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Tim_Furnace_Shot1.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Burning_Down.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Casting.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Casting_In_Mold.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Crucible.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Glowing.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Ingots.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Poking_It.jpg 
Tim_Furnace_Poking_Pennies.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Pouring_Ingots.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Pouring_Sand_Mold.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Pouring_Zinc.jpg
Tim_Furnace_Blasting_it_up.jpg

DESCRIPTION:

These are pictures of a homemade metal casting furnace 
and some examples showing its use. Posted by Tim Williams
<tmoranwms@charter.net>. Tim provided the following description:

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These are pictures of me and my furnace; 2 or 3
do not involve the furnace, but rather are at our
stove (like its 6(!) burners?), and 1 or 2 have
my friend, Mark, in them, but anyway -

(All start with "Tim_Furnace_" so I will omit that part)
(Oh yeah, they're all .JPGs)

Blasting_it_up -    I had just turned down the blower,
                    and am now blasting it up - looks
                    better in real life.
Burning_Down  -     The furnace glows as it burns down,
		    running out of fuel as it tries to
                    melt (copper, no, red brass?) pennies.
Casting    -        The uncut, fresh-from-the-mold casting;
                    aluminum.  Notice the large part - I
                    overflowed..  :)
Casting_In_Mold -   The casting; I just picked it up off
		    the drag, and it is still in the cope.
Crucible    -       (In our basement) I picture of my
                    "crucible" made of a steel can.  :)
Glowing    -        A top-down view of the furnace burning
                    down as the pennies melt.
Ingots     -        (On our dining room table) ingots from
                    my first furnace burning (older picture).
Poking_It   -       I think I was looking down at the
                    furnace, lookin' to poke the melt.
Poking_Pennies -    Just me pokin' at the fused, but not
                    liquid, pennies.
Pouring_Ingots -    Pourin' the ingots - notice the silvery
                    trail flowing to the right on the vise...
                    Oh BTW after everything cooled, I got a
                    nice thick plate of cast aluminum from
                    that...  :-/  No, no concrete spalled.
Pouring_Sand_Mold - Self-expanatory file name.
Pouring_Zinc   -    (Again on the stove) this has nothing to
                    do with the furnace; I just wanted to
                    include it to show y'all my zinc casting.
                    Can't see the flame very well, eh?
Shot1       -       A good shot of the furnace.

There, that should be it.

Tim

tmoranwms@charter.net