Pouring bronze at Anurag

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Warming the bronze ingots on the edge of the furnace, before dropping them into the crucible.


Heaving the bronze and brightly glowing crucible from the furnace, at the height of its heating. The crucible will then be set down on a carbon barriered (cardboard) firebrick and "slagged" [have the glass and impurities raked off the top].


The full crucible is too heavy to hold and pour, repeatedly and/or steadily, just by two men hefting the yoke. It is therefore suspended by a chain hoist, initially, that can move in three axes (the third pourer being the 'chain man', controlling up and down movement and assisting with lateral motion in one axis) with the two pour men providing fine adjustment, rotation, lateral motion in second axis and pouring leverage.
















The "ceramic-shell" molds are generally thinner and more "figurative".


The plaster mold are generally thicker, blockier.




Placing the emptied, cooling crucible down on a layer of carbon ash (from cardboard), serving as a release-from/barrier-to the firebrick at the base of the furnace.




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