The fine attention to details like adding the screws for support for the sand is just another reason I respect your abilities and enjoy/learn from your videos.

Another great casting by the old master. Thanks for the video.

you have one more time have educated me and show me one more time how resolve a problem that I have found more than humiliating. those screws on that weak point on the mold make all the sense in the planet. Thank you again and again.

I would have NEVER! thought of using screws to strengthen the sand. Mr MyFordBoy, with this tidbit alone, you have saved me countless dollars on Tylenol. Thanks for this beyond excellent tutorial!

Sir you are smooth as butter! I've never seen casting look so easy!

Nice example of your casting process. I like the use of screws. It gives some ideas for my own projects. Thanks for posting and your hard work.

Great video! I love the fact that there is no talking - it isn't needed and eliminates that distraction.

Once more ¡Thank you VM and congratulations!. You were, are and will be my master in all of this. I must begin with your teachness. The best for you and your family

...love the screw idea, great work as always!...thanks for sharing you work.

Brilliant craftsmen ship ! Thank you very much for sharing these skills with us on YT

Excellent, love your works and thanks for teaching us ...

Brilliant. very well illustrated. Thanks for the post.

Having watched many of your videos, the casting technique is similar , and now familiar in most. I find the patterns and moulds you create to be the more interesting; that, and the machining videos.

You are creating art, sir..! Thank's for sharing..

Wow, this is amazing. Now I want to do that. So cool.

Terrific vid. Of course you make it look easy. I should have a chance at some casting this fall. Your video went through every technique I will need. Good stuff.

Fantastic as always! - Superb video! 10/10.

That is so clever! I'm sure if I tried that I end up burnt with metal everywhere except in the right place. Thanks for sharing!

That was fun to watch!

THANK YOU FOR ALL LITTLE DETAILS

I don't understand why you don't have a million subs!!! Nice work, and thanks, your vids are inspiring and informative.

wow, you really make that look easy, Good show!

That was amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for an interesting video. Best Regards, Harvey

Casting is so fascinating to watch ;)

amazing thank you great to watch Alan

Absolutely beautiful 👍🏻

Jsem furt čekal co z toho bude a pak jsem se smál až jsem se za bříško popadal. :-) Tolik práce pro tak málo. :-) Ten kdo je alespoň minimálně obeznámen se strojírenstvím by nikdy nepoužil tento zdlouhavý, pracný a nebezpečný styl výroby takové kraviny ... :-D

Looking towards to the man like you, you're good and you can achieve more than that. Actually it teach other people as well.

That was cool to watch....thank you

increible trabajo amigo...

thanks for sharing and thanks for teaching us.

Bravo, beaucoup de patience.

I am Brazilian is much like your work me spiro it too thank you !!

Très jolie vidéo un plaisir à regarder

Loved it!

i love this channel

Great video!

That is really coool thanks for sharing

o cara é bom , mesmo! very good.

@ 9.46, that aluminium looks VERY HEAVY, Hey. Nice videos.

Few days ago I firstly poured aluminium in molding form. I have had problems with molding mix (clay), I have no normal sand, but I have some clay, which has finished termal processing and have problems with mixing up not processed clay and processed clay, after many efforts I have definitely got normal compsition, but I used too many water, however it was needed for that composition. After I poured aluminium into the hole it has begin making bubbles, the form was of tube with two plates on the ends for add it to another things, the orientation was vertical, so it seems what aluminium can cooled off and solidify, but aluminium was enough hot for not become hard 2-8 minutes. How I noticed - the main mistake was too fast pouring, and that was the reason for made bubbles and cause of bad quality. But in your video I notice what you`re pouring faster twice than me, and the product have very good quality, and now I`m not sure that fast pouring is the reason of my failure. Don`t you know - the chromium oxide III, titanium oxide IV and calcium carbonate can be used as molding composition? I know what chromium and titanium can be restored from their oxides by aluminium, however I`m sure that these oxides is very chemical strong, cause worked with them. That I can`t say about calcium carbonate, but it can`t be restored by aluminium.

Wow! VERY COOL !!

expert at work

Beautiful work. Wish you were my neighbor 👍

Yet another fine example of myfordboy's pattern-making and foundry skills for us to eagerly admire and devour. I was surprised that no riser was used to clear the gasses and provide extra metal feed, so perhaps myfordboy can enlighten us as to why?

you are great man !

Nice video!

Thanks for another vid :0)

Watching you sit that long on your knees makes my knees hurt :) and i'm young-ish. Either way, another very enjoyable video AND a great learning experience.

Good stuff!

Nice nice nice ... welldone

Хорошее видео! Будто в своём литейном цехе побывал ) Нужен ещё вертикальный канал (выпар), для выхода газов. Удачи

Pretty cool.

nice work

im having a lot of trouble getting the sand not to stick to my pattern, any advice you can give would be greatfully appreciated

This may be explained in past videos, but without any holes for the air to escape, how do you not get any air bubbles trapped in that casting? You poured the aluminum so fast I didn't see any air come back through where you poured it, and yet the end result looks flawless.

LOL! I misread the title and thought you were going to make 60 spoked wheel castings.

Myfordboy. Great video as always. I am curious about your greensand. Why is it so black? Is it just the sand colour or have you mixed something else in with it? Mine is made from white beach sand and bentonite and it came out a reddish brown. It also takes a lot of compacting to get it to hold. I have to use a mallet and even then I get failures. I have used the usual 10 to 15% clay. I wish my sand behaved as well as yours does.

