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 ...

An MIT spin-off is working to restore critical materials production in the US while eliminating toxic byproducts. Named 6K, ...

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 ...

Massive ship sheets are repurposed through an advanced electric furnace recycling process, melting and refining the material ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Gallium, a lesser common element, has some neat tricks up its quickly melting sleeve. It melts in your hand, can be used to make a gag spoon, and can turn a typical ...

God, Zangwill claimed, was using America as “a crucible” to melt the “fifty” barbarian tribes of Europe into a metal from which He can cast Americans. Today, the melting pot metaphor is ...

The method to pursue in mixing them is as follows :First, melt the least fusible of the metals (that requiring the highest temperature) of which the alloy is to be composed, and after it is fused ...

Arc melting furnace can melt metals and alloys at over 3000°C with the aid of the electric arc between the non-consumable tungsten electrode and the copper crucible. Therefore, the arc furnace is a ...

Many non-metals have low melting and boiling points. When non-metals are in a solid state, they are usually brittle so you can’t beat them into shape. Carbon – a dull, dark grey solid and is ...