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Your work is always so impressive!
And the furnace to cast the waste?
I have some fire bricks and a gas rig here with intentions of maybe setting it up one day for quick, rough castings. Whether health permits it or not I don't know and won't till I get home from my doctors in 2 hours if I don't end up in hospital.
My engineer friend locally would often ask if I wanted bits of steel and alloy to play on the lathe, varying grades. He'd pull them from his scrap bin after someone changed the design on 100 something or others he'd manufactured for them, high grade steels of varying hardness. One day he mentioned he needed new pins on his backhoe at home and I asked "wouldn't this stuff you're throwing out fit?"
Well, problem solved, a prefect fit without the slightest modification.
To be fair he was/is in the process of clearing out his workshop and taking everything home to work from there in a huge shed he has and he has so much stuff and bits and pieces.
I avoid going to the shop too often because he keeps insisting I take stuff, things I know which have cost him a lot of money and I don't want to be that friend, I always offer him cash. I did take a few collars he was dumping, again, a hardened steel and said they'd be ideal for my 12 tonne workshop press. He then decided to take a set for himself (he'd normally just machine one on the day if needed) and also grabbed a bunch of them to give to his workshop neighbour. He didn't see the practical use till I mentioned something. Though for him to throw it out and buy steel next time he wants one and it will be charged out I guess is no big deal financially, for me, wow, the materials and gear he's given me.
I was shocked the other day when I bumped into him and he said he's had an offer of $3,000 for a lathe, a HUGE lathe which runs near the length f his workshop. I asked "didn't you spend $10,000 on the last chuck"?
Yes!
He said he'll get $3,000 for the turret lathe with multiple chucks and steadies included. Unbelievable, I spent more than that on a small Chinese thing.
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