Exhibit 24.1
                          AMCAST INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

                            LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

             WHEREAS,  Amcast Industrial  Corporation,  an Ohio corporation (the
"Company"),  intends to file with the Securities and Exchange  Commission  under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), a Registration  Statement on
Form S-8 covering 150,000 of its common shares,  without par value,  that may be
issued under  the Company's  Amended and Restated  1999 Director Stock Incentive
Plan (the "Registration Statement")  and  (ii) a Registration  Statement on Form
S-8 covering 425,000 of its common shares, without par value, that may be issued
under the  Company's 1999 Stock Incentive Plan.

             NOW THEREFORE,  the  undersigned,  in his capacity as a director of
the Company, hereby appoints John H. Shuey and Denis G. Daly and each of them to
be  his  true  and  lawful  attorney-in-fact  and  agent,  with  full  power  of
substitution  and  resubstitution,  to execute  his name,  place and  stead,  as
aforesaid, the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto,
and any  and  all  other  instruments  necessary  or  incidental  in  connection
therewith,  and to file the same with the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission.
Said attorney shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name
and on behalf of the undersigned, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to
be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned  might or could
do in person.  The  undersigned  hereby  ratifies  and approves the acts of said
attorney.

             IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the  undersigned has executed this instrument
this 25th day of August, 1999.

        /s/ James K. Baker                           /s/ Leo W. Ladehoff
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            James K. Baker                               Leo W. Ladehoff


        /s/ Walter E. Blankley                       /s/ Earl T. O'Loughlin
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            Walter E. Blankley                           Earl T. O'Loughlin


        /s/ Peter H. Forster                         /s/ William G. Roth
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            Peter H. Forster                             William G. Roth


        /s/ R. William Van Sant
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            R. William Van Sant