Thread: Smelting copper
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Unread 05-05-2003, 02:08 AM   #23
Rami Saikali
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Originally posted by LiquidRulez
If youre planning on buying the necessary materials to make a furnace to melt copper, then why dont you just take the money and buy a decent drill press of a $399 mini mill from Homier?



Everyone is always coming up with these half-cocked ideas to make blocks........................and to see how many fingers or limbs can be severed in one swoop...... Its just crazy!

I mean, were not talking about alot of money for a drill press or a mini mill!..........probably less than what youre going to pay a doctor to try to sew your finger back on, or 1/10th the cost of your stay in ICU , suffering from 3rd degree burns from the molten copper washing down 50% of your body.......taking 99.5% of your skin with it.

Why dont you just do what everyone else does that makes em' and .....
Go buy the appropriate(safest) equipment, and >>MATERIALS<< to do so. Its a hell of alot safer than trying to cast your own copper WB...especially if you have NO IDEA of what you are doing!
Because im not a dumbas.. molten metal is NO less safe then a drill press spinning at 15,000 some odd rpms... you just have to be careful.. and 400 dollars is a LOT for me..

If you checked the site the furnace to cast copper is actualy quite cheap... stuff u can make from home.. just the problem is copper is a bit hard to cast. thats why im going to go to a mill and pay someone 50 bucks to make my block most likely.

but making a nice cast of something with a cheap furnace in my freetime would prove fun
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