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Cast aluminium/brass parts

  • 18-02-2011 9:15pm
    #1
    acier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭


    I've been doing a bit of playing with molten metal lately, melting and casting brass and aluminium.
    I'm also skint and was wondering would there be a market for reproduction parts to replace broken fittings and parts for classic cars or old style cast number plates or even the "Ace" style number plates.
    I've found a couple of places doing the number plates but there's not many doing reproduction parts.
    What do you guys think?


Comments

  • #2
    acier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭acier


    Anyone?


  • #3
    gn3dr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭gn3dr


    Could be interesting although I'm not so sure there would be a big market out there. What volumes could you do and what kind of sizes - e.g. could you cast a set of throttle bodies?


  • #4
    acier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭acier


    Maybe not throttle bodies just yet, I don't have a mill or lathe yet. I was thinking of simpler stuff like window winders or brackets, stuff like that. Maybe for people who have broken parts like this and can't find replacements, I could make a copy from their part.


  • #5
    Sids Not
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭Sids Not


    With Ebay theres nearly nothing you cant get nowadays...its the type of thing you'd do as a hobby..unless you come across some item thats impossible to get , then you could make a few and you might be lucky...
    Even making say, a window winder..they would need to be chromed then...so that means sending them to the UK...more expense..


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