10 or 12 years ago I had a lot of good white oak firewood for sale. One customer was an artisan village in a revitalized downtown of an old city. There was a pottery lady, a glass blower, blacksmith etc. They all share a community kiln.
The blacksmith guy told me one day he had a big furnace he’d converted to run on firewood or coal. He wanted to get rid of it but folks wanted a small fortune to haul it away.
After my firewood delivery that day I was going to meet a friend for lunch who owned a small towing company. I’d already spotted his wreaker parked on the street. I got my friend to bring over his tow truck (with a boom). We loaded this furnace on my trailer.
At the time I intended to melt down 50 or so circuit boards that came out of R&D equipment… back when I worked in silicone valley. These boards aren’t the cheap stuff from a cable box or radio. All the board edges are gold, foil runs are silver etc. Some of the boards cost 20K when they were new.
This furnace is heavy, steel and concrete with rolling lid. The last two pics are the crucible, as big as a 5-gallon bucket.
Can someone who knows furnaces tell me what I have? I’d still like to melt down all those precious metals, doable? It’s a project I never got around to and I’ve forgotten the details of how to run this furnace.
The blacksmith guy told me one day he had a big furnace he’d converted to run on firewood or coal. He wanted to get rid of it but folks wanted a small fortune to haul it away.
After my firewood delivery that day I was going to meet a friend for lunch who owned a small towing company. I’d already spotted his wreaker parked on the street. I got my friend to bring over his tow truck (with a boom). We loaded this furnace on my trailer.
At the time I intended to melt down 50 or so circuit boards that came out of R&D equipment… back when I worked in silicone valley. These boards aren’t the cheap stuff from a cable box or radio. All the board edges are gold, foil runs are silver etc. Some of the boards cost 20K when they were new.
This furnace is heavy, steel and concrete with rolling lid. The last two pics are the crucible, as big as a 5-gallon bucket.
Can someone who knows furnaces tell me what I have? I’d still like to melt down all those precious metals, doable? It’s a project I never got around to and I’ve forgotten the details of how to run this furnace.