supplies of castings in Australia ?

[steamingbill]

I've been reading various books in workshop practice series.

They sometimes refer to companies that supply castings

ie this mob have various castings available

The College Engineering Supply (http://www.collegeengineering.co.uk)

and other companies are referred to as having castings for example the basic shell of some home made dividing dividing heads are castings purchased from various places.

Generally if I google looking for woodwork stuff I'm fairly successful but when googling for metalwork stuff in Australia has been relatively frustrating. Maybe I dont understand the correct keywords to use I usually get lists of big suppliers rather than people who would deal with hobbyists.

I dont want to learn how to cast things yet.

Am curious - Any hints ?

Bill

[Ueee]

Hi Bill,
There are a few, here is thread from a few weeks back started by Ben. http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/casting-suppliers-177416/

Cheers,
Ew

[bwal74]

Hi Bill,

It was a fruitless search for me in Australia. There were some suppliers but they didn't really have much. I would of thought that someone supplied TAFE's and schools etc for metalworking projects (and hopefully home workshop people). There were places in England but I didn't get much further than looking at their websites. If you do go ahead with it, let us know. There's a bloke in the US I bought a South Bend Tee Slot Cross slide off which turned out really well. I can't remember their address but look in the Hercus section and you'll find my OP about it. He did do a lot of other (mainly South Bend orientated) stuff.

Ben

[PDW]

I just picked up another casting from the foundry yesterday & discussed with them a couple other projects I have in mind. They're quite happy to work with me on it, to the point of making the patterns for me if I wish (and am prepared to pay).

As I've said previously, I really don't see that there's an issue here.

PDW

[bwal74]

Bill,

This is the site I was talking about:

Metal Lathe (http://www.statecollegecentral.com/metallathe/index.html)

the freight is a real killer though.

Ben.