tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78292083143938681842024-03-05T15:11:28.039-06:00The Inebriated EngineerInebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-8299521148720073892016-02-09T20:58:00.002-06:002016-02-09T20:59:57.192-06:00Painting Over the Past<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sometimes it's easier than you think. I've had this Shoei X-11 helmet since near the end of my crotch rocket days. It really has been one of my favorite helmets. I have never had a helmet as light, comfortable, and with as great air flow as this one. The problem is... well it doesn't quite fit my style any longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I had lunch the other day with a friend of mine who loves Plasti-Dip. No, really. He's used it to paint numerous things including his jet ski. He also painted his car. I don't just mean his wheels, I mean he painted his entire Honda S2000 with Plasti-Dip chameleon kaleidoscope! Well I figured if he was comfortable enough to do his car, I'd be willing to give it a try on something... just not quite my car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I started by wiping it down really well with alcohol... the rubbing kind, not the drinking kind... then taped over all the plastic pieces and trim. (The picture above.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After letting it dry for a couple of days, I then proceeded to peel off the masking tape. This was really the only part I had trouble with. Since it creates a rubbery skin over everything, removing the tape tends to want to remove ALL of the Plasti-Dip, kinda like peeling a sunburn.</span></div>
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Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-8583593850464854072015-11-06T11:10:00.001-06:002015-11-06T11:48:41.164-06:00"If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?"<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hell no, Ma! I'd find a much higher bridge and show them how it's really done!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So here's a rare video actually showing my ugly mug. Albeit more than a decade ago. I'd like to say this i<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">s from when I was much younger an<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">d </span></span>dumber, but we both know only one of those is true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you follow me on Instagram<a class="ig-b- ig-b-48" href="http://instagram.com/inebriatedengineer?ref=badge" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Instagram" src="//badges.instagram.com/static/images/ig-badge-48.png" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, you'd know I was jamming out to Richard Cheese last night. That reminded me of this old video and... well, here you go.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I swear, th<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">is</span> cliff at Lake Georgetown seemed much higher 10 years ago. Actually, a math nerd friend of mine calculated the height based on the free fall time (remember ol' d = v<sub>i</sub> • t + ½ • a • t<sup>2</sup> from your college days?). It came out to just about 60 feet but it certainly felt higher at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So the back s<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">tory is<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">:</span> we were <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">out on the jet skis<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> a</span>nd<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, yes<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, there was a<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">lcohol involved. </span></span>The lake level <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">was way down but</span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> saw some high school kids jumping off a cliff about halfway up the southeastern shor<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">e</span>.</span></span></span> I thought, "I can do that!" so I had my buddy hold my ski and swam ashore. After hi<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">king up the path I thought led to <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the middle le<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dge</span></span>, I couldn't find the opening that le<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">d to the water</span>. I kept foll<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">owing the path and soon realize I was at the very top.</span></span> Well, I wasn't going to wal<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">k back do<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">wn so... "Weeee! ... Ow<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">w!!"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I ended up taking the Motorcycle Safety Class that weekend instead and got my 'M' license endorsement.<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Fast forwar<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">d to today and I have a gar<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">age full of motorcy<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">cles in various states of assembly. It's funny how one afternoon <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of nonsense </span>can change your interest<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">s <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">so drast<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ic<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ally.