That Tuesday we poured the big bronze eagle and the whole thing went sideways

Brian Jackson · 2026-03-28T14:30:09.428167+00:00

We were casting a 400-pound bronze eagle for a park, a job we'd prepped for a solid week. The mold looked perfect, but halfway through the pour, a core vent clogged and the metal pressure blew a seam. Molten bronze shot out about three feet, hitting the sand floor and sending up a huge cloud of steam and smoke. We had to shut down the whole line for over an hour to let things cool and patch the mold. Ended up having to re-melt about 50 pounds of scrap from the spill. Has anyone else had a core vent fail on a big artistic pour like that, and how did you save it?

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