Maker Faire
2018-May-25, Friday 20:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texxgadgetBack in January, we built a new casting furnace just before the 2 Edwardian Balls.
You can view pics here:
http://kineticsteamworks.org/
If you click on the Maker Faire prep, you can see several things including construction of the new furnace.
We had a bit over an hour to place the refractoty material.
I was mixing it in small bastches and we had 4 people placing and ramming it.
There will be more pics on the website later.
We had a problem getting it up to temperature, so it smiked alot.
It turns out the solution is to build a wood fire in it first and THEN start the oil burner.
They havent posted all the pics, but 2 weeks before Maker, we hit 3000f !
We got one cruicible white hot.
At faire, Troye got a little silly and sand casted a banana in cast iron.
I stayed with the steam powered printing press, making bar coasters.
We pulled steam off the boiler from "Rose", a steam powered tractor.
You can view pics here:
http://kineticsteamworks.org/
If you click on the Maker Faire prep, you can see several things including construction of the new furnace.
We had a bit over an hour to place the refractoty material.
I was mixing it in small bastches and we had 4 people placing and ramming it.
There will be more pics on the website later.
We had a problem getting it up to temperature, so it smiked alot.
It turns out the solution is to build a wood fire in it first and THEN start the oil burner.
They havent posted all the pics, but 2 weeks before Maker, we hit 3000f !
We got one cruicible white hot.
At faire, Troye got a little silly and sand casted a banana in cast iron.
I stayed with the steam powered printing press, making bar coasters.
We pulled steam off the boiler from "Rose", a steam powered tractor.
