[SEL] Buying a Foundry

[Andrew]

It is certainly a good buy, I had about $300 in my furnice because I used
a commercial refractory, of course I made everything else...
Does anyone on here have any experience in pouring cast iron?
Andrew.

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, David Nicolson wrote:

> 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>
> >Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >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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