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… ...

How-To: 3-D Printed Tooling for DIY Metal Casting and Composites Fabrication. ... Stay tuned to HOT ROD for more 3-D printing adventures as we create new problems in our projects to solve.

43 thoughts on “ DIY Aluminum Heat Sink Casting ” ... Although the Styrofoam is a bad idea, it’s contaminating the metal and possibly ... This is not an easy project and will require a heck ...