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aluminum crucible: welded steel, 10x10x10cm, full of dross after a pour of some really dirty anodized aluminum.
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lousy pic down inside the furnace, with some molten aluminum that leaked
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aluminum ingots. bottom left is still molten enough it has a mirror surface
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heatsinks, one untouched, one partly melted, one almost totally melted. These were all ones that fell out of the crucible before they melted, because I overloaded it.
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ingots with hand for scale
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