[SEL] Buying a Foundry

[Lyndsay Frazer]

G'day Graham,
                     Sounds like a great buy to me mate--well done. Casting 
is the last frontier for us engineheads. Most of us fabricate, machine and 
do all other kinds of things to get our engines restored but to be able to 
cast items as well is the ultimate. A good friend of mine has built a very 
good LP fired furnace and has done bronze bearings in it. Please keep us all 
informed of your progress.
                  Any chance of some pics of you purchase mate.
                  Good luck in the foundry.

Regards,
Lyndsay .





>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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