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Once back in familiar surroundings (i.e my driveway), she just wouldn't run right. Hard to start, when she did, would only run on choke.... all signs pointed to the carb. I was hesitant to tear into it as it had run so well before but, what to do? A rebuild was in order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ordered up the "Master" rebuild kit and printed out the instructions from S&S... let's see how bad we can mess this up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Actually, it wasn't quite that bad. With the instructions and parts diagrams, it came apart quite easily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When I took apart the cover for the accelerator pump... EWW! Not quite sure what the hell all that business is but it might be part of my problem! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know, I have an ultrasonic cleaner from one of my "other" hobbies, let's wash the bitch in that!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, before we go much further. I'd like to point out the back page of the book visible in the last pic. That certainly was not intentional. However, I found it quite amusing to see it upon writing this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you need an explanation, if you care, it is a book I was reading at the time. It happens to be Saki (a.k.a. H. H. Monroe) "The Chronicles of Clovis" that I picked up at a used book store a few week prior. Hilarious stories to me, probably not your thing.... </span><br />
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<br />Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-73379985784613159392015-08-21T11:29:00.002-05:002015-08-21T11:39:53.976-05:00The Hundo Club<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Welcome to the Hundo Club! No, this isn't more complaining about the 100+ temperatures. This is to celebrate a milestone! This post counts as my 100th post on this blog!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">To go with my newly revamped image as a social media maven (that's sarcasm, by the way), I thought I needed a few new logos. The first needed to be something simple that I could use in a few other projects geared at getting the word out about this place. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the few of you who stop by on occasion, but it'd be nice to reach more people than would fit in a mid size sedan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So for a start, how about some stickers. I fucking love stickers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(Photo stolen from Michael Connell Photography. Visit his <a href="http://galleries.michaelconnellphoto.com/">site</a>, especially his <a href="http://galleries.michaelconnellphoto.com/Events/Cars-and-Bikes">car and bike show</a> photos.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Not sure what else I'd use it for, like I said it was just for fun. Though, it has crossed my mind to do something nice for you, my </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">inaugural readership. Maybe some limited edition "Hundo Club" t-shirts? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Hold on, before you think I'm being way too generous, I know there are like three of you total. Seriously. Oh well, it was a thought.</span><br />
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</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-76229098906006740222015-08-17T16:38:00.002-05:002015-08-17T16:38:36.262-05:00Triple Digits, New Parts for Ginny, and Caroline goes on the Chopping Block.<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">No one wants to hear yet another person complaining about the triple digit temperatures here in Austin. It's hot, we get it. I am from Texas so I am "used" to these temperatures, but it doesn't mean it doesn't suck after more than a couple days. Not enough to want to leave Texas, but that's another story.<br />
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In the meantime, I have been up to my usual nonsense though not enough at any one time worth posting about. I have been working on another project as well (inside, where it's air conditioned) that is unrelated yet quite related to my usual stuff, but I'll post more on that later.<br />
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I've taken a couple weeks off of casting because no one, even I, wants to stand over a 1500*F furnace when it's still 100*F outside at 10PM. I am anxious to get back to that but not before the mercury drops a bit.<br />
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I have also worked in some time to get a few small things done on Ginny. Again, it's too hot even in the garage to get much done at one time but I have gotten several of the little things accomplished when I had a few minutes. Each was just a small item, most of which unworthy of an individual post so I've grouped them here.<br />
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I cleaned up the spark plug wiring as I mentioned in my previous post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I also was able to get the new throttle cables installed. This was something I tried to do before PMR but it seemed like the cables I ordered had just a hair too little free play to be able to get them them to seat. <span id="goog_1074753299"></span><span id="goog_1074753300"></span>After studying them for a little bit, I realized I could removed the spacer under the cable seats at the carburetor. </span><br />
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Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-80765378066678564842015-07-30T02:32:00.000-05:002015-07-30T02:57:05.011-05:00Dad's junk drawer saves the day again!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So when I brought home Caroline... (Have I mentioned that before? The 77's name is 'Caroline'.) When I brought her home... one thing that was apparent was that the handlebars weren't quite bolted down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I even cautioned my friends that helped me unload her, the bars were stripped, don't use them for leverage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Tonight I finally got a chance to look at them. I'd assumed the risers were stripped out but, upon closer inspection, they were just missing nuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So what to do now? </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh yeah, Dad's junk drawer! