Daniel.85

Very nice! Craftsmanship at its best. When making your crucible steel do you mix the carbon and iron to the percentage you want by weight? Like for every 5lbs of iron you would have .05lbs of carbon for a 1% carbon content? Sorry if that's not a question that can be answered as easily as it was asked :) I was just curious.

Oh ya I forgot you were running 3phase, that's fine. Talked to my brother and he would be interested in checking out the machines, if they are designed in any way similar to other induction systems he should be able to find the issue. Check your pm.

Lol dont worry about it, being the only active thread in this whole section there is room for discussions. We are going to properly wind the coil and use some 1/4 inch tubing, I have a couple questions about your machines too Ill pm you later. Ill keep adding updates as I can, Wednesday we may have some more to footage, my brother should be able to have a more solid setup running. He is waiting on stonger mosfets before a full power setup. Quick Q for Larry and John, If either of you guys have a "kill a watt" reader or similar thing, what are the voltamps of your machines when they are running and heating something?

Yep we are aiming for 30-70khz too.

Sorry I didnt put more pictures up like I said, brother had to go out of town but will be back soon, I will update as we go. He did get that little bar to heat up in about 3 seconds before he left though! Ironsmith - He does have some of the schematics on another site, I'll see if I can get the link from him. Larry - Thanks for the info on the coil, we definitely plan on trying all different types of them, I had thicker material that we were going to test cause we figured the setup we were using would have better penetration on larger material, but will have to wait till he is back.

Well as long as you dont get molten aluminum all over it you should be good. Try making a small crucible out of refractory cement or something and test it out before you go turning it on its side and doing any modifications.

That will look good for generations!

First test of a IH that my brother is currently building, heats 1/4" stock to orange in about 8 seconds running at 1/3 power. Very rough set up, will all be contained in the case when its tuned and complete, more pics and videos to come tomorrow(7/8/12). Will have digital controls and other blacksmith friendly features.

Hows the build going Dan?

Nice! Did you order it off ebay?

Looking great!

That is very exciting, good luck with it all.

12x12 will be a nice space to work in, having your stuff neat and organized will make the biggest difference. Im building one too, taking lots of pics as I go and will post the build once its done hopefully in the next couple weeks. Its 15x30, concrete is poured but I haven't uploaded that pic yet.

Congrats! Thats a good accomplishment, now you can start turning out some good stuff. Pictures!

Nice work! The patterns in that last one are great.

I would take those camping any day!

Nicest first anvil post Ive seen, congrats!

Very nice, what size and type of steel are you using?

Looking good! Its crazy how easy the torch makes a job that would have been nearly impossible before.

Very inspiring!

I like the Idea of welding and scrolling the back end, Im using a chili habanero forge so getting up to forge welding temp isnt too hard. I might try it but I dont think It would be worth the extra time and fuel to do on all of them, I run the forge at just 6psi with one burner when making these, fast and efficient.

Good lookin fish!

Great job! That will last you for a long time

This is awesome, I have about 8ft of axle shaft waiting to but turned into stuff like this, very inspiring!

Its possible, learn everything you can about the concept, then start digging around junkyards and such, maybe barter a few things.