Metal Casting

The process of Zcast fast metal molding can produce molded metal parts from a CAD file in a much faster and less expensive than the methods of traditional prototype casting. This process allows printing molds and cores directly to a printer from 3D digital data and thus eliminate the step of producing a model and a box core, necessary in the traditional process of molding sand. [Read more →]

At last I have managed to take some half-decent pictures of the metalwork hanging. (I only posted detail shots in my previous post as the full shots were blurred.) Here’s the full view.
I’ve cut up several more cans and am planning more in this vein. Must try and find

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I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. —2 Corinthians 12:8

I have an unmarried friend who prays earnestly for God to lessen or even remove his sexual drive. It causes him constant temptation. As gently as I can, I tell him I doubt that God will answer his prayer the way he wants. More likely, he will learn fidelity the way anyone learns it, by relying on discipline, community, and constant pleas of dependence.

For whatever reason, God has let
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The most recent addition to our line of copper pyramid fence post caps is a new size for a full 6×6 fence cap, usually an unfinished cedar post.
Measuring 6 1/8" inches square, this new size is a snug fit on 6×6 posts. As with all our fence post caps, this is made of solid copper with a 3/4" lip and pre-drilled mounting holes and is supplied with beautiful solid copper rosehead nails.

For more information, visit our copper fence post caps page.

The inside of the kilnThis weekend, as I started designing my Argentine-inspired pieces, I thought about how the shapes seemed so simple and basic. Uncomplicated, yes, perhaps even rudimentary. Yet they have a subtle sophistication that never seems to go out of style. My "Primitive Chic" approach to jewelry. The roots of these designs can be traced back to ancient Peruvian and Bolivian metallurgy where form followed function and mysticism manifested meaning. In other words, fundamental beliefs and elementary mores that drive a culture.

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What do you do with the scrap metal you find? Throw it in the hedge or down rabbit holes? You’ve taken the time and trouble to dig it up so why not collect it and sell it?

I recently sold the scrap metal I had collected over the past couple of years:
13kg Aluminium £6.50
27kg Mixed Brass £19.00
35kg Lead £10.50
TOTAL £36.00

And metal prices are increasing.
There’s two other reasons for not throwing scrap away:
You might throw something historically or intrinsically valuable away - gold torcs have been mistaken for bits of brass bedsteads and thrown in hedges.
You might end up having to dig it all up again.

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Minerals containing aluminium are very difficult to decompose. In 1825, a Danish scientist H.C.Oersted discovered that metallic potassium could be used to chemically reduce aluminium from one of its compounds. The cost of aluminium in the very early days was around 250.00 English pounds per kilo to produce, much more than gold.

Even Napoleon was reported to have been privileged to use Aluminium knives and forks when eating. French nobility had to be content with silver or gold tableware?

Metallurgists, Hall (America) & Heroult, (France) discovered the process for extracting aluminium from the ore of bauxite in the year of 1886, but the metal remained an expensive commodity until the beginning of the 1900s.

The first & second world wars, saw a huge demand for this strong, light & versatile metal, particularly in the manufacture of aircraft. Modern technology has pushed the annual production of Al second only to iron in world production terms.

The ore of aluminium is called bauxite, it contains aluminium oxide Al203. Bauxite ore itself cannot be reduced to metal by heating it with coke as with cast iron, for the simple reason that Al atoms are too firmly combined with oxygen atoms to be detached by carbon.

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Resistance for gold is at $935, indicator showing sell signal.

Shorted 1 lot of gold at 932.50.
Place a GTC stop at $937
Target level at $922
Value of 1 point is US$100

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Press and Shear Machinery has taken over the marketing in the UK of Italian-built Technocut water jet cutting and profiling systems from CMS metal casting.

Nottingham-based CMS, whose Italian parent group includes Technocut, a company that designs and manufactures water jet cutting systems, has appointed Press and Shear Machinery to market this product range in the UK. It will leave CMS free to concentrate on marketing the group’s machining centres for 5-axis profiling of non-ferrous materials.
 

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Ornamental Metal Working is the craft and practice of working with metals to create decorative parts or structures. The work generally covers decorative matters, show pieces and jwelleries. It therefore includes a correspondingly wide range of skills and the usage of many different types of tools. As per Ornamental Metal Work, milling of metals is generally done on a milling machine.

It is a power-driven machine used for the complex shaping of metal parts, by removing extra material to

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