Build Aluminum Melting Furnace

This build up requires daily cleaning frequent repairs and eventually relining your entire furnace.

Build aluminum melting furnace.

That buildup can occur when air comes into contact with molten aluminum. It s a 30 kva induction heaterbuilt by bwang over on instructables. As a metal container a primarily used for metal melting and heat treatment until 1200 o c and based upon resistance heating. Put the metal you want to melt inside the crucible and use a pair of fire tongs to set it in the middle of your furnace.

Quick and cheap aluminum melting furnace setup step 1. Firstly you ll have to grab a steel bucket the size depends on how. Things you ll need two coffee cans fire cement mixing bucket plastic tube with a diameter 2 inches smaller than the coffee can hacksaw duct tape petroleum jelly brush drill standard bits masonry bits drawer handles with bolts and nuts two sets blowtorch capable of reaching 1 220 degrees f iron. Aluminum see the video of this foundry furnace in action.

It s a build that is executed with the most basic of tools and should serve as a capable furnace for lower melting point metals at the very least. This crucible might last half a dozen uses but it s cheap and easy enough to make several of these. It gets hot enough to melt and forge. A crucible is a metal container that you put inside of your furnace that holds the metal you re melting.

This furnace will melt low temperature metals such as aluminum and brass. This document describes how to build a furnace for melting metals like copper silver gold etc. The furnace walls floors and doors must be scraped frequently to remove any aluminum oxide dross buildup. Make a hole in the edge of a steel bucket.

Take some cement and mix some gravel which should be about 3 times that of the. Fill the sides of. Make some insulated concrete. Using tin snips cut a hole in the bottom side of one of the buckets to fit the 3 inch diameter.

We ve seen a lot of cement projects lately. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting. As a hobby silversmith i regularly do casting and sometimes heat treatment of metals.