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Sadly not for the right dimensions - I’ll give it all a bath in Cuprinol!

OK - am building a ramp which will take a wheelchair and “pusher” about 4m long - using 6” x 3” C24 timber as joists (4 across a 1m span and supports every 1.25m or so so it will be solid). The wood is treated but obviously not designed for outdoors, and have no access to creosote or similar -...

Is it anything like the Lurem C2600? If so have the manual (in French) which a mate has asked me to try and translate as he can’t find an English manual! It’s got a lot of schematics in it that may help

Might be worth giving your local Travis Perkins a call

I’ll take a stab at left to right Sapele, Iroko, Oak, Red Grandis

Just a thought, but what about power - are they 3-phase…and if so do you have 3-phase?

I bought my a couple of bags of this - Green Sand Foundry Casting Bromsgrove For my purposes 2 bags is probably a lifetime supply! I also bought some parting powder although it’s basically just talc so I could have saved a few quid there. the copes and drags and the tray I sit it all in were...

proof of concept at least, but the amount of time cleaning up around the pedicles has lead to a slight change in plan - going to continue trying to refine the casting (lots of issues as you can see in the pic) and it’s way better than my first few goes however when I have made a decent couple of...

With you all the way - that was my first lathe - second hand - not stable enough for spindle turning, although it will teach you tool control and buttock clenching at the same time!

I buy boxes of cheap nitrile gloves - spread it on, throw ‘em away then clamp

Yes - it’s an old steel saucepan - Pewter melts at around 200C (depends on the alloy, some melt lower some higher). The burner is a relatively inefficient butane double burner. Just don’t use an aluminium pan or one with a non stick coating! I don’t melt on the hob inside - partly because my...

C-channels running across the width of the table - drill inserts the bolt them

I’ll let you know how it goes!!! Good luck with the electrickery!

little one, rarely used, wax burnout - large one, used a lot - can get to 500C so as long as have investment in a steel tube and am careful I think will be able to hold hot enough and then shove it on top crucible in furnace to get really hot before I pour - well, that’s the theory!!!!

Venting/sprues definitely key but there is so much detail on the antler it’s really hard to do properly. I have made a silicone mould and wax casts from it but whilst good for pewter and lead it isn’t heat resistant enough for brass and sliver - am going to try lost wax/investment casting too...

Yep - tried to fill the Pedicles with clay around the sides to stop it dragging the sand out but the clay was too soft and the sand got stuck to it so going to dip the whole base of the antler in hard wax and carve the wax off the top and the bottom so the sides should pull cleanly - then it’s...

Needs a lot of finishing but happy with it as a first try!

A long way to go, and lots of processes to refine, but pleased with my first attempt at an antler cast in Pewter - aim is to eventually work up to Silver but that is months away!!