Smelting Brass - Metal and Metallurgy engineering - Eng-Tips
2011年1月20日 · Heat the copper until it is just liquid and begins to melt. Cover the surface of the melt always with charcoal. Just when it begins to be liquid add the zinc metal and some borax. Cover them again with fresh charcoal powder. Add a little zinc more than what is necessary to compensate for the losses. Once the zinc is dissolved,slowly then raise ...
Melting down brass cases? - Cast Boolits
2011年6月26日 · the primers are brass too. you can make your mold any way you want. Laundry starch and water mix . get some play sand at lowes and use old tin cans as hole. when sand dries remove cans and fill it up. If you know a plumber may get some old cast iron pipe. you can set in the ground and fill then break the pipe off.
Removal of Impurities from Molten Brass - Eng-Tips
2020年5月29日 · To provide more info. I would like to let it be known that scrap is segregated manually before melting in the furnace but still some times some scrap containing aluminium gets sent away in the furnace by mistake so in order to nullify such mistake I want to use some sort of techniques/method/flux or any other products that can be used to remove the aluminium …
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2014年2月13日 · I've melted bronze and small amounts of brass using an oxy acetylene torch and you need to get the metal real HOT to do any pouring or casting. 20 mule team Borax works great as a flux and floats the impurities out to the top of the metal. I stopped melting brass because the cost of the gas needed to get 2-3 lbs of metal molten.
Melting down brass cases? - Page 2 - Cast Boolits
2011年6月26日 · I melted cartridge brass in high school as an extra credit class. it took 3-4 hours to melt about 1.5 pounds of brass. you need HOT HOT HOT temps to melt it to the point of pouring it. cheaper in the long run to just go buy a piece of raw solid brass round stock.
Left overs from melting range scrap - Cast Boolits
2022年7月27日 · Got a bunch of range scrap, like a truck load. got the lead out of it, good stuff too. now i have several 5 gal buckets of bullet jackets. the Scrap yard wont take them now, they say it might be live ammo in it and will not buy it.
has anybody tried melting brass? - Cast Boolits
2017年2月27日 · and if you do ....how do you flux it? (1800 degrees.) i want to pour it into ingot molds.
Melting Brass - Cast Boolits
2020年1月3日 · Has anyone melted and cast with brass? How easy or hard is it? Does it take much to get started ? I’ve started wondering about it, because of all the .22 cases just getting scrapped at my club. I thought it could be interesting to melt and sand cast a small cannon to be finished on a lathe. What are others thoughts on this. Thanks.
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2022年9月19日 · Does anyone here melt brass. I have access to a lot of 22lr brass and was wondering if I could do anything with it.
Turner plumbers melting furnace rebuild - Cast Boolits
2012年5月3日 · The brass orifice is not coded at all. What size orifice do I need? I would buy a regulator if needed. I have done a bit of surfing and have visited the local vendor. I have called some of the current plumbers melting furnace vendors and their specs for orifice size is 1/8 in. Wow.... Not even close.