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Thursday, June 07, 2012

hydrogen in aluminum pour









well my one piece tank didnt come out of the shell clean. there was hydrogen in the aluminum from not degassing enough or something. i guess if you want something done right you have to do it twice. frustrating when you do everything right and something stupid like this happens. i didnt take many pictures of the one piece cause i was pretty dissapointed. the other side to my 2 piece barely made it. there was a lot of porosity in the gating but the carved parts survived. looks like i will get 2 or 3 tanks out of this i hope.