All this is grist to [Cody’s Lab]’s mill of course, so in the video below the break he attempts to use a thermite reaction in a rough-and-ready foundry, to make a cast-iron frying pan.
Casting supply items include chemical compounds used to bind alloys, as well as sands for making molds. A metal foundry may specialize in making items of a particular metal, such as iron or steel, and ...
OSHU, Japan--Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry where ...
Steel has carbon content between the two, making it both hard and malleable. For centuries, iron and steel were produced in small batches by artisan foundry-masters who worked ores and crude foundry ...
He approached the leaders of the foundry to see if they could craft the parts from iron, using traditional industrial methods. “He basically asked us if we’d be willing to work out a deal and build ...