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Foundry Furnace for the Tiny Shop

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tom osselton:
Lucky ba**ard we never had a box!   :)

Will_D:
Ehh! you were lucky:

Titanium:

We had to scrounge the wires from the young ladies bras' to aquire enough "Tit-ane-er-ium" to melt down to cast 'owt useful from that imaginatively named metal  :bugeye:

vtsteam:
Looked up this old thread because I'm finally rebuilding -- or relining the tiny furnace. Not because of any defect from heats, but because the lining got wet and stayed that way all winter this year -- I hadn't noticed, since the lid was on. The lining went soft and crumbly -- maybe the multiple freezes and thaws had a hand. Anyway, the price of plaster of paris is now up $2 I noticed. Bought one for the refurb.

This evening before dinner, I chopped and scraped out all the old lining, ready for renewal. Read this thread over to see what I'd done 3 years ago...oh, also restored all my photos in it after, you know, the Photobucket fiasco.

I'll try to get pix of the relining process.

(all this is in preparation to resuming casting for the headstock cap on my uhhhhh "new" lathe build).

vtsteam:
After work today, I took a wire brush to the inside of the old furnace shell:

vtsteam:
Nice to be working on grass again instead of snow, or later, mud. The bit of lawn above wasn't green three days ago. Spring happens fast here when it decides to!

I found a piece of Sonotube (cardboard concrete form) in the big shed that was close to the ~8" OD I wanted. It was 8-5/8", so I cut a strip out 1-1/2" wide.

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