submitted here before this one was a big heavy ring I cast in 2 pieces using delft clay. Iβve actually been looking into lost wax lately too but there seems to be a more steep learning curve there and much more drawn out process so Iβve been researching it slowly when I have time. Fun stuff though always new worlds to be explored.
Good on the delft clay! I'm thinking about using a tin can that's stackable as a cope and drag with the clay, just to see if it will work.
I'm looking at 3d wax printing to use for lost wax....
Keep playing!
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I like the the tin can idea,if you could use plyers to roll the joining edge in on one it would probably be almost as good as the commercial ones. I actually built two wooden rectangular frames out of plywood scraps for mine. works well, Just lay it on a piece of cardboard on the ground, fill the bottom one, put whatever im casting and some baby powder in and fill it to the top. lift the top frame and run a knife between them and it separates clean at least 80% of the time. then slide the cardboard out from under just in case and pour. And definitely will keep playing, it's like an itch I gotta scratch. I'm sure you know the feeling haha.
Yes I do! I thought I'd look for a can designed to stack. They make them where the bottom of one can sits inside the top of the can below it. Solder on an alignment pin on one, Matching a tube on the other; and it's as good as a commercial unit. I milled one out of a piece of hardwood, but I bet a router would do the same job!
It makes good parts....
I can do a 7 pound brass pour, or the same volume of aluminum.
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