Smelting metal

This homemade metal foundry was made with a mixture of 50% plaster of paris and 50% sand, which are a good insulator and focus the heat in one central area.

How to Make the Mini Metal Foundry : How to make a simple backyard foundry for less than $20, for melting pop cans, and casting aluminum.

Here is a tutorial of how to make foundry that can melt most metals known to man. This foundry is sooo fun to run and casting molten metals is so interesting...

Gold smelting.

Brass has a relatively low melting point compared to iron, or steel, but it still requires a special furnace. Many beginning metalworking hobbyists start out with aluminum, which is easier to melt, but brass is often the next step. Make...

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Brass has a relatively low melting point compared to iron, or steel, but it still requires a special furnace. Many beginning metalworking hobbyists start out with aluminum, which is easier to melt, but brass is often the next step. Make...

Making Aluminum Bronze: Melting Copper and Aluminum: Aluminium bronze is a type of bronze in which aluminium is the main alloying metal added to copper, in contrast to standard bronze (copper and tin) or brass (copper and zinc). A variety of aluminium bronzes of differing compositions have found indus…