Foundry Books
We now carry these books in our regular stock, and can ship them immediately.
BOOK SHIPPING:
All Books have FREE shipping (by U.S. Postal Service "Media Mail" rate) in the U.S. The Postal Service lists the "Media Mail" shipping time as 10-14 days. (We have found this to be optimistic at best.....)
If you are just ordering books and need faster shipping you can specify ground (4-7 days) $7.85 additional, or by Priority Mail (2-3 days) $12.15 additional. The additional charge is per order with no limit on the number of books.
"The Complete Handbook of Sand Casting"
- C.W. Ammen
This is a book that every sand caster should have. It's a very complete guide to sand casting, written by someone who has done it for a living.
This book explains the process from the basics thru more advanced topics in a non-technical manner. There is no math or "theory", just practical methods. Especially interesting are the recipes for green sand (water bonded molding sand), core binders, core pastes and more. There is a list of casting defects and causes that is also helpful.
Click HERE for the table of contents. (1.2 M .pdf file )
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"Li'l Bertha, A Compact Electric Resistance Shop Furnace"
- David J. Gingery
How to build an electric furnace for use in casting aluminum and zinc metals. Practical, low cost approach. I've built this unit and it works like a champ. Put a set of Kanthal elements and you can melt Brass & Bronze too!
We carry most of the materials needed to build this unit.
Click HERE for the table of contents. (387k .pdf file)
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"Handbook
of Lost Wax or Investment Casting" - James E. Sopcak
This is a booklet made up of a series of reprints of magazine articles dealing with the manufacturing of jewelry using the lost wax process. Although it is addressed to the jewelry artist, the information is very useful for the hobby caster using lost wax process for other larger projects. A very interesting series of construction articles showing how to build all manner of shop equipment necessary for mold making, burnout, pressure casting, and wax injection. The process of investment casting is thoroughly examined.
Click HERE for the table of contents. (822 K .pdf)
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"U.S. Navy Foundry Manual"
- Uncle Sam
The Navy Department Bureau of Ships wrote the book on practical foundry work. Sound, proven information that enabled the foundryman to make repair parts for any vessel that need them, all while at sea in a tender! The Manual documents what they learned about designing a casting, pattern making, sands for molds and cores, making molds, making cores, gating risers and chills, operation of furnaces, pouring castings, cleaning castings, identifying casting defects, heat treatment and more.
Click HERE for the table of contents. (2.3 M .pdf)
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"Gas Burners" for Forges, Furnaces & Kilns written by Michael Porter
If you are going to build a gas powered forge or furnace, or just need a hand held burner, this book is the one to get. It describes the building of 3 different burners. It also tells you which burner is right for your project. Each design has a detailed bill of materials, clear diagrams and step by step instructions. All the designs can be built using common hand tools.
So now that you know how to make the burners, what to do with them? Well this book shows you how to build a "Propane Bottle Gas Forge", a "Jeweler's Foundry Furnace", a "Farrier's Forge", and a "Multi-hole Glass Furnace". As a bonus there is even a chapter on building a forge cart! Good designs and complete information. Click HERE for the table of contents. (2.3 M .pdf file)
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BCS Detail Drawings
Detail drawings are plans that a machinist would use to fabricate the metal parts. These plans show in standard drawing format the burner designs that "Gas Burners" (above) book lays out so well in words. The plans are not meant to replace the book, just present another way of looking at the construction. The book is still needed to understand the many fabrication techniques, parts list, and assembly instructions. Click HERE for a look at an example of the drawings.
1/2" Inch Forge and Furnace Burner Detail Drawings:
Here is a set of BCS Detail Drawings for the 1/2" inch Forge and Furnace Burner as described in the book. The 1/2" burner is the basic burner design and is used in the construction of the 1" burner if you don't have access to a high temperature torch for heating. The package is a 13 page set of detail and assembly drawings showing the finished parts that you will need to build the burner.
This set of plans covers only the 1/2" burner design. There several other designs in the book that are not detailed, as well as other goodies that you will want to see.
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1 Inch Forge and Furnace Burner Detail Drawings:
These Detail Drawings are for the 1" Forge and Furnace Burner as described in the book. The package is a 10 page set of detail and assembly drawings showing the finished parts that you will need to build the burner.
This set of plans covers only the 1" burner design. There several other designs in the book that are not detailed, as well as other goodies that you will want to see.
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Set of Both Detail Drawings:
If you would like both sets of plans, here's a combo package that will save you some dough.
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"Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual For the Small Foundry - Vol.1" - By Steve Chastain
This book is a "Must Have" for the fledging Foundryman. Gives you practical details on getting started including:
Click Here for the Table of Contents (Acrobat .pdf format, 1.4 Meg)
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"Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual For the Small Foundry - Vol.2"- By Steve Chastain
Steve's Done it Again!:
This is Volume 2 of Chastain's Small Foundry Series. This book takes up where Volume 1 left off. You will learn a lot of technical stuff about the metallurgy of aluminum, brass / bronze, and iron. Don't let the material science scare you off, because the second part of the book is solid how to. Steve will tell you about gating, risers and feeding & pattern making. The last chapters show you how to make pistons, piston rings, cylinders, heads and take you on a tour of how the big boys in Detroit did it.
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"Iron Melting Cupola Furnaces for the Small Foundry" - By Steve Chastain 2000. ISBN 0-9702203-0-8. 127 Pages.
Here's a complete design for a high performance cupola furnace that will melt over 300 pounds of iron per hour, even when powered by a shop-vac blower! Build the high performance blower and you can easily double that amount! All can be built for little cost, mostly from scrap. This is the perfect accessory for your Gingery Machine Shop!
Steve Chastain has written a book that will show you to how build a 10 inch unit of your own. But he has also given you the tools to create a cupola of your own design to meet any need. Scale it up or down!
Steve explains not only how to build a cupola, but also describes the design and fabrication of centrifugal fans and Pitot Tube Manometers. These accessories will really help with your iron works!
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"BUILD A MULLER" - Written and Illustrated by Steve Chastain, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9702203-8-7 96 Pages
Also Check out: Table of Contents
Here's a machine that is indispensable for those who do a lot of casting! A muller is a machine that mixes the ingredients of foundry sand. It takes a muller to properly have each grain of sand coated with the binder. This is true for green sand as well as oil bonded sand.
This book gives you both the technical data on the design of a muller as well as the plans to build one yourself.
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"Build an Oil-Fired Tilting Furnace"- Written and Illustrated by Steve Chastain, 2002. ISBN 0-9702203-1-6 192 Pages
Also Check out: Table of Contents Page 1 & Table of Contents Page 2
This is the latest from the prolific workshop of Steve Chastain. Build this Oil Fired Tilting furnace and you will be casting new Knuckle Heads for your mother-in-laws '39 Hard-Tail Harley in no time!
This well written book will not only show you how to make the furnace, but also how to build the centrifugal fan, an oil feed tank, an oil refueling tank and pitot tube manometer unit. All the gear necessary to efficiently run your new rig. Being oil fired it is also lot cheaper to run than a propane unit because you can use low cost or free used motor oil. It also runs quieter than a propane fired furnace.
Steve isn't satisfied with just showing you how to build it, he also gives you the technical details behind the design, in practical terms. You would need access to an engineering library to find as much information as this book has in one place. Numerous clear photos and sketches illustrate the concepts and construction.
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