Making Pure Copper Eggs - Melting Scrap Copper Pipe

Today I'm Melting Scrap Copper Pipe and Making Pure Copper Eggs

Really pleased with how these copper eggs turned out, although one of the eggs was a bit wonky due to some slippage in the mould.

I'm using scrap copper pipe 99.85% pure copper and a few copper ingots left over from a previous melt.

The furnace I am using is a Devil Forge and is a great furnace for the home foundry.

Petrobond Sand is the medium for this double copper egg casting. Petrobond gives good a good finish and is self venting due to the low gas pressure in the mould. Petrobond generally does not need venting.

The molten copper was poured at around 1300C / 2372F which is my preferred temperature for pouring copper. Copper solidifies very quickly, so molten copper should always be poured hot.

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Molten copper can be extremely dangerous, great care should be taken when handling and pouring copper and other metals. Do not attempt this without proper safety gear.

Cheers All

Andy

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