Books on Metal Casting

I thought I would start a thread for books related to metal casting.

I'm going to start this thread off with the first book I read on metal casting:

"The Metal Casters Bible"
C. W. Ammen

This is what the book looks like:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56505223/metal%20caster.jpg

Here is the link on Amazon with all the info like number of pages, ISBN number, etc

The Metalcaster's Bible: C. W. Ammen: 9780830699704: Amazon.com: Books

I know it seems expensive, if you look around you can find them cheaper though

Scott

You can also smelt and cast precious metals into what is called "Dore' bars"

Doré bar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is often the first step in recovering precious metals. I make Dore' to electrolytically refine certain metals myself. If you have material mostly composed of gold/silver and maybe other platinum group metals, that are at least 90% of the total, you could potentially make more melting into dore' than trying to sell as scrap.

Here is a good book for smelting precious metals:

How to Smelt your Gold & Silver
Hank Chapman, Jr.

Here is what the book looks like:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56505223/Hank%20Chapman.jpg

Here is the link on Amazon with all the info like number of pages, ISBN number, etc

How to Smelt Your Gold & Silver: Hank Chapman: 9780966267808: Amazon.com: Books

Scott

ahha just the book I was looking for!! I am finally ready to upgrade from buttons but wasn't sure exactly how. Thank you noble you have helped me more than you know your posts are very informative and well detailed. Thanks again Matt

you can also check out these one
Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Volume 2 (Paperback)
by Steve Chastain (Author), Stephen D.Chastain (Author)

Just trying to bring this thread back to life. Does anyone else have anything to add?

$40.00 US. There goes my daughter's education fund.