The Only Local (Toronto Region) Non Ferrous Foundry which will Accommodate us Crazies

[carrdo]

Hi All,

Skara Non Ferrous Foundry located at 930 Kamato Road in Mississauga has been the only place which has helped me so many times over the decades with my many, small, piddly nuisance requests, the latest being I wanted 5 additional silicone bronze locomotive brake cylinder castings produced from the simple pattern which I made (see photo). They also cast aluminum and manganese bronze (but not 660 bronze). Silicone bronze can be machined in a home shop, aluminum bronze is quite difficult to machine in a home shop and manganese bronze is next to impossible to machine.

I always say that I am willing to wait as they will want to include your (wood in this case) pattern with others so they can have a full matchplate to keep costs reasonable.

All of the other non ferrous foundries here in Southern Ontario just aren't interested (they had to get big or went bust), one local foundry decades ago told me they had an 8k minimum order.

So support them whenever you can as they are all we have now. I am amazed that they are still with us.

 

[Stuart Samuel]

We use them at work, sometimes. I haven't been there recently, not since 2019. I went to pick up some parts, and Elizabeth was a little suspicious, so she left the geriatric German Shepherd to keep an eye on me while she checked on the castings. There was a slightly smaller than life sized cast aluminum chimpanzee sitting on top of a pile of castings in the middle of the office. Parts that were never picked up? The walls still had Skara calendars with topless women. I'm glad they're still kicking.

 

[JustaDB]

I wouldn't trust ya, either...