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Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW |
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Sunworshipper wrote:
Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ I hang here to learn from those with more experience . -- Snag Learning keeps you young ! |
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 20:36:23 -0500, "Snag"
wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ I hang here to learn from those with more experience . They flooded my email when I had that option turned off. There is another one and they won't let me play. SW |
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Sunworshipper wrote:
On Sun, 15 May 2011 20:36:23 -0500, "Snag" wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ I hang here to learn from those with more experience . They flooded my email when I had that option turned off. There is another one and they won't let me play. SW You should be able to select a digest option that'll send 'em all in one ortwo "digests" per day . Dunno what you read email with , I use OE and have multiple inboxes set up , one for each email list I read . Makes it easy to ignore one if I'm too busy right now to read ... Can't imagine why a list wouldn't let you play . -- Snag Learning keeps you young ! |
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On Mon, 16 May 2011 05:52:39 -0500, "Snag"
wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 20:36:23 -0500, "Snag" wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ I hang here to learn from those with more experience . They flooded my email when I had that option turned off. There is another one and they won't let me play. SW You should be able to select a digest option that'll send 'em all in one ortwo "digests" per day . Dunno what you read email with , I use OE and have multiple inboxes set up , one for each email list I read . Makes it easy to ignore one if I'm too busy right now to read ... Can't imagine why a list wouldn't let you play . I've basically given up on yeh hoo groups. The other one, I filled out the request for invite and never got a response. I read a whole bunch, but learned more from videos. Rejection isn't anything new to me, the last two years of high school I lived alone and worked most of my life alone. Need to ask around for waist veggy oil, maybe that would be easier to work with. But, that might have even more waist sludge that needs disposal. Could burn it in the fire pit, but thinking it will burn forever and hot, thus cracking the cool rocks around it. Kinda at a stand still till I find more parts and work out the next direction. I need a junk yard type place to buy stuff from cheap. Finding just scrap steel to weld together is a task. I just keep thinking about running out of stuff to build stuff because everybody is broke and it disappears to the recycling scrap yards. Know of a place to buy crucibles at? Always have trouble coming up with search terms for sale. Buy, sale, cost, price, store, cart,... Probably not buy one but would like to know what they cost for larger ones. SW |
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Sunworshipper wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2011 05:52:39 -0500, "Snag" wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 20:36:23 -0500, "Snag" wrote: Sunworshipper wrote: Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/castinghobby/ I hang here to learn from those with more experience . They flooded my email when I had that option turned off. There is another one and they won't let me play. SW You should be able to select a digest option that'll send 'em all in one ortwo "digests" per day . Dunno what you read email with , I use OE and have multiple inboxes set up , one for each email list I read . Makes it easy to ignore one if I'm too busy right now to read ... Can't imagine why a list wouldn't let you play . I've basically given up on yeh hoo groups. The other one, I filled out the request for invite and never got a response. I read a whole bunch, but learned more from videos. Rejection isn't anything new to me, the last two years of high school I lived alone and worked most of my life alone. There's one forum , lemmee see ... http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/forums/ that I had to email a specific dude to get activated - that may be the one you're talking about , maybe not . Lotsa good info out there . Need to ask around for waist veggy oil, maybe that would be easier to work with. But, that might have even more waist sludge that needs disposal. Could burn it in the fire pit, but thinking it will burn forever and hot, thus cracking the cool rocks around it. Kinda at a stand still till I find more parts and work out the next direction. I need a junk yard type place to buy stuff from cheap. Finding just scrap steel to weld together is a task. I just keep thinking about running out of stuff to build stuff because everybody is broke and it disappears to the recycling scrap yards. Heh , one of my neighbors is a part-time scrapper and he often gives me first pick . He knows what I want , and I give him just a bit above the recyclers . Know of a place to buy crucibles at? Always have trouble coming up with search terms for sale. Buy, sale, cost, price, store, cart,... Probably not buy one but would like to know what they cost for larger ones. SW Check out Legend Inc. in Sparks Nevada . I make my own ... for aluminum a piece of steel pipe/tubing a couple inches smaller than the ID of your furnace with a plate welded on for a bottom works well . Length to suit your needs ... those short fat propane cylinders make a halfway decent one for about 25-30 melts . Burner erodes them if you're not careful . My current ones include one of 11ga 4" square tube , 4" dia steel tube (short one) and a couple of small slip-cast ceramics for brass. -- Snag Learning keeps you young ! |
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:32:13 -0500, Sunworshipper
SW@GWNTUNDRA wrote: Any ideas on filtering, storage, delivery, and waist disposal of used oil? Somehow, I need to keep the mess minimal. I'm thinking of making a ceramic stand for the crucible, will that work? Or making ceramic screens ? I need the pour clean or flaws will show up during machining. I built it big enough to do a large cast iron part in the future, but will stick to aluminum for the moment. SW =========== see http://www.lindsaybks.com/prod/sub/foundry.html the following are a few of those on this URL http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/chasoil/index.html http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks5/chalfur/index.html http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks7/chas1/index.html http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks8/chas2/index.html http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/cruc/index.html No connection with Lindsay except as a very satisfied customer. -- Unka George (George McDuffee) ............................... The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953). |
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