If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

In a new twist, [Rulof Maker] strips all that out and uses just the metal case to make a furnace for melting aluminum, copper and bronze. His heat source is a quartet of 110 volt, 450 watt ...

Among Inductotherm’s newest technologies is the Acutrak® Direct Electric Heat (DEH) Crucible Furnace. This unique aluminum melting and holding furnace uses an air-cooled, direct electric heating ...

thus enabling the heat or products of combustion to act more evenly and to be more thoroughly diffused throughout the whole stack of metal than in furnaces which are in omrnon use. In fig.