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By Stephen Chastain. This handy book gives you the know-how to get your engines back to life and save money. Learn to make all the tools and jigs needed to quickly produce top quality replacements in your own home shop. Heavily illustrated. SC, 64 pages.

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Stephen Chastain, a mechanical and materials engineer, shows the beginner how to make a sand mold and then how to hone skills to produce high-quality castings. Written in non-technical terms, the sand-casting manuals begin by melting aluminum cans over a charcoal fire and end by casting a cylinder head. Illustrated. SC, 208 pages.

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This continuation of Chastain's metal casting books includes several advanced techniques. Detailed are the solidification of metals, aluminum alloys, copper alloys, iron alloys, directional solidification, useful foundry projects and more. Also includes a bibliography, appendices, and list of suppliers. SC, 208 pages.

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If you have built Stephen Chastain's furnaces then you know that melting a large amount of metal is easy. Properly preparing enough sand for the molds to hold all of that metal can be a real chore. Now Chastain has built a professional grade foundry sand muller to take the work out of making molding sand.

This is NOT A TOY but a REAL MULLER that has enough torque to fold up a section of 3/8-inch steel plate. Now you can easily prepare your molding sand fast enough to keep up with your largest furnace. This plan is scaleable up or down to make a small core sand muller or a 42-inch muller from a 500-gallon tank.