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Iron Casting

Rust is likely to be a factor. I was offered a princess auto blasting cabinet a while ago but I don't have a big enough compressor to run it yet, and not sure know where I'd even put it, so I grudgingly passed on it. I did try to knock as much of the rust off as I could buy banging on the rotors to dislodge any flaky stuff wherever I could before breaking them up.

Jeff
 
@Wanderer sent some pictures. Hope I'm not stealing his thunder by posting them before he does.

6 wheels demolded...

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A little shrink at the base of the sprue on just one of them. Odd, since the molds were all pretty much identical.

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No matter, it will be bored out there for an axle anyway.

Here's the wheel that poured short on the first melt:

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There was a side frame that poured short too from the second melt. D'oh! Seen in pieces here, in the upper left and upper center.

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The sprues were able to be cut partway through. Fracturing them off the rest of the way revealed nothing but solid grey iron. :)

So I have high hopes they will machine up nicely. Time will tell...

Jeff
 
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