RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
I always stand, also.
Casting Bench Design
- Thread starter Paden
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fiver
Well-Known Member
I too stand.
except when I'm running the master casters [which is never] they are set up on a standard 2X4 work bench. [far right] next to the 'car stuff' [oil etc] rack with the 4/6 alloy stored in buckets under it and propane tanks in front of it.
MY casting area is on a 4' tall bench [20"X5] and the main bottom pour [40 lb magma] pot is on an elevated platform so I can see the stream go into the mold.
I have a little box similar to the one shown earlier but it is a mold guide/holder and covered by an old baking pan.
the other 2 pots sit on either side and are for soft lead and the 4/6 alloy's I also use for other things.
if i want to water drop I set a stool to my right and put a small pail on it.
under the bench is ww-alloy ingots all ready to cast with, my smelting junk, a micro-wave and my one burner heater, the air compressor for the stars, some lino-type pigs, and some 1.0% antimony plates waiting to be cut up to make bullet cores from.
the electrical outlet for the pots is under the top of the bench and the cords are all run through holes in the bench-top.
there is a piece of 1x4 that runs behind the pots so I have some storage back there and on the wall is a peg board with some smaller 6" wide wire baskets hanging on it with extra handles and rolls of tin solder sitting in them.
under the top I built 3 drawers and that is where the molds go as well as the sizing dies/punches for the star sizers.
the stars sit on our old kitchen island [to the left] and drop the sized boolits through a hole in the top, right into the 3 drawers that I line with cloth shop towels.
on the wall behind that is an old 4 door kitchen cabinet that holds lube making supplies, latex gloves, 5x5x4 boxes [waiting to be folded together] gas checks,
and a bunch of other junk.
under that at the back of the bench is a box full of 50-50 and 63/37 tin and some milk crates flipped on their sides holding made lube and lube sticks.
under the island is full of MEC reloaders and a bunch of steel shot and some shot shells [i think there is some shot shells under there]
next to that is where the soft lead gets stored and a wood burning stove.
we won't go into the back/front or other side of the garage, we will just say it's similar with some fishing gear, swaging tools, and reloading stuff mixed in.
I need a 30'X30' shop with a storage area up above.
except when I'm running the master casters [which is never] they are set up on a standard 2X4 work bench. [far right] next to the 'car stuff' [oil etc] rack with the 4/6 alloy stored in buckets under it and propane tanks in front of it.
MY casting area is on a 4' tall bench [20"X5] and the main bottom pour [40 lb magma] pot is on an elevated platform so I can see the stream go into the mold.
I have a little box similar to the one shown earlier but it is a mold guide/holder and covered by an old baking pan.
the other 2 pots sit on either side and are for soft lead and the 4/6 alloy's I also use for other things.
if i want to water drop I set a stool to my right and put a small pail on it.
under the bench is ww-alloy ingots all ready to cast with, my smelting junk, a micro-wave and my one burner heater, the air compressor for the stars, some lino-type pigs, and some 1.0% antimony plates waiting to be cut up to make bullet cores from.
the electrical outlet for the pots is under the top of the bench and the cords are all run through holes in the bench-top.
there is a piece of 1x4 that runs behind the pots so I have some storage back there and on the wall is a peg board with some smaller 6" wide wire baskets hanging on it with extra handles and rolls of tin solder sitting in them.
under the top I built 3 drawers and that is where the molds go as well as the sizing dies/punches for the star sizers.
the stars sit on our old kitchen island [to the left] and drop the sized boolits through a hole in the top, right into the 3 drawers that I line with cloth shop towels.
on the wall behind that is an old 4 door kitchen cabinet that holds lube making supplies, latex gloves, 5x5x4 boxes [waiting to be folded together] gas checks,
and a bunch of other junk.
under that at the back of the bench is a box full of 50-50 and 63/37 tin and some milk crates flipped on their sides holding made lube and lube sticks.
under the island is full of MEC reloaders and a bunch of steel shot and some shot shells [i think there is some shot shells under there]
next to that is where the soft lead gets stored and a wood burning stove.
we won't go into the back/front or other side of the garage, we will just say it's similar with some fishing gear, swaging tools, and reloading stuff mixed in.
I need a 30'X30' shop with a storage area up above.
williamwaco
Active Member
What is that box with the light switch on top and the "muffin pan" on the bottom?
Mike W1
Active Member
Mike W1
Active Member
That box contains a small fan. The "muffin pan" isn't a pan. It's a shelf where you set the moulds and those are holes that you see in the shelf. I usually cast with 2 moulds and turn the fan on when I can tell the sprue is starting to cut a little easier. Seems to drop the temperature of the mould about 10°. Haven't figured out how I'd measure the sprue plate itself but you can tell by the feel it must be a little cooler.
fiver
Well-Known Member
that ain't funny I got them scattered everywhere.
a pair here by the book shelf, one in the truck, one in the mustang, one by the swaging tools.
I refuse to keep a pair by the casting bench though I don't wanna look at how bad I'm doing.
I have learned to cast by brail type feeling and color of the castings so I'm gonna keep going along that way.
a pair here by the book shelf, one in the truck, one in the mustang, one by the swaging tools.
I refuse to keep a pair by the casting bench though I don't wanna look at how bad I'm doing.
I have learned to cast by brail type feeling and color of the castings so I'm gonna keep going along that way.
Ian
Notorious member
Thanks to ten years of Pars Planitis and elevated eye pressure caused by a multitude of steroid injections, I can look forward to having cataracts much sooner than most. Not that I look forward to it at all, I have pretty good vision aside from retinal scarring, dense, permanent clots of floaters, a nice macular pucker, PVD in one eye (just happened this summer, other eye expected to follow at any minute) and now presbyopia. Was told at my last exam that I officially have the eyes of a 65 year old. I'm hoping the rest of me doesn't fall apart that fast or I'll be a goner before I'm 50.
62chevy
Active Member
I wore glasses for 54 years until I had cataract surgery last year. Now it's just a pair of reading glasses like you my vision is 20/20 and 20/25 except up close.