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Notice the middle is starting to sag in from the contraction from cooling.

 

The corners stay nice and round and not up against the walls of the mold because aluminum in a liquid state has high surface tension, similar to mercury. I have read molten tin has very little.

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Uploaded on December 28, 2007
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