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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: Mike Brooks on March 29, 2023, 06:00:08 PM
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yesterday's pot melting down. Doing another potful today.
(https://i.ibb.co/hY00YWd/20230328-173611.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bbttbBv)
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Interesting, send some more pics if you think about it
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And there goes some of your zinc up in smoke!
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Bout time you did something else besides building guns. After 400 + guns. You have to be bored building them......!!!!
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Is it breaktime yet?
Hope they ain't working you too hard.
Seriously, send me a PM if you get the castings I was after.
Thanks, TommyG
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Is it breaktime yet?
Hope they ain't working you too hard.
Seriously, send me a PM if you get the castings I was after.
Thanks, TommyG
I cut the triggerguards off the tree this morning. We may have poured the buttplstes today. Not sure. We are casting Thursday and Friday too. I came out of there as lack as tar today.p
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I always thought that process looked like fun!
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I always thought that process looked like fun!
It ain’t! There’s a whole lot of heat, nasty fumes, and dirty miserable work. I helped Frank House cast 3 sets of castings one day. It gave me a new appreciation of the cost of brass castings. I will gladly pay for a good set of brass castings without all of the other stuff that goes with it.
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Now that’s some serious brass melting’! Best,
Ed
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Sir, that is some serious work. I salute you!
(https://i.ibb.co/Z28zBsB/salute.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
Hank
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The pot of molten brass is 2100 degrees and weighs 95 lbs. You can tell when the pot reaches 2100 because huge clouds of white zinc clouds come billowing out. I must say tha pouring in 50 degree weather is better than 90 degree temperatures. Turns out I'll be paying him for operating the foundry this week. Pouring every day this week. :o
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It’s great that you’re keeping yellow brass buttplates and guards available.
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Hey Mike, watch the fumes? You are missing alot of letters and such in your typing.
Just saying!1
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Hey Mike, watch the fumes? You are missing alot of letters and such in your typing.
Just saying!1
Well he does have that cigarette smoke protecting him from those fumes! ;D
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That's the founderer in the picture. I'm far more dashing. 8)
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I have a full 5 gallon bucket of castings so far. probably two more pours to go.
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Ya better take your founderer hat off and find your teacher hat mister. I’m not dancing solo on Sunday morning.
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Probably very hard work with nasty fumes, but it looks like a great experience. At least once. It’s difficult to get places like this to allow anyone in, I guess due to liability. I can’t even get the local machine shop to let me sip coffee and watch them work the manual machines for a few hours. Even offered to buy coffee for the crew, no go. And I’m sure there’s no foundry like this around me.
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You'd have to go outside the USA to find something like this.
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Ya better take your founderer hat off and find your teacher hat mister. I’m not dancing solo on Sunday morning.
What? :o
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You'd have to go outside the USA to find something like this.
Mike, we will be doing a brass pour this weekend in Mississippi...we tried to get out of the US, but Abe didn't want to lose us ;D
My foundry buddy has a Diesel fueled furnace, and we mostly do cast iron.
Regards, Carl
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It’s great that you’re keeping yellow brass buttplates and guards available.
YES! Plus 1 (+1) I enjoy working with your castings.
Curtis
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These are my neighbors hard at work in their foundy. They say OSHA has been on their backs.
https://youtu.be/XX2Vlq92wgs
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Great video 8)
How hard could it be.....What could go wrong?!!!
gus ;)
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He he tuff guy smoking when working, 40 years ago when I worked in aluminium industry we be bully if we used gas mask today you be fired if you not! ;)
Runar
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Good Grief!!!!! Amazed at those guys in the video working around all that molten metal barefooted, no eye protection, no long leather gloves. I won't even go barefoot outside on gravel or even grass. Never liked it as a kid either.
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Well done Mike! I'd like to try my hand at smelting and casting one of these days, but probably won't.
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Now that's some cool 'ol school' ! I like how the building is also the exhaust hood :-} More pics please.