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[icyuod2]

a budy of mine works at a local foundary. they make giant turbines,parts of jet engines etc etc. with the large castings they work with, theres a large amount of waste metal poured each time they do a casting.
a couple months back we got to talking about casting cool stuff with the surplus. basicly my budy is making a second mold in the bottom of the molds.
the molten metals need channels to pour off/prevent air getting trapped etc etc. so he's using that to our advantage to fill our molds.

with all the halloween stuff in the stores, he picked up a couple foam/plastic skulls. (i'd asked about pouring alum. skulls for some of my bike projects.)
anyhoo, the other day he showed up with this. it needs to be cleaned, but its going on the front of my burrito.
was a total surprize and i'm stoked. it opens up a world of possiblities as for as custom bikes go.

anybody else casting metals? (be it work or hobby)

 

[Gold Street Customs]

I would love to get back into it, I did it in High School and just the possabilities of what can be made. we made all of our patterns in wood shop....oh the memories 8)

 

[Chainsaw]

Gotavan Dan and his family do castings. He's got some pretty cool tuff. He does a lot for the old vans and takes them to swap meets and such. He also occassionaly sells his stuff on ebay, but I can't remember what he sells under. Give him a shout and he'll get back with ya.

 

[gotavan]

I do some castings in my Dads garage, my kids do some of the work, pouring aluminum started doing this stuff in 1984. Mostly do pedal tractor parts, and steam engine parts.

the devil head is from a halloween candy tube.

fordson has 24 individual castings plus the shafts cranks sprocketts etc.

grandaughter on Fordson no pedals on this one, my cousin made the patterns out of wood.

 

[user 135]

Dan, That is very cool. How about some RatRod bike Headbadges?

 

[Bicyclerick]

I would buy some.

 

[icyuod2]

oh man, those are so friggin cool. the fordson is top notch. how long did it take to make those? (start to finish-pattern to paint)
halloween just rocks for rats, cant wait to get this on the burrito and start planning the next assult on the foundry.

btw i'm down for some rat rod badges also, sign me up for a couple/few.

 

[elvis51]

oh man i would so buy some ratrodbikes.com head badges!!! please lemme know if anything happens with that!!! very cool fordson

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