I thought these were worth saving on here.  The cast looks much smoother than a Furphy.

Good looking CO
Legs look long and sturdy enough..
Just don't like the look of that cheap add-on after handle on the lid.
JMHO
Aart

it is much easier to cast a "blind" handle, than it is to do the traditional "loop".

To do the loop, they must push two tappered "cores" through the pattern & meet up in the middle (that's why most handles have that seam or "Join" in the middle)
Then after "Ramming" the sand, these cores are carefully extracted back through the pattern before removing the pattern from the sand, leaving a void to be filled by the moltern metal to form a "loop"

The "lug" type handle above, is just that, a lug on the pattern & it is permanently attached to the pattern, so when the pattern is extracted from the sand it leaves a solid lug shaped void instead of a hollow core type void.

Note:- a pattern is normally a woodern "dummy" of the thing you are casting, it is imbedded in the sand, one side at a time then removed & the two sides of the sand box brought back together to form "the mould" with the "void" between them to be filled with CI.

try to picture a sand box (two halves) with the "camp oven" as air space inside the sand!!

Cheers, Mick.

BBC nailed it, I have a Norvil that I bought directly from the foundry several years ago, it has the tab type handle on the lid which the foundry had drilled a hole in before sending it, a real rough oven poorly cast with a lid that doesn't fit properly, it cost me $120.
Not happy Jan.


pd

Michaelb wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 4:18pm:

Could this mean more Billmans???
cheers George