What I did last Saturday

[minime911]

Hi,

As our latest acquisition has some detailing work left according to my maybe a little too fuzzy thoughts, I just want to show what you can create in your spare time.
I made this part from a full bronze disc that I turned to a ring and a brass plate that I drilled and filed according to a picture taken from a friend’s car.

I soldered both parts with silver solder as well as the socket to one piece.

After getting it chromed it will find its place on the bar in front of the radiator...

Although there are many things you can buy, there are others you can't and with some tools some knowledge and a lot of endurance you can make nice things that give you great satisfaction.biggrin2

Greetings:

minime911

[wreckmaster]

Great job:icon_thumleft: Really well done:) Will look superb on the car:icon_thumright:

[minime911]

Hi,

If you want to see how I made aluminum sand casting a few weeks ago, I can show as well.
You just need a metal bucket, plenty of grill coal, an Inox steel kooking bowl, an air compressor an old aluminum wheel and form sand...

It was the first time I did it at home and it just went perfect.;)

Greetings:

minime911

[Cadbury]

Quite a craftsman... aren't you ! Well done :icon_thumleft:

And there is me.... can't even wire a plug :(

[wreckmaster]

Hi,

If you want to see how I made aluminum sand casting a few weeks ago, I can show as well.
You just need a metal bucket, plenty of grill coal, an Inox steel kooking bowl, an air compressor an old aluminum wheel and form sand...

It was the first time I did it at home and it just went perfect.;)

Greetings:

minime911

Please show us:icon_thumleft: It is always usefull and fun too see such things:)

[.Lefteris.]

Bravo!!!!!
Great work! :icon_thumleft:

[minime911]

Please show us:icon_thumleft: It is always usefull and fun too see such things:)

Hi,

And here the procedure for sand casting:

1. Drill a big hole in the lower part of a bucket and fit a piece of exhaust tube in it.

2. Fill the bucket with grill coal and light it up with some petrol.

3. Connect the air pressure tube to the compressor and blow air from below into the coal. Not too much pressure but constant flow.

4. Cut an old aluminum wheel (can also be one from a Ferrari) into pieces that fit into the cooking bowl. I even recycled an old Porsche 911 piston that was broken.

5. Cook as if you would make a soup but take care as aluminum is melting only at about 700 deg.C.

6. Fill liquid metal into prepared sand forms and hope that it comes out as
you wished it to be.biggrin2

Of course you need special casting sand that you can find on Ebay and you need to prepare the forms with the patterns that you have to make first but that is a different story…biggrin2

The pattern was copied from a picture I took of an other Bugatti 57 that I also measured up roughly:icon_thumleft:...

The last picture shows the finished lables after painting.
The letters and numbers are not painted but only polished...(with Belgom Alu polish)

Greetings:

minime911

[wreckmaster]

Amazing:icon_thumleft: Brilliant job, the result became perfect in my eyes:)
I`ll take my hat off for your skills Minime:icon_thumleft:

Are you educated in metal work or are you self learned?

[Cadbury]

Now is brilliant ! 11 out of 10 :icon_thumleft:

Can I put an order in for a plaque for my new house (when I get it);)

[minime911]

Thanks for the comments,

Old-timers were always part of my life as my father bought the first ones when I was 7 years old.
My father was truck driver and there was always something to repair either on the truck or on one of the cars.
I made the whole technical school that in those times was with plenty of workshop time (up to 16 hours per week plus normal school).
Most of these workshops were mechanical handwork (filing) and I followed the career of electrical engineer. Still now I don't know why I wasn't choosing the mechanical career.

Since nearly 20 years I work as automotive development engineer for an OEM component and systems supplier.
We have completed well our workshop at home with the necessary tools as we are restoring our cars mostly by ourselves (apart for the seats roofs and carpets).

For the casting job I had no experience but there is nothing to loose apart from a metal bucket and a bag of coal.
Some info about that can be found on the net and in some way it isn't much different from lead soldier casting, isn't it??biggrin2

Greetings:

minime911

[minime911]

Now is brilliant ! 11 out of 10 :icon_thumleft:

Can I put an order in for a plaque for my new house (when I get it);)

lollol

[.Lefteris.]

AGAIN BRAAAAVOOOOO!
:clappinghands: :clappinghands: :clappinghands: :clappinghands: :clappinghands: :clappinghands:

[cin333]

great job! congratulations!

[5OO]

:icon_thumleft: Awesome work!
I couldn't even get the step of building the mold lol