brass re-cycling !!
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(04-24-2013, 01:33 PM)f350ca Wrote: Thanks Graham. Im sure its going to be a hard learning curve. Hope to get an addition / roof with no walls built across the back of the shop this summer to store and use the furnace. I also have some big, about 40 pound bronze bushings out of a seismic vibrator. Would I be best to cut them up, melt and then add some of the swarf on each pour?

Greg, you lucky devil all that bronze!! yes that's what I would do, also if my scrap's too big for the crucible & I'm not able to cut it up I put it in the furnace [without a crucible in] till it's a dull red then you can take it out & tap it with a hammer & it cracks into bits like a plantpot. Btw most people have gas or oil furnaces,but I built my first one with my Dad 40 odd yrs ago running on coke & as we have a aga rayburn cooker we've allways got bunkers full of coke so I've never changed to gas. I highly recommend myfordboy on youtube, he really knows his stuff & also ''our very own'' John[doubleboost] he knows his stuff too,'cos there's a lot of tossers out there melting ally in shorts & sandals & pouring it into tart tins & rejoycing at their expertise & people commenting ''how clever they are'' .
Graham.
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brass re-cycling !! - by the artfull-codger - 04-23-2013, 04:16 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by f350ca - 04-23-2013, 07:49 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by the artfull-codger - 04-24-2013, 11:58 AM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by f350ca - 04-24-2013, 01:33 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by the artfull-codger - 04-24-2013, 02:26 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by doubleboost - 04-24-2013, 03:50 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by f350ca - 04-24-2013, 07:53 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by the artfull-codger - 04-25-2013, 02:18 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by doubleboost - 04-25-2013, 02:38 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by the artfull-codger - 04-26-2013, 12:15 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by f350ca - 04-26-2013, 12:43 PM
RE: brass re-cycling !! - by doubleboost - 04-26-2013, 02:23 PM



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