Hi
The furnace is running again. I used old charcoal on top of fresh and it took a couple of hours and lots of meths to get it all burning OK. No sign of any aluminium dripping out from underneath which is a shame. I had used green sand and made some impressions to test it out but I guess with the slow start it just never got up to temperature.
Tomorrow will tell what happened.
Graham
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This is the blog for my attempts to make a prehistoric Willendorf Venus style statue out of recycled aluminium cans. I'll be building a couple of home foundry projects - one to purify the scrap aluminium and one for casting. For the final cast I'll use candle making techniques to make a custom mould to cast wax statues. These will then be packed in sand and baked in the oven for lost wax casting.
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- Graham
- Full time house husband, genius, sculptor, inventor, writer of novels and non-fiction books and articles, brewer. Part-time I do graphic, layout and typesetting work for a local printers. And Tarot and Rune reader too.
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