[TheForge] Forging blackberries?

Mon Jul 7 01:31:00 2003

Hey thats a trick worth knowing!

----- Original Message -----
From: "RIES NIEMI" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 07 July, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging blackberries?

> on 7/6/03 8:37 PM, Shannell Sugrue at [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Yeah sorry they are blackberries, casting sounds better the more I think
of
> > it, Id probably cast them in Al but then have to think of a trick to
attach
> > them, mabey drill a hole and srew them onto the stems or similar(mabey
> > epoxy) , there are no solders that can stick Al to steel are there??
> >
>
> the big foundries that make aluminum ornamental panels for fences and
> railings cast a steel weld tab right into the aluminum part. I am not sure
> how they do it, but I know that they do.  A little piece of 1/4" x 1" flat
> bar, that sticks right out of the aluminum casting, and you just weld it
> right on your rinky dink square tubing framework, with your spattery buzz
> box that you dont know how to use.
> If they can do it, then you probably could too. Or just get them to do it-
> Lawler foundry in Alabama is the biggest one, and I know they do custom
work
> in both iron and aluminum.
> www.lawlerfoundry.com/
>
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