Save Hundreds of Dollars with these Homemade Crucible Lifting Tongs [ No Welding ]

In this video I show how you can save money by making your own crucible lifting tongs at home. This is a weld free tutorial and thus accessible to most.
From this video you will see what I used for my tongs and how to easily make your own.
Crucible lifting tongs are super important safety devices for any foundry working with molten metal. They can be quite expensive however. But that is not a problem if you build your own. The only tools you will need are a drill with carbide drill bits, a cutting device (could be an angle grinder or a handsaw or something else), and a forge.
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[@anthonycampana9904]

new intro is very clean gary

[@gregwright6281]

Thanks for puttin this together. This will be a lot safer than the method I've been using!

[@andyf1235]

You bend this kind of metal cold in the vice without much trouble. That is what I did.

[@deanworden7686]

Nice video. Well done.

[@BobD-hu9hs]

Rod = round
Bar = flat*
Forge = typically used for knife making, hobbyist sizes are smaller than furnaces and aren’t designed to melt metals, only heat them for forging, often with hammer and anvil
Furnace = used to melt metal by heating it in a crucible*
Foundry = where the furnace, molds, casting sand, crucibles live, and where metal pouring/casting etc takes place
*what is seen in the video - in this case, a furnace is used to heat steel so one could argue that makes it a forge