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Posted by Chilla on December 2, 2006, 1:42 am
Please log in for more thread options Hey Andrew,
I don't buy bronze in alloy form these days I mix my own alloys, that
way I get to choose the colour and how brittle the bronze is. $18 AUD
for 1kg tin and $4 AUD for 1kg copper, so a 10kg batch of 90/10 will
cost me $54 AUD. As opposed to the mob in town that charge me 10 cents
a gram plus the extras.
I cast a small billet of 90/10, and attempted to forge it into a
semblance of something... pee-U. I was thinking of casting up some
bronze daggers and cold forging the edges.
For my purposes I just cast fittings and the occasional sculpture. Up
to this point I've only done a max of
1.5kg of bronze (not much in volume). However I am putting together a
reverb furnace for a minimum 30kg melt.
I wish the weather would make up it's mind, one day it's 40 Celsius, the
next it's spanner weather (fyi: Spanner weather means the brass monkey
has had them frozen off and is looking for a spanner to put them back on).
Regards Charles
Andrew Molinaro wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Have you bought bronze lately? Ugh! For that matter, have you forged
> it lately? Double ugh. I am still the only guy in my shop who will forge
> the bronze and I don't like it.
>
> We have been finishing our iron in wire brushed, hot waxed finish for
> about five years (inside). I think that something new is in order so that
> is why I posted the question. Plus, I feel a duty to get some more advanced
> posts out on the newsgroup. Newbies are great but not that edifying.
>
> So is it cold in Oz. It sure isn't here in the states. Dec 1st and 70
> degrees. WT....heck?
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