Casting Pipe Metal at the Wicks Organ Company

[palref]

NOT the "end of an era"!!! Wicks IS STILL BUILDING PIPE ORGANS! Check your facts next time!

[virginiaorganbuilder]

End of an era! Wicks no longer makes pipe organs. Hope we don't all go that way...

[organistbrent]

The end of the table that catches any overspill is wood. The casting surface here isn't sand, but canvas-covered stone.

[noschool123]

For the anti splash pad, at the beginning end of the table, before the start of the sand, is that a silicon pad? wood? Thanks M

[Zumipali2]

Awesome! Its my fvourite Job!

Thanks a lot of uploading.

[amourdutigre]

Do you hammer the metal before forming the pipes?

Very interesting video!

ADT

[dbjarrett]

Yes and no. The metal is shaped over wooden and metal forms that are very close to the desired final shape of the part being made.

However, actual hammers are almost never used to do this. We use long wooden beater bars that come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes.

Me? I used to work in the large pipe department at Wicks. In some of these shots, I can see my old workstation.