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Brass Castings

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  • Member since
    December 2001
  • From: San Jose, California
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Posted by nfmisso on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:56 AM
Bowser
http://www.bowser-trains.com/
"See What Bowser Can
Do For You or Your Company!!!!!!!
We will make non-train products also

Custom Decorate Cars - 100 minimum,
Custom Pad Print on any product with our new 5 color computerized
pad printer - 100 minimum
Design, make molds and produce parts (plastic & zinc)
Repair Molds for Plastic Injection and Zinc Casting
Secondary Operations (milling, drilling, tapping, & assembly)
CNC Vertical & Horizontal Machining
Screw Machining up to 8" diameter
Stamping and Forming
Centrifugally Cast Pewter

Call Lee English at Bowser for more information."


Did you make your master appropriately oversize to account for shrinkage?

If not, you would be better off making your own resin parts, MicroMark has kits to do this.

You can also expect to pay several hundred to thousand dollars for the run of parts.
Nigel N&W in HO scale, 1950 - 1955 (..and some a bit newer too) Now in San Jose, California
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  • From: US
  • 791 posts
Brass Castings
Posted by steamage on Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:48 AM
Anyone know of a company or someone that does small quanity brass investment castings nowadays. I need to have a dozen dome covers made for a tank car modeling project. I have styrene master to work with.

Thanks

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