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: ...

If you have an excess of soda cans lying around—or just looking for a cool project to work on—this mini foundry can melt metal and doesn't cost very much to build. Melting things is fun, and this ...

In this video, we show our longest-running steelmaking furnace project. The home foundry was made from an old gas cylinder. The furnace is designed for welding steel ingots and raises the melting ...