I've been pretty busy trying to finish up that Pack Parrott and wanted it to be nice. I made a pattern to cast some trunnion caps up and pored a couple out of aluminum today. Everything was going so good I decided to try some brass again. Melted the brass without any troubles, But...
This is what happens when the brass liftes the cope off the drag. The heavy brass makes the two float apart. Next time I'll install some catches on my flasks. I actually was going to do that before I started but I got sidetracked
Here is a diffrent picture. You can see the two aluminum trunnion caps on the bottom right. They are cast as one long piece and I'll just cut off what I need on my bandsaw.
The brass looks black because of the burnt oil from the sand on it. I'll post picts of my pattern in a couple of days.
These caps will work for trunnions from 1.5" to 1.75" incase anyone wants a set. They are just under 5" long, and I can cut them off to custom legnths if needed.