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Build an Oil-Fired Tilting Furnace
by
Steve Chastain
Dave Gingery's charcoal foundry is about all I need for the few castings that I need to pour. It's quick and easy to build, but it's not as convenient as it could be, and I'm limited to about a quart of molten aluminum. If you want to cast an aluminum boat, it won't do.
Here,
Steve Chastain will show you how to build a furnace capable of melting
fifty pounds of aluminum per melt which comes to about a hundred pounds
per hour. "The furnace is to be built from common
materials such as sand, clay, pipe, rectangular tubing and an old 30-gallon
drum. The furnace shown in this plan set may be built for $200 or less...".
And you fire it with propane or used motor oil.
"The furnace tilts around the spout and not the center
of gravity so that the stream of 
molten
aluminum remains in a fixed location and does not change with the furnace
angle."
You get not only the details on building and firing this beaut, but Steve will give you the formulas and basic theory you need to make design changes to meet your own needs.
You'll learn how to build a laminar flow burner nozzle, and how to proportion the design so that the furnace tilts safely and easily. And you'll be shown how to build the blower and a manometer. Then Steve will show how a furnace is built and used.
Tools? Well, you'll need a lathe to fabricate the venturi and a few small parts. You'll need a welder, and I think a power hacksaw or bandsaw sure would save the arm muscles. In other words, you ain't gonna build this on the kitchen table. But you ain't gonna need a giant machine shop either.
This
book and the furnace it describes is worth having. Not only does Steve show
you how to build a working furnace useful for pouring one-off large castings,
or many small duplicate castings that can be sold, but it also shows you some
of the basic furnace/combustion theory that goes into the design of a furnace.
And whether or not you build this furnace exactly as is, the background knowledge
can greatly extend your understanding of foundry practice.
Good stuff. Well illustrated. I wish I had time to build one. I'd cast a thousand 7" likenesses of myself, and demand that people remove that plastic Jesus from the dashboard of their SUV and replace it with an aluminum Lindsay. Can you imagine the wrecks and the ensuing lawsuits that would cause???
Get a copy. It's worth having. Excellent quality. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 192 pages
No. 1529 ... $19.95
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