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Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

Yes, just pouring around the pattern in about 2" lifts, and vibrating as I go to settle/pack it. I tried a jig saw, recip saw, but found the best results from the thera gun just run around the bucket exterior. I really like Kelly Coffield's vibrating air turbine bucket stand and would like to make something like that moving forward. His entire process is something I'm trying to emulate actually, as he's got it pretty dialed in.
 
A friend on Saltspring pushes air from the bottom with his shop vac. This creates sand into which the pattern can easily be pushed down until the sprue is level. He then turns off the shop vac and the sand settles around everything perfectly.
He used foam cut with hot wire on his CNC JGRO router. Don't remember if he covered his patterns with a coating.
I'll ask. He doesn't do much of that anymore or I'd pop over and film it.
 
Hmmm, a fluid bed might work pretty good. I made a small one a few years ago for dipping powder paints for fishing lures. Works great, nice even coverage. Now I just need to scale it up 10x....
 
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