easy way to make manypicks in a short time

by **ryanhaynie** » 26 Mar 2007 19:21

ive developed a way to make a quanity of picks take lath designer thingy mebobber the kind to cutt designs into stuff make you the kind of pick or rake you want on your computer and floppydisk and do that on both sides of a 1 inch piece of steel or aluminum your choice of metal and do the reverse onthe other side and take a drill and put a hole through the top and put the peices together with bailing wire and then melt the metal of your choice in a large cast iron pot or smelter and pour it in the mold and let it dry andbreak it open and you can have em ready to use i can make entire pick sets with this method but dealing with any kind of melted metal is extremely dangerous and for heavons sakes dont do it in your house especially if you have a basement because you wont only probbaly start a fire but youll melt right through the boards. i have done this with melted titanium and the picks last forever many people probbaly wont have the resources to do this but my brother is a blacksmith and mold maker so i know what im doin so unless u know what your doin dont do it and the molds can be used over and over again

by **Firearm** » 26 Mar 2007 19:35

I guess I'm kind of a cynic, but you piqued my curiousity...how do you get the titanium to the 3032.6F required to melt it? Most companies use a vaccuum arc furnace to do this.

by **Gordon Airporte** » 26 Mar 2007 19:47

Firearm wrote:I guess I'm kind of a cynic, but you piqued my curiousity...how do you get the titanium to the 3032.6F required to melt it? Most companies use a vaccuum arc furnace to do this.

No problem - I think Dremel makes one as an attachment.

by **Shrub** » 26 Mar 2007 19:54

Cast picks wont be strong enough,

Do you realise how much it costs to have moulds made? to make them yourself is a hard learning process if you havent done it before,

Youve made hundreds? how do you get on without finishing them?

Can you show us some pictures of your pics?

This idea was mentioned on another thread the other day i wonder if your inspiration came from that?

Please show us your pics, im not saying i dont believe you i just want to see them along with the moulds youve made to make them,

by **cjames73** » 26 Mar 2007 20:16

if your casting molten titanium wouldn't that melt the steel or aluminum moulds?

like said earlier, post some pics.

by **Eyes_Only** » 26 Mar 2007 23:40

The best part about this post is not about his "unique" development but it was the fact he only used one period in his entire post. And it was not at the end.

by **Knows-Picker** » 27 Mar 2007 1:19

if your casting molten titanium wouldn't that melt the steel or aluminum moulds?

Yes, thats why you have to use kryptonite and farie dust to make the titanium picks. I guess the bailing wire that he uses to hold the molds together are made from faire dust dipped kryptonite string too because I know that 3000 degrees would melt "human" bailing wire and the molds would fall apart into 2 pieces. But knowing this I am sure that he used the right stuff, or he wouldn't have posted such an astonishing method to make hundreds of titanium picks.

Pictures of the titanium pictures would help turn this sarcasm into admiration, instead of the begining of seething rage and mal-content for story tellers.

by **raimundo** » 27 Mar 2007 12:07

I love my tritium crystal picks :lol:

by **Anero** » 27 Mar 2007 12:49

i knew it, Raimundo has super picks he isn't sharing :S

by **mfschantz** » 27 Mar 2007 18:09

No seriously guys, I'm surprised you don't believe him. I'm just upset that he posted before I did because I've been using this method for the past two months.

by **Jaakko** » 27 Mar 2007 19:17

mfschantz wrote:No seriously guys, I'm surprised you don't believe him. I'm just upset that he posted before I did because I've been using this method for the past two months.

Then maybe you or the OP might post some fancy pictures about the process and making of those cast picks?

If someone thinks their cast picks are weak, try titanium nitride coating. Gives a nice gold look to your picks and very hard surface. That kind of coating is used on some HSS drill bits

by **mfschantz** » 27 Mar 2007 19:20

Wow, I really thought the sarcasm in my previous post was more evident than it apparently is. Well, now you know.

If the OP is serious though, some pics of the picks would be nice.

by **Chucklz** » 27 Mar 2007 23:30

OP,

You seem to have dropped some of these: . , ; : -

How do you deal with molten Ti at those temps without creating oxides? Of course, you could do it with an Ar or N atmosphere, but why bother when you can just cut the Ti?

by **Kaotik** » 28 Mar 2007 0:29

Wow, I read the original post 3 times and got more confused after the 3rd time than I did the 1st. That's one heck of a run-on paragraph.

Never seen the statement of being able to make hundreds in the original post though, "quanity" and "entire pick sets" but no hundreds. Where did that come from?

I'll be sitting in my corner in disbelief till I see some pictures.

by **Eyes_Only** » 28 Mar 2007 1:39

And we still have yet to see a single picture of the finished product from this revolutionary casting method.

easy way to make manypicks in a short time

easy way to make manypicks in a short time

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