The second book in Steve's small foundry series, the first book being "Iron-Melting Cupola Furnaces." Complete plans and operating instructions for a oil fired tilting furnace that easily melts 100 pounds of aluminum per hour. Melt with propane, diesel or used motor oil. Using the tilting mechanism, you will never have to handle a hot crucible. Start stop and hold the furnace at any angle for precise pours. Starts with basic definitions, covers basic furnace and combustion theory, design, construction and operation of the furnace and basic aluminum melting practice.
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"The book will provide a set of plans for an oil and or propane fired, 50 pound capacity aluminum melting furnace. The furnace will tilt around the spout and not the center of gravity so that the stream of molten metal remains in a fixed location and does not change with the furnace angle. The furnace will melt 100 pounds of aluminum per hour...the furnace is to be built from common materials such as sand, clay, rectangular tubing and an old 30 gallon drum. The furnace will be built for $200 or less."
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Engineering for home foundries,
This review is from: Build an Oil Fired Tilting Furnace (The Small foundry series) (Paperback)
If you love to build things and are always doing "weird" things in your garage, then this project might be for you. You might want to check with your neighbors and local ordinances before firing it up. This is not a trivial undertaking.Seriously, this is a well-researched book on how to build a furnace for melting relatively large quantities of aluminum (by home shop standards). The furnace is designed so that the entire furnace and crucible tilts about the pouring spout so that one person can safely pour the 50 pounds of aluminum that you will generate with each heat. The book is 192 pages of very tightly written instructions and almost every page has at least one engineering graph, photo, or engineering sketch that help with the engineering and construction of the furnace. The instructions given are complete enough so experienced metal workers should be able to complete the project without too much difficulty. You will need access to an oxy-acetylene torch, arc welder, and lathe. The book is divided roughly into two parts, engineering design and furnace construction. The design portion of the book is very thorough. The section starts by describing the different types of foundry furnaces and their benefits. The tilting furnace allows melting of quantities larger than one person could lift and pour from a lift-out crucible furnace that is common in home hobby foundries. Chastain then quickly moves into the design calculations used for his furnace design. His purpose for such design detail is to provide the builder with the knowledge necessary to make modifications to the furnace. If you are interested in home foundry work this section will be very interesting regardless of your intention to build the furnace. Tables are given for the thermal properties of common home foundry metals. Equations are given to determine the quantity of heat required to melt a given quantity of metal. Then Chastain calculates the amount of fuel needed to provide the proper amount of heat to melt the metal. If these formulas and charts are not enough, an excellent bibliography is given that should shorten any library search. This information should be enough to safely re-engineer almost any modification to the tilting furnace. One of the interesting features of this furnace is the use of used oil (motor, transmission, brake fluid, etc.) for the fuel source. The use of oil complicates the design and construction of the furnace, but once operational you can run the furnace with very low fuel cost. This design uses propane to warm the furnace and start the oil fire. Some tips are given in case you want to change the design to fully propane operation in order to simplify building and operation. "Build an Oil-Fired Tilting Furnace" is the second self-published book by Steve Chastain. If you are serious about home foundry work this is a worthwhile book, even if you are not going to build this particular furnace. The engineering section will provide the data needed for many types of furnaces. Chastain's first book showed how to build an Iron Melting Cupola. A flyer included with the "Oil-Fired Furnace" advertised a third book in the series due in September 2002 and titled "Sand Casting Manual". From the list of topics it looks like that book will also be a "must-have" for the home foundry library.
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Oil fired furnace,
By Fev (A palace in Baghdad, Iraq) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Build an Oil Fired Tilting Furnace (The Small foundry series) (Paperback)
This is a very good book that has all the calculations and everything worked out. He tells how to independently design your furnace in case you want something slightly different and what to take into consideration. Unfortunately, it requires a lathe, quite a few welds, a cut off saw that can cut metal, and an oxyacetylene cutting torch. But if you already have those, you can make this furnace for a reasonable price and ease.Trevor
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This review is from: Build an Oil Fired Tilting Furnace (The Small foundry series) (Paperback)
Good book, practical and clear. Arrived very promptly at the other side of the world.
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