• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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  1. Tobho Mott

    The Great Ontario Foundry Road Trip, 2025

    I drove out to Foundry Supply Source in Milton ON a couple weeks ago to pick up ingredients to make some iron rated greensand. John P. The sales and lab guy gave me a great tour and showed me just about everything they sell there, Wow! I had not been out to Milton since 2015 when it was still...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. Tobho Mott

    Aluminum bronze bolting plates

    A new client in Montreal needs 2 of these to attach and support a bed frame to a strut trolley for a pulley-bed system. They are working with a CAD guy and sent me the 3d model to look at, so that I could let them know what needs to be changed to turn their model into a usable foundry...
  5. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    Been working with local artist David Perrett on his latest sculpture, specifically I'm helping him out with a lot of the foundry work involved. He's got his own foundry newly set up after moving to the national capital region from Hamilton about a year ago, so I've been driving out to his place...
  6. Tobho Mott

    New member - Ottawa area metal caster

    Hello all, Just found this forum, not sure how I missed it before! Looking forward to checking out what's already been posted, sharing info, and making a few new friends maybe. Ottawa area hobbyist metal caster since 2013. I specialize in nonferrous sand casting, but plan to add cast iron...
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