I love this for so many reasons
The Power of The Mini Arc Furnace: http://youtu.be/JIlZsuRc9jQ (http://youtu.be/JIlZsuRc9jQ)
Wow! Melting rock! Looks so simple too!
Interesting. Works on the same principle of the old carbon-arc movie projectors. No wonder the projectors were ducted with their own exhaust and were responsible for more than a few theater fires!
JM
That is just so F'd up ...seriously cool
Magma! [evil]
Cool. [thumbsup]
Once upon a time I used to do service work on three arc furnaces that were used to melt magnesia, took about 8 hours to melt 20 tons of rocks. 40000 amps when running, it was like looking in to the heart of the sun, the noise was something incredible too. ( they dropped a tub of molten rock once when removing it from the furnace, made a bit of a mess.)
Not unlike the one in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWwfcw0FOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWwfcw0FOo)
Quote from: brimo on February 16, 2015, 10:13:25 PM
Once upon a time I used to do service work on three arc furnaces that were used to melt magnesia, took about 8 hours to melt 20 tons of rocks. 40000 amps when running, it was like looking in to the heart of the sun, the noise was something incredible too. ( they dropped a tub of molten rock once when removing it from the furnace, made a bit of a mess.)
Not unlike the one in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWwfcw0FOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWwfcw0FOo)
That's nuts.
And awesome!
Danger Fire [laugh]