I need info on green sand casting

[Shed Machinist]

Plz I need help.

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"A person who works with his hands is a laborer.

A person who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.

A person who works with his hands, his brain and his heart is an artist"

—Louis Nizer

[yf]

The Gingery books give very simple and easy to follow information about making all sorts of castings.

They are reasonably priced and fascinating to read. You may be able to borrow them from a library.

If you are not familiar with it, the Gingery books are a series about building an almost complete machine shop from scrap.

http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/index.html

The above link will take you to the Gingery book page at Lindsay Books.

Read as much as you can before starting to build. It will save you time and trouble.

[docsteve66]

YF: you said a mouth full in that last sentence. I just finished helping a young man get an old truck back in service. It was given him by another YM who bought a high performance intake and large carb. He gave up on thejob and gave the truck as a basket case to the next YM. Both are readers of popular "hop up " magazines. The exhaust system was stock, mid sized cam "improvements". Loaned them some books, talked with them about improving exhaust etc. Final decision was to try to return to stock. Too many take off with out investgation, just a dream. Sure a lot easier to do the research and then go forth ratherthan go forth and re-invent the wheel.

But no one seems to want to look at the real world (in paper). Too many TV shows where a guy exceeds and excells by doing things that are really impossible for even the best of craftsmen. The questions they ask give a good clue as to the level of competance they have. There is much to learn about casting before the sand ramming takes place. Learn it all first. You gave some goodadivce for all of us.
Steve

[lynnl]

Shed, Check w/libraries and try to find some of the books by C.W. Ammen on sandcasting. ("THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF SAND CASTING" or "THE METAL CASTER'S BIBLE" and I think he's written others.)
He covers all aspects of the process: patterns, cores, the sand, sprues, risers, etc., etc., etc.

[This message has been edited by lynnl (edited 07-16-2003).]

[Joel]

Shed, if you didn't already know, most libraries have a inter-library loan system. You supply the title/author of the book, and they will find it for you. I have gotten some pretty obscure books (from all over the country) this way. A very useful resource.

[lynnl]

Joel has a good point. In fact that's how I first obtained a copy of Ammen's 'Handbook...' for review.

[jfsmith]

Ammens Books are the best to learn from, I have the Aluminum one and it's great.

Jerry