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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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.
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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.
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Panic button lettering and design are made on a computer and created by exposing pattern resin to blacklight. The pattern is molded in petrobond sand and a casting is made. Visit www.granthams.com/Projects for more of my projects.
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Me trying a crude casting experiment with some left over 6061 aluminum.
It takes 2:56 for it to start melting, using a $20 MAPP gas torch.
Incase your wondering, that’s water I’m pouring on it to cool it off.
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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.
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Instructable video using readily available tools and materials in the kitchen, in order to cast pewter metal. A mix of salt, water and flour is used instead of sand. Entire process carried out in the kitchen.
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Replaced the X lead screw for a ballscrew 20×05.
In this video you see the assembly off the x-axis.
And I’m casting a aluminum bracket for the ballnut
Max x-axis travel 3000mm/min
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Shake-out of castings poured in pt. 1
Casting some parts for the Gingery Lathe and Shaper in aluminum.