Casting for the Home Workshop

About Dave CooperHenry Tindell

Henry Tindell is a chartered engineer with a thirty-five year career behind him. He gained a double first in Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester followed by an M.Sc and Ph.D for work on metal-matrix composites for orthopaedic surgery. Now semi-retired he works as a consultant and home workshop-based engineer. Dave Cooper undertook an apprenticeship as a moulder coremaker and has worked in both ferrous and non-ferrous foundries making items ranging from bronze propellers to cast iron lathe beds. He has always been interested in steam and is currently working on making a beam engine making the pattern moulds and cores himself before undertaking the casting machining and assembly.