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Started by: priscus (inactive)
Back in the early 1970's, I watched them re-cast a bell at Taylor's Bell Foundry, in Loughborough. I believe it was for a cathedral in Czechoslovakia.
Fascinating, unchanged ancient technology. Recipe for the material used to manufacture the mould a secret, but I recall horse dung being amongst the ingredients.
Took days to cool down.
Then, tuned entirely by ear. Bell too big for any lathe of which I am aware, so the cutting tool itself mounted on apparatus to constrain it to a circular locus.
The place is now the only remaining bell foundry in Britain, and also a working museum.
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Taylor's Bell Tuning Lathe.
Replied: 24th Nov 2018 at 19:39