Build Electric Melting Furnace

This is a homebuilt electric melting furnace.

Build electric melting furnace. Click on the image to go to the kanthal site where you can download specifications on kanthal wire and heating elements. Once finished the steel bucket is cut away and a fire is built over the furnace to melt away the plastic inside. This document describes how to build a furnace for melting metals like copper silver gold etc. Similar techniques are used to produce the lid and the furnace is completed.

Kanthal is the largest supplier of electric heating elements but there are other suppliers like i 2 r elements duralite molycom and mhi. Most are based on cumbustion furnaces charcoal or propane. I ve seen many projects out there for building a foundry for melting aluminum to make castings. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting.

A crucible is a metal container that you put inside of your furnace that holds the metal you re melting. After reading some of the comments and doing more research a simple controller to cycle the element on and off is recommended as the element is more likel. Build an electric foundry for melting aluminum that works on 120 vac. For my 25th birthday my wife got me dave gingery s book lil bertha a compact electric resistance shop furnace so i started right off building by dave s plans the main problem in my opinion that one encounters in making a resistance furnace is the structure that holds the elements.

Put the metal you want to melt inside the crucible and use a pair of fire tongs to set it in the middle of your furnace.