Time to build a moulding bench

[the artfull-codger]

(08-23-2015, 07:47 PM)Pete O Wrote: Thanks fellas, will try the local farm supply places today and hopefully come up with some bentonite. Amazing how prices of stuff is jacked up with different applications, i bought a bag of vermiculite from the foundry supply, bag nearly as big as myself for $7.00, saw tiny little bags of it in the garden supply while I was looking for bentonite, $8.50 for a bag about the size of an A4 page.
Any thoughts on the bathtub?
Also, I have a cement mixer that mounts on the 3pl on my tractor, was thinking of using this to mull the sand. It's a bit of a pain to take on & off but once in a while is okay.
BTW I'm in Gippsland, bottom right-hand corner of Australia, about 100km east of Melbourne. Graham, let us know where you're travelling when you come, it's a big place.

 Hi Pete, glad to see your fixed up with the bentonite, I also hate being ripped off with tiny "punters packs" of stuff, [we love trade prices & bargains] We're going to ozz in september to our daughters, she lives in a place called joondalup,on the outskirts of perth,there's a model engineering club there so I might pay them a visit hopefully.
  Regards Graham.