Our Baron's car club was discussing getting plaques cast by an outside company. It occured to me that it would be more symbolic for us to heat old aluminium and pour it in sand molds and drink beer. (kind of like a pagan ritual). . . . oh yeah and heavy drum beats. Virgins? But can't seem to find the thread that relates to it.
Google sand castings and you will find all kinds of information. The hardest part is you have to figure how many beers are needed per casting.
I did a quick search and found this... There are several links in this thread.HRP http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/sand-casting.872128/#post-9617421
We had a couple of plaque casting nights (winter is good), and used an LPG fired furnace made from a 20ltr drum. Everyone bought over some bits of old cast ally (lawnmowers and the like) . We had a mould made from MDF, then varnished and powdered. Used sand with bentonite added in the mould, and kept the beer drinking until AFTER the last pour! I did a casting course at a local night TAFE college, learned a lot and cast some neat things too!
Here is the thread you need! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...ast-aluminum-car-club-plaques-at-home.380026/
just be damn careful, watch some videos, casting is not to be "played" with, could turn crazy dangerous in a blink.
Thankyou gentlemen. Would I be correct to ***ume that melting Toyota parts into club plaques would indeed be Hamb friendly?
and yes I did see a do***entary about the Twin Towers explaining that the molten aluminium of the jet likely incubated in the perfect smelter encased in asbestos and debrie and the possibility that a fire hydrant dousing it caused a mega explosion. Molten aluminium + water= bomb.
WHAT BETTER WAY TO GET RID OF OLD BEER CANS, AND THE ALUMINUM WOULD BE CLEANER, JUST BE SURE THEY ARE COMPLETELY DRY
There are some good videos on You Tube from "The King of Random" on making a mini metal foundry and casting aluminum. Don't forget your face shield and also remember moisture and hot metal don't mix.
do not use old beer cans or drink cans way to much trouble and slag use old pistons, transmissions, ect it ain't worth the effort to melt down alu cans ask me how I know.............
If you are going to do your own, use bits of ally that were cast originally. You can throw a few extrusions, cans, etc, in there, but the old cast stuff seems to mix in better. When water is added to molten ally (660=degreesC), it will expand instantly and explode. All implements which are to go in the molten mix should be pre-heated (dried). Leather Apron, gauntlets or welding gloves, face shield, common sense is all needed. When people meat cooks, it smells just like pork.
King of random can teach you a ton of things, and yes a lot about casting. Cans.... yeah the lables are a lot of slag. BUT if you have a bunch of them around you can make youself a handfull of ingots and the use them at a later date to make your plaques. Its going to take a LOT of beer to make a plaque. An as all said.... day of foundry work... no beers till done
A bit of trivia for you - do you know why the charity collects can tabs and not whole cans? Because the tabs are pure aluminum and the cans (with ink applied) are not. As the lieutenant always said "Be careful out there!"
Just had a local aluminum foundry cast up 20 club plaques. I have been dealing with them for a long time, so I got what I think is a deal.....$15.00 each. They turned out real nice.
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