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This A4 sized book contains 84 pages of information, pictures and drawings explaining how to construct and use this furnace.
Although I describe the green sand I use, give details of several parts to cast and some information on metals in general, this is not a general foundry book. It concentrates on showing in detail how my waste oil furnace (shown on this site), was built and explains exactly how it works. This is to enable you to build a furnace using the materials easily available to you, rather than search around to make an exact copy of mine.
With this information you can probably adapt your existing furnace to my waste oil burning system should you wish to do so (see the "Guest Gallery").
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Also in the book, I describe how I make my cast iron crucibles. Many people melt aluminium, brass and bronze in steel pots, the trouble with steel is that it "flakes" when it gets hot enough. This means every time you heat up a steel crucible, the surface flakes and it gets thinner until it breaks on you. Also these steel flakes will find their way into your molten metal and end up in your casting, usually right in the middle of the most visible place!
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Cast iron hardly flakes at all, that's why it's used for grates and other parts in fires, stoves, boilers etc. it's long lasting with these temperatures. Although they will be heavier than a steel pot, cast iron crucibles will retain the heat for much longer once they're removed from the furnace.
Collect a load of scrap cast iron (for free!) and with this waste oil furnace you can melt this (for almost free) and cast this into crucibles using something as simple as clay plant pots or even a large tea mug as a pattern, you can make unbelievable crucibles FOR ALMOST FREE!!
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For a description of the features of this furnace, look at "The Furnace" in the index.
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Book price £13
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Due to the ever changing exchange rates, I have added a link to a currency converter to help you find the price in your local currency.
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To order a copy of the book,
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Email me at colin.peck@ntlworld.com
I will send you an invoice payable with PayPal (for members), or a bank or credit card (for non PayPal members).
I will send a link upon receiving the cleared payment.
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I've called this book "The Artful Bodger's Iron Casting Waste Oil Furnace" for a reason! Yes it melts aluminium, brass, bronze ect. but so will just about any other furnace. This beast doesn't think twice about melting cast iron, it doesn't "just about" melt cast iron on a good day if the weather is just right and you offer the correct prayers to the Great God Of Iron Casting, it breezes through it without a second thought!
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I mainly use an A4 or an A8 crucible for my iron casting, simply because this is the amount I need. The A20 was bought out of curiosity, will it do it? Well the answer to that is YES! Since an A20 is physically pushing the furnace to its limits (in the size I've built it). Perhaps in the dead of winter with a poor batch of oil, a small percentage of diesel or other "performance boosting fuel" might help things along. I know that if I want to pour cast iron , I will be pouring casting iron! Come what may, and I will be doing it with pure, FREE waste oil (except in exceptional circumstances!)