If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

Seems like most of the metal casting projects we feature are aluminum in sand molds, though, so it’s refreshing to see a casting project using silicone molds to cast low-melting point metals.

This method is used for low temperature melting materials such as aluminum ... Gravity, gas pressure, and vacuums are employed to fill the molds. Common casting metals are aluminum, magnesium, and ...

produce and test a wide range of cast metals and cast metal matrix composites. Our facilities and equipment allow students to understand the following melting, molding and casting processes, which are ...