Melting aluminium at homemade easy foundry furnace and crucible

Second video, step by step detailed description of my foundry in propane furnace, homemade steel crucible.

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• detailed
• description
• foundry
• propane
• furnace
• homemade
• steel
• crucible
• Melting
• aluminium

[ivanov3000mltk]

типа везде в итернете соду и соль кладут для флюса

[JaiacosM]

Do you add NaCl as a flux? would borax work as well?

[ivanov3000mltk]

@JaiacosM I do not know. But as I know borax is used to dissolve oxidised layer on metals. I doubt NaBO3 is able to react with Al2O3 due to it chemical resistance. But who know... Try.

[UzumakiProsuto]

whats going on with that pan does it leak : \

[ivanov3000mltk]

@UzumakiProsuto No. pan is made from thin steel with thick Al bottom and another thin steel disk. When I pour hot Al into pan Al bottom have melt. It looks like pan leaks.

[TOXER555]

@MrKaddan

putt butter in the pan first ;D

[HeadShot360IN]

@jrichtman so you're saying that you want people to do nothing with their lives?? if you go outside you might get mugged, or a sunburn, or cataracts, or a teeny tiny scratch from a leave blowing in the wind.. we should all stay in a small room in our house and keep the lights off so that we can avoid all possible injury and be pussies.

i'd rather go sky diving and end up dieing cause i thought it would be fun then sit and do nothing with my life...

[FaceCandys]

Wat was the crucible made out of ?!

[desilveywr]

Well, with all the disparging commentary here, I'd like to give you my congrats and thanks for posting this! Looks to me like the ice and snow worked mostly in your favor, with the rapid cooling built in for you by God! I know NOTHING about this, but am keenly interested; so thanks again for the lesson!!!

[KeopsTV]

@ivanov3000mltk thumbs up him for talking another language :P

[MyIvank]

You had everything working against you, wind, snow, cold but you still succeeded in melting and casting the metal, good on you. Keep up the the great work.

[art4med]

Just read comments here, quite entertaining.

[1kbraun]

dont ever use flaming used cooking oil to temper steel it makes it brittle

[GAZKINGOFKINGS]

this video was about how not to do it !!

[Wadley225]

And you are doing this melting in the ice cold winter air. Real smart, nothing like having nature work against you trying to heat up some metal!

[vmakar85]

а нафига там сода нужна???