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Offline Mike Brooks

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Foundry day
« on: March 29, 2023, 06:00:08 PM »
yesterday's pot melting down. Doing another potful today.


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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2023, 06:12:49 PM »
Interesting, send some more pics if you think about it
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2023, 07:09:27 PM »
And there goes some of your zinc up in smoke!
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Offline oldtravler61

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2023, 08:26:16 PM »
   Bout time you did something else besides building guns. After 400 + guns. You have to be bored building them......!!!!
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2023, 09:30:10 PM »
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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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2023, 10:43:38 PM »
Quote from: TommyG on March 29, 2023, 09:30:10 PM
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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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2023, 03:08:44 AM »
I always thought that process looked like fun!
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2023, 03:42:49 AM »
Quote from: Osprey on March 30, 2023, 03:08:44 AM
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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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2023, 04:41:20 AM »
Now that’s some serious brass melting’!     Best,

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2023, 12:52:49 PM »
Sir, that is some serious work. I salute you!



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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2023, 04:02:55 PM »
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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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2023, 04:06:32 PM »
It’s great that you’re keeping yellow brass buttplates and guards available.
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2023, 06:11:26 PM »
Hey Mike, watch the fumes?  You are missing alot of letters and such in your typing.
Just saying!1
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2023, 07:46:40 PM »
Quote from: Bigmon on March 30, 2023, 06:11:26 PM
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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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2023, 11:12:14 PM »
That's the founderer in the picture. I'm far more dashing. 8)
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2023, 11:13:13 PM »
I have a full 5 gallon bucket of castings so far. probably two more pours to go.
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2023, 11:25:58 PM »
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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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2023, 03:27:43 AM »
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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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2023, 04:04:48 AM »
You'd have to go outside the USA to find something like this.
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2023, 04:05:33 AM »
Quote from: Stoner creek on March 30, 2023, 11:25:58 PM
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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Offline Carl Young

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2023, 05:31:30 AM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on March 31, 2023, 04:04:48 AM
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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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2023, 09:25:21 AM »
Quote from: rich pierce on March 30, 2023, 04:06:32 PM
It’s great that you’re keeping yellow brass buttplates and guards available.

YES!  Plus 1 (+1)  I enjoy working with your castings.


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Offline Bigmon

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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2023, 05:11:59 PM »
These are my neighbors hard at work in their foundy.  They say OSHA has been on their backs.
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #23 on: March 31, 2023, 05:56:24 PM »
Great video 8)
How hard could it be.....What could go wrong?!!!
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Re: Foundry day
« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2023, 09:42:27 PM »
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! ;)
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