Casting is becoming a lost art. Thank you for passing your knowledge on to the younger generation. And I noticed you taught her to lift with her legs, not her back. Nice.
@@windyhillfoundry5940 man its got to be hellish in the south like that pouring iron in the summer, I know what its like up here in the north doing shop work on steam locos volentering thats warm and problably just as dirty, but I cant imagin the humidity of the southern usa even when your used to it.
I caught that too with the proper body mechanics for lifting. I used to be a Nurse and would always get assigned the "heavy" wings on the nursing home simply because I'm a male, big dumb and ugly..... I taught all my CNA's and all the other staff to properly lift. You lift with your legs and not your back and use leverage wherever possible when you're moving heavy weights. I sold medical equipment for years and would haul hundreds of pounds in and out of patients homes etc and never trashed my back. I love your videos Clark. I try to share them whenever I can !!! Thanks for posting these, it's always fun to watch !!!
I worked with a guy who had a gnarly scar down his face. He was using a 7 inch grinder with a cutoff disk when it exploded. He always told apprentices to wear a face shield.
Actually, a lot of train car wheels at the very beginning in the 1830s & 1840s were wood with iron treads like wagon wheels. Then moved in to varying combinations of cast and wrought iron and eventually steel. I'd have to go look in a couple books in the other room to refresh the details. Locomotive wheels, if not from the very first quickly became all metal because of the stresses they had to take. There were even some experiments with using compressed paper for trolley and RR car wheel centers with iron wheel treads. Steam locomotives eventually came to have cast steel wheel centers with machined steel tires after various combinations of iron were tried and quality steel became commonly available.
breeze fans.. ask local HVAC repair shops for a blower and motor out of a forced air furnace or a window type swamp cooler.. hanging them on the wall ...not close to the ceiling but above where one can reach.. will have a weird effect if run without a diffuser.. just straight air flowing from the squirrel cage.. the venturi's on the side lower the pressure and expand the air.. causing cooling... without any restriction blocking the outlet... cooler air will flow.. on the wall within reach .. use a 15 minute timer to control the length of the fan on cycle... being able to shut the fan off when working with the white powder is important.. my favorite versions are small direct drive blowers.. or 1/3 to 1/2 horse power units.. at one point my family had a 2 story apartment building that was under restoration. i had a 5 ton furnace blower assembly sitting in the upstairs hallway.. aiming toward the front stairs.. it kept the air flow moving thru the entire building far better than the giant fans with 48" blades.. it had the venturi cooling effect going too.. the venturi cooling effect with squirrel cage blowers is barely a degree of temp drop.. i measured.. but that was without any cooling equipment. this does not work if ducting is installed or any restriction.. as restriction increases pressure and increase in pressure raises the temp. belt guards are needed... wire screens also... my home direct drive unit was on low speed when i came home from work.. it was slightly off balance.. the cat was staring at it.. head following its offset wobble.. i shut it off and reached in to find a piece of trash that much have gotten sucked in.. something soft and fuzzy came out in my hand.. seems my cat.. who is laying at my feet right this second.. had chased a mouse around the house and the mouse jumped in to avoid the cat.. and got spun in the blower wheel.
I'm glad your cat survived that👍. Thanks for all the valuable input. I was thinking of one of those water cooled shop fans and most system to keep the sand hydrated. I am most likely going to do a 15x 24 addition and climate control that area strictly for molding
Nice job Bri! A suggestion to protect your back get yourself a waist belt or some type of back support. Take it from someone who has no back, it is extremely important. Thanks for sharing.
I had a discussion with my doctor about those weight belts and he advised against them on the grounds that your body can come to rely upon them as a crutch. Better to strengthen the back and the knees and do stretching and warm up exercises before lifting and lift within your capabilities. Use mechanical handling methods to reduce wear and tear on the body as much as possible.
Super excited for this, as I'm in the process of building a scale locomotive myself, and will need several parts cast, some of which can be quite complex!
She did look out of place in the foundry in shorts and tee. Probably was 100 degrees in there, so I would be dressed like that too. Bree you did a fine job on the casting.
She needs to get control of her hair. When she was using the stationary grinder her bangs were hanging down. Hair is very strong. the hair on 20 heads has enough strength to restrain a 747. There was a photo a few years back of a woman whos hair got caught in something and she was scalped.
Thanks for the input, The hair was my fault, I had Brii do a quick demonstration of cleaning the sand off with the wheel to finish the editing. We both practice safety seriously around here.
@@windyhillfoundry5940 Thanks for the reply. I work in industrial settings and deal with safety a lot. We had a project in the Philippines and the women there have long beautiful hair. Had lots of talks with them about not cutting it and what can they do to be safe.
@@windyhillfoundry5940 Guess that's what we get for assuming! It was the first thing I saw as I wear my hair long and have to be careful around various tools!
Hey Clarke. What is the approx. cost per piece for this in iron? I've got similar wheels to be cast, and my current foundry has let me down too many times. Thanks
Well done! How long until she starts a channel to coincide with yours? I have only made one casting so far and it was aluminum. Ive made some cylindrical stock as well. I currently can't do any because I'm moving. So I miss the process.
Those are my wheels that he's casting and those are for the pilot and trailing trucks. at 1/8 scale, the finished diameter of those wheels will be 5-3/8" and 4-1/2". They are scaled 43" and 36" prototype wheels. The drivers that I believe that you'll see in the next video will be a finished diameter of 8-3/4" (70" prototype). Thanks a bunch Clarke. The timing on getting these wheels are going to be just about perfect for me.
Glad you are happy with the results Lee👍. We are slowly cranking these out. I have a job I am trying to knock out along with these for a courthouse restoration going on in Indiana so I appreciate your patience 👍
