{"id":114,"date":"2013-08-30T23:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2024-05-01T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T01:19:53","slug":"tiny-aluminum-yoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/tiny-aluminum-yoda\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Aluminum Yoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112\" alt=\"Aluminum Yoda Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_front-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_front-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_front.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113\" alt=\"Aluminum Yoda Back Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_back-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_back-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_back.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been working on making a very small electric furnace for doing small aluminum castings.\u00a0 As part of testing an early iteration of the furnace I cast a copy of a little Yoda that we got from a cereal box.\u00a0 The Yoda is about 1.5 inches tall.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know what I am going to cast with the little furnace but it will make it really easy to make small parts.\u00a0 The small wooden flask I used to make the Yoda is pictured below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_flask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115\" alt=\"Small Flask Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_flask-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_flask-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_flask.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture of the cast Yoda after I split the flask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118\" alt=\"Yoda Cast Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_cast-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_cast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoda_cast.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will post more about the furnace when I have the design more refined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on making a very small electric furnace for doing small aluminum..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}