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  1. Tobho Mott

    Hello from Saskatoon

    Ottawa area foundry guy.saying hello! Jeff
  2. Tobho Mott

    Pouring shanks for crucibles

    The Wayne furnace came out of Bill Jurgenson's art foundry in Beamsville after he retired, along with 300# of 20 year old brand new petrobond sand and as much of his investment casting stuff as I could cram into a 16ft rented truck. It served him well for 40 years. He had the furnace set up in...
  3. Tobho Mott

    This is why I have a 3D printer

    There's a 2 year old printed thingiverse PLA impeller in one of my bathroom fans, still chugging along surprisingly. The new fan kit didn't fit in the old hole in the ceiling when it's old motor died, so rather than butcher another drywall job I put the new motor into the old frame. The old...
  4. Tobho Mott

    Pouring shanks for crucibles

    I used to use steel crucibles too when I was running a charcoal furnace. But I can't find a pic of the hooks I used to use to lift and tilt them. These bigger crucibles need custom made tools but I find that a set of 3 fingered fireplace log tongs, off the shelf or perhaps with some slight...
  5. Tobho Mott

    Tips/Techniques Super easy durable cast aluminum match plate patterns

    Really, I was just playing around with production patternmaking here for fun, I'll never cast enough pattern rappers to justify making this permanent production pattern. Or even mounting the patterns on a wooden matchplate for that matter. I have another one made the same way for making sprue...
  6. Tobho Mott

    Tips/Techniques Super easy durable cast aluminum match plate patterns

    The matchplate is sandwiched between the cope and drag and the drag is rammed up first. Meanwhile, the muller is running, processing the sand from the matchplate casting session. Once the drag is made the cope is rammed up, with the sprue pin in place. After the pin is pulled and the cope...
  7. Tobho Mott

    Tips/Techniques Super easy durable cast aluminum match plate patterns

    I've seen people cobble together steel spacer frames and backfill the seams with sand and pray to Vulcan for no leakers in order to cast metal match plate patterns before (Mr. Pete has an old series on his youtube channel showing this way), but the hack I came up with to save time and effort is...
  8. Tobho Mott

    Pouring shanks for crucibles

    Several months ago for reasons I still can't quite comprehend, a fellow from our near Kingston was willing to take these off my hands (the Salamander in the middle is top shelf for a clay graphite crucible and has lots of life left in it but the other two A6's are DOA and near retirement) in...
  9. Tobho Mott

    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Awesome! It's certainly sufficient to do its job as-is. As for a few small blemishes, as you say, a little bondo and paint and it'll look perfect. I won't tell anyone :) Jeff
  10. Tobho Mott

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    I mostly only use mine to print foundry patterns, but I did print out this fillet iron organizer when I got sick of them somehow suddenly migrating to various random parts of the house every time I'm just about to need them... Total CAD newbie here, so even with printed patterns the fillet...
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