(Nanowerk News) South Africa has plentiful solar energy and, at the same time, possesses a large aluminium processing industry. Researchers and industry are cooperating within the SOLAM (solar melting ...

Discover the multi-stage working principle of the Gigapress, a revolutionary machine designed for large-scale manufacturing ...

Following more or less those directions, I was able to build and run my own mini foundry at home, melting about 30 cans to produce 4 mini-muffin sized ingots of (mostly) pure aluminum: ...

Figure 1: Additive manufacturing of metal alloys via selective laser melting. Pre-alloyed gas-atomized 7075 and 6061 spherical powders with an average particle size of 45 μm were coated with 1 vol% ...

Having proved that ultrasound degassing of molten aluminum alloys is cleaner, greener and cheaper than current methods, a team of scientists has now taken the breakthrough a step further. Having ...

New York-based research consortium says technique it developed helps remove metallic impurities in recycled-content aluminum. A Remade Institute researcher says its aluminum melt shop advance can ...

Learn the basics of casting aluminium at home with this step-by-step DIY guide. Explore safe melting techniques, mold ...

Microwave ovens are a treasure trove of useful parts: transformers, an HV capacitor, a piezo speaker, and a high torque motor, to name just a few. In a new twist, [Rulof Maker] strips all that out and ...

We’re replacing “holy moley” in our vocabulary. Levitating globs of molten aluminum are that much more amazing. It’s not that we couldn’t believe it would work — we understand the physics after the ...

Tired of waiting for those mountains of snow hogging precious parking spaces and blocking sidewalks to melt? Now engineers have come up with a simple contraption to shrink those piles quickly: a ...