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Radio Waves Bring the Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge
Depending on the chef’s skill, many exciting things can happen in the kitchen. Few, however, grab as much immediate attention as when a piece of foil or a fork accidentally …read more Continue reading Radio Waves Bring the Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge
3D Printed Forge For Recycling
If you own a CNC and have kept tabs on metal prices these past few years (honestly months), you might shed a small tear as you watch chips fly off …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Forge For Recycling
Flip-Top Foundry Helps Manage the Danger of Metal Casting
Melting aluminum is actually pretty easy to do, which is why it’s such a popular metal for beginners at metal casting. Building a foundry that can melt aluminum safely is …read more Continue reading Flip-Top Foundry Helps Manage the Danger of Metal Casting
A Quick And Easy Recipe For Synthetic Rubies
With what it takes to make synthetic diamonds – the crushing pressures, the searing temperatures – you’d think similar conditions would be needed for any synthetic gemstone. Apparently not, though, as [NightHawkInLight] reveals his trivially easy method for making synthetic rubies.
Like their gemstone cousin the sapphire, rubies are just …read more
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Electric Arc Furnace Closes the Loop
When we think of an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), the image that comes to mind is one of a huge machine devouring megawatts of electricity while turning recycled metal into liquid. [Gregory Hildstrom] did some work to shrink one of those machines down to a practical home version. [Greg] is building on work done by [Grant Thompson], aka “The King of Random” and AvE. Industrial EAFs are computer controlled devices, carefully lowering a consumable carbon electrode into the steel melt. This machine brings those features to the home gamer.
[Greg] started by TIG welding up an aluminum frame. There isn’t …read more
