RE: Dedicate Major Havoc rollers

I've been hearing all sorts of neat mould-making stuff from a friend at
work that makes reproduction Storm Trooper suits... Anyway...

Spin casting is essentially a cavity mould on something like a lathe--
thus the mould can be "spun" around. Molten aluminum is "sprayed"
inside the mould as it spins. The aluminum builds up and makes a
(hollow) aluminum casting. Kinda cool. It sounds like it's
(relatively) cheap to setup-- maybe $200-300 to setup, but then each
casting is cheap (maybe a couple bucks depending on size).

One of those neat solutions looking for a problem. ;-)

-Clay

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> From: Mitchell Rohde[SMTP:bovine@eecs.umich.edu]
> Reply To: vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 7:02 PM
> To: 'vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu'
> Subject: RE: Dedicate Major Havoc rollers
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> Clay, maybe you could explain "spin casting"? I am not that
> familiar.
> I would think a little tricky milling would do the trick...
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> mitch
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Received on Thu Oct 22 16:03:29 1998