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Yep, 3D printed parts were sent to the matchplate company and the cast aluminum pattern is ready to be cast. I haven't had the time to really...
80% in the summer, 90% in August.
You wanting to do it yourself? Have a ever cast before or built a furnace? Ever done CAD design or wanting to pay someone? There's a lot of...
Ya it's definitely not like it use to be. My dad and grandfather were traditional mahogany pattern makers though. I think the pieced together...
Not sure but I believe a lot of the heads are damaged beyond repair. I know they are casting 21 of them for the 7 cars left so I assume a lot of...
Hi HAMB, real quick, My name's Garen Phillips, I'm a 10 year foundrymen and pattern maker. I do a lot of work making castings for automotive stuff...
Yes you can. I'm the guy from the linked article above on building the 671 supercharger. We use our printer to actually mass produce quite a few...
Thanks, growth is always good but to much of anything can be bad, it's been an extremely stressful year because of it, lots of customers all...
The photos where originally uploaded and linked from facebook, it seems that they have changed urls somehow. I've uploaded and replaced the first...
Starting To Look like a Blower We've hired on a new machinist to help out with fixturing, Its helped out a ton and given me more time to work...
Thanks for the business even though you didn't know lol. The rear plate has been our best seller, along with the case im also working on...
Day 472 I've had some more time to work on the blower, currently i am working with our CAM software provider to get our post-processor(CNC...
I've posted the videos a few times on this thread. I've got some other threads with videos also. I'll be making some more once I'm back home from PRI.
Day 403 I see my photos from earlier post have screwed up, that will be fun to fix. What's been going on So, been extremely busy still....
:) its the hammer of Thor from the marvel movies, i just did it for fun and to test out our new 3D printers capabilities of creating tooling and...
thank you and we can but i can't give you rough idea of cost without seeing the castings. I can pretty much guarantee it wont be less than a...
Day 283 Monday July 30, 2012 Quick update, i have to get out of here but I'm cutting a blower :) [IMG]...
No manifolds yet, sorry. but, as soon as we get our 3D scanner you will probably start seeing a lot of manifolds pop up on our product list.
We actually had a guy contact us a few months ago that was selling some old tooling for a blower made in the 30-50's for a modified ford running a...
For those of you who have been following my blower build thread, you probably have seen me comment that we have been in business since 47'. Well,...
Can you guys help me identify this car? We were going through some old photos of the shop and this is the oldest one we could find. The white...
You have no idea how cool I find it that SoCal just commented on my thread and recognized my work :)
Not A problem I know, now that im home and not completely worn out, all im thinking about is going back to work to get them done :).
Day 280 Friday July 27, 2012 "So Close" Im trying my hardest to get this thing done, next week i might be put on making another fixture for...
Day 278 Wednesday July 25, 2012 Didn't get much done yesterday or today, was working on some other jobs. Today i got 2 of the 4 key ways cut to...
I make youtube videos, this isn't my first time getting flak from someone :). I try to look at things in the other persons shoes, i read up on you...
Day 276 Monday, July 23, 2012 Back on the blower finally, our lathe free'd up about a week and a half ago and we finished up all the fixture...
If its made from metal we can pretty much make it, preferably aluminum :). One thing i would want to make sure of before doing something like that...
I'm sorry you don't like my thread, I don't really remember what it is your quoting exactly, if you could give me a post # i can get a better idea...
ya, we are lucky enough to have a foundry that does green sand, air-set, permanent mold and die cast so if our machine shop gets slow we can throw...
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