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Pumping Station: One » Blog Archive » Fire Starters the Boy Scout Way — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:05:01 +0000

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get excited and make things! · — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:35:18 +0000

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By: Tim Saylor

Tim Saylor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:45:37 +0000

@apthorpe
Awesome, you should definitely come by for a meeting soon, and I’ll add you to my mental list of people to contact when I do my next melt. I just bought the Gingery book series a few days ago, but I’d love to peruse your casting books (or anything from Lindsay, it’s all interesting).

By: apthorpe

apthorpe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:36:51 +0000

I’ve been meaning to drop in at PS:One but now you’ve sealed it. Before I moved to Chicago a year ago I was in the process of building a small charcoal-fired foundry to cast parts for a Gingery lathe. I had much of the form completed as well as a few sacks of castable refractory and sand for green sand casting (not quite to the point of having a muller or Petrobond or any other sand-conditioning stuff.) Then I moved from a house into an apartment and shelved the project because molten aluminum is not an indoor toy.
That said, I’ve got a dozen books on sand casting, furnace and burner design, pattern making, plus a crapload of projects but sadly no place to work. As soon as I can unpack my library, I’ll try to drop by and say howdy.
Also, if you’re not familiar with Lindsay Publications you need to check them out. A few recommendations: Steve Chastain’s series on metal casting, Dave Gingery’s famous series “How to Build A Metal Shop From Scrap,” and Michael Porter’s “Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces & Kilns.”