Metalwork
Metalwork
Casting
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry - produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminium and cast iron. However, other metals, such as bronze, brass, steel, magnesium, and zinc, are also used to produce castings in foundries.
- YouTube: Gingery Gas Fired Crucible Furnace
- YouTube: Melting Cans With The Mini Metal Foundry
- YouTube: Very Simple Aluminium Furnace
- YouTune: Melting Aluminum Cans into Ingot
Sharpening
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpening_stone - whetstone. use honing oil to carry away swarf. or maybe water. or just use dry?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil - honing oil is lighter than mineral oil, so mineral oil mixed with a lighter oil like kerosene can work.
Powder metallurgy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_metallurgy - a term covering a wide range of ways in which materials or components are made from metal powders. PM processes can avoid, or greatly reduce, the need to use metal removal processes, thereby drastically reducing yield losses in manufacture and often resulting in lower costs.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pressing - a high-pressure, low-strain-rate powder metallurgy process for forming of a powder or powder compact at a temperature high enough to induce sintering and creep processes. This is achieved by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure.Hot pressing is mainly used to fabricate hard and brittle materials. One large use is in the consolidation of diamond-metal composite cutting tools and technical ceramics. The densification works through particle rearrangement and plastic flow at the particle contacts. The loose powder or the pre-compacted part is in most of the cases filled to a graphite mould that allows induction or resistance heating up to temperatures of typically 2,400 °C (4,350 °F). Pressures of up to 50 MPa (7,300 psi) can be applied. Other great use is in the pressing of different types of polymers.Within hot pressing technology, three distinctly different types of heating can be found in use: induction heating, indirect resistance heating and field assisted sintering technique (FAST) / direct hot pressing.