Backyard Smelting
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Backyard smelting. Propane melting furnace kit 304 stainless steel body with 6 kg graphite crucible casting refining smelting for precious metals gold silver tin aluminum scrap metal recycle 3 6 out of 5 stars 7 278 00 278. Let it dry for a day. Hefty harriette it was time to crank it up a few degrees literally and figuratively and build a big furnace capable of withstanding repeated iron melts.
I have a friend who wants to do some backyard aluminum and brass smelting and casting. Thanks this one will really get his neighbours nervous brian. My goal is to get this website to a usable state in late apirl and a youtube channel with great content in early may ish.
From dirt to space backyard iron smelting hackerspace style. I have been wanting to try and make my own steel for a while. I have done quite a bit of research and i have no idea what im doing.
Backyard metal casting and homemade forges. Iron smelting is not a normal thing to encounter unless you work in the industry. I hope that very soon melting iron in a backyard foundry will be considered as normal as melting aluminum is.
Create a profile post project photos blogs questions comments etc. For thousands of years man has worked metals. Does anyone have any internet links on how to building backyard small smelting furnaces using propane or natural gas.
People used every type of fuel they could obtain to power these furnaces from coal to the wood of coffins. So the construction of theis website is gonna be slow. In china backyard furnaces 土法炼钢 were small blast furnaces used by the people of china during the great leap forward 1958 62.
If you can successfully melt and cast iron then you ve really developed your foundry. The strange thing is that the burner i used to melt this iron is the simplest most basic burner i ve ever used to melt metal. Although some of the technology to work metals is relatively recent the initial human drive to create is still with us.
This is a build video for a backyard foundry furnace intended for melting brass and aluminium and to be large enough for an a4 0 75l crucible. I m curentlly pretty busy with school work. As it stands now my plan is to build a big ol tube out of bricks fire or otherwise and cover it in clay rich mud.
