Oil Drum Kaowool Furnace
Atmospheric CNG Burner
Burner showing flame out protection
Tools of the trade
Dross Spoon
Crucible Tongs
Pouring Shank
Crucible
Crucible showing decay, prior to coating with refractory clay sealer
Casting Sandpit
Sandpit showing ingot moulds
Ingot poured off into sand depression, showing need for proper ingot moulds
Honeycomb investment backed up with sand to prevent explosion, catch spills and staunch leaks.
Original sandpit showing need for proper sandbox
Spectacular FUCK UP when I burnt a hole in a steel crucible.
Really classy sandpit setup
Using old kiln shelf as a exhaust restrictor on furnace to tune combustion chamber back pressure
Close up of the hot stuff ready for dross skimming
Burner orifice at full noise
Retracting the burner prior to lifting furnace lid
Lifting furnace lid, note red hot crucible
About to lift crucible with lifting tongs
Negotiating crucible into pouring shank, Murray steadying the shank
Another view of crucible being docked with pouring shank
And yet another view
Pouring the metal into the investment
I Dunno what this is a picture of
More pouring
Murray backs up sand to investment
Close up of sand rammed ingot moulds
The wooden pattern for making the ingot moulds
Detail of wooden pattern
Kind of sculptural all on their own
Sand Ingot Moulds
Much more organised. Raised sandpit for tidiness and safety.
Spectacular chemical reaction between zinc in brass and stainless steel crucible
Frozen puddle of aluminium from when crucible leaked
Version Two ingot pattern designed to cast eight ingots at a time
