Levelling feet - sand cast

[kevin.decelles]

For those who attended the meetup today in calgary this will provide some better visuals to the sand casted levelling feet that I based my presentation on.

For those not in attendance , I recently dusted off my sand-crab coat and decided to do a quick project to make some levelling feet.

I finished two of the feet on my modern 14x40 and two on my 114 year old Von-Wyck lathe.

Picture 1 - making the Molds

Next pic, ramming up patterns

Removing patterns

Ready to pour

Poured

Shaking out the sand

First look

Von wyck at work

Finished production

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[YYCHM]

Were you using recycled lawn chairs again? That is so cool. Got a pic of the pouring to share?

 

[CalgaryPT]

Nice work Kevin.

 

[Tom O]

Nice! That sand looks like it is fairly course on the casting though is it playsand?

 

[Tom O]

I’m hoping to dig mine out this week out of the shed that sand will smell nasty when it is opened! The Haas guy is coming tomorrow the mill says tool 8 but has tool 10 loaded so it’s out of sync.

 

[kevin.decelles]

Nice! That sand looks like it is fairly course on the casting though is it playsand?

The sand is an oil bonded blend I picked up from a guy near Clive AB
Not sure of the sand genesis , but it mulls up nice .

For fine finish I use brand name petrobond




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[Everett]

Very nice! I like the pucks, they really do work well for machinery feet.