First try at melting metal

[dallen]

(10-01-2012, 05:15 AM)big job Wrote: This has been on my mind a long time, I have pails of brass swarf that I have always
wanted to put back on the shelf.

your better off to take it to the scrap yard unless you have an electric inert gas furnace, its really a loosing battle trying to melt swarf, it will oxidize and you will throw most if it away.

(10-01-2012, 07:29 AM)SnailPowered Wrote: I have a buddy who's dad was short on ingot molds so he went to all of the local antique stores and bought up all of the cast iron cornbread molds he could find. He uses them for lead ingots but I don't see why they couldn't be used for brass as well.

I have a couple that I have poured everything into them from aluminum to cast iron. molten cast iron won't stick if they are clean it cools faster then it can raise the mold temp to melting.