Metal mouth grill

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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:10 am

Anyone try anything with this?


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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Hand-Schaub » Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:54 pm

You know... I'll be doing a little bronze work for a friend in the next few weeks. I can easily add a mouth grill to the batch. But bronze DOES shrink slightly and the studio ones were a pot metal (all kinds of metals mixed) I think. I would need to make a rubber mold still which would cost a few bucks. Metal nowadays cost somehting like $20 a lb to raw cast... this includes the investment process, sandblast and cutting.

I can see a bronze cast mouth grill (based off of a studio grill) be around $50 a piece. If that doesn't scare anybody then I can go ahead with this...

Other option would be to ask if there is an alluminun pour. In that case a NEW mouth grill would have to made, molded and cast because alluminum shrinks a lot more than bronze and a larger master would accomodate for that.
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:23 pm

I'm still interested in this
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:01 am

I have never had any experience molding and casting with metal. Having said that, I will be attempting to cast a part for my Delorean Time Machine soon. If that is successful, I may attempt the Cylon Mouth Grill. The Delorean part is a lot more complex to muld so I am thinking the mouth grill should be easy.

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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by GoldCylon » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:19 pm

What are you going to cast. I did casting back in the 70's back in high school.
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:11 am

I clayed up my metal mouth today, will start pouring the mold tomorrow hopefully
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:29 pm

Hey, that's cool! Pics?
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:13 am

One coat of rubber
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:35 am

Really exciting to see this. :cylongold:
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:29 pm

I will be attempting to pour these in metal, its my first time doing this so don't get too excited :)
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:43 pm

Any step in the forward direction with this is exciting to me. But I take your point. :wink:
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:59 pm

How did your mold turn out?
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:35 pm

Ran out of rubber :) It took more than i thought so i had to buy another 1kg :). It also takes 24 hours to cure. The base is done, will pull it out tonite and prep for the other half of the mold to be poured :)
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by FLIGHTLDR SERPENTINE » Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:58 pm

What type of metal will you be using to cast in it?
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Re: Metal mouth grill

Post by Brisfx » Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:57 am

First half done just poured back of mold
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