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Re: My first castings in Aluminum 356
« on: November 03, 2020, 11:11:16 pm »
My second flywheel casting attempt turned out better.
I had some flash around the molt join, where the metal ran out along the joint a bit.
And a bit of distortion of the mold as the pattern was rapped a bit side to side to allow it to be withdrawn from the sand.

But definitely an improvement from the last casting.

I tried to maintain a pour temperature of about 1350 F.

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