On 16 August 2016 at 23:49, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > The local casting shop seems to be using machined alu forms, and I have > seen no evidence they can take a pattern & do all the work to make it > sand castable. I haven't toured the whole place, so I've not seen the > furnace, just the casting finishing. Wheels hubs for IH & I believe > White truck tractors.
They are probably using match-plate patterns in a continuous line and won't be wanting to do one-offs. However, for any foundry using cope-and-drag there is no difference between making 1 and making 100, the process per casting is identical. Some possibilities here: http://wiki.vintagemachinery.org/FoundrySources.ashx -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users