Induction Furnace

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 06-17-2025, 05:33 PM

Have not used my induction furnace for 5 years, not looking good.

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 06-22-2025, 08:08 PM

Chinese junk, copper pipe should have been properly capped. Instead they used copper plate soldered onto the end. After the repair furnace main power box went up in smoke.

**hills** · 06-24-2025, 10:30 AM

[QUOTE=alloy2;324285] Chinese junk /QUOTE]

People shake their heads and wonder why we initiated a trade war with the Chinese by slapping heavy tariffs on their goods.

We send them our junk and they ship it right back to us.

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 06-24-2025, 05:51 PM

Going back to torch melting, sold my privately own oxy/acetylene bottle yesterday took out a lease for a medium oxygen and purchased a Harris style oxy/propane torch.

When i was doing heavy melt scrap, I used a Harris torch, but they have become rather expensive. The tips arrived this morning upon examination they look to be well made, if the torch backfires I'll use valve grinding compound to make sure they seat properly.

Hopefully the clone is as good as the OEM Harris was to me, the lump at the end of the torch is where the gas's are mixed nothing like a regular cutting torch.

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 06-25-2025, 12:51 PM

Harris clone has arrived, the balance, look and feel just as I remembered. The craftsmanship is superb the seating surfaces are finished as they should be and silver solder was used where parts needed to be joined.

With the original purchase ordered the cutting tips designated as 0, these are for cutting light gauge metal perhaps no thicker than 3/8" have since ordered number 3's with a 5 or 6 this torch has a cutting capacity 12" (304.8mm) plate.

Thickest metal I had cut was 6 inches.

With my original OEM Harris, I had owned for many years running off of many different brands of regulators replaced because of age or damage. I'm not planning to get beck into doing any more heavy melt types of scrap metals.

The reason I went to a propane heat source to melt gold and silver is that acetylene has become outrageously priced for the small self own cylinders.

After seeing the inside engineering on my induction furnace will never purchase another cheap furnace regardless of country of origin.

Seeing my furnace go up in smoke, no pleasure.