On Wednesday 17 August 2016 05:29:37 andy pugh wrote: > On 16 August 2016 at 23:49, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > The local casting shop seems to be using machined alu forms, and I > > have seen no evidence they can take a pattern & do all the work to > > make it sand castable. I haven't toured the whole place, so I've not > > seen the furnace, just the casting finishing. Wheels hubs for IH & > > I believe White truck tractors. > > They are probably using match-plate patterns in a continuous line and > won't be wanting to do one-offs. > > However, for any foundry using cope-and-drag there is no difference > between making 1 and making 100, the process per casting is identical. > > Some possibilities here: > http://wiki.vintagemachinery.org/FoundrySources.ashx
Marked, although only the last listed site worked today. Do they have a NRE fee for onesies & twosies? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
