[SEL] Buying a Foundry

[David Nicolson]

Hi Graham, a nice pick up. keep us informed as how you go with it and let us 
know of any problems you encounter and the remedys you come up with as this 
will be quite interesting to some of us who are dabbling in back yard 
foundering. Dave


>From: Graham Harris <ozengine at yahoo.com.au>
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>To: sel at lists.stationary-engine.com
>Subject: [SEL] Buying a Foundry
>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:19:03 +1000 (EST)
>
>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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