Homemade Electric Melting Furnace

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Homemade electric melting furnace. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting. I decided to make an electric furnace because it s totally silent i may use it inside my workshop i also may control temperature and i don t have to worry. Kanthal is the largest supplier of electric heating elements but there are other suppliers like i 2 r elements duralite molycom and mhi. Click on the image to go to the kanthal site where you can download specifications on kanthal wire and heating elements.

Refractory mixture consists of perlite and stove cement. This document describes how to build a furnace for melting metals like copper silver gold etc. Homemade electric melting furnace intended to facilitate the process of aluminum casting. Firstly you ll have to grab a steel bucket the size depends on how.

Some quick links to a fe. How to hack flashlight batteries and a fire brick into a desktop arc reaction chamber. Make a hole in the edge of a steel bucket. 8 pounds plaster of paris possibly 12 if you do not have a lid with your bucket bag of sand normal play sand will work fine a 5 gallon bucket for mixing.

Unit runs on a 220v power supply. Take some cement and mix some gravel which should be about 3 times that of the. Materials steel bucket with lid would be preferred and it works best with a 10 quart but i couldn t find one and made a 6 gallon. This is a homebuilt electric melting furnace.

Make some insulated concrete. For hobby metal melting and for science. A crucible is a metal container that you put inside of your furnace that holds the metal you re melting.