One Day Foundry - For Casting Aluminum

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As a challenge to myself I decided to make a very simple foundry setup for melting and casting aluminum. I have a larger more involved equipment but I thought it would be interesting to revisit some of the methods I used for my first castings. I also wanted to explore some new ideas I had for setting up a simple aluminum foundry.

It is a lot of little tools that make up one big tool, a foundry. The sample part I cast in the video is a Gingery lathe part (compound slide).

The project page is here: One Day Foundry - For Casting Aluminum


Below is a picture of the parts/tools I started with and the project video.