I did have a theory it was potmetal. Wasn't as bright and metallic as aluminum.
Danny On 9/25/2016 1:58 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 09/25/2016 01:11 PM, Danny Miller wrote: >> Some of our folks built a metal kiln and we tried to melt some aluminum >> swarf the neighboring metalshop discarded, at least what we thought was >> aluminum (no confirmation, but it wasn't steel). We got almost no metal, >> just inches of dross. No inert gas or flux there, in fact the metal was >> exposed to combustion gases. >> >> > It may have been "pot metal", which is what carburetors and > such parts used to be made of. Mostly zinc. > > Some guys here have various melting furnaces, and general > chunks of aluminum melt well. You do get some dross, but > not INCHES of it, for sure. One guy has an old ladle > furnace, which looks like a stainless wok with 3 gas burners > below it. So, you light the burners, and then toss various > chunks of aluminum castings (pistons, sawed-up transmission > casings, etc.) in the bowl, and they slowly disappear. When > all melted, you skim the dross and ladle out the aluminum > into your molds. Even with the pool of molten aluminum > exposed to the air, you don't get much dross. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
