If so please pm me and I will shoot you my number I have questions I am trying to figure out the insulating mixture to use?
Will a galvanized bucket be a good shell etc?
Thanks

What kind of metal are you wanting to melt?

Just watch Man Lab season 2, episode 3.  

It depends on what kind of metal you want to melt.



Also, you don't want to use anything galvanized for hot metal work of any form.  When it gets hot enough, (nowhere near the melting point of the metal, BTW) the zinc in galvanized steel will let off fumes that can kill you.  Even with a refractory clay lining, I wouldn't take that chance.  You'd be better off using the tank from a water heater.

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Listen to this man. Metal fume fever will kill the fuck out of you.
Are you going to be using low melting point metals like aluminum and brass or do you want to cast iron and steel?

Fire isn't hot enough to melt steel, unless you preheat the hell out of the combustion air before adding fuel.  Even then, it is poor.  This is why all steel mills use electric arc.  Also, brass contains zinc, it also boils out and can be bad.
 

I want to melt Copper, lead, brass and aluminum
I know that galvanized metal is toxic, was going to try and find a way to burn or remove it.

I have done this, homemade.

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  Dave Gingerly has a book about casting aluminium in a cheap, easy to make furnace.  A friend of mine has one and it works well. The problem these days is going to be where to get scrap aluminium!  Scrappers have long since stolen everything that wasn't nailed down and sold it to China!

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  Edit: Don't use a furnace to melt lead!  You don't need a "furnace" for that and it will get too hot and burn out all of the tin (which makes lead hard enough to be useful) and it will also oxidize the lead AND put lead fumes (TOXIC!) in the air!   Just about any cheap, used camp stove should be hot enough to melt lead. I don't know about the propane ones but the gasoline fueled ones work WELL for that!

  I use a bottom pour electric lead melting pot and it works GREAT!   Also you need to get separate pots fro each metal since even minor cross contaimination will cause all kids of bizarre problems.

Keith's a troofer. Burn the heretic!