[Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the furnace is built out of a water heater tank which has been lined with a ...

Often, incidents can occur when molten aluminium is poured into a mould containing moisture. Another risk area is when loading scrap material into a furnace. The scrap aluminium itself can be wet ...

THE enormous amount of heat evolved during the combustion of aluminium has been applied ... out-of-doors. An egg-shell furnace. Most people would think that the melting of a large gold or silver ...