Devil Forge Metal Melting Furnace Product Review
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Devil Forge Metal Melting Furnace Product Review
The Devil Forge Propane Metal Melting Furnace Product Review and Setup.
In this video we unbox the forge, assemble components of the forge and then melt brass to do a test sand casting. We can use this product to melt and cast a variety of metal including brass, aluminum, and lead. Ideal for a variety of DIY and craft related projects.
This forge is small enough to be portable and yet still powerful enough to melt metal quickly and efficiently. It has been designed for professionals. Includes Choke - with a single thumb screw for quick choke position adjustments. The interior of the forge is fully lined with 2 inch of ceramic blanket. The floor of the forge is made of ceramic brick, providing superior strength and durability.
For additional information on the Devil Forge Metal Melting Furnance: www.Devil-Forge.com
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One thing they skipped in the video was applying the refractory cement onto the ceramic wool. It keeps the wool fibers from burning and flying into the air where they will be breathing them in. Ceramic wool is a pretty bad carcinogen
You are correct I did cover it but in a separate video. Should have all been included in one
I'd change the angle of the tongs so you don't have to BBQ your arms reaching directly over the unit.
I have made my own furnace with 70mm thick 1600c cement & used an old ss 18 gallon beer keg as the housing & bought the torch burner from these people , I got the one with the air injection included in the end of the burner, haven't used it for melting yet as still drying the cement but had it to 600c today a couple of times & in a week or so should be able to start casting....Wish I had just bought a furnace from these people as a lot less hassle, am sure their products are world class by the number of happy customers they have.
Mine did come with instructions at all. I wondered what the extra ceramic wool was for. Glad I found your video to explain it.
Mine came with a single sheet. Email the company they can email you a scanned copy
Rubbing alcohol is great for sliding hoses on.
Learned everything from watching bigstackd. Loved his videos so much that I bought my forge right away. Any learning, just watch his videos.
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Just unboxed my new devil forge... SuNc5DGm-U8... Missing the shutoff valve (couldn't connect hose to burner). Missing extra wool for burner sleeve. Will not connect to standard propane tank from home Depot. Found valve at home Depot, could not find adaptor at next 5 stores and burned 4 hours looking. ....... Just reboxed forge and sending back.
All of the products we have gotten from Devils Forge arrived complete and in great shape. I would just email them before you ship it back. Im sure they will make things right.
@@DIYeasycrafts what size furnace do you recommend I get... I don't want some too small or too big
The fumes from melting brass are especially dangerous. The zinc in the alloy can give you "metal fume fever". just do metal casting in open air outdoors. A great video though. I was thinking of building a foundry but the materials cost is just too much; especially for kaowool or good firebrick. this foundry looks like a good one to get
I've just got my devil forge furnace and love how much was provided with it, definitely a learning curve getting the pressure right, I've had a successful go at metling aluminium but I'm not convinced I had it on the best 'settings', I'm wondering what pressure is best to use?
@GmxI
furnace are available for sale on etsy
I have no experience. I will try it.
This is the second video about a devils forge product that uses kaowool. You have to coat that with refractory cement or at a minimum rigidizer. Failure to do so you are just creating known cancer causing fumes. Is there no paperwork letting you know this in the box? Brought this up when you did the forge as well. Kaowool fumes can be toxic. You should really warn viewers if you are going to do a product review.
I cringed watching this being done indoors and with no face masks, respirator masks and very minimal safety gear. I agree with David Burson about the kaowool and refractory cement.
So how do you coat the kaowool?
With straght Kaowool u would only get 3 or 4 melts then it burns out and i mean burn out like very over done tost.
@@panpie1251 is it no good after its burned
Just bought myself one! Thanks for your review.
I hope there was some type of ventilation unit on during this I'm pretty sure those fumes aren't so good to breathe in
Depends on what you melt, you can wear personal breathing protection (and you really really should)
How much does it cost
Hi just thought I would share
On eBay or Amazon try this.
Furnace crucible Tongs for devil forge 10kg.
as I have the devil forge 10kg and found this very professionally made.uk I think
Thanks for the tip!
What size is this one?
devil forge do two very similar forges, the FB2M and FB2MB, the difference (besides $150+ price difference) seems to be that the FB2M has a refactory coating factory applied, and the FB2MB the ceramic blanket. Most the other reviews are of the refactory one, but yours seems the FB2MB, so curious to see if you got rigidizer powder, brush and user manual as per the current ebay ad's for them as you made no mention of applying this.
