by One Street Components

Build your own aluminum casting foundry. Cast bicycle shift levers or whatever else you have in mind. Learn to melt and cast scrap aluminum for profit or just for fun. 

While much of this book discusses the bike shift lever project from One Street Components, readers will learn how to cast just about anything using scrap aluminum and make a profit doing so. In addition to casting, the book also offers guidance on product marketing and sales. Starting with foundry and casting basics, readers learn how to build an inexpensive charcoal-fired furnace using a flowerpot or fired-clay bricks. An entire chapter is dedicated to sorting and melting scrap aluminum so that readers will always have an ample supply of quality metal for casting. The book wraps up with product marketing and sales, using bike shift levers as the example, but showing how any cast aluminum product can be profitably produced in a backyard foundry.

In the back of the book, readers will find: a detailed table of aluminum alloys to help them sort their scrap and design drawings for the bike shift lever. Backyard Aluminum Casting is for anyone who wants to try casting scrap aluminum into bike shift levers or just about anything else that can be made out of aluminum.

Softcover. 8 1/2x10. Unabridged edition. 144 pages. Photos. BRAND NEW!