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My new project
I've been finishing up my grind station and am done for all practical purposes. There will be tweaking and improvements as time goes on for sure.
My new project is a waste oil burner and furnace for melting aluminum and brass. I have my grandads casting tools and misc. I believe he melted his metal on the forge. Probably stacked up a ring of fire brick and set the crucible in the enter and blasted away. I built a waste oil burner and gravity feed tank. I'm now working on the furnace it's self. I'm on the look out for refractory. I've used the homemade formulas but want something a little tougher. The hold up is finding something somewhat local. To ship the refractory in is costly. anyhoo if I'm not building something, I'm not happy LOL.
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Looking forward to seeing pics of the project.
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If you get around to melting copper, I could use some barstock.
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Thanks for the comments. I have a round wooden pattern that my granddad used for pouring brass bars. He then turned these bars in a lathe for various projects. I plan on pouring copper bars, smaller bars for knife projects and such.
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Oh, Winter. I thought groveling was beneath you. I shoulda known.
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when it comes to knifemaking supplies anything goes.
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Absolutely. Some people sill steal the pants right off........never mind.
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Here's the latest progress on my project.
here's a view of the gravity waste oil tank and a side view of the burner. I may burn waste vegetable in this burner instead of motor oil. I figure burning the vegetable oil would be healthier. I have the scrunched up for photo purposes. During operation the burner will be far away from the oil tank.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...dytlee/363.jpg
here's a backside view. I installed a speed controller for the blower in hopes that it will help with tweaking the burn.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...dytlee/366.jpg
In order for the burner to work the burner tube needs to vent into a hot furnace. I have some kast-o-lite refractory coming. I'll be putting together the furnace soon.
For what it's worth I don't leave my drill bits lay around like that but those bits were in a bucket and I had a oil situation and needed something to catch it in.
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would this thread be better served in the making stuff forum?
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Neat! Looking forward to seeing it fired! I have been saving cooking oil for almost a year. We don't fry much so I haven't even got 5 gallons yet. I cut a hole in a 5 gallon bucket lid and placed a sink strainer in the hole to store my oil.
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I moved it. It will make it easier to find in the future.
Nice job on the burner!
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I was fooling around with backyard casting/smelting and such here a while back, not saying you don't already have this under control but I did find some good stuff.
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...light=smelting
Particularly...... http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/
Looking good so far.
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thanks for the comments and info.
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looks good keep us posted
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