They haven't always supplied rigidizer with them, I'd imagine this was before they supplied it
@@PaulGSXR I guess, but was asking about if it came with the forge or not as ebay stuff can be a lottery what you actually get vs expectations. Just had my FB2MB arrive with sachet of rigidizer and a paintbrush in the box.
What size this ? Is it the 4kg?
You did not say if it's good for gold or copper. These are the 2 metals I deal with the most. I want to know what's better, Induction foundry or this pro pane foundry?
Have never used it for gold. Guess it would depend on if it has a similar melting point as brass
It will melt any non ferrous metal. Gold, silver, bronze, copper, nickel silver etc. If your doing precious metals like gold, under about 4 ounces at a time your better off with a torch and silica crucible melt using borax to keep oxygen out. Pour into graphite mold. Electric and propane like this one for larger melts. Start with cheaper metals until you get a nice clean billet. You really need to practice, a neutral or slightly reducing flame and borax is needed or you end up with an ugly ingot full of bubble like defects. Oxygem can make the metal brittle and unusable. You see so many of these type furnaces producing nasty unusable ingots thst can't be further used to make anything.
Sweet video. Thanks for sharing. What’s the fuel consumption?
Your supposed to apply the refractory cement to the wool then temper/dry out any moister
You don't have too. It's recommended tho
How long does the gas tank last
Oh man. I've always wanted to cast 3D prints in aluminium. Endless possibilities.
That's a good idea ...
Is there a way to 3d print foam?
@@6sicSIX You can 3D print PLA which has a low melting point and pre-melt the part before pouring in the aluminium.
@@batman3698 that's excellent! I had no idea, thank you :)
So you mean melt it out if the mold, then add the aluminium via the drain hole?
@@6sicSIX Ye. Idk how well it works with a closed mold tho. I think the king of random has made some videos about it.
@@batman3698 oh, so have a pour hole and evacuation hole, melt out the PLA. Got ya.
Thank you very much, this opens up so many possibilities :)
It doesn't come with tongs??
no it does not
Great video! Thank you for sharing your review amigo. I do have a question. Did you say 90 PSI?
Thanks for the review. I have watched another unboxing and they had to fire the furnace and cure (?) It by firing up the furnace for a couple of hours. I think it was that long. So I was wondering if you did that also?
I just waited for it to dry and then used the forge.
I grow up in the 90s and in Oregon I had a class it was called agriculture we would go out to a farm and be taught how to take care of animals what we used to be able to bring or hunting rifles out there we would have to give the bolts to our bus driver and then we would just put our rifles in the back of the bus in a case and then once we got to the place the bus driver would give the bolt two are on instructor and then the instructor would hand them to us and then the instructor would hand us ammunition think about if there was a class like that today parents went just freak out there would be lawsuits there's no way some kids are going to bring guns on a bus to where even if they're in a case I had a friend that his kid recently brought a gun case to school I don't know what she had in it it was like a backpack or something for her she couldn't find she just grabbed what she could find it didn't have any bullets in it and didn't have any guns in it but because the purpose it was was for a gun she got suspended indefinitely for bringing a gun case to school
Good show, thanks for sharing!
Why don't you use liquid soap on the coneter to seal the hose and stop gas leak
Thank God I can order this furnace on eBay
Your happy with yours as I thinking about buying the 4kg one . God Bless
@@violetadams9253 ill be real with you iv had min for months now and hant really used it only because the weather has be so unpredictable but I still like mine still
pretty cool stuff. Should have cast the whole tooth though! i guess I was lucky in school, we had a furnace in our shop class. One of our projects was casting an item from aluminum with sand molds and then finishing/polishing. I still remember casting a small dish in the shape of a foot. Today you couldn't call it was, but it was an ashtray LOL! I have to admit, we had one hell of a shop class. To give you an idea of how things have changed, for the machining segment of class, I took in a shotgun barrel and machined it for accepting screw in chokes as they were coming into the market at the time. Imagine walking into school with a gun barrel today? LOLO!!! ~ That was the good old days when we weren't shooting each other all over the place, bout 1979.
Very cool forge man, and look forward to see what kind of projects you put out with it.
im a dental technician and we use conductive/centrifugal/casting machine
its like 3 parts in 1
you use the electricity and the coil to melt the metal until the metal looks like an egg joke and starts getting like little pores on it
then you start spinning it and then it all goes inside the cast
Is that dirt that melted metal is being poured on ?
Was thinking of constructing a wood fuel furnace if the gas usage is high. How much propane does this furnace eat up?
