Making an Ingot Mold for CerroBend

This is my first time using CerroBend Alloy. To keep it separate from other white metal alloys in the shop I decided to start by making an ingot mold. Nothing worse than trying to figure out what some mystery alloy might be. The mold was designed in Fusion 360 and milled from 6061 aluminum. I tried to duplicate the original dimensions so each re-casted ingot would be about 1 pound, same as original. I added the 70C temperature marking as my PID controller only does celcius.

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[dwylhq]

Excellent! Thank you so much for making+sharing this video! Learned a lot. Ordering some CeroBend right now! 👌

[MXENT]

Does this work with a 3d printed mold? my print filament is PLA+ and melts at 150-250 degrees celsius. Cheers.

[CoptaEli]

Hello

I got an ingot of about 1.250kg

I wanted to turn it into 2 smaller ingots with a similar shape (jam jar with a decagon bottom)

That's fine but the result is very grainy, not only on the upper surface, also on all the external faces of my ingot

I hardly understand spoken English but a priori I have to cook longer, remove the kind of "surface powder" and cool gently in cold water to obtain a pleasant result..

I will try again as soon as I have a moment and I hope to achieve an ingot as smooth as yours

This product is in any case very cool, discovered by chance and intrigued me, I would like to create 2 ingots of 500g, one for resale and recover my investment, one to keep my work and the remaining ~200g will remain suspended in my garage until the day when they can be a solution to a DIY problem as I often encounter ^^