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Melting aluminium at homemade easy foundry furnace and crucible

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:08:13 +0000

Second video, step by step detailed description of my foundry in propane furnace, homemade steel crucible.

Duration : 0:9:6

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Re: Re: Melting Aluminium at home

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:14 +0000

This is a slideshow detailing how I made my CalRod melt furnace

Duration : 0:2:1

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Metal Casting at Home Part 9 The Furnace .

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:01 +0000

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.

Duration : 0:4:11

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Jamke Foundries , Gray Iron Casting Crucibles

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:22:32 +0000

Manufacturers of Gray Casti Iron Crucibles & Auto Parts.

Duration : 0:4:48

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:37:36 +0000

Check out my website: http://www.budgiemetalworks.ca
This is the first casting in my homemade aluminum foundry. Approximately 5 lbs of aluminum was poured here which took about 2 hours to melt. The furnace draws 20A on 220VAC.
It was built from plans bought at http://www.dansworkshop.com/
The element was custom made for me at a pottery kiln shop, the body of the furnace is made from firebricks and commercial refractory. The tools for handling the crucible were made by myself. The amperage controller is sitting on the pink foam on the floor, I’ll be enclosing it properly but wanted to try it out first. The crucible was bought from Canadian Thermix, a really nice company to work with. The final furnace took about 6 months to complete, working on it every couple weekends, and I expect to get a lot of use from it.

Duration : 0:4:35

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Umha Aois – Bronze Casting Demonstration 2008

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:26:09 +0000

Video by Robert Clarke. A bronze casting demonstration held May 2008 at Glendarragh Studios, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

http://www.umha-aois.com

“Umha Aois” (Irish for “Bronze Age”) is an ongoing experimental project organised on a volunteer basis by a committee formed of artists & archaeologists. Through research and experimentation we are attempting to rediscover our Bronze Age ancestors’ casting methods, and in the process empower the artists involved with unique approaches to working in bronze.

This video demonstrates our discovered techniques to date, using bellows to power a small charcoal fired furnace, melting bronze in a hand made crucible, and casting into a clay mould. The mould is broken open afterwards to reveal a typical Irish Bronze Age axehead.
Please note that although we are striving for “authenticity”, some aspects are still in development, such as the lifting tongs, forged by Umha Aois member Mary Jane Verniere. Also we have not allowed “authenticity” to stifle any creative ideas, and as such we do not pretend that our methods reflect any specific time period or place, but rather we strive for a reproducible approach to working small scale bronze with ‘primitive’ technologies, taking the Irish Bronze Age as our main inspiration.

Duration : 0:2:51

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DIY Aluminium Casting experiment

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:35:10 +0000

This is a clip of us pouring our molten aluminium from our crucible into our mould. Aluminium from a bell housing, a gearbox, a rocker cover and an alloy wheel. It worked a treat! We do other stuff too. Click here. http://sites.google.com/site/wecanmakethat/

Duration : 0:2:11

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