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not only did I find the nuts I needed, I found nylock nuts to fit! That's far better spec than I needed but will serve it's purpose well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dammit, thank you Dad. I miss you.</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-54780107533403745632015-07-29T22:02:00.000-05:002015-07-30T09:16:23.073-05:00Trying to revive that old spark....<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know it sounded like I made big promises when I made my 'ode' but... I've been busy with a shit ton of other projects. Maybe I'll post about those but... most likely not. You don't need to know about all the things I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anywho... I thought I'd probably get around to fixing the spark with ol' Ginny. If you may recall, my <a href="http://www.inebriatedengineer.com/2015/04/i-hate-kuryakyn-but-love-autozone-by-ih.html">last jaunt</a> involved a late night trip to Autozone and a purchase of a set of plug wires for a Honda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They were a bit over sized but some zip ties took care of that. They actually worked and I was happy. I intended to buy the popper cables the next morning but... that hangover sucked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Tonight I finally got around to it.... Took the previous cables, cut them to size.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Showing off her handiwork. That's the beautiful face I married!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And the finished product... I think they came out very good and am pleased with how well we both did. We'll definitely be looking out for the next date night at TechShop.</span><br />
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<br />Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-2038445198937179102015-07-10T01:21:00.000-05:002015-07-10T13:11:18.089-05:00Ode to Ginny<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Ginny, I'm sorry. I know I haven't been there for you lately. I know there are things you need. <br />
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I've been busy with... other things. But that's no excuse and I'm ready to make that right. <br />
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I'm... I'm ready to give you control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I want to help you keep clean. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I want to give you that "spark" back that I... no, no <i>WE</i>... both know you've been missing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">But most importantly, Ginny, I want to give to you all the small things you may not have missed but that I know you so desperately need. </span><br />
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</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-50331919504183614442015-07-04T18:42:00.000-05:002015-07-08T18:47:07.335-05:00Back from the Show Class Magazine Release party.<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So I just got back from the <a href="http://www.showclassmag.com/">Show Class Magazine</a> release party at the lost well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I was literally planning to subscribe last week when I happened to hear about the party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'd never been to Lost Well (or even when it was Love Joy's) but I figured what the heck. I put on my standard plaid button up shirt (inside joke) and jumped in the cager. (One of these days I'll stop obsessing over casting and finish the last couple of things on Ginny.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When I showed up, I wasn't exactly sure I was in the right place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Granted it was only 3:25pm so I didn't expect the place to be hopping just yet. So, being that it was a bar, I ventured in to at least have a beer while things picked up. Inside I was greeted with several familiar, friendly faces which was a relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Outside, in the patio area, I was greeted by several more including the Great White Bison. If you haven't been to his <a href="http://www.thegreatwhitebison.com/">website</a>, you definitely need to check him out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, I picked up some pretty cool stuff including the current, Texas issue of SCM as well the previous two issues. You know I couldn't pass up the coozie and t-shirt as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I also grabbed a copy of <a href="http://www.thegreatwhitebison.com/new-products">volume one</a> of Bison's book for <a href="http://www.michaelconnellphoto.com/">Mike</a> (I'm told volume two comes out next month!) as well as one of his shirts for Mrs. IE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It was a great afternoon. Now it's time to blow some stuff up! Happy 4th everybody!</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-17235337916253666612015-07-04T14:13:00.000-05:002015-07-08T18:45:08.363-05:00Happy Independence Day, everyone!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"WARNING - EXPLOSIVE" Those words just warm my heart. And it's not because I just almost set myself on fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ain't America great.