[TheForge] Foundry letter sets

Roger R Degner [email protected]
Wed Feb 13 14:43:14 2002


Where Shannel saw the info was an UMBA tape of a guild of metal meeting.
The demonstrator was pouring silver.  Were he learned it was in the SW USA
and they were pouring silver belt buckles.  This would be a smaller amount
of metal but liquid silver has a lot of heat.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Freeman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Foundry letter sets


> Are you talking about pouring hot metal into a mold made of dry cement mix
and motor oil?  Are you sure about this?  I would be concerned that the
non-refractory cement, which is a carbonate, would release CO2 gas when hit
with hot metal.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> >>> "Shannell" <[email protected]> 02/12/02 07:29PM >>>
> While on the sand casting topic (barely :)) saw a good tip the other day,
> use fine grade cement mix and 10w motor oil as your casting mould
material,
> very fine detail and easily available.