Ready to melt aluminum at home? In this DIY tutorial, I show you how to create your own crucible and furnace for aluminum remelting. First, I cut and modify a corner sander to shape the crucible, then ...

They loved feeding cans into the crucible and watching them disappear. The arc furnace doesn't have that same accessibility, and I'm not ready to have them handle something like that directly.

Except for the crucible and a few random buckets, Thompson suggests it won't cost you more than $20 to build. Once you've got it all set up, you can melt soda cans and other metals, then recast ...

It is suitable for small melting applications of steel and precious metals utilizing silicon carbide, graphite, clay and ceramic crucibles. The EKOHEAT 15kW induction heating system utilizes IGBTs for ...