Metal casting

Though they have been refined through the ages, significant differences exist between the two methods used to make metal parts.

DIY Aluminium Melting: This is how you cast aluminium on a budget and a small timescale.

Mold making and casting allows you to make virtually ANY part you want. Learn what you need to get up and running without the headaches many DIY'ers face

Lost Foam Casting: In this project, I'll be showing a simple way to cast a raw model, of your desire, called "lost foam casting".Lost foam casting is based on styrofoam, as the material for your model. As an example, i'm going to make a small copy, of the instructable…

Brass Casting With Sand Cores: I have a friend who is in a vintage motorcycle club, and he sometimes asks me to cast parts for him which are no longer obtainable. This is the description of the casting an intake elbow, which had cracked and broken. It is a hollow casting, and I…

Melting Points of Various Metals

Pewter Casting: Pewter casting is easy and you probably already have most of the things you need to try it out. There are lots of ways to cast pewter, I'll be talking about three ways: using foundry casting sand, using silicone molds, and using cuttlebone. This Ins…

DIY Electric Foundry for Metal Casting (120V): We’ve been loving our Shapeoko CNC and have made some fun projects recently. One thing we need to improve on is nesting designs to minimize waste. In order to reuse the scrap aluminum, we made this electric foundry to melt scraps into an ingot that …

I thought vacuum metal casting would require a giant rig the size of my car, or that jewelry casting machine that can only do tiny parts like rings. Turns out it's both cheap and easy to build one for your application! DavidF from AlloyAvenue forums was nice enough to share the details.All that's required is a trip to a steel yard to get a pipe and a base plate. I also got a barbed fitting (MPT) to connect to my vacuum pump. After drilling a hole in the large steel pipe I threaded it with an…

Andrea Salvetti, sculptor, designer, culinary performer, he was above all an artist inspired by the same source: Nature.