Today I’m building a better foundry. I use insulating fire bricks, some paper, a simple saw and a block of wood to shape it all. Next time I’ll build an enclosure (as opposed to shelling out lots of money for a keg. I’m not made of money) out of sheet steel and apply mortar and a coating, made from satanite. Then it’s time to start melting metal! This is intended for use with a burner, such as propane or oil. This will NOT work well with charcoal.
This foundry furnace will be used for casting aluminum, brass, bronze, copper and other alloys. Probably not cast iron, though.
I got the bricks here: They have kaowool too and some other stuff.
This replaces my old furnace which I build in the video “how to build a better mini metal foundry”, published months ago. That furnace, based on grant Thomson’s mini metal foundry, used castable refractory cement instead of plaster and sand. It is still holding up, but insulating fire brick insulates better. The old furnace build is here (don’t watch it, this new one is better)
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Could you please do a video on metal fume fever? I think it would be best to inform people who are doing what you are
Hey I don't know about "lite fire brick" but regular breaks are really fun to throw thru glass windshields.
Dude I think I actually enjoy your show more due to your rants lol
Well done my friend! 🙂 Looks very professional so far!
Keep the extra bricks for parts in case one of the other ones brakes for some reason
Woooohoo!! More melting! Love this! Want to build my own. Can have as much brass as i want. Winter project together with velding stuff for the garden. At home sick this week, watch your videos as a pickmeup. Love ypur videos. Have even started buying books because of you. :):):):):)
good luck for part two of making a pyramid
You can cut a few discs for raising your crucible off the floor for of the foundry. That's what I did with my funky off-cuts. If there isn't enough for a single brick to do the job, I just used two side-by-side as the crucible stand.
I'm really glad you showed your respirator at the end. The whole time I was watching my lungs were getting scratchy on your behalf >_<
Silicosis is no bueno.
I didn't see any cell phone injustices haha maybe next time through
use the brick for a rail focuser X)
But if he was wearing the respirator we wouldn't have gotten the pyrimid discussion… oh wait… 😛
"You may notice that this is brick shape." -Paul 2017
Tiny propane wax fondry
I use the hard ones tan in color but don't get time use as burn up in my house fire
The saw part is arm work out
Great video, keep it up
I couldn't sleep last night at a hotel I was staying at in Dallas so I turned on the tv and all night was Egyptian history about the pyramids and their land of thieves.
Did that good work out
Just make sure to be gentle around those bricks, they tend to crack and crumble if you throw them around, I'd try making some kind of support/protection for it just in case
The Star Wars Pyramid guy was an idiot. Everyone knows Pyramids are where the Goa'uld land their Motherships.
A respirator is your friend…..