</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-43850858046853987592015-07-02T09:35:00.000-05:002015-07-17T14:35:43.537-05:00The Tale of Mr. Blister and the Half Assed Bear<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yeah, I don't know what the title means either. Read on and maybe we'll both figure out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">While I don't quite hate him at the moment, I wouldn't say we're friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Still building off my lack of complete failure the last go round, I decided to try the bear once again. I stuck with my method of making the internal portion separately as a "core", however, I decided not to shift the pattern. I still don't have a good solution for how to accomplish (or how to avoid) digging the runners in the cope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Though, the more I look at it, the parts on the '77 are pretty nice. I might go the other direction and use parts from Ginny to rebuild her. No, no... I'm sorry dear, I didn't mean it!! You're still my favorite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Of course it caught my sick and twisted attention and I had to take picture. I did, however, manage to talk myself out of buying them. Though at $6.99 it was quite a deal! There were even a couple of Ken dolls in there, if you're into that sort of thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I ran into several people I knew from swap meets, PMR, and the Harvest Classic. As always, it was fun to hang out, have a few drinks, and look at bikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Mike is the professional photographer so I won't waste much bandwidth with my pics here, but below are a few that caught my eye. Check out Mike's site (<a href="http://galleries.michaelconnellphoto.com/Events/Cars-and-Bikes/East-Side-Classic-2015/">link</a>) for a much better a much better gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There were a couple of existing problems with my casting process that I wanted to address so </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I grabbed my go-to test patterns: the OF keychains. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The first issue I to look at was the separation I keep getting between the layer of fresh versus used Petrobond. If I didn't mention it before, I use new/fresh PB against the patterns with the belief it will help me get a better mold face. I then back that up with used PB just because I can't afford to use all fresh for a mold. One of these days I need to figure out how to reclaim and refresh this stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">To try and fix the separation between the new and old, first, I rammed the new layer of PB into the flask. Then, using a pointy wire, I scratched up the back surface of the PB to make a sub-layer of loose PB for the older stuff to mix with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yeah, that didn't work for shit. As soon as I flipped the drag, most of one corner flaked off and fell on the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Not a total loss so, I kept going.... I'd also been having problems with sections around the parting line in the cope falling off and becoming a part of the drag. I've since learned (thanks to the great info on the Kansas Brass Foundry <a href="https://www.kansasbrass.com/KBF.php">website</a>) that it is usually an indicator that the parting line isn't quite at the right spot. That is certainly the case most of the time with the bear, but these keychains are so thin, I think it's that I'm overdoing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">For this round, I was very meticulous about getting them as close to halfway as possible and also very, very even and level. The result was a nice set of clean parting lines in the cope half of the mold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">One final issue I wanted to investigate was the little imperfections I keep getting in the faces of my castings. I'm reasonably sure that it's the result of loose sand (and not parting dust) in the mold faces. Previously, I only removed the major chunks that broke loose but tried to leave the rest of molded surface alone. This time, though, I tried to be very thorough cleaning any loose sand that was in the mold faces. I did this with a soda straw and gently blew the dust out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In some cases, I wasn't quite so gentle and ended up blowing part of the pattern away. (Look at the Jar pattern in the bottom middle.) In other cases, I wasn't as thorough as I thought. (See the nugget near the bottom of the top left OF pattern? I didn't.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">First things first, I have no fucking clue where the third Jar pattern went. I think I didn't dig the gate to it well enough so no aluminum ever flowed in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">As for the patterns that did take, the surface finish was greatly improved but still not to the level I would like. So I'm on the right path, I think, just not there yet. Also, did you see the nugget in the top left pattern? I did, this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And one final thing, I didn't weigh down the flask... AGAIN. I didn't think I needed it since it was so large compared to the volume of the actual patterns. WRONG! I need to make that a mandatory step every time regardless of the pattern. The extra flashing isn't a huge deal, I can clean it up, but it would be nice to not have to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, still nothing I'm ready to show off to everyone as a finished product but... we're getting there, one mistake at a time.</span><br />
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Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-6966597568947463132015-06-18T23:28:00.000-05:002015-06-19T14:26:06.042-05:00My new work bench.