Producing CNC machine castings from aluminum

3 years ago
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Here is a demonstration of using a match plate pattern, as well as my simple aluminum melter that uses a stove burner for the heat source. This is a collection of videos and still shots from my workshop in the last few months of building a CNC router using unistrut for the slides, and quite a number of aluminum castings that I produced using my home workshop foundry.

Here's a previous explanation of the simple ladle furnace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewM9c2Vp0Ho

This is not a how-to video. This is a "how I did it" video and is not a recommendation of how you should do it.

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