Well, the stars finally aligned, or at least the two of us being in the same state at the same time (non quantum wise). It was a beautiful...
Found these relics on ebay, same place I bought my original used ones about twenty years ago for the school foundry. Dual band, so supposedly...
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When melting dirty scraps, I tend to add potassium chloride in the form of low sodium salt (or as Joe Bang would call it, "fake salt"). Seems to...
As others have said, always empty the crucible before cooling down, otherwise the metal is likely to fill the space, and then when you heat it it...
A new batch of crucibles for summer melting plans. All random Amazon purchases: big one is a Nelyrho #15, medium Molten Masters #12, and small is...
I suspect, partially based on the taper, that you just pull it out, like you would a straight gate, just with a little more finesse.
So to understand these elements better, and to check my math, I bought some very light weight wire (32ga) and decided to run some experiments....
A number of the robotic students I work with use onshape, a web based CAD program, supposedly a spinoff by engineers original from Solidworks. No...
As long as you can set the emissivity (which for aluminum melt is between 12-15%), you should get a number close enough to work with. Always good...
Is there any particular quality (once its been established that someone is not a bot), that would make for a good or poor moderator? I once was a...
I'll second the sifting of play sand, there's some serious chunks of gravel hidden in there. My next batch will probably be "fine sand" from the...
I have some solid tungsten 1/4" in diameter, and some tungsten iron bars 1" in diameter. You'd have t shield them from the air, but the should be...
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