Old Time Workshop Skills Revived. Old time skills can save lots of time & money while restoring vintage machines, car parts, or for making items to use around the house or ranch.

The biggest problem encountered by vintage restorers, is that many
essential parts are usually corroded, or deteriorated beyond their useful service life.

The search for good quality replacement parts can be a real pain, not to mention the countless hours spent trying to source, or locate that small, but absolutely vital part necessary to complete your restoration or rebuild project.

If the part happens to be an item which was originally machined, then the original part can be measured & used to create a new part either by the restorer, or by a professional machinist.

If the restorer has the necessary workshop skills & equipment, then
the remaking of a special part can be easily undertaken in the home workshop for the relatively low cost of materials only, as time is not generally factored into the cost.

But, what if your vital missing part is made of aluminium, or bronze, and cant be made by machining alone …what then?

It would appear that the only thing to do would be to visit your local foundry jobbing shop (if you can find one), to make a pattern from the old part, and recast a new component. Which will then require machining & finishing before it\'s ready to be assembled onto your restoration project.

The professional cost of this exercise (pattern, casting, machining) can be quite significant to say the least, some restorers may simply accept the high cost as part of the restoration process.

The budget conscious restorer may not wish to pay for costly professional work of this nature, which will empty your wallet at a rapid rate.

More and more people are turning to the alternative: DIY, or Do It Your Self, it is possible to carry out a complete DIY
rebuild, and remake many of the parts required for restoration of old
antiques or machines.

Metal casting in the home workshop is the answer.
Many people consider metal casting to be a black art, and difficult to learn… nothing could be further from the truth.

The skills required to remake wooden patterns of small parts is not as
difficult to learn as you might expect, like wise the basic skills required to make sand moulds, melt metal and pour into sand moulds can be learnt by anyone who has the ability to absorb and learn basic workshop skills.

General workshop skills are all that\'s required to fabricate the simple tools & equipment required to carry out hobby foundry work. But, you do need to know how to arc or MIG weld and use other workshop hand tools.

Metal casting in the home workshop can complete the overall picture when it comes to major or minor restoration projects. Your home foundry can save you a lot of time & money while undertaking restoration projects.

Once you master the basic metal casting methods, you\'ll realize how valuable your new skills are. You could even turn your new skills into hard earned cash, once you know what you\'re doing.

You\'ll learn valuable technical skills along the way, foundry work is like
riding a bike…once you learn you never forget.

Gone will be the days spent scrounging around swap meets or clearing sales looking for that illusive, or unobtainable part… with your new found
skills you\'ll now be able to make your own replacement parts in the home
foundry workshop.

Items the home metal foundry worker will be able to create range from: small handles, various knobs, wheels, bushings, bronze bearing shells, name plates, covers, grates…the list of remake items is limited only by your imagination.

A free ebook download is available from our web site, which allows people to read at their own pace to see if metal casting is for them or not.

There are also other free ebook downloads that contain old time
workshop hints & formulae, which could be quite handy when working on old items.

Or perhaps you would like to know how to make your own charcoal, well that\'s all there to, and for FREE, so you can get to it and make several bags of charcoal for your blacksmith forge, cupola, or furnace.

The metal casting info site, http://www.myhomefoundry.com has helped

many people all over the world to discover how easy it is to utilise
hobby metal casting to reproduce almost any part required for restoration projects. As well as remaking parts for all kinds of vintage & classic cars or motorcycles, oil engines & tractors.

The URL of the web site is:
http://www.myhomefoundry.com

Contact information.
Col Croucher.
Administrator of
The home foundry publications.
http://www.myhomefoundry.com
colin@myhomefoundry.com
fax + 61 3 57 224 654.
Ph: + 61 3 57 216 244.
52 Ushers Drive.
Waldara 3678
Victoria.
Australia.