Pouring a lead keel for a sailboat. Check out the bottom pour pots.
Enjoy
W.Parks
mrbill2
Pouring a lead keel for a sailboat. Check out the bottom pour pots.
Enjoy
W.Parks
mrbill2
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Gives a whole nuther meaning to a "pot of lead."
Good to see you back on the forum.
John
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Want to see them pour the lead in the next EP118
Thanks
W. Parks
mrbill2
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Want to see them pour the lead...
I've watched a couple videos of builders pouring keels. It's tricky business; I've seen a couple blow-outs.
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Been there, done that. Quite exhilarating to have an iron clawfoot bathtub brim full of lead empty itself into the keel mould - in under 30 seconds. Whoosh, at 800 degrees. (I guess I made the drain pipe too big.) As fun as it was, I don't ever want to do that again. Ever.
In 2005, a buddy and I built a wooden 34 foot sail boat for a client from the ground up. Took us 2 1/2 years. When it came time to pour the keel, I got elected because I had 35 years of bullet casting under my belt....
Even worse was getting that humongous chunk of lead out of the sand mould in the ground after it cooled.
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A hot job. Don't they ever flux to clean up the alloy??
Great fun to watch. I think if I had to weld overhead I would have on a full suit.
Steve
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When I was working, our company was a supplier of equipment to foundries. I can recall visiting a foundry out east that had a govt. contract to make parts for Abrams tanks. They poured some kind of steel alloy, an armor based formula. The turret was made in one piece/pour, from an overhead ladle (nothing close to our ladles) into a huge floor mold. The molten metal took forever to cool. If the part did not turn out OK, they had to recycle the metal and re-melt it. Nothing involved in their work was “quick and easy”.
Tom
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Making the sand mold to pour the sail boat keel.
mrbill2
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Ive been watching this kid a couple years now. He had an earlier poor almost go south but he caught it. A good episode is getting the LIve Oak sawed somewhere down south.
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What we all have been waiting for. The pouring of the keel. A lot of hard work and they can be proud of the job they did.
Enjoy
mrbill2
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