Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] New Member Intro

If your into investment casting you might want to visit the HomeFoundry
egroup.

I'll be going up to Montana in about a week to visit a foundry where the
owner is supoosed to help me with building a wax injection machine for
making wax patterns for investment casting.

I'm in the process of building my investment cast shop. I've got most of
the tools made already. I might be able to do some investment casting for
you, once everything is ready. Contact me off list about this if you like .

Smoke

>I build 1/4 inch scale models of steam locomotives, mostly using brass,
>working by myself at home. My shop includes a mill and lathe, among
>other machines and tools. All machines are manually operated.
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>Since many of my models need custom investment cast parts, I thought of
>using rapid prototyping technology to produce the patterns. To that end
>I'm a novice user of AutoDesk Mechanical Desktop, and will outsource
>the pattern production. Yes, I could do it in house but the cost and
>time increments seem to have a negative payback.
>
>Hopefully you won't mind if from time to time I bounce an idea off you
>or ask a question about MDT.
>
>If I'm on the wrong list, please let me know so as to save bandwidth.
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>Thanks
>
>Rod Miller
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