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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First video of my sons and I firing up our homemade furnace to melt and cast aluminum scraps to make some objects.
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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.
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Bronze, Brass, Aluminium foundry made at home from an old water heater and some fireproof concrete
ca 35 Kw oil burner ca 1 hour to melt 4kg of aluminium
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My sixth variant of propane furnace for aluminium scrap melting and casting into simple forms.
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My second aluminum casting with a homemade electric foundry. See www.budgiemetalworks.ca for info on how I built it and other details. Thanks for watching!
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