[SEL] Casting Demo

[Judge Tommy Turner]

If you decide to sell your induction furnace, please let me know as I'd 
be interested.  I'm going to get you a quote Rick on trucking the big 
lathe and shaper to your place.  Please give me the address of where it 
would be placed.  Thanks.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


> Its more efficient until the electric company throws in a monkey 
> wrench called "demand".  At 80KW demand x $14 per KW that effectively 
> kills any profit that I might make. Then you add the .05 cents per KW 
> for the actual electric that I use.
>
> I chose to go with an induction furnace because its what I was 
> familiar with from other foundries.  I'm exploring other options right 
> now with other types of melting furnaces, either coke fired cupola or 
> oil fired reverb.
>
> Rick
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judge Tommy Turner" 
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> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Casting Demo
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>
>> Rick,  I thought that electric would be more efficient than gas.  I'm 
>> somewhat surprised its not.
>>
>> Tommy Turner
>> Magnolia, KY
>>
>>
>>> If he is melting with propane he has a definate cost and time 
>>> advantage over me with the electric furnace.  I've lost money 
>>> steadily since day 1 and have to design and build a solid fueled 
>>> furnace before I can melt again.  The only ones who made out with my 
>>> little foundry experiment was the electric company.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Rotigel" <rotigel at alltel.net>
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>>> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [SEL] Casting Demo
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>>>
>>>> At 10:46 PM 9/9/2006, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I thought they were making iron castings over there.  What would 
>>>>> the aluminum flywheel be used for?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I understand that with either AL or Cast Iron the turn around time 
>>>> is about two weeks!
>>>>         Dave
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