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Product Description
A sturdy, symetrical plant-hanging bracket, in the likeness of a tree branch, for mounting on a pattern-board compatible with foundry flasks used in old-fashioned hand-made mold-making for alluminum and iron casting.
Project for some friends. Contact Melville Metalworks, Athens, NY, to get a quote. MADE IN USA!
The three guide-tabs position the two symetrical pattern pieces in-line with each other on opposite sides of the board, and will need to be severed from the bracket with a hot knife after both pattern halves have been affixed with reliable glue or epoxy, or else they will produce unwanted metal "flash" (edge leaks during casting).
Drafted wood-like details for a clean draw from the sand!
3D-prints via FDM printers will require at least two coats of sandable primer paint such as used in automotive body-repair work, and careful sanding by hand of course. Better 3D-printers will produce better results of course, however I personally will be taking this whole project through to fruition (painted alluminum castinga for a hanging Morning Glory garden) on a secondhand $150 LONGER brand printer. It's an ambitious little workpony. <3
Without cores and core-prints, this bracket must be drilled in four places; the holes are modeled as-is for filing with plasticine putty (a removable modificatin) OR for improvisation with core-prints and resin-sand cores....such as how cast pipe-fittings are usually made.
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