Someone suggested that I use something to put my crucible on in my foundry to get it out of the direct path of the flame. I've tried fire brick...
I've tried several different things for skimmers but nothing has stood out as superior yet. What do y'all use and what's it made of?
I have quite a bit of tin coated copper wire, I figure that if I melt it down it would become an alloy and (obviously) not be pure copper. Can...
I was doing a copper melt and my graphite clay crucible melted[ATTACH]
So, on occasion I miss my crucible when I'm adding more material. As a result I have a pool of molten metal in the bottom of my foundry. When it's...
this is the result of my first copper lost foam casting of a skull. Obviously there was more than enough metal for the pour, so I'm not sure what...
Does anyone else here make chainmaille jewelry? Here are some samples of my work [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
hey guys, maybe y'all can answer something for me. Whenever I put extruded aluminum in the foundry it melts down but kinda leaves a ghost of...
I accidentally knocked a decanter off of a shelf in the garage. As I was sweeping the pieces up I got to wondering about melting it down and...
this isn't the project that I have in mind but its a simple way of explaining my question. If I were to cast a rough knife blank could I then work...
[ATTACH] I have an old aluminum pot that I was going to melt down. I decided to use it to cast in instead. I cut 2 round pieces of foam, one...
when creating a sand casting mold using the 2 halves method (I'm not sure of the technical terms) how do you make sure that the 2 halves properly...
I have improved since my first attempt. I tried to pour copper into standard muffin tins. The copper melted through the tins and spread across the...
I've been watching some YouTube videos of guys pouring ingot molds. They pour it, pop it out on a block of ice, touch it to a wire wheel and they...
although this is definitely the wrong time of year for melting metals in Texas I've never been accused of being normal or sane. I built my foundry...
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