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Article: Bringing metalcasting to the backyard.(Shakeout: in case you didn't know ...)
- Article from:
- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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The lure of melting metal and forming it into useful objects is too great for many people to resist. After all, that's how many metalcasters ended up in the business today. But there is a small section of the population that felt the same pull toward molten metal and chose not to follow it. People in this group chose other careers for one reason or another, but still needed a way to satisfy their metalcasting urges. That's what happened to Lionel Oliver II, a suburban New York native, before he realized he had a clay flower pot, a coffee can and the ability to easily secure aluminum. Out of that, Oliver's backyard metalcasting facility was born.
Oliver said his ...