How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

For melting non-ferrous metals and working with ceramics, it is convenient to use an electric furnace with the ability to precisely regulate the temperature. This is quite specific equipment, intended mainly for industrial use, and therefore has an extremely high cost. In this regard, it is better to do it yourself. This will allow you not only to save money, but also to get more compact equipment than is offered for sale. A homemade melting furnace, when using suitable electrical equipment, can heat up to a temperature of +1300 degrees Celsius.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

Materials:


  • fireclay bricks – 8 pcs.;
  • fechral wire Х23У5Т 1 mm 18 m;
  • steel wire;
  • steel cylindrical tank;
  • insulation;
  • thermostat REX-C100 or equivalent;
  • thermocouple at the required temperature;
  • solid state relay;
  • ceramic barrels – 2 pcs.;
  • case from a computer power supply;
  • electrical cord with plug.

Making a melting furnace


The melting furnace muffle is made in the form of a barrel. To do this, 6 fireclay bricks are cut with a grinder with a diamond wheel to obtain rivets.Before cutting, you should draw a template on paper to determine the optimal size of the segments.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

Ideally, make a frame for attaching the grinder and make a carriage for sliding the brick. In this case, the rivets will be smooth and identical.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

A home-made spiral of fechral wire with a cross-section of 1 mm and a length of 18 m will be used as a heating element of the melting furnace. With these parameters, its heating power will be 1.7 kW. In order for the spiral to fit inside the muffle, the wire must be wound around a rod with a diameter of 10 mm.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

To place the spiral in the muffle, you need to make 5 horizontal grooves in the rivets. On one of them, transitions are made between the grooves, which will allow you to lay the wire connecting the spiral. The ends of the heater are brought out through holes in one of the bricks. The rivets are assembled into a barrel and tied on the outside with steel wire placed in pre-made narrow grooves.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

The resulting muffle is placed in an available cylindrical steel container. To do this, thermal insulation is laid on its bottom, steel supports are built on top, on which 2 fireclay bricks are installed. The muffle itself is located on top of them. The space between the barrel and the walls of the container is filled with thermal insulation. Before this, the ends of the spiral are brought out.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

A thermostat and a solid-state relay must be installed outside the container.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

This can be conveniently done by securing the old case from the computer power supply.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

Before this, a thermocouple specially selected for the required temperature is connected to the thermostat.It should be noted that the REX-C100 thermostat, often used for melting furnaces, has three modifications that differ in the temperature control range. If the stove will be used to work with ceramics and steel, then you need to take the version with adjustment up to +1300 degrees Celsius. Be sure to remember to insulate the walls of the holes in the metal container for the output of the spiral with ceramic barrels.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

In this design, the melting furnace can already be used for melting aluminum. Without a thermally insulating cover, it will take 1.5 hours to warm up to the required +660 degrees Celsius, so it is better to make a cap. The proposed stove design is easily disassembled. This is very important in the absence of a normal thermal insulator, when ordinary mineral wool is used, which must be changed after each use of the smelter. The ability to precisely adjust the heating of the stove makes it possible to work not only with aluminum and ceramics, but also to perform hardening and tempering of steel products.
How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

How to Make an Electric Melting Furnace for Aluminum

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Comments (2)
  1. Dmitry Viktorovich Moiseev
    #1 Dmitry Viktorovich Moiseev Guests 12 March 2020 22:38
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    My hands are growing from the right place, I envy you.
  2. Lenar
    #2 Lenar Guests 13 March 2020 12:09
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    Instead of mineral wool, use kaolin wool. It is used in industrial furnaces.