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Casting Aluminium Parts


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One of my old penny arcade machines was missing the entire coin mechanism so I built my own internal mech but then I was left with a gaping big hole in the front of the machine.

 

Most of the time these are just a plain piece of steel with a slot cut in it to suit our coins but I’d seen online a coin entrance that actually had 1d (1 penny) cast into the entrance so I started researching.

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Following lots of you tube videos I went about building my own furnace.

 

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After I was happy I could melt the Aluminium cans down I started working on the pattern.

 

Started with a piece of clear Perspex which I cut to size and marked out the holes etc.

 

Scribbled our the rough shape of the 1d and set about carving it out of the perspex as usual I forgot to take photos along the way but here it is very roughly

 

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After more sanding and some paint do you could actually see what was going on it started looking like what I was after

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Before I went throwing any more money at this thing I decided to attempt one out regular playground sand which gave me the “ yep this might actually be do able

 

Don’t laugh to hard

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Ordered some green casting sand and had a go at the real deal wasn’t sure what was going to happen being so thin but what the hell let’s have a crack

 

Sadly no photos of the mould apart was to excited to get making

 

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Well here goes nothing

 

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Straight out of the mould

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Cut off the unwanted vents and stuff file and sand the raised 1d them polish the whole thing and there I have a new coin entry for my old penny arcade machine using old beer cans

 

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Pretty happy with the first attempt next time I’ll make it a little thicker to give me more meat to work with for the finished product but it serves its purpose.

 

Now what to make next

 

 

 

 

 

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Good effort @ddstoys. I like the fact that you have given this a go, lots would not ! Also sometimes you invest $$$$ to create a part, that is way above its value, but that does not matter because the fun is giving it a go, and getting pretty damn close to the desired outcome. I cast stuff back in the day at tech school ( you had to bring in an old mower or car pistons to melt down ) It was great fun, the end result was not perfect, but we had fun trying. Keep up the good work fella :D
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Good effort @ddstoys. I like the fact that you have given this a go, lots would not ! Also sometimes you invest $$$$ to create a part, that is way above its value, but that does not matter because the fun is giving it a go, and getting pretty damn close to the desired outcome. I cast stuff back in the day at tech school ( you had to bring in an old mower or car pistons to melt down ) It was great fun, the end result was not perfect, but we had fun trying. Keep up the good work fella :D

 

Yeah it’s a bloody expensive coin entrance considering the cans where free [emoji23]

 

But I enjoyed doing it and learning the process and great to be working on stuff for me.

 

 

Every person I tell about it tells me a horror story be careful of this be careful of that.

 

Stuff that let’s just have a crack and see what happens

 

 

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