Class.

myfordboy - long time fan of your work - you make it look so easy - have you considered doing a video showing lessons learned? What you generally show looks way to easy to most of us, but the finished product takes much more work for others that know the trade - I'd personally prefer a video that shows too much water in the sand and it's outcome, along with the failures with patterns and what you did to overcome them (i.e. screw idea - did it help more with steam or pattern stability?). Net result - you're experienced but you had to have had a bunch of failures in the past - mind sharing them with us? :)

Excellent video myfordboy and thank you for sharing. Is there a proper pouring technique required to prevent unwanted air pockets. Andy 🇨🇦

Great Video. I enjoyed looking at it. caption would have made it better.

Best !

Great

Very nice work! The sand reinforcing screws were a clever idea. I wonder if drywall screws would work even better than wood screws due to the deeper thread? I also liked the washer on the pulling screw so you could tap it up....I was wondering how you were going to get such a thin and deep pattern out without disturbing the sand. Cleverness in every vid! Thank you! -- Mike

yet another cool myfordboy casting ...congratulations just a question why did'nt make exaust hole as usual ??

nice work ..I tried to make a logo (mercedes emblem) but it is too hard for beginners

Well maybe no talking is good, but, what was the black sand like material u packed mound with? What was the metal you melted? Aluminum or steel? How hot did it have to get to melt? I weld steel, but never seen it melt in a pot, why did the pot not melt? So many questions?

I would like to watch you build your forge

Great video, ive learnt so much from watching you. What would the results be with lost foam casting with sand but also adding a riser? Now lets pretend you/I were to use a styro cutter so the foam was smooth like your wood castings?

I have a cast iron sitting bench that would be really nice to replicate. Iron on the ends, oak between where you sit. Not sure if sand casting can be done with that large of an item though.

I dont presume to know anywhere as much about casting as you but I've seen others make a second shaft leading to the casting form, which I presume serves to provide an output for the air that could possibly remain trapped inside. Is it necessary or is it optional?

Very nice! Great way to get authentic quality parta. I suppose this particular wheel would be relatively easy/affordable to machine with modern technology butit would not be the same I am impressed the sand can take the impact tof the flowing metal with those sharp edges and that no bubbles form. Did you radially place the wheel intensionally thhis way relative to the intake or would any postioning work? Is there a limit to the types of metal that will work for this moulding method? Would silver work? And to that end, if pressed for it, could you limit the amount of additional metal volume for intake without risking imperfect casting, or is that shape dependent? Cheers, J

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood bro

Hi, I enjoy all your videos! May I ask why you didn't use a relief tube on the other side (not sure of the correct name) to ensure you had completely filled the cavity and allow stream to escape? I am not being critical just curious because in other videos you have used them.

Why have you changed the sand? Is it becouse of the wheels?

Awesome casting but why did you use the screws in between the spoke spaces can please share the knowledge ?

where can one fine the little locking devices on the side of the wooden boxes?. really enjoy your videos. Chuck B.

I am trying to cast some locomotive wheels but the sand gets stuck between the spokes. The gaps are too small to put screws in. Any ideas please to stop this happening? Thank you for these videos, they really help.

very nice wheels there, i'd imagine similar cast iron wheels would cost you best part of £100! did you put a steel 'tyre' around the casting?

How much oil do you normally burn when melting aluminum? Thanks John

This is impressive. I am thinking of casting a larger wheel. My question to u. During casting , if i pour one scoop of molten aluminum , i wait abit(while melting more) and pour more to the mold will it hold.?

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1) I take it the screws helped the sand hold in place when removing the wheel? 2) I guess bubbles are never an issue with aluminum since you didn't have to tap? 3) Is it just a lot more cleanup if you didn't have the top box in place for this particular part?

Which is the propouse of the screws... thanks great video

I'm in England. What sands do you use also where do you get the fixings for the side of the wooden box..the metal clips that hold both parts together. I want to make a box like shoe box size but with 1" thick sides. As part of the same task I would like to have an inner box that has 1" thick sides that slides into this. Is this possible. Kind of like a size 10 shoe box that you can slide a size 8 shoe box into the size 10.

Nice... would have thought you would need a riser - isn't that normal practice? (how to decide when to use or not?)

Hi teach!!! What king dark sand you was using???

hi i like your vdo very clean and basic casting methode.uplode plz motorcycle allowy rim casting method yamaha,honda because they r curve style rim or guied me. thanks

Do you have a general rule of thumb for what wheels are OK to sand-cast, vs more... "industrial"... methods like die-casting? In particular I'm wondering about casting some very low-speed wheels, but they will see some heavy loads, as 'bogie wheel' replacements for a rubber-tracked skid-steer loader...14" As many others have commented, this was a great fly-on-the-wall video overview - thanks. I think I recognize the flywheel in the closing moments...

Hi! Great job! Why weren't "risers" used in this casting procedure? Thanks in advance!

David - great vid. 2 questions that I would hope you could answer for me : 1. Is that green sand or "petrobond" you are using in preparing the mould., 2. Is there a draft on the spokes ? And of so how much ?? As they look fairly even in the video. Kindest regards Anna

Why is the sand grey this time? Seems like the last several castings you've shown were all reddish orange sand. Is there a difference?

a question, what kind of sand you use? and where can you get ?

myfordboy Do you find mould making an enjoyable exercise or somewhat tedious? Also how long does it take you to make and paint the wooden patterns?

nice vid. What kind of sand is that?

So why the extra pour area in the can? Would filling it directly into the box disturb the sand?

Imake green sand mixing sand and clay and enaught water for the sand sticks togheter by pressing into the hand. Problem is that it keep sticking with the pattern no matter i put talcum. what is the problem or my mistake ? Tanks for answering.

Would this work on bigger wheels like for instance a band saw's wheels? I know the casting process should work, just worried about the strength of aluminium in the long run.