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A few weeks ago at Tillers International, we held a small foundry class. Students learned how to construct a small foundry, source metal, make green sand moulds and cast soft metals such as aluminum, brass and bronze. </div>
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The forge requires a few extra skills to build, but essentially it is a metal bucket with a hole in the bottom, lined with fireclay. You can then build a simple lid by packing wet fireclay into circle of sheet metal tack welded together and reinforced with some thin wire which acts as rebar. </div>
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You fill the forge with charcoal ( we make our own ) and introduce a forced air source to the hole in the bottom. A hair dryer works well. This system will attain temperatures well over 2000 degrees. A crucible is set in the forge on top of the charcoal and scrap metal is added to the crucible.</div>
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Here we are making two-part green sand moulds.. Its just two simple wooden frames that latch together on the sides. The green sand is wet enough that when packed, it does not need to be supported on the bottom. The method requires some planning, but is fairly simple. The trick is too think about where your center line will be. If you look at most cast objects, you will notice a line running down the center, where two halves of the mould join.You press the object you wish to mould into the packed sand halfway to the centerline. You then repeat the process using the opposite side in the second mould, adding a tapered tube of some sort (we use a piece of pool cue ) to the top mould which allows metal to be poured into the cavity created. Remove the objects, and you are left with two cavities which each form one half of the mould. Stack the boxes and secure the latches. The wet sand holds the shape of the object you pressed into it even when turned upside down.<br />
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Now the fun part. Pour the molten metal into the moulds through the holds left by the pool cues.</div>
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Let it cool, then bust it out. The sand can be sifted and reused. </div>
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That's my sweetheart "Ol' Faithful" on the right. </div>
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After a long summer of drinking Painkillers and reading Charleston History books on the beach, it is time for the big fall project. Here it is. A 9 ft fiberglass dinghy that needs a 3.5 hp restored outboard, some custom teak gunwales, and maybe some teak benches. I already have a name for her. The "Gold Bug"</div>
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A standard Spring Project is building fences. Here we are using a bobcat to drill a 4 ft hole. Then you just grab an 8 ft railroad tie off the wagon with the front end loader and drop it in the hole. A plumb bob and some high tensile wire later, you have a corner post.</div>
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Several years ago, a good friend and mentor told me about Tillers International one afternoon, saying, "you need to at some point go out there. It's everything you are looking for." </div>
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In 2008, while living in Boston, MA, I took the train out to see the place and take a blacksmithing course.</div>
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Volunteering one very picturesque evening to help bale some hay, I felt that rare and elusive emotion of complete serenity. There was something about this place. I begged for an internship and two weeks later, I left my job, sublet my apartment and was back on the farm. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. I reluctantly returned to Boston in the Fall to continue school and normal life (normal for me anyways). Four years later, after moving from one thing to the next, exploring the depths of myself, I remembered my Eagle Scout training. "When you find yourself lost in the woods, Stop Moving. Look around for landmarks, try to get your bearings, and if possible, retrace your steps." So in February, I took the train back out to Kalamazoo, Mi., and spent two weeks at Tillers volunteering my time, and convincing the staff, why I belonged there full-time. Here are some photos of that trip. </div>
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I spent most evenings reading or playing around in the wood and metal shops. Here is my second wood turning attempt. The first snapped in half. </div>
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That's Pip the Mule, a rescue, and a flock of merino sheep, We also keep cashmere and angora goats. </div>
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Two Belgians, Bob and Tom having breakfast on a foggy morning. </div>
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The gate on the chicken coup was a project I built 4 years ago as an intern at Tillers. The task was to create a gate that chickens, guinea fowl and ducks could fit through, but goats and sheep could not. Happy to see it still in use.<br />
