What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

steviejr92 said:
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This is round 2 with sand casting. This time I used the finer mesh sand I had and packed it a little better than the first time around. Although still a fail, I feel I’m getting a little closer. Pouring from the top of the enclosure left a hole that I decided to fill with jb weld 🤣 at least this way you can see the shape I’m going for.
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Very cool!
 
steviejr92 said:
First time casting was a real learning experience. After messing up the mold several times I finally got a decent mold. I’m thinking of going with petrobond to get finer detail and not to have so many craters! I’m the meantime I’m going to a finer mesh sand that I have laying around here!


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Looks like what my 12-year old made in art class last month. Lol

Just kidding.
 
steviejr92 said:
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This is round 2 with sand casting. This time I used the finer mesh sand I had and packed it a little better than the first time around. Although still a fail, I feel I’m getting a little closer. Pouring from the top of the enclosure left a hole that I decided to fill with jb weld 🤣 at least this way you can see the shape I’m going for.
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Dude, that’s a hell of a lot better. A lot of old engine blocks were cast this way.
 
Guardians of the analog said:
In 7 years my youngest will be 18 and then I have no reason to continue living. My family and everyone I know will be better off without me. What's so hard to grasp about that?
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There will always be young people in the world in need of a mentor or help. Giving to others really can renew your life's purpose, as cheesy and overstated as it is. I too don't want anyone going down this path. Seen too much of it around me. It's a pain that never leaves a family.
 
Guardians of the analog said:
Well, I'm considering committing suicide when my youngest graduates highschool, so maybe I should take up gun building now that I'm done with pedals. I could make it look like an accident and make sure my family gets the insurance money. Win Win.
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Didn’t know how to respond to this, but… Nah man, no matter how old your kids are, that’ll fuck em up for life. I’ve been there too, and it sucks, but I really hope you feel differently by then.
 
steviejr92 said:
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This is round 2 with sand casting. This time I used the finer mesh sand I had and packed it a little better than the first time around. Although still a fail, I feel I’m getting a little closer. Pouring from the top of the enclosure left a hole that I decided to fill with jb weld 🤣 at least this way you can see the shape I’m going for.
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Have you looked at BigStackD on YT?? Guy does a crap ton of sand casting.. mostly asmr type vids, but it sure doesn’t look like
steviejr92 said:
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This is round 2 with sand casting. This time I used the finer mesh sand I had and packed it a little better than the first time around. Although still a fail, I feel I’m getting a little closer. Pouring from the top of the enclosure left a hole that I decided to fill with jb weld 🤣 at least this way you can see the shape I’m going for.
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it ‘ll buff out 😂😁
 
Guardians of the analog said:
Well, I'm considering committing suicide when my youngest graduates highschool, so maybe I should take up gun building now that I'm done with pedals. I could make it look like an accident and make sure my family gets the insurance money. Win Win.
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Hey man, I don’t mean to be that guy and if this is just how your sense of humor is feel free to completely ignore this.

I know I’m relatively new around here, but I’ve seen and learned from a countless number of your Boss builds. You do great work, and have definitely made this forum a better place.

It sounds like you might be carrying more weight than anyone should do alone. I’ve been there, it can feel like there is no way out. I don’t buy the win win idea. I’m sure your family would much rather have you around than any insurance payout and so would we.

You can dial or text 988, it’s available 24/7, free, confidential. Talking with a real human who gets it can help clear the fog.

And again, if I just misunderstood your humor, please forgive me and disregard, but regardless, you matter here man. Stick around.
 
Guardians of the analog said:
In 7 years my youngest will be 18 and then I have no reason to continue living. My family and everyone I know will be better off without me. What's so hard to grasp about that?
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You are hopefully only joking, nonetheless ...
Words have a way of manifesting themselves.



A friend I used to jam with, talented jazz-minded multi-instrumentalist, did exactly what you're suggesting — she committed suicide when her daughter turned 18, having long-planned to do so — the plan coming to light only after the fact. Daughter going from single-parent to no guiding-parent to learn from or to love and be loved; the mother not seeing the daughter reach her full potential — mother and daughter both deprived.



Yet another friend committed suicide with no pre-meditated plan. At her funeral I saw what she meant to her family, what her unexpected action did to her family.



Several of my friends have lost someone to suicide; I'm certain many here on the forum have lost someone close to them, a friend or family-member that left this life of their own volition...
It is not the way.




I may joke a lot about many things, I even enjoy some dark humour cause if I don't laugh it'll make me cry...
However, suicide — I find no humour in it.


You said your family would be better off without you — I cannot grasp that because of all that you have contributed to this Pedal-Building Community, which I'm certain must be but a drop compared to the ocean that is family.

I wish you peace and healing.

Sincerely,
FF
 
Feral Feline said:
I may joke a lot about many things, I even enjoy some dark humour cause if I don't laugh it'll make me cry...
However, suicide — I find no humour in it.


You said your family would be better off without you — I cannot grasp that because of all that you have contributed to this Pedal-Building Community, which I'm certain must be but a drop compared to the ocean that is family.

I wish you peace and healing.
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Well said, FF. Yesterday was Fathers’ Day here and coincidentally my late dad’s birthday. He departed this place forty years ago, not through suicide but through petty crime (and I’ve certainly lost friends and family through suicide).

My point is that I still mourn this loss, which never really goes away, though it recedes gradually. It leaves a great chasm or void in one’s life that never truly mends.

So @Guardians of the analog: please don’t do anything to harm yourself, even in jest. The world will be less without you in it.
 
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steviejr92 said:
I actually have! I’m subscribed to him and have seen him mix different alloys! I want his furnace that he makes, I think it’s called a devil forge
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It’s a brute, for sure!!
Does he sell the forge, or have plans available? I never dig into that.
Honestly however, it doesn’t look *TOO* complicated.. like a rocket stove on ‘roids

I absolutely love his channel, and his two frenchies.
I need his mystery stash boxes for cold beers and rando Macca’s lol.


Man, cheesin’ and ribbing aside, that enclosure looks pretty damn cool.
I would love to work with some enclosures like this.
How well are you able to control wall thickness?
I bet a wire wheel or abrasive roll-lock wheel on a die grinder would smooth it up very well.
 
JasonWickersham said:
It’s a brute, for sure!!
Does he sell the forge, or have plans available? I never dig into that.
Honestly however, it doesn’t look *TOO* complicated.. like a rocket stove on ‘roids

I absolutely love his channel, and his two frenchies.
I need his mystery stash boxes for cold beers and rando Macca’s lol.


Man, cheesin’ and ribbing aside, that enclosure looks pretty damn cool.
I would love to work with some enclosures like this.
How well are you able to control wall thickness?
I bet a wire wheel or abrasive roll-lock wheel on a die grinder would smooth it up very well.
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So Im not sure if he has plans but i do know there are several sizes of the Devil forge product.

In terms of wall thickness these are anywhere from 5mm to 6mm in thickness (depends on what part you're measuring). I made them thick for ease of flow for the metal and for a heavy duty enclosure. They weigh about 1.5 lbs each. How well am i able to control it depends on the how well the mold is made. So far i havent seen any shrinkage which means the gate and feeder im using are doing their job.
 
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