If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

Metalworking might conjure images of large furnaces powered by coal, wood, or electricity, with molten metal sloshing around and visible in its crucible. But metalworking from home doesn’t need ...

so that the chambers may come under the molten metal, and the nitrate or chlorate may act through it. The surface of the nitrate or chlorate is protected from a too rapid action of melted iron by ...

David Gatlin found a way to get rid of ants nests and create beautiful art at the same time: he pours 1,400-degree molten aluminum into them. When the metal dries, it creates an intricate sculpture.

Molten metal, for example, will solidify as it cools, but could be melted again. By contrast, the fireworks shown in the clip can explode only once. The children could be encouraged to use the ter ...