Diy Electric Melting Furnace

Put the metal you want to melt inside the crucible and use a pair of fire tongs to set it in the middle of your furnace.

Diy electric melting furnace.

Click on the image to go to the kanthal site where you can download specifications on kanthal wire and heating elements. After reading some of the comments and doing more research a simple controller to cycle the element on and off is recommended as the element is more likel. 8 pounds plaster of paris possibly 12 if you do not have a lid with your bucket bag of sand normal play sand will work fine a 5 gallon bucket for mixing. Kanthal is the largest supplier of electric heating elements but there are other suppliers like i 2 r elements duralite molycom and mhi.

For hobby metal melting and for science. Some quick links to a fe. How to hack flashlight batteries and a fire brick into a desktop arc reaction chamber. Allow the furnace to heat the crucible and melt the metal before taking it out with tongs for casting.

So after a few months the element did finally break although it was partly my fault. This document describes how to build a furnace for melting metals like copper silver gold etc.