<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I knew I was pushing my luck. Mrs. IE generally has a high level of tolerance towards my projects, (I'm lucky, I know) but I've been kicked out of the house. Not totally, at least yet, but my mold making operation has been banned indoors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Most of the pics you see with the dark counter top happens to be in our kitchen. I like working there. It's at a perfect height, the granite is solid, and is an ideal working surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I was being very careful and quite meticulous cleaning up after myself. However, the last time I neglected to wipe down the small bar shelf above the counter top. It didn't look bad but you could move anything that was in position at the time and see how much of a mess the molding sand and parting dust was really making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Mrs. IE did that... and showed me... and, alas, I'm relocating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">For now, here's my temporary work bench. </span>I took the opportunity to buy an outdoor storage cabinet (seen to the right in the pic). That'll be nice so that I don't have to move everything from the garage (on the other side of the house) to the backyard when I want to work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I plan to build something a bit more sturdy (and elsewhere in the yard) once I collect the appropriate scrap. The folding table was usable but not ideal. The green patio chair was nice to sit in while I worked. The blue chair... just happened to be there. I typically don't have company while I work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">You can also see one of my many Chaste trees in the background. While I hate constantly trimming them, they provide good visual cover as well as a bit of sound abatement from nosy neighbors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">They'll also provide sturdy support for my hammock once Mrs. IE bans the rest of my shenanigans (and myself) indoors. };-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Last week I was melting some junk aluminum (i.e. Lone Star cans) to replenish my stock. As happens when melting trash aluminum like that, it got to the point to where the crucible had a huge head of dross. This time though there wasn't as much pourable aluminum as I expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I pulled the crucible and, sure enough, I blew a hole in another one! I noticed a small glowing bit of aluminum in the bottom of my furnace. No biggie, I thought, I'll shut everything down, let it cool, and scoop it out next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Well, mistake number eleventy billion, it wasn't just a bit! When I went to fire up the furnace for tonight's mayhem, I couldn't even see the burner inlet! I'd melted enough aluminum that, once it solidified, it was at the top of the pipe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">That explains why I was going through so many cans but not getting any aluminum. They were "disappearing" faster than I could drink them. Actually, that last sentence explains why it got so bad before I noticed. (Yeah, well, don't judge. You are reading this blog and presumably saw the URL/title after all. Therefore you should expect this kind of nonsense.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So, before getting down to any melting tonight, I had the chore of removing my custom aluminum furnace liner. My first thought was to fire it up, let it melt, and then scoop but there was way too much aluminum for that. Plus, when it solidified, it ran back up the pipe so that was mostly plugged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Chiseling wouldn't work because it was way to thick and, even if it wasn't, I'd most likely destroy the refractory lining. Instead, I started off with an angle grinder to try and cut it in to pieces but that was quite unwieldy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then I switched to the power drill. I killed a few cheap drill bits trying to drill around the burner pipe but I eventually (2 hours later!) got the chunk of aluminum out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Finally, now it's time to get some real melting done. (With special attention paid to the crucible, of course.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-12542305600376204502015-06-13T14:10:00.000-05:002015-07-10T16:23:25.247-05:00I still hold a large amount of dislike for you, bear.<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As with any relationship, problems aren't just one of the party's fault. You both have to be willing to compromise and make changes. Either that or you must decide to give up and go your separate ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I'm not ready to give up on the bear just yet. I took a little "me" time to reflect following our last encounter. Time to think about what I could be doing that is contributing negatively to our relationship. When I came out of this time of reflection, I felt better prepared to face "our" problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><shudder> That got a little to real for a moment. I feel like I've had that conversation way to many times before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br />I say "core" in quotations because I wasn't making it like you would a proper core which would be from a separate, baked material. I had actually this before with several different recipes and had about as much success as I did with my greesand, that is: none. I think that's overkill for this project anyway but it is something I will certainly come back to on a project when required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">For this pattern I felt I could just mold one out of the Petrobond and dump it out like you would a sand castle. I used and excessive amount of parting dust, crammed it full of PB, and the first one came out quite nice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The only issue I had was with its legs which tended to break at the narrow portion when demolding. I've noticed this tendency before with this pattern so for the second attempt, I decided to try to reinforce the area lengthwise. A popsicle stick broken in half seemed to be almost the perfect length to make him some internal splints. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The problem, I discovered, was that they interfered with the ability to compact the surrounding area sufficiently. This led to the legs deteriorating even worse when dumped because it would crumble rather than be a clean break. So, in the end, I made it the same way as the first (i.e. without sticks). