foundry

In Dungeons & Dragons, rolling a natural 20 on an attack roll with the 20 sided die (d20) is an automatic hit that deals double damage. A natural 1 is an automatic miss. We call them critical hits and critical misses, respectively. Some nights things just don't go well. Clearly this is the...

Marketplace find. Apparently someone else almost got the patternmaking book ahead of me! I wonder if it was anyone I know. I was surprised to hear it. This appears to be the original British version from 1905 1942, the 4th edition. Has some underlining of passages I so far agree...

Hi, A former admin from the now defunct AlloyAvenue forums (Ben Baker, went by Anon on AA) wrote an exhaustive foundry tutorial ebook for hobbyists, which I have attached in pdf format. It was considered manadatory reading there for the remainder of that forum's existence online, and still has...

I had 3 molds put on my shed for a few days, waiting to get poured in cast aluminum... So today I went out to fix that. Discovered my nemesis the red squirrel isn't quite done messing with me. It was bad enough when he crammed my whole corner shelf full of rotting walnuts a couple weeks...

Following up after buying ingredients for iron rated greensand here: https://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/threads/the-great-ontario-foundry-road-trip-2025.15069/ And mulling up ~450 pounds of the stuff... https://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/threads/casting-sand.4444/post-195510 And...

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...

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...

Hi all, I've searched without success to find a Canadian source for simple, thick-walled (0.25") brass tube in diameters from 2" to 3". 6" lengths. I'd turn to final profiles on a lathe. I'm planning to make bezels for gauges. So, I have a lot of brass bits and bobs and thought casting could...

Hello all, first post here. Got some questions for you more experienced peeps. I'm a student who's quite interesting in melting and casting metals. I started with the whole king of random bucket one with a simple steel foundry I made in shop class. Now I've moved onto my next foundry design...

Affable guy whose shop is in a private cemetery in Ontario. He vids most of his projects, which range from metal working, trailer building, foundry and small engine rebuilding. https://www.youtube.com/user/billstmaxx