[Steam-engine] Make your own Iron Castings!!

[Dan Donaldson]

    I stopped to see the work that Rick and his team have been doing on the 
Tod engine last Friday and I was really impressed at the whole thing.  It 
would suggest that anybody who is going to be in the area of Youngstown, OH 
stop in and see the progress.

    The idea of a iron casting workshop is great.  I would like to attend 
and get first hand experience pouring a casting.  Go for it Rick.

Dan Donaldson


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Subject: [Steam-engine] Make your own Iron Castings!!


I am trying to gauge interest in a proposed program for the Tod Engine 
Foundation.   I am considering offering an Ironcasting workshop at our site.

The workshop would be for the better part of one day, and would start with 
making a sand mold from a pattern, either something brought in or supplied 
by us.  Then we would charge and fire our cupola furnace and pour the molds 
that were previously made, and end the day with shaking out he molds and 
taking home the castings that the participants poured.

Most people never have the opportunity to witness molten metal, and even 
fewer have worked with it.  Through this I workshop would like to give 
people the opportunity to do something that they may not have the chance to 
do or see anywhere else, and also teach some of the principles of 
ironcasting in the process.

Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham offers this workshop for a fee of $200 and we 
would charge the same for a nearly identical class.  I would like to take 
the Sloss class to see how they teach theirs.

If there is sufficient interest we would probably start offering this next 
year.

So my question to you is, does this sound like something that would be of 
interest?  Would you give up a weekend and some cash to come to Youngstown 
to pour your own castings?

Thanks

Rick Rowlands
Executive Director
Tod Engine Heritage Park
William Tod 34" x 68" x 60" Cross Compound Steam Engine
Youngstown, OH
http://www.todengine.org/
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