My foundry furnace is based on the Dave Gingery design. However, I use a Ron Reil type normally aspirated burner (modifications as per Rupert Wenig and Robert Grauman). This setup allows me to cast prototype pieces, aluminum pattern pieces and short runs.

The larger burner is used in the furnace above. The larger burner is called the monstermongo. It uses a 12 inch piece of 1 1/4 inch pipe, a 2 1/2 to 1 1/4 inch reducer and a #54 sized jet. The smaller burner is called the micromongo burner. It uses 6 inch piece 3/4 inch pipe, a 2 to 3/4 inch reducer and a .045 Tweco tip for a jet. The smaller burner is for use in my new smaller tilting furnace.

Here is my tilt furnace nearing completion. It has a stainless steel cylinder and is designed to use a #10 crucible. To see more information go to my Tilt Furnace page.

Starting a new tapered snap flask to help with double sided pattern plates. It will use two pins at each end to help draw the pattern plate smoothly from the mold. The flask has a 5 degree taper on each side. This taper allows you to remove the flask and slip on a steel pour jacket. The pour jackets are much cheaper than flasks to build. They tend to help prevent runout between the cope and the drag layers of the mold. Opposite corners of the flask will have releases to allow quick removal of the flask from the mold. To see more about my snap flask go to my snap flask page.

Here are a couple of molds that I poured. Here I was using Petrobond II.