Railway Bob's Foundry & Burner Construction

When considering fabricating a pouring shank for my A8 crucible, I thought that a 1" slice of of 6"x 1/4" OD round tube would...

Roger H asked if I had any tips and tricks on making "angular" sand cores.  Not every sand core is going to be in a straight paral...

Over the Christmas holidays of 2011, I picked up some 3/4" square tubing at Superior Metals and cut it up into bits and pieces to make ...

Been thinking about how I would go about building my backyard foundry.  Starting with Dave Gingery's book on "Building A Gas-Fired ...

One of the tricks-of-the-trade I learned with the Sodium Silicate/ CO2 experience was a better way to make core boxes.  My first attempts ...

Sand, when mixed with the correct ratio of sodium silicate, rammed into a core box, and then exposed to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), will result ...

Patterns are usually made of wood and finished with smooth painted surfaces.  In addition to providing a smooth finished surface that allows...