The joy of transforming a run down, rusty, vintage car into a glossy new vehicle with lustrous paint and sparkling chrome, provides great pride & enjoyment for enthusiasts who spend countless hours dismantling, inspecting, cleaning, polishing & refurbishing cars of the 30s, 50s & 60s era.
One of the many problems encountered by restorers of all things old, is that a great many parts will be corroded & deteriorated, or simply missing, the constant search for replacement parts can be a real headache, not to mention the time lost in trying to source or locate that small, but absolutely vital part necessary to complete a restoration project.
If the elusive part happens to be an item which was originally machined, then the old part can be measured & used to create a new part either by the restorer, or by a professional machine shop.
If the restorer has the required workshop skills & equipment, then the remaking of any special parts can be easily undertaken in the home workshop for the relatively low cost of materials only, as time, etc, is not generally considered to be a cost factor.
But, what if your "vital missing part" is made of, aluminium, brass or bronze, and can't be made by machining alone.... what then?
It would appear that the only thing to do would be to visit your local foundry jobbing shop (if you can find one), to get them to make a pattern from the old part, and have the foundry recast a new component for you, which will still require machining and finishing, before it's ready to fit onto your restoration pride & joy.
The cost of this professional exercise (pattern, casting, machining) can be significant to say the least, many people will simply accept this as part of the restoration cost.
The budget conscious restorer may not wish to pay for professional work of this nature, which will devour the cash in your wallet at a rapid rate.
The Alternative is: Do It Your self, it is possible to carry out a complete self rebuild or remake of most "cast" parts required to rebuild old car parts etc.
Metal casting in the home workshop is the answer.
The skills required to remake wooden patterns of small parts is not as difficult to learn as you might expect, old damaged parts can sometimes be used as "the pattern" as this will save you from having to make a new pattern. With some practice using basic foundry skills, it is possible to make good sand moulds.
Melting metal and pouring into sand moulds can be learnt by most people who possess the ability to absorb and learn the basic skills, as well as the skills required to fabricate the simple tools & equipment required to carry out hobby foundry work.
Metal casting in the home workshop can complete the picture when it comes to classic restoration projects, be it of cars, old engines, or old machines etc. Your home foundry can save a lot of time & money while undertaking restoration projects.
Imagine not having to spend countless days scrounging around swap meets looking for that illusive or unobtainable part...you'll be able set to and make it your self.
Items the home metal casting worker will be able to make, range from small handles, various knobs, wheels, bushings, bronze bearing shells, badges & nameplates, covers... the list of remake items is limited only by your imagination.
A free ebook download is available from our web site, which allows people to read at their own pace to see if metal casting is "for them" or not.
There are also other free ebook downloads that contain old time formulae and hints, which could be quite handy when working on old items.
myhomefoundry.com have been helping many people all over the world, to discover how easy it is to utilize hobby metal casting, to reproduce almost any part required for vintage car, motorcycle or machine restoration projects of all kinds.
Here's where I'm coming from . . .
I just finished reading one article too many where the author proclaims that people don't like to click on what appears to be an affiliate link.
Why not? Well, here is how the reasoning of the potential buyer supposedly goes:
? I'll bet the price is jacked up. ? Maybe the guarantee won't be honored. ? What if they don't give me all the bonuses? ? Why should some middleman make a buck off me?
So this guy takes his paranoia and stinginess and trudges off to find the original link. End of story.
Do you see anything wrong with this?
I see everything wrong with it. Or at least now I do, once I stopped to ponder why I was doing the same thing! I believe this situation is on the verge of changing and very quickly. Here's why?
For one thing, as more and more people are earning money by promoting other people's products, affiliate marketing is becoming more widely regarded as a legitimate business form.
This is in large measure thanks to Rosalind Gardner, creator of the Super Affiliate Handbook. http://www.Calling-All-Entrepreneurs.com/SAH.html
(Notice how proudly I displayed my affiliate link?)
Now, as increasing numbers of people engage in this type of promotion, it is rapidly becoming common knowledge that if you buy from an affiliate, you are in actuality buying directly from the owner or creator of the product. Hence, the following holds true:
? The price to you, the potential buyer, is the same, regardless of how you got there. ? The guarantee, which is being issued from the product owner, is still valid. ? You are set up to receive all bonuses, advertised and unadvertised, that the owner offers. (In fact, buying from an affiliate might even net you some extra bonuses!)
And so now, that leaves only the final objection, ?Why should some middleman make a buck off me??
On the Threshold of a New Paradigm
Living as we are, on the eve of a new level of expanded consciousness, here are some notions that are quickly gaining wider acceptance:
? We attract what we focus on. ? We create our own reality. ? We attract to ourselves the same kind of energy that we send out.
This Law of Attraction is no longer regarded as some paranormal fluke. Thought power is gaining acceptance as true and verifiable by quantum physics and our own empirical evidence.
So what does that have to do with our potential buyer's final objection?
Well, when I stopped to examine why I was guilty of automatically avoiding using an affiliate link, I discovered that there was no valid reason for doing so. I mean, being that the bottom line to me is all the same, why should I want to deny someone his or her fair commission?
I had to admit that such unwarranted stinginess could only be due to an insidious belief in scarcity. I felt a little ashamed of myself, but not one to flog myself, I immediately changed my focus to how to alter my beliefs to something more desirable.
And what I found is a win-win-win situation.
If a marketer brings a product to my attention or convinces me of its value or presents it to me at the time I am willing to buy it, this affiliate has clearly earned his or her commission. And it's a pretty sweet deal all the way around:
? The owner is happy because he has just earned money for a sale he would probably not have otherwise made. ? The affiliate is happy because his marketing efforts are paying off. ? I get my product AND I put money into the pockets of at least two people.
And that makes me happy, because sending money into circulation sets me up for being on the receiving end. And giving a figurative pat on the back to the affiliate marketer raises my vibration to attract the same type of rewards in my life. And you know what else? It just FEELS so much better to do it this way.
I think people are unaware of the many ways that poisonous thinking can still lurk menacingly in their brains, stuffed away in odd little pockets of stingy behavior like this.
When you stop to consider that so many of us were raised by parents or grandparents who lived through the Great Depression, it's easy to understand how we may have inherited more from our families than what meets the eye.
But I digress. Let's just all be part of a prosperity movement that has no interest in denying anyone their fair due. After all, there is plenty to go around for everybody.
Just like a carnival carousel, what goes around comes around.
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