A sand casting manual for the small foundry volume 1

 · Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Vol. 1. This book is a “Must Have” for the fledging Foundryman. Gives you practical details on getting started including: Melting Equipment (Building a furnace, crucibles, ladles etc.) Temperature Measurement – Build your own! Sands and Binders; Core making; Practical examplesBinding: Paperback (softcover). 8 rows · Stephen Chastain Metal Casting Vol. 1 [] - Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual Binding: Paperback (softcover). Volume 1 is primarily about sand casting, the patterns and hardware. Volume 2 is primarily about melting and pouring metal. However, there is some overlap. Besides patterns and flasks volume 1 covers crucibles, building a charcoal furnace and a hand held crucible thermocouple thermometer. Volume 2 covers gating, risering and cores in more detail as well as some pattern design pointers.

Readers of his first two books, Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Vol. 1 2, know that building a foundry Chastain's way is easy. All you need is a five-gal. bucket lined with sand and refractory clay. A piece of 4-in. diameter steel pipe with a bottom welded on it makes a pot. Sand casting is the most popular casting process employed in industry because of its great geometric freedom capability and for its cost 1. A small draft (~o to 2 o) should be provided to enable removal of the the square of the volume-to-area ratio of the casting (or casting section). This section modulus approach is an. A Gray and Ductile Iron Jobbing Foundry for General Industrial Castings in Short Runs and Serial Production. OK Foundry makes gray and ductile iron sand castings from 1 lb. to lbs. With no-bake resin bonded sand molding for heavy section and complex cored castings up to lbs. and manual jolt squeeze green sand molding for lighter castings.

Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Volume 1. Steve Chastain. A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Volume 1 Small foundry series. The Sand Casting Manual, Volume 2, continues with solidification of metals and why it matters. Specifics of aluminum, copper alloys, brass and bronze are discussed along with solution heat treatment and precipitation hardening. A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry Volumes 1 and 2 Small Foundry Series Pages, BW photos and drawings Size /2 x /2 inches.