Smelter/remelter on Ebay

[deepwater]

Thought this was interesting.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261832786509?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


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[Yodogsandman]

Looks to be for making linotype pigs. Are you close enough for local pick up?

[deepwater]

I am not bidding on it, just liked the simple ingot cooler/rotation assembly.
I could go&return in a day.

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[bangerjim]

It is great........if you are looking to make old lino pigs! A quality turkey fryer and CI/steel pot would be a whole lot cheaper. And more space efficient.

[sdcitizen]

Aha! Well that explains what the old electric smelter looking thing in the junk pile is then. I wondered if it was for lead originally. Might try to get it working again, it is single phase electric element, draws 150 amps when on.

[bangerjim]

Aha! Well that explains what the old electric smelter looking thing in the junk pile is then. I wondered if it was for lead originally. Might try to get it working again, it is single phase electric element, draws 150 amps when on.

150A?????!?!?!?!?!?!?! You are gonna need a special industrial power feed for that! Your home drop DEFINITELY will not handle that. Most residential services are 60-100 or so amps. Better stick to propane!

bnager-j

[deepwater]

I use a turkey fryer setup. I am not promoting this item. Just thought at least from a historical, if not technical, perspective it relates to our endeavors.
There is a thread about a father-in-law that is giving his son-in-law some lino pigs of which he has (100) units. They may have been cast on a similar unit. This unit has a simple "valve" using a tapered screw and (looks like) 3/4" pipe. Some of the home made units members are building could utilize something like this. For most of us, the turkey fryer is the easiest and most cost effective.

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[Racenviper]

gas 'Unit is NATURAL GAS NAT 52 CFH' read the text after the pictures.

[ReloaderFred]

I could really use that! Smelting a ton of alloy at a time is time consuming, to say the least, but that would really speed things up. Too bad it's all the way across the country from me, and we don't have any natural gas here, but I'm betting it could be converted to use propane......

Fred

[sdcitizen]

Oh I'd take it down to the ranch place where they have a 3 phase service drop, its 200A per leg. The mag switches and everything is there, only missing the dial on the front of the panel for temp control. Might try to figure out how to manually turn it off and on, or, like you say make it propane or used oil fired, it would be nice to be able to do 1,000 lbs in one batch instead of 4 though.

[mazo kid]

I have 2 ingots of Linotype that a friend gave me. They are each 37 pounds I believe. He was a printer and they sent their used Linotype back to be recycled into those ingots.

[CountryBoy19]

150A?????!?!?!?!?!?!?! You are gonna need a special industrial power feed for that! Your home drop DEFINITELY will not handle that. Most residential services are 60-100 or so amps. Better stick to propane!

bnager-j
It's quite common for any residential application installed with the last decade or two in my area to be 200 A service.

That being said 110V, 150A is a HUGE draw, I find it hard to believe something like that wouldn't be made in a 220 or even 440 V application. Maybe it can be changed over; 220V, 75A is a whole lot easier/cheaper to run.

[CLAYPOOL]

Might talk to your local electric motor rebuilding shop. They can tell you if it can be convert to 220 or what ever.