[SEL] Make your own Iron Castings!!

[ED]

Rick,

You could put me on your list of potentially interested. I don't need a
casting at present but making them is something I always wanted to do.

Ed Stoller
New Fairfield, CT


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Subject: [SEL] Make your own Iron Castings!!


I am trying to gauge interest in a proposed program for the Tod Engine
Foundation.   I am considering offering an Ironcasting workshop at our site.

The workshop would be for the better part of one day, and would start with
making a sand mold from a pattern, either something brought in or supplied
by us.  Then we would charge and fire our cupola furnace and pour the molds
that were previously made, and end the day with shaking out he molds and
taking home the castings that the participants poured.

Most people never have the opportunity to witness molten metal, and even
fewer have worked with it.  Through this I workshop would like to give
people the opportunity to do something that they may not have the chance to
do or see anywhere else, and also teach some of the principles of
ironcasting in the process.

Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham offers this workshop for a fee of $200 and we
would charge the same for a nearly identical class.  I would like to take
the Sloss class to see how they teach theirs.

If there is sufficient interest we would probably start offering this next
year.

So my question to you is, does this sound like something that would be of
interest?  Would you give up a weekend and some cash to come to Youngstown
to pour your own castings?

Thanks

Rick Rowlands
Executive Director
Tod Engine Heritage Park
William Tod 34" x 68" x 60" Cross Compound Steam Engine
Youngstown, OH
http://www.todengine.org/
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