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I figured two cores were sufficient. I only plan to make one actual mold since I don't have that much available PB. So just having one and a backup would do. With that done, it was time to enact my second change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Previously, I'd been digging away half the depth of the pattern to get to the parting line. I realized that is silly. I decided to just adjust the pattern depth by placing some spacer boards around it when I go to ram the first flask. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Of course, the boards didn't match the contour of the pattern so a small rectangle of sand was left around. This was much easier to dig out though than the way I was doing it before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">One additional change I had to do (as a result of the pattern being offset) was now I needed to dig the runners in the cope instead of the drag. This meant I had to completely flip the cope over whereas I usually just set it on it's edge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Everything was going relatively smoothly until I had almost flipped it over and... my hand slipped. Too much parting dust (yeah, that's it). It of course landed against the drag jostling both patterns a fair amount and creating a small fracture line where the fresh Petrobond is backed by used PB. It didn't appear too bad so I decided to keep going. I tried to repack the areas that were obviously damaged as best I could. I dug the runners and I thought I was out of the woods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I set the bear back over the core to be able to handle it and placed him back in the drag. This went surprisingly well and it wasn't until I went to lift the cope and turn it over... (no I didn't drop it again!) I realized how bad the damage from before was. Most of the surface where the old and new PB mated sloughed off onto the counter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">At this point, I'd already been at this for almost four hours. Well, I had be doing other things along with this but either way, it was too late to make another pattern so I decided to keep going with what I had. I figure that the inside of the pattern would be okay and about half the outside pattern would come out intact. I could use that as a guide to clean the rest of the casting on the band saw and sander. It'd be like cutting off and cleaning where the sprue would normally be just much, much wider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Since there was much more to cast now, I definitely knew I need more aluminum than I had available. Time to start collecting (i.e. emptying) fresh scrap and getting it melted. Here's some now warming by the furnace before being immersed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The more I thought about it and melted scrap, the more concerned I was getting that the pour would be short. My crucible was about as full as I felt I could safely get it with aluminum, I just had to hope it was enough. It wasn't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Since I already have a "short bear", I'll call this guy "inside-out bear" because the areas where I actually wanted aluminum are bare and vice-versa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Despite this being yet another failure, there is a glimmer of hope here</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> (albeit slight)</span>. The parts of the cast that came out actually do look like I intended. Making the "core" for the inside as a separate piece is definitely the way to go. Offsetting the pattern, not so much. Well, it wasn't the offsetting part, it was that I had to dig the runners in the cope instead of the drag that I didn't like. I will have to rethink that approach but at least I did learn a few new things in this approach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">In fact, I think I'm going to withdraw my earlier statement calling this a failure. I didn't fail, I just discovered a </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-58812811307994196102015-06-12T18:13:00.000-05:002015-07-09T17:18:17.673-05:00If you are keeping score...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In my recent attempts at molding and casting the Old Filthy MF and Jar patterns, there are currently four of each that I wouldn't be absolutely embarrassed to show other people. Here they are partially cleaned up on the belt sander.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">These aren't absolutely terrible however I acknowledge I still have a long way to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And for those who I have shown these that say they like the imperfections in the surface and that it makes them look unique and weathered: Thank you, you are very kind. You are lying but thank you, you're very kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-83411530269407149642015-06-12T16:05:00.001-05:002015-06-12T16:13:11.292-05:00Just enough time to burn one before work....<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I woke up around 7AM this morning, waaaay before my alarm was set to go off. But my mind was already racing thinking about the day ahead. It was still 2 to 3 hours before I had to be at work so I decided to see if I could get some molds made up and a pour done in that time.</span><br />
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<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="picright" style="padding-right:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; float:right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqOnpVld3WEHG-nFXNZgxPPDpj6-FxiaM29h_glAvotV_wvCrww-RwUMqJxclGq2U7PhL6bHCpgH0Hp2gOQ94Fc_lXOS8JVXeJcUCSclLnF-oaoW_rXrHXWk5xefaB7cZ6AM_3YSKTJsw/s1600/2015-06-12+07.41.14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="display:block;" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqOnpVld3WEHG-nFXNZgxPPDpj6-FxiaM29h_glAvotV_wvCrww-RwUMqJxclGq2U7PhL6bHCpgH0Hp2gOQ94Fc_lXOS8JVXeJcUCSclLnF-oaoW_rXrHXWk5xefaB7cZ6AM_3YSKTJsw/s320/2015-06-12+07.41.14.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="wordsleft" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">I used brand new Petrobond and ran it through the riddle (a.k.a. strainter) for about the first inch of sand in the cope that would contact the pattern. I did this on the side facing the drag as well. This was to ensure good contact with clean Petrobond to the pattern. The remaining space in the flask was filled with previously used Petrobond. (7:41 AM)</div></div><br />
