[TheForge] Playing with bronze

[Stephen McGehee]

Phlip
Check the yellow pages of your nearest city, look for Foundry Supplies, =
Canfield and Joseph is a place to start.  I recommend that you start =
with "Petrabond" oil bonded sand, you loose a little with each use, but =
it can be refreshed(the burnt part) if you must.  A 5-gallon bucket of =
this stuff will do a lot of casting, about $ 50-60 per container.  There =
are several brand names for this sand & Rio Grande did not carry it in =
the last catalog that I had.

I keep a mess of it in a big wash basin with a heat lamp 2 feet away.  =
Let it get warm for an hour or so before you use it.=20


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