Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California still does iron casting. https://knightfoundry.com/
On Sunday, January 23, 2022, 12:27:00 PM MST, Matthew Herd <herd.m...@gmail.com> wrote: Depending on size, I’d consider some “durabar” or similar continuously cast iron bar. I made a compound for my atlas lathe and several other items from it. A bit hard on tools but the parts have come out great. I prefer to use a face mill to machine the flat surfaces and then carbide tooling to finish it. If you have a three axis CNC mill it might not be much more time and maybe less money than a casting. I usually buy it from speedymetals.com. I recently did the foundry route for a large (300) batch of aluminum parts and the price was right but it took a long time and required I make up a pattern board with 10 printed patterns per mold. Still haven’t finished machining all 300 … but the castings came out nicely. I used cattail foundry near me in PA. I think it depends on the size and complexity of the part whether it’s worth getting it cast. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
