I leave you with this.  Make of it what you will....

Edited May 18, 20233 yr by Scott NC

Cast?

 

reminds me of this

 

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  Did you make that?  Yes, it is cast in anumilum.  Allunimum.  I mean eluminuionm. Maybe it was pot metal.

Nooo, I couldn't do something that clean I just pulled from internet.

My boss used to say aluniyum.

  You should never sell yourself short.  You can do it! I think aluiniminilioman works as long as you can say the word and convey your meaning.  

I think your cast looks good, I got side tracked and forgot to mention that..

I have wanted to try casting, its on a long list of things I want to try.

What a fun sculpture. If you can cast that you are unlimited. I thought it was welded at first. 

I thought it was forged. How tall is it?

I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sails. ~ Semper Paratus

  Thanks, Jeff.  I have been side tracked, just lately, as well.  I have a list of things to try, too.

  Aric, it was an old project and I haven't casted in a long time, but it was fun.  I am getting the itch to get back into it but will try iron instead.  Aluminum and brass have a cold look to them, I don't want to mess with bronze, so I think I will build a cupola and take a whack at it.  I'd like to make an iron butterfly.....

  IFCW, only 4" tall.  The whole skeloton was 20" tall.  It was for a halloween display.  A forged one would look better, I think.

Casting iron would be a good place for lost foam casting, you're going to need some petrobond or resinbond sand  b ut a cupola is pretty easy to build. Fun projects.

Frosty The Lucky.

  Well, I dug out all my electronics stuff and started re-learning it all.  My cast aluminum skull became the victim of experimentation.  I was going to illuminate the nose holes as well but eyeballing drilling for the led's from the backside came out through the face.  It's a pretty crude attempt but I am going to focus on automation from here on out.  PWM is so fun.  Motors.....

  I also learned how to add audio to my you tube video as well.    

 

That's pretty cool Scott. Why didn't you drill the nostrils from the front? Even if you have to make the holes meet another from the rear it'd sure be easier than matching up drilling entirely from the rear.

I wish I had some talent for animation, I keep seeing giant friendly spiders guarding the driveway, porch, etc. Maybe bringing the mail in. <sigh>

Frosty The Lucky.

18 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Why didn't you drill the nostrils from the front?

  I don't really know.  I guess I got in a hurry, and that's probably why I'm not much help on here giving advise on the forum.  I generally get the results I'm looking for using my methods, but sometimes it blows up in my face.  I'd like to help others, but this is a good example.  

Oh no Scott, examples of how NOT to do something are as valuable as any good info. Just imagine how many folk you saved from making the same mistake. OR better still the young bright folk who will figure out how to do this from the blind side using basic shop tools.

Frosty The Lucky. 

  I am always glad to be a example how not to do a thing....  Nobody held my hand on ADC's.  I still fry things inadvertantly.  Even with the almighty internet. 

I suppose someone holding your hand on an ADC would be bad if the wattage were very high.

Frosty The Lucky.

  It's the voltage that matters. .  

  Scott.

  Then again, watts the difference?

 

I like it. 

Ohm, I think it matters. 

I have motors and leds and stuff to give beastie some life with your help. I was just going to put his head on a spring but with what you can do his head should be able to turn side to side and eyes light up and jaws clamp shut and open. 

  Thanks.  Beastie with clamping jaws and a rotating head, perfect!  I still like the bobbing head on a spring effect too tho.  Hmmmm, mayby a combination of things?  

  I'm not so sure I like that background sound at all anymore.  I might have to try and change that but not sure how.  I need to learn youtube too.

  I like giant friendly spider ideas too.  

Here's one without the aggravating sound track.  I could not remove it.  So I deleted it.  Sorry moderators.   I'm working on motor control now.  I am working on an animated chicken head at this time.

 

That'll be pretty cool Scott. How are you going to articulate it mechanics wise?

Frosty The Lucky.

  I changed my mind about the chicken head project, I have some better ideas.  As far as the mechanical aspect, what ever I can scrounge up and make work.  Anything go's.   I have boxes of odds and ends, motors, gears, springs, etc...  I've wanted to try all thread and a nut connected to a motor, to make motion, kind of like an acme thread and nut but it might bind up.  Idk.  I even have some tiny air cylinders and valves from a project that never happened and considered compressed air.  It pay's to hoard mechanical thingy's.   When I complete something I may post a topic. 

I was thinking the old Disney type animatronics, rods and levers actuated by multi lobe cams, similar to the innards of a coocoo clock. A rotating platter with cams and catches spaced about it. As it turns different rods, wheels, levers, etc. make contact and are moved moving whatever the other end is then returning to it's rest position. Clocks typically use a rotating drum for cams. 

There are websites showing how they work and showing examples, some on grand scales, say Bells of Big Ben.

Frosty The Lucky.

  I have seen the old animatronics and may dabble in them if time allows.  It's all not as easy as it seems.  I duct taped that skull onto the shaft of a gear motor and plugged the + wire in and it went back and forth as I planned but some thing in my program went wrong at the end and it kept spinning clockwise, wrapping the wires around it and finally pulling the whole breadboard along with it.

  I think the designers of the old manual mechanical fortune telling machines were genious.

  I do have "Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements" for inspiration and ideas.  Fun stuff.