Learn the basics of casting aluminium at home with this step-by-step DIY guide. Explore safe melting techniques, mold ...

Gravity casting aluminum in permanent molds beats conventional sand and pressure die casting. Today, gravity-fed permanent metal molds can produce near-net-shape parts from a variety of aluminum ...

Aluminum is ubiquitous in our modern age, but it's surprisingly hard to produce alloys for it without putting up with significant waste from bad mixtures. MIT researchers Antoine Allanore and Samuel R ...

Aluminium / Aluminum alloys have strong corrosion resistance and high electrical conductivity. These alloys tend to lose some of their strength at high temperatures ranging between 200 and 250°C (392 ...

Kustoms are all about styling- taking an original body, chopping it up, and redesigning it to fit the vision in your head. That is one of the things that makes building cars so much fun, you never ...

[Kelly Coffield] makes intake manifolds for old Ford throttle bodies for fun, demonstrating an excellent technique for making such things in the small shop. The mould patterns are CNC machined from a ...

Aluminum pistons are used in numerous vehicles over cast iron pistons. But are aluminum pistons really better, or can cast ...

It's long been known that the key to making power is having a good cylinder head. Although all of GM's divisions produced big-block-powered musclecars back in the day, most of which have gone on to ...

Aluminium / Aluminum alloys have high electrical conductivity and strong corrosion resistance. They tend to lose some of their strength at elevated temperatures ranging between 200 and 250°C (392 and ...