Home Aluminum Foundry
April 5, 2010 - 5:29 pm
Me and the guys melting some aluminum in a home foundry we set up at the shop. We made some ingates and after i get some good sand and frames made up i’m gonna try and make a hood ornament for the limo. I’ll try to get a video up when I do it.
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April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
@xxnethersxx they …
@xxnethersxx they are to be melted down later. you make a mold out of sand in the sahpe you want and pour in the aluminum. break away the sand and you have your part…
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
what do you do with …
what do you do with the ingots
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
what do you do with …
what do you do with the ingots
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
That’s pretty cool, …
That’s pretty cool, once you’ve got them poured in to the molds an there cooled off as ingots. What do you do with them, take them to the recycling been, or do some thing else with them?
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
lol!
lol!
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
It is neither It is …
It is neither It is simply scrap wood that we had laying around. The fan is similar to something out of your heater unit in your home… you can use pretty much anything that burns but the fan is necessary to keep the heat up. We put a pyrometer in this and iit was reading as high as 1872 degrees…
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
is this a charcoal …
is this a charcoal or a gas furnace?
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
My ingots are also …
My ingots are also made in a mufins tray and its works also very nice .
it makes small ingots but that way you can use only the aluminium you nedd dont make to much on excess because it gets weaker if you reuse it several times
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
mmmh aluminium …
mmmh aluminium muffins… tasty
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
polish tha tshit up …
polish tha tshit up. make it mirror shiny haha
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Clay’s right. …
Clay’s right. Saftey first. It’s realy easy to get swept up in the excitement of this craft and forget. I took metals 1 and 2 at my highschool but youtube is where I got the aluminum idea. Good luck and stay safe.
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
you can make …
you can make whatever you wnat with the propep sand mold but i wouldn’t recomend weapons as it is only aluminum although you can melt copper and brasss in a similar fashion.
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
i didn’t go to any …
i didn’t go to any class… i learned from watching other people do it on youtube. my only suggestion would be to make sure and have a good pair of welding gloves and goggles. safety first…
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
i want to do this …
i want to do this at my home. do you need to go to a certain high school class to do it????
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Kewl. Now what? …
Kewl. Now what? Can you make some weapons of mass destruction?
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
man I wish I had a …
man I wish I had a backyard, that looks fun.
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
yep, once they cool …
yep, once they cool it’s just a hard chuck of aluminum…
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
nice video:) and …
nice video:) and those melted aluminiums looked like lava
it realy was cool and once you did those aluminium muffins where they hard as rock or not???
April 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
The wife is going …
The wife is going to be when she see’s what you did to her muffin tray.