SIMPLE Homemade Metal Melting Furnace (Foundry) for metal casting - by VOGMAN

A simple homemade Metal Foundry for casting metals at Home! Melt soda cans, recycle metal and cast in aluminium in your backyard. Use it as a mini forge...
Here I make a stable, high temperature home metal foundry to work alongside my waste oil burner, for melting and recycling various metals for other projects. Using dedicated dense, castable Refractory mix that’s capable of withstanding temperatures up to 1700 degrees Celcius (3092 Fahrenheit). This home metal foundry makes use of recycled materials, is easy to build, very affordable, is strong and stable and can easily be customised to suit your needs.
Most home made foundry designs use 50/50 sand and plaster of paris, but this mix is just too weak. It crumbles and disintegrates too easily and I got fed up of repairing mine. This dense refractory isn’t exactly concrete, but it’s MUCH harder than this 50/50 mix and should stand up to years of use, especially if supported in a firm containing frame as I’ve done here.
Once complete, the foundry is very heavy and not easily moved, so I mounted mine on castors for easy movement.
This build is inspired by Grant Thompson (King of Random) and Myfordboy. These are mentioned in this video and I would recommend viewing their tutorials. My thanks to them for their sterling work.
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[lourias]

You have put this video together very well! Things I like include:
1. Thumbnail of finished product.
2. Concise instruction for each step of the process.
3. Video to match each step of your process.
4. The "why" to do things a certain way, to prevent others from making your mistakes.
5. Your voice-over matched the steps!

Great and awesome work!

[underfundedaddict]

WOW!! I see me watching this hundreds of times before finishing my build...THANK YOU!!

[anthonyhubnik]

In preparation for making my own foundry I’ve watched at least 200 videos. Sir you have done so well here! Firstly your voice is awesome and you are concise without any ramblings. This is the best Instructional video yet I will definitely make sure all my friends see this thank you so much.!

[ControlBra]

One of the best and most professional homemade foundries I have seen to date. Brilliant!

[rocktrader]

I like the simplicity of you design. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

[klab]

I'm glad you mentioned who you looked after

[flavacreations]

It's amazing how good some of you forge builders are and you are one of the good ones

[JeffJeffersn]

I'm only half way through watching this and it's easily the best video I've watched on this subject. Planning to build my own very soon and have watched plenty of other videos, this video is going to be my primary guidance. Many thanks!

[parkerl]

For the folks in the states specifically the Midwest, Menards sells a 25lb bucket of refractory cement and it’s just enough to do the king of random way with a 2 inch bottom.

Just did mine. Curing it currently. Can’t wait! Thanks for the vid vegoilguy

[jimbasler]

I haven't seen that foundry at work, but it's a whole lot more sturdy, than most. I need to put one of my own together. Thanks for the video!

[dragan]

A leaf blower is great for making a huge flamethrower. I setup a burn barrell for the kids. I used a 44 gallon drum in half.i drilled 50mm holes around 100mm up from the bottom. I did harden my machete but a lot of firewood behind my property. Old trees on the ground.

[lawrencedeans]

Thanks great tutorial I had no issue with the volume clear as every other video

[JoseDominguez-vblz]

I like this build better than all the rest I've seen. Actually pretty simple and to the point. I built one but mixed my own with cement perlite and silica sand. it was messy and time consuming. After about a couple of dozen lights it became too brittle and started falling apart. I'm going to try your build see how that comes out. Thanks.
Joe
San Diego, CA USA

[barryellis]

I have a friend that gives me water heaters. Im going to make a foundry out of one using your instrutions. Anybody could follow them. Great video. You just got a new subscriber. Happy new year to you and your family.

[allengentz]

Thanks for a great video will be most useful, I like the sub titles as they make sure the message is clear.Well done that man!!

[alt-w]

Thanks for Sharing, you showed like you been doing these experience and understanding how this works.

[rt]

Hi Geoff Just came across your metal foundry video now. excellent video, factual, down to earth simple explanation on the design philosophy and build. really enjoyed this, thank you so much for sharing your great skills. Thanks & greetings from Ireland.

[neydogg]

It actually saved me some $ building my own. Thanks for the tips and guide to building it. 🙌

[markanthony]

Nice work, I just may well copy it, as is a convenient Chippy at the top of my road. Possibility of cooking oil cans and used oil in the same place.
As an addition, just looked through your other projects, I like some of them to have a go at. I have subbed.

[pheenix]

Part of the reason your food tin gave you trouble coming out of the lid were the ribs stamped in its' side, coupled with the refractory expanding as it cured, locked it right in place for you.