[SEL] Buying a Foundry

[Graham Harris]

G'day All

My son and I went to a sale of house antiques in the
suburbs last weekend, looking for engine bits. None
there, but there was a complete non-ferrous foundry. I
decided that I'd be in it if cheap enough. The outfit
was 2 furnaces with burners) one diesel - a fixed pot
type, 1 ton weight, other is a portable LP gas unit)
crucibles, mould boxes, tools, some green sand and
hard sand & resin consumables, a wobbling sifter &
sieves, sand mixer and a rolling crusher bowl and a
bunch of patterns one of which is a small A/C engine.
I'll keep those for future reference.

Cost-wise, I think I'll call it the "100 dollar
foundry". The furnaces went for 10 each and the rest
was 80 only because some bloke wanted the sifter and
nothing else, otherwise I'd have got the rest for 10
as well! I don't think anybody knew what the stuff
was...I couldn't believe it. I'll start by playing
with the sand and making some moulds, then try the
furnaces - ye-haa!

Cheers

Graham (down and dirty in the foundry)



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