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Your cart is empty.Hardin HD-234SS Stainless Steel Tabletop Melting Furnace with 2kg Crucible 110 Volt 1.5KW. Made with world leading 14 gauge Swedish Kenthal industrial heating elements. The best heating elements in the world! The thicker gauge makes them rugged and they last much longer than the 16 gauge so common in many furnaces on the market today. Our Hardin-HD-234SS 1.5KW 71 oz metallurgical smelting furnace is a compact electric furnace for melting scrap, reclaiming, alloying, and refining various metals. Perfect for pouring melted metals in casting operations when making bars or buttons. Works with high-karat gold, silver, copper, brass, and bronze. The electronic feature regulates the temperature by providing full power input to the coil until a selected temp is reached. Important to note, usually when you set temperatures, especially when first heating up the furnace, the actual read-out and temperature reached is going to be 50-100 degrees more than what you set the furnace to. That is perfectly normal. But eventually the temperature will come back down and stabilize and will hold to a +/- 5F. Setting the temp is easy. It requires you to "set" twice. Plug the unit in (fan comes on) and flip the on switch. Using the "down" button take the digital display's number to the temperature you want to set to. For example, gold melts at 1,948°F. So using the "down" button you set the temperature to 1,948°F. You then hit "set". A screen full of zeros will appear. The next step is to via a combination of ">", "down", and "up" buttons set the numerical value to the same as before; in this case 1,948°F. Push "set" button. You have successfully set the temperature.
GymBEAM
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
This furnace didn't last past 6 melts. The heating element burns out quickly even when following the directions.
Michael Caldera
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2017
Bought this unit to melt copper and silver and it will not melt anything just heats them up to red or orange color I set the temperature for each metal and nothing have to shut down the unit after a certain time as instructions say...pictures are after 2 hours of use
Blackcloud
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017
I am beginner so temper your judgement with that.Unit was very well packaged!After having this awhile I can leave proper feedback. I am very pleased with the unit (mine was a refurb but looked new in all respects). One thing to consider is that the crucibles are a consumable item. The crucible begins to break down leaving this black powder on anything they come in contact after the second or third use I knida knew this going in from all the research I did beforehand.The plier-type tongs (the look like extended needle nose) are far an above the kitchen style I see most units having. Mine has a perforated grill separating the electronics and heating area, I mention this because all the other units have nothing and the area is open to who knows what. My only beef (and its minor) is that after about the 5th use is the top door is no longer aligned, No doubt some warping from the heat. Again its minor and does not affect the closing and locking of the lid. As you can see in the pic mine came with gloves, crucible, very nice tongs and an extra refractory plate and thermistor. I have no issues waiting 30 min for it to get to 2200 F. I just kick back and have a cold one. Some professionals will have an issue with this and I understand time is money, but for me this is my hobby.
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