Backyard Foundry - oil burning furnace - moulding and casting a spider

No1 Invicta we borrowed the castings from an aveling that was getting repaired,one of the 1st castings I did many years ago,No2 me pouring[never mind the junk behind!! hehe No3 2/1 scale traditional fingerpost signs we used to have round here alas all gone now, this miniature is ,in my front garden between Worsall & Yarm Rosecroft is our cottage, no 4 is the 2 part pattern with core print for the North Yorkshire c c top of the post, all letters cut out on the Hegner,No5 is one of the roses with 2 different pouring sprues,one with a pouring baisin,, one without, not much difference to be honest, No6 straight out of the flasks with a brass firebar off a 2" traction engine [for a friends ornament ] wouldn't last 5 mins in his firebox!!,lastly the 2 roses mounted on the pediments.

  Oops !! go to part 3 for pictures of  what this is all about!!

Edited By the artfull-codger on 29/03/2022 19:51:16

Very Good, clear definition, You beat me to it with the comment about the fire bar not lasting long. Many years ago I did an invicta horse ! Good luck, Noel

Thank you for your kind comments Noel,[praise indeed from yourself ]I've seen & follow you in action on F B & good it is too, when I make nameplates with any fine letters/details I usually sieve a layer of petrobond on as it's stronger & finer [& expensive now] then the rest is mansfield red [well it's black now with use!!.

Regards Graham.

Edited By the artfull-codger on 30/03/2022 10:26:01

Edited By the artfull-codger on 30/03/2022 10:26:53

These are astonishingly beautiful! That rose would work really well in a nice jewellery box for my misses...

Hi Luker these hall mirrors were for the wife,to give as presents to family,members,I'm always on the lookout for ready made "patterns" to use for castings these were made from a resin ornament, if I'm loaned anything I make a copy in petrobond with type metal which was used in the newspaper industry as it does not shrink when it cools,I also use roses metal which actally expands when it cools, we used it in the glass trade for setting armourplate glass doors into channel rails we chiseld it out & replaced it with modern rubber pressed in with a hydraulic press, needless to say I salvaged all the scrap, it melts at the boiling point of water, thank you for your kind words.

Graham.

For the fellow foundry-men...

I really am spoilt with the 3D printer, if I need a pattern I just draw it up and print it overnight. Next day I can normally cast the component. Not like my first loco where all the patterns were from wood. That alone took a few months!