I've heard she can't read - just flicks through?

Ha ha ... good one

well I was thinking there are several types of sand used in sand casting. Each has it's own advantages, disadvantages and use. We could talk about this I'll try and provide some information on the different types of casting sand, and then you boys could join in. There are a lot of different sands that I could mentioned here, the more common ones used in the hobby foundry.

Well that was what I was thinking any ways.

Utter bollocks.

and bloody boring too. I want to talk about Crispy and her books... or about Landrovers

You know you shouldn't talk about LB and Debs like that it's not nice.

He thinks he can get away with anything on his last days..

That's very interesti

I thought so too, so here's just a few for you to ponder on:

green sand
natural
synthetic
oil tempered sand
core sand
sodium silicate
baked binder

WHY OH WHY would someone go to the trouble of developing SYNTHETIC sand??? the stuff covers 50% of the planet!!!

The term synthetic sand is a little misleading, the sand isn't actually synthetic; what it means is you start with clean, graded sand in the grain size you want and then add the clay on your own. This allows you to more closely control the properties of the sand.

sorry I fell asleep, please repeat...........

sorry I must have fell asleep there, I seem to have lost the page say I can't repeat.

My vote is cast. Rather unsuprisingly it would seem RM is the biggest waffler we have.