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Building a vacuum assisted caster for silver and gold.
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Topic: Building a vacuum assisted caster for silver and gold. (Read 2010 times)
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Re: Building a vacuum assisted caster for silver and gold.
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January 24, 2016, 05:48:59 pm »
here are attached photos of the table I built. the last photo is of the tuyere, a safety valve if the bottom of the flask fails and molten metal is sucked into the system, the plastic bottom melts out rather then plugging the machine
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