One down, five to go

Gees I hope Meccles doesnt see this post...[bighmmm]

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Originally Posted by POD

About 5 minutes on the log splitter to reduce one Range Rover alloy wheel to suitable sized chunks of aluminium for my crucible furnace, I have five more that will go the same way. It seems not very long ago at all that I absolutely HAD to have a set of the original 3-spoke alloy wheels for my Range Rover. Could not attract an offer on them now so they are excellent melting scrap for my projects.
I thought I'd show this to help put into perspective that accessory / gadget / whatever that we absolutely HAVE to have next.

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Hello POD,

Can you please post up some photographs of your crucible furnace? Is it a DYI one or is it one from a manufacturer? Is it fuelled by drip fed waste oil?

I am in the buy, then read books and watch YouTube stage of furnaces and casting.

Kind regards
Lionel

But they are ugly alloys - and I told Meccles that too and suggested he put the old RR steels back on - the furnace is the best place for those Art Daggie alloys - they did not look good on their original RRC.

I found 3 alloy rims amongst other rubbish along the side of the road. Thought about melting them down - but already have a stack of aluminium - but no big casting projects yet so I took them to the scrapper instead.
Lionel, My 2 furnaces are home made. One is fuel by LPG and the other is waste oil.
If interested in casting check out Alloy Avenue forum.

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Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello POD,

Can you please post up some photographs of your crucible furnace? Is it a DYI one or is it one from a manufacturer? Is it fuelled by drip fed waste oil?

I am in the buy, then read books and watch YouTube stage of furnaces and casting.

Kind regards
Lionel

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Hi Lionel, my furnace was built to the design of Colin Peck who goes by the handle 'the artful bodger', I bought his little book 'the artful bodger's iron casting waste oil furnace' About the book - The Artful Bodger's Home Foundry and followed his design with my own variations according to what I had on hand. It's oil-powered obviously. I've got some photos somewhere, will try and dredge them up. I'm discovering that the casting caper is pretty demanding and the furnace is just the start; I built a moulding bench that holds about 200kg of sand, made a big steel crucible for melting aluminium and then had to build a hoist and trolley to handle it, I've just built a disc sander so I can make better patterns- it's quite a rabbit hole.

Here you go, photo of a test run just after I built it. I'll try and get something more recent.

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Originally Posted by POD

Hi Lionel, my furnace was built to the design of Colin Peck who goes by the handle 'the artful bodger', I bought his little book 'the artful bodger's iron casting waste oil furnace' About the book - The Artful Bodger's Home Foundry and followed his design with my own variations according to what I had on hand. It's oil-powered obviously. I've got some photos somewhere, will try and dredge them up. I'm discovering that the casting caper is pretty demanding and the furnace is just the start; I built a moulding bench that holds about 200kg of sand, made a big steel crucible for melting aluminium and then had to build a hoist and trolley to handle it, I've just built a disc sander so I can make better patterns- it's quite a rabbit hole.

Here you go, photo of a test run just after I built it. I'll try and get something more recent.

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Hello POD,

I had a trace of a memory and chased it down. I found your earlier reply to one of my threads... Home Alloy Sand Casting

Instead of hijacking your thread I will post up some results of a YouTube trawl I did today.... back over on my old thread.

Kind regards
Lionel