[How To Turn Styrofoam Into Solid Aluminum] (Viewer #5,966,278)
So other than looking cool, what WOULD be some practical uses for this?
[How To Turn Styrofoam Into Solid Aluminum] (Viewer #5,966,278)
So other than looking cool, what WOULD be some practical uses for this?
Aluminum headers for your ’73 Vega? Oh, you said practical. Jewelry. Rotors for an electric motor; add magnesium to lower the weight. I think the dash panel of the Prowler was a piece of cast magnesium, but oxidation could be an issue without an inert or reducing atmosphere (nitrogen or carbon monoxide, respectively)–but that’s a guess. I’ve never cast any magnesium.
Isn’t this just the lost wax casting process? Pretty cool regardless.
You could hunt squirrels.
Solid aluminum Styrofoam peanuts! Wait — I’m not thinking out of the box.
Getting James Bond to talk?
You too can have a life size replica of your manhood, without the awkward and painful side effects that the former Bruce Jenner experienced. And, or a handy hobo murdering bat.
You could make an aquarium tank for whales to fit inside a Klingon Bird of Prey if, you know, you should happen to be in that situation….
You’ll never have to buy another disposable syrofoam cup.
You’ll shoot your eye out, you’ll shoot your eye out…
Casting gears for anything and everything, like the ratchet mechanism on a Roman siege weapon.
Us reenactment geeks use the lost wax/lost foam casting for things like buttons, belt buckles, sword fittings, crossbow triggers.
Dice like games used to be played with deer “knuckles” I’ve seen a set cast in bronze, heavy and awesome. (This is the source of the terms “knuckle bones” or “roll the bones” for dice)
What, I can’t order brass knuckles to California? Them hippies love some recycling though, they’d appreciate this much more than me throwing my empty cans at an Occutwit rally.
One of my class mates in metal shop circa 1979 used this method to make a flail. I’m still not sure how he got permission for a flail as his project as it was supposed to be against the rules to construct weapons in class but whatever. He turned down a bunch of points about an inch long out of steel round stock and stuck them into a Styrofoam ball he picked up at an arts and crafts shop. Stuck a half link of his chain into the ball and cast it in the shop foundry. He attached the chain to a branch he picked up in the woods near his home for a handle. It came out looking pretty bad-ass.