Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual For the Small Foundry - Vol.1
This book is a "Must Have" for the fledging Foundryman. Gives you practical details on getting started including:
Click Here for the Table of Contents (Acrobat .pdf format, 1.4 Meg)
"Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual For the Small Foundry - Vol.2"
Steve's Done it Again!:
This is Volume 2 of Chastain's Small Foundry Series. This book takes up where Volume 1 left off. You will learn a lot of technical stuff about the metallurgy of aluminum, brass / bronze, and iron. Don't let the material science scare you off, because the second part of the book is solid how to. Steve will tell you about gating, risers and feeding & pattern making. The last chapters show you how to make pistons, piston rings, cylinders, heads and take you on a tour of how the big boys in Detroit did it.
Dump the Daisies from your wife's flower pot and get down to business casting metal! Lionel gives you the details on how to build a simple, practical furnace at rock bottom cost.
Here's all the basics that you will need to get started. Walks you thru making a flask, ramming up the cope and drag, how to roll the flask, using parting dust properly, foundry tools, making patterns and pouring for producing castings right in your backyard. Clearly illustrated.
Check out Lionel's great web site while you are there: http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com
"Build an Oil-Fired Tilting Furnace" - Written and Illustrated by Steve Chastain, 2002. ISBN 0-9702203-1-6 192 Pages
Also Check out: Table of Contents Page 1 & Table of Contents Page 2
This is the latest from the prolific workshop of Steve Chastain. Build this Oil Fired Tilting furnace and you will be casting new Knuckle Heads for your mother-in-laws '39 Hard-Tail Harley in no time!
This well written book will not only show you how to make the furnace, but also how to build the centrifugal fan, an oil feed tank, an oil refueling tank and pitot tube manometer unit. All the gear necessary to efficiently run your new rig. Being oil fired it is also lot cheaper to run than a propane unit because you can use low cost or free used motor oil. It also runs quieter than a propane fired furnace.
Steve isn't satisfied with just showing you how to build it, he also gives you the technical details behind the design, in practical terms. You would need access to an engineering library to find as much information as this book has in one place. Numerous clear photos and sketches illustrate the concepts and construction.
Available directly from the author:
Steve Chastain 2925 Mandarin Meadows Dr. Jacksonville, FL 32223email: Stevechastain@hotmail.com
Price is $19.95 + $1.85 for U.S. postage, ($2.25 to Canada). Or check it out at Lindsay Publications: http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks5/chalfur/index.html
"Iron Melting Cupola Furnaces for the Small Foundry" - By Steve Chastain 2000. ISBN 0-9702203-0-8. 127 Pages.
Here's a complete design for a high performance cupola furnace that will melt over 300 pounds of iron per hour, even when powered by a shop-vac blower! Build the high performance blower and you can easily double that amount! All can be built for little cost, mostly from scrap. This is the perfect accessory for your Gingery Machine Shop!
Steve Chastain has written a book that will show you to how build a 10 inch unit of your own. But he has also given you the tools to create a cupola of your own design to meet any need. Scale it up or down!
Steve explains not only how to build a cupola, but also describes the design and fabrication of centrifugal fans and Pitot Tube Manometers. These accessories will really help with your iron works!
email: Stevechastain@hotmail.com
Price is $19.95 + $1.85 for U.S. postage, ($2.25 to Canada).
Lindsay Publications:
An excellent source of books is Lindsay Publications: http://www.lindsaybks.com They have a series of books by a fellow named Dave Gingery on making your own furnace and using it to make castings for building a complete machine shop. They also have numerous other books on cupolas, pattern making, sand casting, lost wax, etc.
"Building A Gas Fired Crucible Furnace" - David J. Gingery; Lindsay Publications, 1988; ISBN 0-9604330-7-4
How to build a gas fired (natural or propane) to melt metals from (A)luminum to (Z)inc. This will be my next furnace!
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
"Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap, #1 - The Charcoal foundry" - David J. Gingery; Lindsay Publications, 1983; ISBN 1-878087-002
"Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap, #1 - The Charcoal foundry"
- David J. Gingery; Lindsay Publications, 1983; ISBN 1-878087-002
A really low cost design that can melt all metals. Includes a good introduction to all aspects of metal foundry practice. A must read for newcomers.
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
"Core Making 1940" - Elmer F. Scott; Reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc., 1994; ISBN 1-55918-141-9
A detailed book on making sand cores. Useful for both the hobbyist and professional shop.
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
"Wood Pattern Making" - Herbert J McCaslin; Reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc., 1997; ISBN 1-55918-205-9
Complete text on wood pattern making for sand casting. Text book style including exercises in practical pattern creation.
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
"How To Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts, 2nd Edition" - William A. Cannon; Tab Books, 1986; ISBN 0-8306-0414-6
This book is devoted to sand casting equipment, materials and techniques for the first half. The second half is an excellent study of casting rubber parts using Devcon Flexane Polyurethane's. Focused on automotive restoration parts.
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
"Ornamental Metal Casting" - R.E. Whitmoyer:, Lindsay Publications, 1986: ISBN 0-917014-43-0
This book has 2 parts. The first describes the building of an inexpensive charcoal fired crucible furnace. It then tells how to make a steel crucible and pouring tongs.
The second part is devoted primarily to ornamental sand casting. There are short descriptions of using plaster of Paris molds, and lost wax casting. Several projects are detailed such as wall plaques, a sundial, penny bank replicas, and solid figurines.
Available from: http://www.lindsaybks.com
(Detecting a bit of a trend here? Honest, I swear Lindsay is NOT my uncle!!)
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