The Gustavus Thread

[PistoneScrapProcessing]

Gus I just cut 120 estimated ton of two foot rail last week. I would never sell for reroll it usually takes six months min. to get paid for your load. I had all kinds of old Carnegie rail from back in the day I never have thought about rail enthusiasts wanting to buy it. Heck I haven't even saved a piece. I do love anything railroad related though. 40 tons of shredd should be three loads to the yard if you can get big containers and load it with a bobcat. Heck I would even stage the material and live load the truck. What are they paying for shredd right now where you haul your scrap to. Keep in mind the market is gonna tumble next month.

[gustavus]

Gus I just cut 120 estimated ton of two foot rail last week. I would never sell for reroll it usually takes six months min. to get paid for your load. I had all kinds of old Carnegie rail from back in the day I never have thought about rail enthusiasts wanting to buy it. Heck I haven't even saved a piece. I do love anything railroad related though. 40 tons of shredd should be three loads to the yard if you can get big containers and load it with a bobcat. Heck I would even stage the material and live load the truck. What are they paying for shredd right now where you haul your scrap to. Keep in mind the market is gonna tumble next month.

I could well imagine that you could satisfy every rail enthusiasts needs and flood the market with your next load of Carnegie rail, not my favorite cut I'm not fond of the weird angles you have to deal with to many torch movements. But I will say this though rail steel does cut nice and the weight sure adds up fast.

I'm only getting $150.00 Canadian a ton, the US and Can dollar are so close at the moment the dollar does not make any difference its the mileage that I am from any major port or mill that make the low prices. I have to deal in volume to make any profit.

The reason I hesitate on this white goods pile even though its free is that I'm after cars for catalytic converters and the aluminum for my winter project, home foundry. After I have dealt with making my morning coffee will post a few pictures of my foundry product.

[gustavus]

Some of things I cast from my home foundry, inside the core box I have placed patterns for a rosette, downrigger weight and scuba weight mold.

My preference of scrap aluminum is automotive, most of my patterns are counterfeit, in other words reworked items that I had purchased. If you look closely at the downrigger and scuba mold you will see the rework done using Bondo the famous autobody filler.

By casting my scrap aluminum into a product that sells, I'm averaging $19.00 a lb instead of $0.70. there's a good forum on backyard foundry for those who care to learn more on the subject.

Anyone with a sharp eye can tell that the pattens or rather the sprue is located on the wrong side of the patterns which means if there was any floaters in my molten aluminum they would have found their position on the inside of the scuba and down rigger molds were the surface area should be free of debris.

Pouring from the other side of the pattern would assure that the floaters would be on the backside were they could be easily removed with out causing any blemishes to the inside of the finished mold. Sometime even the inexperienced foundry-man gets lucky this pour tuned out perfect with out any imperfections inside to molds.

The ebayer started his backyard foundry about the same time I did and often found myself bidding against him for the same item ( pattern ) to add to our product line. http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-LB-Downrig...item2570ef162c

There you have it Foundry 101 in a nutshell.