10-18-2013, 10:20 PM
been working on a pulley for the transmission on the shaper that I have been working on most of the summer.
was able to get the old 3 ph 3 hp motor to run on a homemade phase converter the other day. plus today I poured another pulley like the one I did on Wednesday, that one had a big gas blow from I'm assuming core gas in it. And I'm getting the feeling that this one I made today has the same thing wrong with it. if its not too bad I plan on having it welded up, but the first one had a pretty big hole in it so it went back in the crucible before the rain hit today.
gas blow in the first casting
todays casting
was able to get the old 3 ph 3 hp motor to run on a homemade phase converter the other day. plus today I poured another pulley like the one I did on Wednesday, that one had a big gas blow from I'm assuming core gas in it. And I'm getting the feeling that this one I made today has the same thing wrong with it. if its not too bad I plan on having it welded up, but the first one had a pretty big hole in it so it went back in the crucible before the rain hit today.
gas blow in the first casting
todays casting
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