Melting Pot Plans

[Fredx10sen]

Drew up some plans in AutoCad the last couple of days so as to get some ideas on building a melting pot. I then put them into a PDF file and hope that you will be able to view them. They are very preliminary and just thrown together to get the brain thinking. Here are the links, I hope they work and that someone will get some ideas from them. There are two similar but different plans, also you will have to turn the drawings to read them better. :drinks:


http://cid-e758092651e9e751.office.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public?uc=1

:killingpc
Hope this works. I had them in the wrong folder

[LedShed]

How much alloy would this hold? I'm looking for something that would melt a couple hundred pounds of alloy at once and is bottom pour for ease of making ingots. Any ideas?

[Fredx10sen]

How much alloy would this hold? I'm looking for something that would melt a couple hundred pounds of alloy at once and is bottom pour for ease of making ingots. Any ideas?

I really don't know. I guess you could apply the math required to figure it out. I have made a melting pot out of this same piece of pipe that is not a bottom pour. It holds quite a bit of lead and is a little to tall at 10" ( next one will be shorter) which requires plenty of heat to keep it hot at the top. I was trying to design a pot with the materials I have on hand so as to keep down the cost. The pot could be built using a thinner wall thickness of pipe and that would require less energy to keep hot. Like I said I'm just throwing out some ideas and seeing what sticks. :coffeecom

[Matt_G]

Your files are zero bytes. There isn't anything there.
Perhaps the upload failed...

[Fredx10sen]

Your files are zero bytes. There isn't anything there.
Perhaps the upload failed...

Did you click on the link and then download the PDF file? I hope it's working I checked on another computer and it was working so IDK? :killingpc

[deltaenterprizes]

Nothing for me too

[Muddy Creek Sam]

No go on the files for me also.

Sam :D

[kbstenberg]

Same here

[DukeInMaine]

I'm pretty good with opening tough to open files. However, something wrong with the two files there.

I'm guessing that you sent them through the pdf conversion process that didn't complete.

[shooterg]

Must be fixed - I can read both Acrobat files.

[Fredx10sen]

I believe that they are working now. I didn't post them here directly as the files are too big. that's why I Had to post them on another site and provide a link. The files were in the wrong folder and after moving them, they are accessible now. ( I Think ) :popcorn:

[deltaenterprizes]

Got it, thanks!

[Matt_G]

A six inch diameter cylinder would hold 11.58 pounds of lead per inch of height.
To have room to stir/flux etc., call it 10 lbs. per inch of height.