How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts (2nd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: William A. Cannon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 29916
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0830604146
Dewey Decimal Number: 671.2
EAN: 9780830604142
ASIN: 0830604146
Publication Date: February 1, 1986
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This is a make-your-own guide for hard-to-find small parts! Using this excellent sourcebook as a guide, you can easily make high quality, defect-free castings for almost any purpose ...at amazingly low cost! Just some of the countless uses you'll find for this potentially profitable skill ...making obsolete or vintage car parts, hood ornaments, garden and fireplace tools, kitchen utensils, automotive parts, replacing broken antique parts, reproducing sculpture, plaques, and other art ...all kinds of decorative and useful objects for your own use or to sell!Writing in nontechnical language, author William Cannon provides all the instruction you need to cast any part ...putting an end to those long and often unfruitful scavenger hunts through shops, flea markets, and swap meets. This time- and money-saving second edition of the 'bible' on casting small metal and rubber parts guides you through all the basics of foundry work. You'll learn how to reproduce or create new items of brass, bronze, or other metals ...or almost anything made of rubber.Cannon shows you how to organize your own home workshop - the equipment you'll need, how much it costs, and how to set it all up! You can even open your own full - or part-time business. You'll discover which metal is better for certain jobs and why, how to choose molding sands, how to design and produce molds, and how to repair castings. Plus information is included on coremaking, casting problems and their causes, finishing castings and correcting defects ...even chapters on grinding, polishing, and buffing. Plus the completely updated and revised information on casting rubber parts will bring up up-to-date on all the recent developments in polyurethane rubber.
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 Excellent August 17, 2008
Excellent book for casting small rubber parts useful in auto restoration
worth the money!!!
how to cast small metal and rubber parts August 15, 2008
a good book well put together with a lot of good information witch i enjoyed reading
 Book review November 25, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I felt the information was rather old. I'm still looking for a reference I can actually use.
The only rubber molding source January 2, 2002
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is the only source I have ever found for non-commercial molding of rubberlike compounds. While this 1986 edition does not address possible new developments in this area (Loctite now sells material which appears to be the same as the Devcon product highlighted in the book), it is the only information I have ever seen on creating rubber parts for the home hobbyist and restorer. The chapter on weights and volumes is valuable, as these materials are rather expensive. The metal casting section is similar to others on the market, and is primarily focused on sand casting of aluminum. This limited focus, skimming over most other methods and materials, limits it to a four star rating. If you want to mold rubber parts though, this is IT.
Excellent book, easy to understand. Good buy for the $11 February 14, 1999
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
An amateur can quickly learn casting techniques to make small and simple metal and rubber parts by following examples and illustrations in this book. The Make it yourself foundry equipments chapter is helpful for beginner to start with this hobby without spending too much money. However, the main technique presented is sand casting, there is not enough examples or info on other casting techniques.
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