Post by Andrew MawsonPost by Mark RandOn Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:24:42 -0000, "Andrew Mawson"
Post by Andrew MawsonYou want an Induction Furnace? I have one that I haven't
re-commissioned
since moving here a few years ago - I'm sure we can negotiate a deal :)
Andrew
I thought that the whole purpose of moving to somewhere that you could use
jump leads on the overhead power lines was to run the furnace without having
to use the generator!
Mark Rand
Mark, I did have a 160 amp per phase three phase 415v supply run in
specifically for the furnace but other projects keep popping up and
stopping me. I even had a fire proof building put up for it, then it
got filled with other stuff ! Hopefully it'll get to the top of the
list before they put me in a nursing home!
Andrew
Sounds like a big piece of kit, maybe like one put in near me many years
ago where the company had to have a new big electric feed put in for the
induction furnace. I've only seen a couple of other induction
heaters/melters, one was in Norfolk and the guy used it for silver
soldering some medical gas regulator parts and IIRC old enough to use
valves but still worked well for the job but a big beast. The other was
in the QC lab at Hoesch steel in Dortmund Germany and was used to melt
and cast samples for optical emission analysis of the steel, no idea of
the internals but it cast a piece you could hold in your hand and was
about the size of a standard 3 drawer filing cabinet.