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KeithTurk
January 2nd, 2008, 12:27 AM
When we were down in Australia... I was amazed at how comfortable everyone was with having small parts made by the local foundry's ... or doing thier own foundry work...

Anyone here knowledgeable? I'm somewhat fasinated with the subject..

Thanks

Keith
biginch
January 2nd, 2008, 02:10 AM
have you seen this?

http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block1.html
KeithTurk
January 2nd, 2008, 02:26 AM
Virtually double the original Hp of the Healey engine... What a cool series of pic's... and that's freaking classic in Australia... I watched a guy build a brand new Vincent Engine...

K
BlackoutSteve
January 2nd, 2008, 04:10 AM
..Or you could buy a 5-axis cnc..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o
BlackoutSteve
January 2nd, 2008, 04:21 AM
have you seen this?

http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block1.html


http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block2.html
http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block3.html
http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block4.html
http://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/block5.html
;)
BBR
January 2nd, 2008, 06:14 AM
I had a local foundry cast some adapter plates out of aluminum one time. Seemed pretty reasonable price-wise when I did it. I sent them the dimensions and they made the pattern, cast them and shipped the rough castings to me.
DanStokes
January 2nd, 2008, 09:17 AM
We did aluminum casting in HS shop class. It was WAY COOL (after it was way hot). We all had foot-shaped gas pedals after that section. Wish I knew where mine went. We learned a LOT about spacing riser holes and so on, but mostly by trial and error. I know that there's a whole science to that stuff.

Dan
Ron Ward
January 2nd, 2008, 10:21 AM
Kansas State University offers a course called "Production Processes" which is basically a shop class. Students learn casting, heat treating and machining (milling, turning, broaching, etc) with hands-on experience. I still have the shop vise I manufactured 25 years ago in that class. I wish I had all that equipment at my disposal today!

Ron
squirrel
January 2nd, 2008, 10:29 AM
When I took AME 212 (production engineering) we only got to use a lathe and mill, no casting or heat treating. Although we did some heat treating in high school shop class, the putty knife I made is long gone...but I still have my lathe wrench from that class, and my center punch from the college course.
BBR
January 2nd, 2008, 11:30 AM
Kansas State University offers a course called "Production Processes" which is basically a shop class. Students learn casting, heat treating and machining (milling, turning, broaching, etc) with hands-on experience. I still have the shop vise I manufactured 25 years ago in that class. I wish I had all that equipment at my disposal today!

Ron


We had machine shop, pattern making and foundry, welding, etc at Tarleton State University. I remember having a hard time coming up with ideas for projects back then. ::) Man, to have that killer equip today would be killer!
PackardV8
January 2nd, 2008, 11:32 AM
I spent some time in a steel foundry. Between the EPA restrictions and the union overhead, it was cost prohibitive to even consider short production runs. Aluminum is easier and less expensive, but if you check, many/most of our aftermarket heads and intakes these days are coming from Mexico and China.

There are fewer and fewer forged aluminum piston companies still surviving, still made in USA. Too many of us shop just the catalogs and just the lowest price.

thnx, jv.
ADV1
January 2nd, 2008, 11:47 AM
I sell high end CNC equipment as some manual stuff as well if any of you are interested! ;D Hey, I would'nt be a good salesman if I didn't try!!! ;)
Eric68
January 2nd, 2008, 02:22 PM
Very cool pics Steve. Thanks.

I like unique stuff like that Healy engine, but man, that is an aweful lot of time and $$s for a 3.8L 290 HP engine!
BlackoutSteve
January 2nd, 2008, 04:25 PM
Don't thank me, thank BigInch.

Yeah I saw the $6000 cylinder head price and figured the block would have to be at least $10.
All that money for 300hp.
Lucky I don't care for healys. I'd be broke and slow.
KeithTurk
January 2nd, 2008, 06:01 PM
ahhhhhh... But Steve... if it wasn't for Donald Healey getting in the Bonneville 2 club in 1956 you would have never heard of me... sooooo HEY... them Healey's aint' that bad... and oh... not many cars are better looking....

They may not be fast... but they are the ultimate panty droppers...

Keith
BlackoutSteve
January 2nd, 2008, 06:30 PM
Healys.. Panty droppers.. Really? C'mon..

I must admit I've never seen anything but old-English-types drive them. You know.. tartan cap, goggles, gloves... Never seen a woman in one of those who's panties I'd like to see dropped anyway!

Exotic cars like Porsches, Ferraris, Maseratis, even the odd muscle car, sure, but Healys?
KeithTurk
January 2nd, 2008, 07:42 PM
You live in Australia... trust me on this one...

Most places in the world the criminals are both Male AND female... and females dig Healey's... don't know why... guys don't get them but Chicks dig um....

Now on to Forgings... LOL

K
squirrel
January 2nd, 2008, 07:52 PM
forgings....foundries....take a look at the Master Hands movie, this thread got me thinking about it
Scott Liggett
January 2nd, 2008, 07:59 PM
I don't know much about foundries, but this is one that was built in the 1850's, then was drowned in the 1930's. The Army Corps of Engineers dammed up the Osage Creek in central Missouri to create the Lake of the Ozarks. This is what is still visible above water, the top of the iron smelter. It's near my Uncle's place on the lake. As you can see some schmuck stuck his satellite dish on it.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l266/rebeldryver/OldIronSmelter.jpg