Love Casting

Used a naturally-aspirated propane burner to melt cast iron in a silicon-carbide crucible.

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Some folks were visiting from Seattle so an iron pour was in order. This time we are using a blower on the furnace.
We ended up with a couple lathe faceplate castings and some drawer handles.

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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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