Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Caps


Ready to be cut with foam cutter.

Caps

Styrofoam


Styrofoam cut and ready to be cut in the size nessary.

Support bracket


Almost ready to cast.

Support bracket


Almost ready to cast.

Caps

Need a Tripod.


This video shows how my vibrator table works for casting these parts (Caps) it works very well for casting small parts, except for flat surfaces on bottom, sometimes it leaves a convex surface. Also need a Tripod for holding camera as you can tell by this Video.

Caps and Mounts in sand

Caps fresh out of sand

#1 pour


This is the first pour. It worked but has to be a better way to do this.

#2


This is the second try on a different flue system. It worked better than the first.

milling


cleaning up surface for caps.

Ready


starting to bore for pipe

Boreing


making it fit pipe 1.325 in

Mounts


3 done ready for attaching to post.

Mounting


This is what its for. These are for mounting Hydrants in high traffic areas just in case I run the lawn mower or something into it.

Shows Mounting

With Hose