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Melting aluminium at homemade easy foundry furnace and crucible

Second video, step by step detailed description of my foundry in propane furnace, homemade steel crucible. Duration : 0:9:6

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry – Casting Ingots

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! Duration : 0:3:58

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Casting Aluminum w/ Homemade Furnace

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 … Continue reading

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Aluminum casting in a wood fired homemade furnace

First video of my sons and I firing up our homemade furnace to melt and cast aluminum scraps to make some objects. Duration : 0:3:55

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry

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 … Continue reading

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Homemade / DIY foundry -Bronze- Brass- Aluminium-

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 Duration : 0:1:33

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Homemade easy and cheap propane aluminium foundry.

My sixth variant of propane furnace for aluminium scrap melting and casting into simple forms. Duration : 0:7:7

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Homemade Electric Aluminum Foundry – Second Casting

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! Duration : 0:3:13

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