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Recycling failed castings into bar stock #10

Open jes opened 4 years ago

jes commented 4 years ago

It would be good to come up with an easy way to melt down failed castings and produce new bar stock that can be used for new castings.

Basically just need to melt them down in the furnace then pour into a cylindrical mould, maybe a bit of steel tube with a cap welded over one end would work? The metal inside would shrink as it cools so would automatically separate from the steel.