Crucible Cart

Crucible Cart

Crucible Cart

We got the cart all built today. The crucible isn’t much good if we can’t steer it around, and that is the the cart’s primary task. The secondary task is to provide a frame that will fill with high temperature insulation (refractory).

The third task is to provide a thermal heat break from the 2000F crucible. We selected stainless steel for that task and in addition, the stainless doesn’t make full contact with the steel it will be mounted to. So the stainless is about 1/4″ away and only make contact where it is bolted.

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Fitting the cart to the steel that will drive it
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All ready to be filled with refractory! We added some extra bolts so the refractory cannot possibly slide out. We connected braided stainless steel to the nozzle heater leads and for good measure after a short distance started weaving copper around the stainless (it should be far enough from the crucible to not melt).


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