Build Electric Melting Furnace

I ve seen many projects out there for building a foundry for melting aluminum to make castings.

Build electric melting furnace.

Similar techniques are used to produce the lid and the furnace is completed. Click on the image to go to the kanthal site where you can download specifications on kanthal wire and heating elements. Kanthal is the largest supplier of electric heating elements but there are other suppliers like i 2 r elements duralite molycom and mhi. So after a few months the element did finally break although it was partly my fault.

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. A few are electric which has many advantages. A crucible is a metal container that you put inside of your furnace that holds the metal you re melting. Most are based on cumbustion furnaces charcoal or propane.

Build an electric foundry for melting aluminum that works on 120 vac. This document describes how to build a furnace for melting metals like copper silver gold etc. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting. 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.

This is a homebuilt electric melting furnace.