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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Finishing a full day of casting by pouring some ingots. This was the third pour of the day. Check out www.budgiemetalworks.ca for details on the furnace. Thanks for watching!
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Here I am casting a part for a Crayford Style Focuser to be used with a 8″ Newtonian telescope I’m building. I’m using a propane furnace, a graphite crucible, and the “mold” is a tin soup can. I need a stock of aluminum about 3″ in dia. Before you say it, I know it is not safe to cast metal with flip-flops and shorts, but it’s the middle of summer in Phoenix here…
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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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My sixth variant of propane furnace for aluminium scrap melting and casting into simple forms.
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Things don’t always go well in the home foundry.
Manufacturers of Gray Casti Iron Crucibles & Auto Parts.
Casting parts for a model engine in alloy.
Aluminium and copper foundry. The furnace is fed by charcoal and wood.