Sorry that you were having a tough day. Breaking a graphite mold is expensive for us mortals, and unfortunately, it's one of the the costs of our hobby! Better days will come. Stay well, stay thirsty, my friend!
@@meltingipswich Not a total loss. With a little trimming of the broken end of the mold, you can still block up the broken end with another graphite block.
Well if u can get ahold of a lot of wood and a blow dryer u can melt without propane that's how I started out and there's always induction heating but that's more expensive then propane
@@shermantripp5246 That does not work, I've tried it, You can melt aluminum that way, but not copper. I melt 40 pounds of aluminum at a time. I was told coal would work , but that is not really available in Arizona, I have huge amounts of hard wood here, a thousand tress on my 55 acres, Mesquite wood mainly. My furnace smelter can handle railroad ties four feet long. The blower is a blower from an A/C unit. 10" diameter duct work.
