Build Electric Melting Furnace

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Build electric melting furnace.

This is a homebuilt electric melting furnace. A few are electric which has many advantages. I ve seen many projects out there for building a foundry for melting aluminum to make castings. 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.

Once finished the steel bucket is cut away and a fire is built over the furnace to melt away the plastic inside. 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. Similar techniques are used to produce the lid and the furnace is completed. None that i have seen are as easy to build as.

Kanthal is the largest supplier of electric heating elements but there are other suppliers like i 2 r elements duralite molycom and mhi. Build an electric foundry for melting aluminum that works on 120 vac. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting. Most are based on cumbustion furnaces charcoal or propane.

So after a few months the element did finally break although it was partly my fault.