Home Made Aluminum Car Plaques - Casting from Aluminum Cans

Originally Posted by losthope

Made my own car club plaques for my car club buddys and I classic cars, from old aluminum car parts and aluminum cans, I did a thread already awhile back in the metal casting section heres the link if anyone wants to check it out:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/metal...b-plauqes.html

Ok to follow the rules of the contest and make it official with the piece of paper in the background that says "scrapmetalforum.com" I took a picture of the type of scrap i used(cans and aluminum car parts),and a picture of two of the finished car club plaques on my 66chevy truck and 54 ford sedan....

heres the pictures with the "scrapmetalforum.com" paper :








and heres the process pics from the thread i made awhile ago....

I thought some of you might like to see what else I do with some of my aluminum I find besides scrapping it for cash! I own and have owned a number of classic cars/hot rods it is my other hobby, I belong to a pre-1964 made car club.....for those of you that are not hip on traditional hot rods back in the 50's and 60's young hot rodders formed clubs and one way to identify who belonged to what club besides looking at the car club logo and name stitched into their jacket was by the car club plaque/drag plaque hanging from the rear bumper or back window...kinda like a bumper sticker or billboard.....the rurmor is that most likely it started by a high school kids with hot rods that were in a car club started it by taking a casting class in school and thats how car club plauqes came about....but who knows for sure?

Our car club name is "LuckyLosers" were are a small club of 5 guys that are close friends that hang out and work on each others classic cars and BBQ and cruise to car shows together ,we did some reading up on sandcasting and picked up a furnace cheap on craigslist and tried our hand at casting or own plauqe!!

heres what happend:

Getting aluminum melted:

making the mold:




mold ready:


poured:


open mold: