I am building a Gingery Metal Lathe. I downloaded the first three books in the series for Kindle. Morgan Demers inspired me with his videos of building his lathe. Check out my web site, makercise.com, for other cool projects.

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My first charcoal foundry was a bit too messy, dusty, and expensive. Waste oil would be cheaper but kerosene works better to get it started. I followed David D's video on the Kwiky All Fuel Foundry [ Ссылка ] with minor tweaks. Kerosene works much better but doesn't save me much over charcoal. It is still much less of a mess.

I poured the apron and lead screw supports and now have some data on the material loss and furnace burn rate. I lost 5% as slag, spillage, and leftover in the crucible. Discounting fuel used to heat up the foundry, I use about 0.45 lbs of fuel per lb of aluminum melted. I also did some calculations on what that means for my foundry's efficiency. I used about 8M joules to heat and melt the aluminum when only 0.39M joules were required: 5% efficiency. This seems like pretty poor performance, but I found typical efficiencies for crucible type foundries are 7-19%, see [ Ссылка ]. I definitely have room for improvement on this foundry. However, it works for now, and I can always try for better efficiency with foundry 2.0 and 3.0.

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The Metal Shaper (Book 3) - [ Ссылка ]
The Milling Machine (Book 4) - [ Ссылка ]
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The Dividing Head and Deluxe Accessories (Book 6) - [ Ссылка ]

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