Sand Casting at Home?

[Harrison]

Who had the link to that crazy, blow your ass up, backyard sand casting web site? I know a guy wanting to give it a shot and his HOT wife just took out a big insurance policy on him.

Thanks, JH

[Two-Gun Bob]

Try Backyard Metal Casting (http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com)

[Kevin Lee]

Hahahahaha. What a good friend you are! Here buddy, knock youself out. What? Dangerous? Noooo, it's really safe, dude that's just lawyer speak. Just throw caution to the wind and cast some stuff - I'll just be standing over here....with your wife.

I tried looking for it with different searches a while back but never found the funny guy again. I laugh every time someone mentions casting because I think about that goofy bastard melting down "mags" and lawnchairs in his mom's BBQ grill.

[whizzerick]

Harrison, I built a home foundry setup and it's a LOT of fun.
I have some pics of my 50$ propane fueled furnace AND our main source of 356 alloy aluminium: a half dozen MAG WHEELS I bought from an auto parts bankrupcy (it was a display with ONE mag each...) Definitely try this at home!
Whizzerick's casting adventures (http://www.whizzerick.com/whizzercasting.html)
This website is great: Foundry 101 (http://www.host33.com/casting/)
This one on building a furnace: Furnace (http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/furnace/furnace.html)
Ray's page, VERY informative: Ray's (http://www.ray-vin.com/casting/)

Hope this helps,
whizzerick

[Harrison]

Thanks guys.
I'm going to put him to work now. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
JH

[Deuce Rails]

I have a great how-to book called the Compleate Metalsmith by Tim McCreight. It got all sorts of good advice for moldmaking and casting.

Click here for Amazon.com's listing. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871922401/qid=1065465003/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9937568-0956128?v=glance&s=books)