Metal Casting at Home Part 9 The Furnace .
March 15, 2010 - 1:11 pm
Details of the equpment I use in my home foundry.Please watch Metal Casting at Home Parts 1 to 8 & 10 for details of how a sand casting is made.
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Posts Tagged ‘backyard’
Backyard Aluminum casting
March 12, 2010 - 4:32 pm
Backyard aluminum casting at home. Melting aluminum in a charcoal foundry and pouring it into a greensand mold. The little flare up at the end was easily contained and nothing was damaged except the wooden box.
Duration : 0:1:40
Metal Casting Other Site Areas
March 12, 2010 - 4:32 pm
http://www.metalcastingzone.com
In this video we look over the other ares on the site. Metal Casting eCourse, Recent Casting Forum Posts and more are in this video.
Come visit us today and get two ebooks.
Duration : 0:6:18
Aluminum Ingots From The $30 Backyard Foundry.
March 9, 2010 - 5:05 pm
After the pour. Aluminum, like any heavy metal will recycle 100% (save the stuff still stuck in the crucible). The ingots are perfectly size for the crucible. Once I get my first foam carving done I can just throw these in and re-melt them.
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Metal Casting at Home Part 12. When Castings Go Bad
March 9, 2010 - 5:05 pm
Things don’t always go well in the home foundry.$30 backyard aluminum foundry – TURBOCHARGED
February 19, 2010 - 4:14 am
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! The hair dryer was enough to heat aluminum cans but not aluminum rods. I switched to an air compressor to push more air in and it definitely did the trick. Even though I was wearing safety glasses, a hot ember managed to get under them and burn off three of my eye lashes.
Duration : 0:0:28
$30 backyard aluminum foundry
January 20, 2010 - 6:51 am
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!! An overview of my aluminum foundry. Only cost me about $30 bucks at Ace Hardware. Got some scrap aluminum at a welding yard for free and tried to mold them into ingots using a wal-mart muffin pan.
Duration : 0:2:5