Following more or less those directions, I was able to build and run my own mini foundry at home, melting about 30 cans to produce 4 mini-muffin sized ingots of (mostly) pure aluminum: ...

Propane furnace made with scrap steel, glass and ceramic wool and refractory cement. I wanted to reline the coal furnace i made five years back to melt aluminum but the structure was in very bad shape ...

Melting aluminum is actually pretty easy to do, which is why it’s such a popular metal for beginners at metal casting. Building a foundry that can melt aluminum safely is another matter entirely, and ...