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13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. He holds a CNC carved styrofoam form onto which special sand is packed. The molten aluminum vaporizes the foam and he is left with a positive image, below (remember, the sand will be a negative image). photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 This image shows the 'Standard Time of 3:30, but the time of year is during Daylight Savings Time, so one adds one hour to get a time of 4:30 pm. Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chet Roberts/ entered by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. photo by Chuck Humel
4APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake gave a talk on The History of Sundials to the Avon-on-the-Lake Garden Club. Because of the earth's complex motions, it's tilts, and the fact its day doesn't divide evenly into a solar year, even our 'precision' clocks aren't really accurate. He was inspired to make sundials for his wife Audrey. "When you buy a sundial from a typical garden store, people think they have a precision time piece. My sundials are calibrated for your exact location. The wild card variable in this is traced back to 1883 when the country went to time zones" because of the need of the railroads to coordinate their schedules, he said. "Before that people were only interest in 'noon' in their local time and that's what sundials do." "When the railroads instituted time zones, an entire band shared the same time. Toledo, Cleveland and New York don't have noon at the same time from the solar point of view. The sundials I make are compensated for this." "My wife likes working in the garden, so I thought I would get her a sundial so she could keep track of her time in the garden. We shopped and saw designs we liked but didn't like the inscription or liked the inscription but didn't like the design. That's when I I discovered that they were just decorations and wouldn't work as clocks. I set about making my wife Audrey a working, solar clock, and thought 'I bet other people would like that." "None of my sundials are duplicates and has to be commissioned". He uses a computer guided program to design to cut out foam to make a mold for the molten aluminum. Visit his web site at ANCRsundials.com. He says he recycles cast aluminum grills by melting them down, so he does accept them for recycling. photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. He holds a CNC carved styrofoam form onto which special sand is packed. The molten aluminum vaporizes the foam and he is left with a positive image, below (remember, the sand will be a negative image). photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. He holds a CNC carved styrofoam form onto which special sand is packed. The molten aluminum vaporizes the foam and he is left with a positive image, below (remember, the sand will be a negative image). photo by Chuck Humel
13APR12 Chet Roberts of Avon Lake makes custom sundials from cast aluminum to your design or his home in Avon Lake. He also made a model of the Wabash Cannonball, a 2-6-0. He uses a computer program to router styrofoam, then packs it with a foundry sand type mixture and pours in the molten aluminum which vaporizes the foam, thus casting his--and your--design. He also has Emmy and national awards from his days working in TV News in Cleveland. He holds a CNC carved styrofoam form onto which special sand is packed. The molten aluminum vaporizes the foam and he is left with a positive image, below (remember, the sand will be a negative image). photo by Chuck Humel
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