Hello from Vermont

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Hi Jonbabbz,

Thanks very much. Here are a few pictures of projects and processes I've used while casting.

They are, in order, 1. a Gingery lathe with tooling and patterns, 2. a milling attachment that enabled me to cut rotary slots on a Tesla turbine disk, 3. a typical drag with greensand ready for casting several parts in one pour, 4. the milling attachment used as a horizontal mill with a homemade cast flycutter -- here facing a casting, 5. a Tesla disk style compressor stage -- disks and housing are all machined castings, 6. a Stirling engine I made for my father's 83rd birthday as a gift.

For the first 2 years I used the lathe and milling attachments I bought no stock aluminum. Everything was cast from melted down pistons except a few scraps of thin aluminum sheet I salvaged from an electronic chassis.