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 ...
"You can begin to consider totally new alloys that we’ve not been able to make before." Researchers turn old junk into ...
It’s just that we never would have thought to build an induction forge that can simultaneously melt and levitate a chunk of aluminum. (Video embedded below.) [imsmoother] has had plans for 3 kW ...
has some neat tricks up its quickly melting sleeve. It melts in your hand, can be used to make a gag spoon, and can turn a typical soda can into mush. The aluminum on a can amalgamates with the ...
The drive to recycle just about everything is gaining ground, but the process — separating out all the different materials ...