Bell Aluminium 185 mm

This is a first draft of a pattern for casting an aluminium bell for a home foundry. The 3d print will be the pattern to be placed in a greensand casting flask.

This is the first in a series of experiments casting aluminium bells using 3d printed patterns and as such may not work at all but I would be very interested to hear if you have any sucess with this pattern if you try it yourself.

I intend to print this with fairly thick walls to with stand the casting ramming up process but as I