Customer Reviews

Building A Gas Fired Crucible Furnace

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Good book - short but complete - with the information you need to build a foundry furnace. My only caveat is that it is dated. There are burner designs that are simpler and much easier to build, better ways of making refractory, better designs for lid lift mechanisms -- well you get the idea.

These designs are in different places on the web and are not published in a book. Perhaps the author will do a new revision.

I found this to be an excellent reference for those who wish to build their own crucible furnace. The text and illustrations were complete and easy to follow. I would encourage others to also check out Gingery's other titles on building crucible furnaces.

This book goes into everything needed to make a gas fired Furnice. I have yet to build my foundry but the general concepts used in this book will make it much easier to design my own system. Has some great diagrams, but is very general in putting it together. If you are looking for a general idea and guide book this is the one for you. However, If you are looking for a easy, cheap way to make a furnace you should probably look somewhere else.

gives the beginner and expert a lot of information on making a furnace that can be made by anyone with minimal amount of tools, does not require a machine shop to make, gives reasons why you need to follow the directions, lots of safety information spelled out, easy to follow

This is a unique design for a lifting body design of a melting furnace for zinc to iron. It has been very cleverly worked out so that the top of the body can be lifted with a wheeled lever-arm device.
Trevor

Contents were good (Half of my pages were upside down which made reading difficult). Covered the subject.

Good book and informative as is all Daves books. No reason to get into detail because he gets it done.