Re: ATM - Casting Aluminum

[papilio1@juno.com (Michael Pankratz)]

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:41:44 -0800 Richard Schwartz <richas@idt.net>
writes:

>Lindsay has a web page, and they publish a book describing a home 
>made
>furnace for making alumininum castings.  If you follow the entire 
>book,
>you end up turning those castings into a halfway decent lathe!


I've built one of these lathes.  Lots of fun, lots of work, it teaches
you how to use it as you're building it, and it actually works!  Also
amazing is watching the garbage-pail blast furnace in operation, shooting
a jet flame and sparks into the night sky!


Michael Pankratz
Tesuque, NM
papilio1@ juno.com