<p dir="ltr">Funny you mention the laminated sheets, Dmitry and I are working on just that. A "certification binder" if you will (even if you won't, we're still doing it)</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 4:15 PM X tX <<a href="mailto:trnqfl@gmail.com">trnqfl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thoughts!<div>- It would be great to have a laminated sheet (to do dry-erase safety checks on) for this and other tools with very dangerous/surprising energy sources.<br></div><div><div>- A simple "you must have a buddy" decree should be made and may clean up a need for multiple role certifications.<br></div><div><br></div><div>With those two guards in place, anyone certified should be understanding and safe with it and have some idea of the variety of failure modes to watch out for ("make sure you have an extinguisher and at least X gal of water at hand, make sure you're not pouring near concrete..").</div></div><div><br></div><div>R</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Allan LeSage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allanlesage@gmail.com" target="_blank">allanlesage@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hiya,<br><br></div>More notes!<br><br></div>We'd like not to bring the foundry inside while it's still hot; after two hours (and a li'l nap) the interior was still hot to the touch. Discussed briefly with Phil who very graciously agreed to put the foundry in its cubby later in the evening. Phil suggested that the foundry would be safe to store inside at 100 degrees, we talked about obtaining a pyrometer to test--Phil offered to bring this up at the weekly sshc meeting.<br><br></div>We accidentally burned through the bottom of that black tub, the plastic melted. It cost $5 at Home Despot so not a big deal--I don't think the metal went through obviously but the sand was maybe too thin. Also the second tub which contained the lid warped a bit. More sand, maybe larger bins.<br><br></div>Yes to some sort of official ruleset, or something toward a certification workflow. I think there are two roles: the melter/pourer and the person responsible for the foundry, what do you think? We can do more than one pour in a day, maybe it takes a number of pours to become eligible to operate the foundry, which has the benefit of being able to operate alone, lead a new group, etc. What do you think, Brady?<br><br></div>Yes to doing this again, maybe in two weeks?<br><br></div>Let's do a sand casting next time, I have in mind to do this <a href="http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/alumflasks01.html" target="_blank">http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/alumflasks01.html</a> .<br><br></div>Sand casting is kind-of messy and requires water; if the space is crowded like last Saturday then there's really not enough room. Do we have a portable folding table or some such? If so we could move to the hall close to the loading dock. IMO that's kind-of better, even, because it's easier to clean up an empty space. I think we can recondition the sand with water in a bathroom, e.g. that weird spraybooth on the first floor?<br><br></div>Andrew I accidentally stole your shiv/multi-tool, will return to you ASAP.<div><div class="m_3513636957237574460h5"><br><br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Brady Huddleston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gungthar@gmail.com" target="_blank">gungthar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">We should work on some sort of offical ruleset as to how to pour. At some point, it might be nice to have members organizing their pours through a certification line.</div><div><div class="m_3513636957237574460m_-7431434567742141448gmail-h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 22:28 Mike Gerges <<a href="mailto:gerges.michael@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerges.michael@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p>What I saw was awesome, I'll definitely dress better for the weather next time...we should do a next time... Or even practice making some sand molds or something</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Jan 13, 2018, 3:28 PM ulrich00 <<a href="mailto:ulrich00@gmail.com" target="_blank">ulrich00@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I would like to note that I missed it and I'm sad :<</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Allan LeSage <span><<a href="mailto:allanlesage@gmail.com" target="_blank">allanlesage@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Any comments or notes or whatever?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Here's the blog post I was looking for concerning the propane PSI at the burner: <a href="https://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/tag/homemade-foundry/" target="_blank">https://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/tag/homemade-foundry/</a> .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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