Sean Murphy I have one myself and I found that a full 8-9 kg propane bottle lasts me for a couple weeks. It probably uses up the whole bottle in roughly 6-8 hours on a fairly low to medium setting so it chews up the fuel pretty quick but it’s not too bad. I definitely recommend buying this furnace it’s awesome
@@tbkustomknives8907 Alright then. Thanks man. Great vid btw.
So at what psi did you end up finding that works the best? I have a DIY build but I can't get any answers
Trial and error... However the instructions for my 10kg devil forge says:
0.01MPA - 0.16MPA
@@6sicSIX hey thanks for the info.... but what would that translate to psi? I do have a high pressure regulator on it, just didn't want to go cranking up to the limit if it didn't need it and want propane. 👍
@@nicholsceramiccoating8284 I don't think you need to worry about the pressure so much.
Start at a low pressure (lid open), fire it up with the choke (air intake closed), open the air intake very slowly, if the roar becomes inconstant (sounds like a motorbike), turn up the pressure very slightly until it stops, then fine tune with the choke.
@@nicholsceramiccoating8284 I do mean a very low pressure, just so you can hear the gas escaping, then light it asap.
Great video 😀👍
I went to their website and they have a few different metal melting furnaces. Which one did you review?
You didn’t show the connection to the fuel source. They sent me a different assembly than yours and I have no way to make the connection.
I see one on dirtsposal for 59$ USD with crucible tongs etc. Its way cheaper then others i saw its 6kg but cuz price is so low and i have no clue bout them curious if its any good. Says fasttobuy
Why do you keep say crucible like there an sh in it?
Did my head in 😂
Forgive my ignorance, but can it melt rebar?
Great video and review, thanks for sharing!! I have been researching furnaces for some time now and even considered building one myself but why? For a few bucks more (considering the cost of failed attempts) you can have a "turn key" furnace. Your review sealed the deal and I just ordered from eBay today. I look forward to your future casting projects and have a few in mind myself. Happy casting!
Be sure to document the unboxing, see my comment for reason.
@@funtimestoriesw2445 Thank you for this. I had noted your comment earlier prior to ordering and looked for this.They did include a package of dry powder with mixing water instruction. Its a "you coat it, we supply it" situation. Would have been nice if it came pre-coated. As a person with cancer, I don't need to help it along
will it melt wootz steel?
Gas name who use in this fornace
propane
Thnx dear
sir what is the name of that white cotton inside your furnace
Helbert Gramatica kaowool or ceramic refractory blanket.
Imagine that a shark with gold teeth 😂
You should never add cold metal to melted metal it will spit everywhere
Can you melt aluminum cans in it?
If it melts brass it will for sure melt aluminum
Jeff Stubb
Aluminum is one of the easy metal's to work with, from cans to old lawnmower engines and the like.
Easily
Can it Melt Cast Iron?
It'll be good to check the specs of the furnace. It could reach the needed temperature but casting iron or steel is little bit hard if you don't have industrial equipment. However you can check the specs and give it a try!
No need for industrial tools. Blacksmiths did it without anything.
@@lergomez_90 blacksmiths dont melt steel.
I’m new to this but it’s so hard to take a vid seriously when the terms furnace, foundry, forge, and crucible are so misused.
harleyrdr1 *crewshhibble
I just watched it for the bright light mate
Alex Salter 🤣
He sounds like Woody Allen lol
Is this narrator just a voiceover taking other peoples videos?
Nope all my own video
Seriously $200 - $500 for something you can probably make a better and safer version of yourself for a fraction of the price with some parts off Amazon
Ben Marson But if you have much money you just don't care.
How is it done
Um why didnt you cure the forge with ridgedizer? You also didn't use proper ppe when using! Shorts and a short sleeve shirt while melting metal? No resporator face shield? Sorry but too many holes in this video! Very very unsafe period!
Um because you don't have to cure this furnace with anything. You just have to run it empty in 15 min bursts a few times to get it ready. Its a KA wool liner. Beyond all that, you sound like a real pussy.
Well the layers of the devils forge in shiped condition (with out ridgeizer) can make small cuts in your lungs. So? Its like fiberglass on a large scale.
I melted a copper lb last week
@UCbN7KqCjWwaEjFvCvHg8Z9w your an idiot, kaowool is very dangerous uncovered.
Amen Oxygen Boss! I thought warning people that lesions in your lungs can occur and cause cancer was helpful but what do I know 🤔
crucible /kroo͞ sə-bəl/
There is no ch sound in there.