Metal Casting at Home

A total of 21 videos  showing how to make aluminium castings with a home made foundry. Making a cylinder head for a single cylinder hit and miss engine.Core making moulding casting and machining operations.The engine is an Olds Gearless, a 4 srtoke with no gears.An eccentric on the crankshaft opreates a ratchet wheel to give the necessary timing. originally created by Myfordboy.   http://www.youtube.com/user/myfordboy

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Setu : Herman Miller

Studio 7.5 gives us a behind-the-scenes look on the making of the Setu chair. Design process.development started in 2003, one continuous contour , from 45 prototype to fully functional cinematic  comolded polypropylene evolutive structure, the beauty of this chair is the minimalism in term of material nature , less hinges, not treated aluminum only used in car design so far, less pieces, one main idea. The chinematic spine is one main assembly of easily recycled piece of 2 type of polypropylene to achieve structure and movement .no instructions, no control …genius

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