Dear Linda,
Following equipment needed for a small casting studio set up.
First - Book “Centifugal Lost wax casting” By Murray Bovin.
Second - a very good burnout furnace. I suggest Neycraft Vulcan
Venturi Circulating Air Oven.
Third - Neycraft Spincaster (centrifugal casting Machine) and V.I.C
12 table top casting system.for investing and vaccum assit casting.
I prefer Torch melting, Propane -Oxygen torch
Versa-torch.(Smith).Flash back arrestors from smith.
Silica / clay crucibles with handels one each for diffferent
alloys.Carbon graphite strring rods.strip ingot mold to make ingots
from scrap metal (Sprue, button, rejection castings, or new alloy
ingots),Cruciles tongs.
310 -QUALITY Steel flasks solid,as per your casting piece size,
standard size i use is, 4 X 4 inches,4X6 inches.31/2"X4’,3X3", flask
tongs. Rubber sprue base conical formers not dome shaped cones.
A good accurate weighing scale for investment powder. A mechanical
timer. One Liter Pitcher. Big rubber mixing bowl and spatula.
Disposble masks. Casting gloves. Rubber golves,Silquar high -heat
blocks 12" X12",Boric acid crystles as flux. Hydro air was gun.
Pickling powder with crack pot.
Vanadium jaw sprue cutter and power max full flush cutter. One heavy
duty cutter from Hardware store size 36 or 42 inches to cut ingots
of 9x9mm or 7x 7mm etc.
This is the basic kit to start with you can go on addings the things
you think is needed as you work daily.
The invaluable book by Murray Bovin, Centrifugal Lost wax Casting,
will be your friend and guide to succesful casting results.
Best of luck
May god bless us all with total health - Mental, Physical, Spiritual
and Social. Be Happy
Umesh