Port Washington-based Modern Equipment Company Inc. makes furnaces and ladles that can undergo the stresses of metal melting at foundries. It can take several months to manufacture a product that can ...

If you’re interested in melting metal, and you totally should be because it’s basically the most fun way to recycle soda cans, The Art of Weapons details how to make an electric foundry for metal ...

If you have an excess of soda cans lying around—or just looking for a cool project to work on—this mini foundry can melt metal and doesn't cost very much to build. Melting things is fun, and this ...

How To Make The Metal Foundry . Steel Melting Furnace. In this video, we show our longest-running steelmaking furnace project ...

Molten copper is cast into copper anodes in the foundry of Aurubis AG, an employee is controlling the melting and casting process on February 7, 2014 in Luenen, Germany. Getty Images FRANKFORT, Ky. — ...

So the casting didn't go great. First, open molds suck, wasted a lot of extra material on overspill. Second, I suck at pouring. Finally, the kinetic sand didn't work as well as I hoped. When I made ...

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 another matter entirely, and ...