Cryogaijin
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I'm Greg, though I've gone by Cryogaijin for over 20 years online. ('cause I'm a frozen otaku who got their degree in Alaska.) My grandparents died a couple years ago, and my parents inherited their place here in Oregon. Is I lived locally, my parents made me essentially "caretaker" of the property.
As in EE, I was absolutely aghast at the state of the electric cabling. So I suddenly have aboot 100kg of stripped, pure copper wire. (I cut off all the solder joins, splices, and shorted areas. . . The rest of the wire was Aluminum. . . about 15kg stripped there. I loathe aluminum wire, and this was some of the "heaviest" wire on the property: 4 gauge.
So I could take the stripped scrap to a scrap buyer, or I could experiment with it. So I bought an inexpensive electric melt furnace and some graphite molds and crucibles.
Melted a copper bar first thing (A hair shy of 1kg) with little issue.
What is really piquing my interest is recreating forgotten things. My 2nd cast was Speculum bronze: the alloy used by Newton to make his reflecting telescope. Also I will be attempting to sandcast buttons to replace the missing ones on the seats of my 1975 AMC Matador Oleg Cassini I bought back in August for my 45th birthday.
As in EE, I was absolutely aghast at the state of the electric cabling. So I suddenly have aboot 100kg of stripped, pure copper wire. (I cut off all the solder joins, splices, and shorted areas. . . The rest of the wire was Aluminum. . . about 15kg stripped there. I loathe aluminum wire, and this was some of the "heaviest" wire on the property: 4 gauge.
So I could take the stripped scrap to a scrap buyer, or I could experiment with it. So I bought an inexpensive electric melt furnace and some graphite molds and crucibles.
Melted a copper bar first thing (A hair shy of 1kg) with little issue.
What is really piquing my interest is recreating forgotten things. My 2nd cast was Speculum bronze: the alloy used by Newton to make his reflecting telescope. Also I will be attempting to sandcast buttons to replace the missing ones on the seats of my 1975 AMC Matador Oleg Cassini I bought back in August for my 45th birthday.