<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="picleft" style="padding-right:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; float:left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-gz40gkOnxCRxFCTARx6UvUQ5ro8ntCv-L-jS2qtcLC0lv5pfl49ucV2HkwuzQ1kJi_Yag1CJL7rPDzjz9UUEALDqCMHpBQSF8ochODFjMrTP5GKuLnQ_ZYgEV7lKVABQ1C8VCsQ3vRU/s1600/2015-06-12+08.03.34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="display:block;" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-gz40gkOnxCRxFCTARx6UvUQ5ro8ntCv-L-jS2qtcLC0lv5pfl49ucV2HkwuzQ1kJi_Yag1CJL7rPDzjz9UUEALDqCMHpBQSF8ochODFjMrTP5GKuLnQ_ZYgEV7lKVABQ1C8VCsQ3vRU/s320/2015-06-12+08.03.34.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="wordsright" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">The flasks separated fairly evenly though I'm still getting some overlap sticking near the edges. I need to figure out why that's happening but it doesn't seem to be a deal breaker for this mold. (8:03 AM)</div></div><br />
<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="picright" style="padding-right:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; float:right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkXsQ9I8O961ImU_sG7ietgsTzBoW7EdwTcKTVYf0NDtFok8NAywpzgBq06kCHvl0tbM4U5B-saiqRXs13PJSxzTYkw-iX0l5NN9_qeYO0qUrnWcKSfojYcUqzgVy5XXKMOk-_dp2SUoX/s1600/2015-06-12+08.14.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="display:block;" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkXsQ9I8O961ImU_sG7ietgsTzBoW7EdwTcKTVYf0NDtFok8NAywpzgBq06kCHvl0tbM4U5B-saiqRXs13PJSxzTYkw-iX0l5NN9_qeYO0qUrnWcKSfojYcUqzgVy5XXKMOk-_dp2SUoX/s320/2015-06-12+08.14.48.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="wordsleft" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">The gates and runners have been dug and I successfully drawn the patterns from the mold. Note the judicious use of powder, that and fresh, sifted Petrobond seems to be the key. (8:14 AM, I really need to get faster at this!)</div></div><br />
<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="picleft" style="padding-right:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; float:left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhREG9_l8O9d1-pKbnstypCYJPUy4DSniPqR8hM3_fJcTSU-U1CABp7e9Wc79YBodVzy_4rQFbu13IDMKDOLUy9-hlUesA7pr2uq_WmCK-oxcgu31Ir6BmCYQVcH-Rt5mlbV6O7_gUPjfB/s1600/2015-06-12+08.24.44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="display:block;" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhREG9_l8O9d1-pKbnstypCYJPUy4DSniPqR8hM3_fJcTSU-U1CABp7e9Wc79YBodVzy_4rQFbu13IDMKDOLUy9-hlUesA7pr2uq_WmCK-oxcgu31Ir6BmCYQVcH-Rt5mlbV6O7_gUPjfB/s320/2015-06-12+08.24.44.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="wordsright" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">The furnace has been going for a few minutes already and I'm preheating the aluminum from my previous failures... I mean learning experiences... which I'll be using for this pour.(8:24 AM)</div></div><br />
<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="picright" style="padding-right:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; float:right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZXERXip1kka3LbICxQV0zj0dv37Z7ggzm4rrLDSPYqxX9oV44u96jBFYzm4D6_MB9X8YQG-XKh0pWsCVG-zh_4qEKWCUdhf-IwxHfzMc-j8X12ZxWrqdgQr2A02Hgy3tzp6wxvGGomtSE/s1600/2015-06-12+08.43.39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="display:block;" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZXERXip1kka3LbICxQV0zj0dv37Z7ggzm4rrLDSPYqxX9oV44u96jBFYzm4D6_MB9X8YQG-XKh0pWsCVG-zh_4qEKWCUdhf-IwxHfzMc-j8X12ZxWrqdgQr2A02Hgy3tzp6wxvGGomtSE/s320/2015-06-12+08.43.39.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="wordsleft" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">The aluminum is melted and appears to be up to a good temp for pouring (1350.7 °F). (8:43 AM)</div></div><br />
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<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><div class="wordsleft" style="padding-top:15px; text-align:left;">Then, jump in the shower and get ready for work (don't worry, no pics of this)... while it cools enough to bust open. </div></div><br />
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<div class="row" style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm very pleased with the way it came out! I still need to clean them up a bit on the sander and maybe a spit polish, but overall I'll call this a success! I'll post more pics once that's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So the total time to do this was a bit over two and a half hours including set up and clean up. It is a little too much work just for one flask worth of aluminum but it was cool to know I could squeeze one off before work.</span><br />
</div>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-37300403063430535142015-06-11T22:24:00.000-05:002015-06-12T14:44:01.606-05:00That bear is mocking me.<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I asked Mrs. IE to pick up some more parting dust (a.k.a. baby powder) for me at the grocery store which, of course, she did without question. She's pretty cool like that, even though it is a bit weird for a grown man to be requesting baby powder. She's known me long enough to know that the explanation behind my requests is generally even weirder than the request, so she doesn't trouble herself to inquire any longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Anyway, she leaves the bottle of "industrial strength, professional grade, adhesion reducing parting dust" (again, still just baby powder) for me on the counter where I was working. And what do I see on the label!?!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A fucking bear! I swear, it's mocking me. It won't even face me. He's just rubbing it in my face that I'm having so much trouble making the mold for the tail light housing. I'm going to be so glad once I finally get that part cast!