How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts

by William A. Cannon

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A MAKE-YOUR-OWN GUIDE FOR HARD-TO-FIND SMALL PARTS! Using this excellent sourcebook as a guide, you can easily make high quality, defect-free castings for almost any purpose ... at amazingly low cost! Just some of the countless uses you'll find for this potentially profitable skill ... making obsolete or vintage car parts, hood ornaments, garden and fireplace tools, kitchen utensils, automotive parts, replacing broken antique parts, reproducing sculpture, plaques, and other art ... all kinds of decorative and useful objects for your own use or to sell! Writing in nontechnical language, author William Cannon provides all the instruction you need to cast any part ... putting an end to those long and often unfruitful scavenger hunts through shops, flea markets, and swap meets. This time- and money-saving second edition of the "bible" on casting small metal and rubber parts guides you through all the basics of foundry work. You'll learn how to reproduce or create new items of brass, bronze, or other metals ... or almost anything made of rubber. Cannon shows you how to organize your own home workshop -- the equipment you'll need, how much it costs, and how to set it all up! You can even open your own full- or part-time business. You'll discover which metal is better for certain jobs and why, how to choose molding sands, how to design and produce molds, and how to repair castings. Plus information is included on coremaking, casting problems and their causes, finishing castings and correcting defects ... even chapters on grinding, polishing, and buffing. Plus the completely updated and revised information on casting rubber parts will bring up up-to-date on all the recent developments in polyurethane rubber.

Genres: Reference

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Uri · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for anyone interested in learning about small casting. It provides clear directions, illustrations and tips for the beginner that are priceless in getting them past the point of reading and to the 'doing' of making molds and casting.

One caveat. The pictures are not very high quality and it was a struggle to understand what I was seeing with some of them, but the illustrations and step by step instructions amply made up for that.

This is the book that got me off my duff and making plaster molds, rather then just thinking about it.

[knoba · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Casting Metal Parts
1. Survey of Casting Methods
2. Casting Your Own Hood Ornament
3. Alloys you can Cast
4. Foundry Equipment - Make it yourself
5. Molding Sands, Fluxes, Degassers, and Flasks
6. How to Make and Pour Molds
7. Core Making
8. Casting Problems and their Causes
9. Finishing Castings and Correcting Defects
10. Do's and Don'ts for Safety
11. Foundry Terms
Part 2: Casting Rubber Parts
12. Rubber and a Space-age Substitute
13. Making a Top Bow Rest Pad
14. Making a Four- Hole Grommet
15. Making Door bumpers and Check Straps
16. Making a Fender Lamp Pad
17. Metal Molds for more Precision
18. Ingenuity Replaces Original Part
19. Molding From Defective Patterns
20. Molding with a Metal Insert
21. Making a Weatherstripping Mold
22. How to Estimate Amounts Needed
23. Be Careful, Clean, Dry, and Accurate!
24. Tips on Cutting and Shaping Rubber
Appendix. Where to Buy Supplies and Equipment
About The Author
Index

[Alan Millar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good basic introduction to metalcasting.

[Mills College Library]

671.2 C2269 1986

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

read the part about sand casting. it was very informative. really want to do this.