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 ...

Casting is a great way to make your own custom metal parts. However, casting requires some manner of furnace capable of generating high enough temperatures to melt the metal in question.

Dive into the fascinating process of melting rusty iron scrap ... Watch as the furnace works at intense temperatures, breaking down old metal scrap and transforming it into high-quality iron ...

with a liquid metal volume of 110 t. The single-chamber furnace used for melting is able to also take over the function of a casting furnace, if necessary. For heating, two pairs of regenerative ...

Furthermore, it is difficult to melt the refractory metals in a black-body furnace.