4th Funace Run.....

Today was a good day, I wanted to do one more run before I had to pack everything up. This picture you see here on the left is a copper (with other metals included) Ingot. This ingot was made by a spinning drum so it made it the shape of the drum. I was trying an experiment on what this would do and this is pretty much the result.

Here is more spinned ingots made out of copper, It was interesting watching the moulton metal roll around in the drum till it solidified.

Here on the right is my dryer with a special made drum that made my spinned ingot.

Here is another run also done today with a graphite crucible placed in the center. It fell to one side when all the fuel burned down, I also had copper in it.

Here is the same crucible from picture above only this time I had it covered when I added more fuel so the chips and charcoal wouldn't go in the cup.

Here is my air source. I was really upset when it started smoking and shortly after it burned up. My dad does'nt know it yet but I owe him another weed blower.

The picture above middle shows the

copper ingot in the cup after the cup was pulled out of the furnace. Here on

the right is the ingot after I had to break the cup to get it out. This ingot has different metals in it and it weighs 3 lbs. Copper has a pretty dense mass so it could easily weigh that much.

This picture shows what it looks like when you are holding it, just to give you an idea about how big it is. I wanted to try and see if I could make layers by adding different metals all in one cup and letting it slowly cool. You really can't see in this picture but it has some layering but you really have to look closely. The metals I have in it are Copper, Brass, Nickel, Sterling Silver, small amount of Platinum, and possibly a small amount of gold. So it has quite a variety. Tomorrow morning I am heading down to Searchlight to help a good friend of mine out on some projects. I can't wait to show him some of my experiments. Anyways I hope you all find this interesting and I wouldn't mind a comment or two on some of your thoughts about some of the things I am doing.