Brass Gong

[weidner]

If anyone is ever going to the trouble of casting a gong , then it would be worth going to a bell foundry . Whitechapel still cast and finish hand bells , and I seem to remember that they have patterns for gongs , which would be cast similarly . Bell metal , which is 22% tin , rings better than anything else ( even better than Fowler gears ) I would bet that Whitechapel's gong patterns are imperial . They would tune it too if you wanted .

[Snail Trail]

Originally Posted by weidner

If anyone is ever going to the trouble of casting a gong , then it would be worth going to a bell foundry . Whitechapel still cast and finish hand bells , and I seem to remember that they have patterns for gongs , which would be cast similarly . Bell metal , which is 22% tin , rings better than anything else ( even better than Fowler gears ) I would bet that Whitechapel's gong patterns are imperial . They would tune it too if you wanted .

Our local foundry is a very good old school firm. When we had ours coppied for the Aveling he recast the bell twice until he was happy with the ring ( much to the annoyance of Basil!!)

[weidner]

Originally Posted by Snail Trail

Our local foundry is a very good old school firm. When we had ours coppied for the Aveling he recast the bell twice until he was happy with the ring ( much to the annoyance of Basil!!)

Old school ? When I was at Whitechapel we still had to pick the beans out of the horse shit before we mixed it with the clay and the cow hair . I will admit that we cast the hand bells and gongs in that new fangled sand stuff . Taylors at loughborough are mere upstarts , Whitechapel go back to Queen Elizabeth's time , so must be the oldest foundry in the country .

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by weidner

If anyone is ever going to the trouble of casting a gong , then it would be worth going to a bell foundry . Whitechapel still cast and finish hand bells , and I seem to remember that they have patterns for gongs , which would be cast similarly . Bell metal , which is 22% tin , rings better than anything else ( even better than Fowler gears ) I would bet that Whitechapel's gong patterns are imperial . They would tune it too if you wanted .

Surely it would make more sense for me to go visit John Taylor & Co?

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Nah. Pay £25 for the one D valve found.