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(12-06-2012, 04:02 PM)dallen Wrote: Home Made Machineable Was HMMW, lets see I melted about 30 to 40 of those blue plastic tops off of 5 gallon water bottles into a pound of paraffin wax, I recommend if you do it that you do it outside on an unburnable surface.

Interesting stuff
A bit of advice if you are wanting to cast small brass bits.
You would be better off using bronze
Much more stable than brass (safer as well in the fume department)
I made my self ill with the zink fumes from brass i will never melt it again.
A good sorce of bronze is car gear box selector forks and blocker rings
A trip to a gear box rebuilder should do the trick
John