Foundry Works 1

During the last months I’ve been helping Luke Rickert —of Elisenberg Engineering— to move forward a foundry project. I had a limited experience on foundry business that comes from the rebuilding of a cabinet saw and Luke’s project became a really interesting experience.

All begins when Luke asked me about foundries in Catalonia. He currently lives in southern France and he is really close to catalan speaking lands.

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The contractor’s cabinet saw with sliding table S250 —made in Italy— was bought to the woodworking tools trader Miquel Martínez almost as scrap. The seller was really fair and honest and never tryed to hide the real problems of the machine. However, I was heavily interested in this given its dimensions and overall buildin quality. Moving the machine at home was done by the seller itself. This machine is mainly built as a sturdy steel plate cabinet that supports a cast iron top where the 250mm saw tilting mechanisms are attached.

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An unusual software engineer working on dirty and greasy machines

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