I managed to hook up with a art/sculpture group that can cast my manifold using the “Lost-Wax” method.

This is much more accurate than Lost-Foam and is something that would be fairly reproducible in the even that a pour goes bad.

Hopefully I will have a finished product by the end of January.

From there it will be a matter of having the part heat treated followed by final machining.

Tom

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From: Thomas Mann
Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 7:14 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft

I am working on my intake manifold. I have it fashioned/modeled out of Styrene and will be having it cast in aluminum using the “Lost Foam” sand casting technique.

I am looking for a ceramic coating material associated with this process as well as some fillet wax.

Anyone out there have a source for the same?

Thanks.

T Mann

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