</span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-63859515734617216822015-06-10T22:49:00.000-05:002015-07-09T18:41:11.284-05:00Yep, still hate you bear.<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Last week, you met short bear. This week, I'd like to introduce... "explodo bear". Wait, no, I don't want to use that name just yet. I have a feeling at some point there will be one that will be more appropriately named "explodo". That or "high velocity lead poisoning bear". Sorry, where was I? Oh... introducing: "destructo bear".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The first attempt, I compacted it as throughly as I have most all other times. Yet, when I separated the halves, parts from the cope would just slough off on to the drag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then, although being extremely careful, when I tried to draw the pattern, he completely crumble the drag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What was also strange was the large amount of Petrobond stuck to his sides. Yes, I used parting dust. A ton of it to be exact, I measured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The internal portion of mold stuck, which didn't surprise me but I couldn't even get that to come out remotely intact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">On the subsequent attempt, similar results. When I went to draw the pattern, "destructo" struck again completely destroying the drag portion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I'm at a loss. After my initial infatuation with it, this stuff has started behaving like my homemade greensand. I'm getting low on fresh Petrobond as I've been using quite a lot lately. So I'll place an order for a new batch in the morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Inebriated Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06785432320029646606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7829208314393868184.post-63400894977551289052015-06-06T13:48:00.000-05:002015-07-09T17:47:05.279-05:00Serving up some colored Jars.<div class="textrow" style="clear: both; padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">
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After finishing up the attempt at the bear pour the other night, I wasn't quite ready for bed. (Well, technically, it was early yesterday morning. Damn, insomnia sucks. Especially if you're my neighbor.) Instead, I decided to test out the OF jar patterns to which I had applied my "festive" repairs.<br />
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Everyone laid out nice an pretty. I through in an MF pattern since there was a bit of extra space. You'll note, they're laying on spacer board I made which is on top of the lower pattern board.</div>
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With the drag rammed, I've flipped it over on top of a second spacer board and popped the flask.</div>
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This allows me to reposition the mold within the flask but still keep a nice flat parting line. It is probably overkill but the main reason I'm doing it is because I'm starting to get low on fresh Petrobond. I definitely need to figure out how to recover it.</div>
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I've shown the steps I follow to create the parting line, ramming the cope, cutting runners, etc... I haven't changed anything in those steps since last time so I won't rehash it here.<br />
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After splitting the flask, I was able to draw the patterns MUCH easier than before. I didn't have near the trouble with sand sticking in them thanks to shallower recesses and curved edges created by adding the colored epoxy filler. Only one of them was trashed but that was because the pattern appears to have shifted at some point while making the mold. Most likely it was when I was digging down to the parting line and it definitely was before ramming the cope as you can see two distinct impressions in the Petrobond.</div>
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Then it was time to fire up the furnace again which was still warm from the short bear pour a little over an hour ago. It got up to temp really quickly and was running nice and hot. How hot? Well, hot enough to do this to my steel thermocouple and set a new high temperature record for my furnace (1532 °F)! </div>
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A quick swig for good luck! Hey, I didn't do that for the short bear poor, maybe that's why it went wrong. Yeah, that's it... not my complete lack of skills or knowledge in casting.</div>
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And... splooge! No, not making knuckle children. Insert whatever onomatopoeia represents the sound of molten aluminum squirting between the flasks because you A) didn't have enough Petrobond to adequately weight the cope, B) you didn't think to supplement the lack of mass with something else heavy, and C) it was 1AM and I'm pretty sure it sounded like "splooge"!</div>
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Finally, after a couple of hours to cool, I was able to pull it from the Petrobond and see how it went. The areas where the splooge (or whatever you decided to call it) squirted through turned an interesting rainbow of color. A result of out gassing from who-knows-what chemicals they use in plywood, I presume.</div>
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My take of the result: meh. I knew the one that shifted (top right) was ruined. The one on the lower left was trashed too. It looks like it may have shifted as well. The middle left and bottom right were okay-ish. I could probably clean up the rough inner areas with the Dremel but I think I'll just remelt them all except the MF which I kept for now. It was messed up a bit by the flask lifting but I think it might be fairly easy to clean up on the belt sander.<br />
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