[Jewelry making - Article 00222] - Re: [Orchid] Making your own casting machine

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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>     ...and melt the silver how? buy putting it in top of heated flask
>     and returning to kiln? or torch I mean take it right out and slam
>     it down where is the metal? Confused...... 

    Teri, if I understand your question correctly (lack of punctuation
    produces more confusion!), I can quote something by Charles
    Lewton-Brain on steam casting, which I got off the Orchid Bulletin
    Board some years ago: 

    "...One melts the metal in the sprue base in the investment..." 

    See also the information on steam casting in Don Norris' website:
    www.frii.com/~dnorris 

    If you can find it anywhere, there's a nice booklet entitled, _Lost
    Wax Steam Casting_, by Barbara Felisky, published by California
    Crafts Supply, Anaheim [or perhaps Orange], CA (copyright 1971). [I
    don't think the business still exists.]
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