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My new apartment on the farm the first night was sparse, and bathed in moonlight.</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the clamps now off, it was time to inspect our work. To use up leftover Marine Tex, we went ahead and ran a bead top and bottom around the metal gunwales. Thirty years of dings and dents had left some suspect spots and the last thing we needed was more holes in the boat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Not bad for the first coat.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ol' girl's looking good.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">William was in town from Hawaii just in time to remount the tiller. Remember that the oversized tiller mount was the root cause of the entire structural failure. The tiller post had rubbed a hole in the transom gunwale which resulted in catastrophic failure that fateful day in Charleston Harbor. The trick was to remount the old tiller without causing the same problems. The solution? A plywood spacer block.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was cloudy and windless last day in town for William...that is until the sky's opened and 10 knots of wind showed up just in time to load up and head to Sullivan's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPO7PT3Ur2Vm47hNq7Br7Ye5gRzZMyriLXBDJsclZD5nb7srqA1op8-dahyphenhyphenLkf2iPE7XxVzKlCeSw1qN4qo5Rqo8oE9Vm8sJZ8v5bf8PWN90JSVZJvQN79tv4S7PakYV39HKw2wJSIbHH/s1600/mobile+pics+245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPO7PT3Ur2Vm47hNq7Br7Ye5gRzZMyriLXBDJsclZD5nb7srqA1op8-dahyphenhyphenLkf2iPE7XxVzKlCeSw1qN4qo5Rqo8oE9Vm8sJZ8v5bf8PWN90JSVZJvQN79tv4S7PakYV39HKw2wJSIbHH/s320/mobile+pics+245.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>MadBrainBasicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092346679181308866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017684835783902199.post-75583382625487497492011-04-13T11:55:00.000-07:002011-04-13T11:55:34.549-07:00Fate Loves a Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In order to see the full extent of damage to the hull and deck, we had to remove the aluminum banding riveted along the gunwales. Since half of the rivets had ripped through, drilling out the rest was fairly quick. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6OW9Xhu_7MfB_SV1_UsJsnBcplN2AqGn-HYP1N3EmC1qKx53qM7O-RKhdQinsZl7VvVZQ40tmB2wV9wimK9WJlC2bRiwAxJ4_oZxmf-4YaCAawiKHgPV5NNKM7ziLt750U1tSm_7cF20/s1600/mobile+pics+117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6OW9Xhu_7MfB_SV1_UsJsnBcplN2AqGn-HYP1N3EmC1qKx53qM7O-RKhdQinsZl7VvVZQ40tmB2wV9wimK9WJlC2bRiwAxJ4_oZxmf-4YaCAawiKHgPV5NNKM7ziLt750U1tSm_7cF20/s320/mobile+pics+117.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After drilling out the rivets, I used a large flat head screwdriver and a rubber mallet to tap the banding off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And now the hero of our story appears. A true knight in shining armor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We worked a thick, gloopy consistency of Marine Tex between the deck and the hull and then all around the edges as heavily as possible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The trick now was to devise a clamp arrangement that would hold the seam flush on both a horizontal and vertical axis. Thankfully, I have plenty of vices.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</a>After a morning at Charleston Executive Airport talking with a flight instructor about what it takes to get a private pilots license, I got a tour of the Cessna 150 and the Piper used for instruction. After spending countless hours flying that same Cessna in FSX, it was cool to sit in the cockpit and understand (for the most part) what all those knobs and dials do. Heading back to reality, I decided to spend the afternoon removing the tiller mount on the boat.<br />
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<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> It was only after I unpinned the tiller that I got a good look at what thirty five years of friction can do to metal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAGOUrp7BT6k5XSK8RFVgOoPZrGhstB9EHpoYMDBbALe2q4rFcobG_BWzh6MfsLFoaQodoAYMft12jZc_bJEtk1AozvmrRX3yCH2GjSaDY4-8xI48sCHYjtlbU5T9kAXoJtQQnx4eke9P/s1600/IMAG0016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAGOUrp7BT6k5XSK8RFVgOoPZrGhstB9EHpoYMDBbALe2q4rFcobG_BWzh6MfsLFoaQodoAYMft12jZc_bJEtk1AozvmrRX3yCH2GjSaDY4-8xI48sCHYjtlbU5T9kAXoJtQQnx4eke9P/s320/IMAG0016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was going to take a little more work than I thought. It was nice to find that I wasn't going to have to deal with fiberglass. I was however going to have to drill out the rivets and remove the metal banding to get a good look at things and that meant I would have to get a rivet tool. Thank goodness for Harbor Freight. What costs fifty five dollars at Lowe's cost me fifteen dollars at HF. Nice.</div>The next step was to remove the tiller mount. Holy corrosion batman. It took almost an hour to remove the six bolts.<br />
