Yes! It looks pretty good inside.
Strattonium. 3.5HP
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| Home | To My Next Furnace!!! sneak preview | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This page is where I will show my efforts to build and use a homebuilt furnace for melting aluminum to make castings for my projects. I am a steelworker so I have some knowledge here. I will not be spending much money on this so it will be dirty deeds done dirt cheap. I will be building a blast furnace from used bricks and firing it up with wood and charcoal. Come on back and enjoy the barbecue as I roast some junk lawn mower engines, without singing my eyebrows. (I hope) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ingot # 2, fresh from my "Met-Lab" Yes! It looks pretty good inside. Strattonium. 3.5HP |
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| My First Ingot ! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oh yeah, I love it! Being a Steel Man, Just any shape would not do for my first ingot as I knew I would be saving it. So I used an appropriate shape. A wood pattern, and a can of sand did the trick. Bigger and better coming soon, also some furnace pics. And a step by step of making a "Heat". I cut one then polished it up as you can see, then looked at it under a magnifier. There is one small inclusion (flaw) almost too small to see with the naked eye. No good for aircraft but fine for my machine building. I considered my first attempt a success. Homemade "Hot Metal". The feeling I got when I "stripped" (dumped) it from the mold, (a V-8 can) was UNREAL! I bet people for miles around must have thought I won the lottery. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Welcome to my playground. I have a riot here.Thank God I live in the middle of nowhere! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Heres one of my furnaces, firebricks with a blast thru the pipe. I burn coal in this one. You can't see it for the flames, but theres a crucible in there. Soups On! A peerless gearbox housing broken up. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Heres the lost foam setup, the pipe gives a head for the molten metal, the pattern is foam dipped in plaster, with a riser. Boy did this one flame up when I poured it. I think I poured too fast! It bubbled up from the gas escaping. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to see the results........... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||