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Back in February, my good friend Andrew and I had a rare half day off together, and we had talked all week about taking the boat out. The boat is a 13' 9" Sunfish. Believe me, this beauty is OLD and beat but wow does it have some of the sexiest lines I've ever seen. And it flies. Supersonically.<br />
Usually, our course of action is to trailer the boat out to Sullivan's Island early in the morning and just pull the whole rusted two wheeled contraption by hand down the 200 yard boardwalk over the dunes, down the empty beach and into water. Then we have to drag the trailer all the way back to the road before returning to the beach to set the rigging and finally taking off into the surf.<br />
That particular morning we met at our usual rendezvous point and immediately the concern was raised that perhaps the weather wasn't ideal for a day on the water. It was February mind you, about 50 degrees with a 25 knot offshore wind gusting pretty good. The Coast Guard apparently didn't think anyone should be out there and had issued a small craft advisory. Literally throwing caution to the wind, we decided, what the hell, we're here, lets just reef the sail a little, and stay in close for a few tacks. The main goal for the day really, was simply to not get wet.<br />
About fifty yards and one minute into a port side tack, we caught a gust and immediately flipped. Having gotten the worst of it out the way we drug the boat back up to the beach through the surf, dumped it and headed back out. A couple minutes later we were back in the water. "What do you think?" Andrew asked me. "It can't get any worse" was my response. "Let's try a downwinder." So we set out to launch again, soaking wet under our rain jackets. This time, we got the hang of it and we able to jib our way down the beach toward the Charleston Harbor. Our original plan had been to sail the length of Sullivan's, cross the channel that enters the harbor, circumnavigate Ft. Sumter and return back to Station 21 in time for a quick beer at Poe's tavern before heading into work that afternoon. Well, we got to the end of Sullivan's Island. About the time we rounded the point where the beach gives way to Spartina, looking across the white-capped channel toward the Ft. Sumter island, we began getting blasted by that offshore gust that had been tamed somewhat by the shoreline. We were on an offshore tack about 300 yards out when the boat started to take on more water than we could bail out. Thankfully, I had thought to tie a 8oz sour cream container to a cleat on the deck. The waves seemed to get bigger and deeper as water poured over the deck. We tried desperately to jib but the boat had become so heavy that it wouldn't respond to the tiller. The wind had pushed us into irons, and the sails refused to catch. We were sinking and drifting out further. I looked back at Andrew and said, "If we can't get it around in another minute, get ready to swim." I don't think he really wanted to hear that considering that he had just bought the boat a month earlier. He was, all the while, frantically bailing out the seawater from the cockpit with that tiny sour cream container while simultaneously thrusting the tiller arm as hard as he could trying to get the bow to turn. I was pushing the boom back and forth trying to gain some sort of control. Then suddenly, as we sat literally at the waterline 400 yards off the beach, the wind shifted just slightly and the main filled up jerking the boom around and smacking me in the forehead. The boat was so heavy however that instead of capsizing, she just slowly crept around until we were able to sheet in and gain some momentum parallel to shore. At this point we both started bailing as fast as we could. Still we seemed to be taking on water even though the waves were pushing us from just off the stern on our starboard side. "I think we are going to make it!" Andrew yelled. " Hold that tower just off the bow!" I yelled back, still scooping. A couple minutes later, we got back behind the cover of the shoreline and went under wings as the wind bent around the point. We got to within about 50 yards of the beach and the small crowd of dog walkers and joggers who had gathered to observe, when the boat began to sink. Luckily, it was low tide and when we finally had to jump ship, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the water was only about chest deep. We were able to drag the boat back up to the shore where upon close inspection, we found that we had actually ripped the transom from the deck above the tiller mount. No wonder we were taking on so much water. After a twenty minute walk back to retrieve the trailer soaking wet and exhausted, we reluctantly headed back to drain the boat, secure it, and drag the whole broken rusted mess back to the road. Slumped over a Pabst at Poe's, Andrew said coolly, "Well, it can't get any worse than that."<br />
Here's a closer look. And yeah those are popped rivets.<br />
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