Customer Reviews for VEVOR Propane Melting Furnace Kit 8KG/18lbs with Crucible Tongs Metal Smelting

Great little forge I used it for some casting. Only feature I'd like is an easier lighting option long matches worked ok.

Works great and came in a timely manner

I needed a 3.25 x 2” aluminum round. I decided to make one instead of buying. I had plenty of scrap aluminum. Finding a spot to set up without burning the house down was tough. I put down some steel siding and a short stand with a piece of pizza oven stone under the forge out in the yard. This things sounds like a rocket! Lots of fun. Worked perfect..well not but it was usable..the casting..the forge worked perfectly! Had to machine the cast to make it work but I got it. Nice. Watched a lot of YouTube. Would buy again. Bought some pouring tongs..the $29 ones.

I love this furnace it is absolutely perfect with the exception of the lid deforming with just a few uses. Still functions fine but something worth knowing if you're getting it.

Works great amazing heat up, tong are adequate for taking the crucible in and out of the foundry but not good for pouring, recommend buying a different set for that. Only big issue is after first use after tempering was the lid no longer fits when hot, still works but does not set firmly on the top and let's flame out the sides. I do recommend for starters or part time users, avid or heavy users might want to invest a little more for one with a swing lid

Saw Farmcraft101 on youtube talk about this figured I'd give it a try as I've wanted to get into melting down some metal for lathe work. Easy set up the instructions were easy enough to understand. Did not come with refractory cement to put on the wool which is kind of a bummer but I had some from another project so I made due. The dual burner gets the furnace nice and hot real quick. The crucible and tongs that come with the kit are good enough to get started if you get hooked though you will probably want other tongs especially to assist in pouring. I've also used it as a forge for some blacksmithing again this works well gets the pieces up to temp quick. The opening is rather large when used as a forge on its side so its definately not a long term solution but for the price and versatility its a pretty solid unit. I'd recommend this to people looking to get into melting metal or even as a cheap starter forge for blacksmithing.

If this is modified into a postbox forge, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The 12 kg furnace (probably the 6kg as well, though I have not used it) has serious potential and a few serious drawbacks. The stainless shell is good, it could have been better but for the price point it is quite good. All of the materials used are pretty standard and so of expected quality. The Kaowool/Inswool is exactly what Id expect as are the firebricks. The burners work as expected. Basically, for the price this is a good purchase. But it does have some very serious, but fixable flaws. The Inswool fabric was unsealed. This is actively dangerous to your lungs, it should be sealed behand some kind of refractory. I used Satanite, it worked perfectly. Ridgidizer is a temporary fix, use a refractory. It comes with a pair of tongs that are actually very dangerous to use. If you use them to pull the crucible out of the furnace, you will put point stress on the crucible and potentially break it while it is full of molten metal. Proper lifting tongs and a second pair of proper pouring tongs would be a very wise investment. When running the two burners, the fuel draw is faster than a small 20lb propane bottle can supply continuously. The single bottle begins freezing, the flames begin pulsing and the flame head can travel into the feed pipes, putting the flame head right at the brass tip of the torch. You will need to chain two bottles or get a larger bottle either should fix this by increasing the gas flow. The burners do not have an air choke, forcing you to have the gas pressure high to keep the flame head inside the furnace. A simple piece of pipe slid over the air intakes would allow you to throttle the flame better. Finally, I turned mine into a postbox forge by cutting some holes in the sides, a little down from the lid and bending the metal skin down as a shelf. I doubled the Inswool and lined it with Satanite. I shaped the Satanite around the burners to integrate the flare into the refractory, so I didn't have to modify the depth of the burners. It works fantastically.

This is a nice unit and works very well .. simple straight forward and effect for what I needed .. fast heat up

Furnace is good for the cost. Jeweler, gloves will likely fit my five year old grand daughter and the graphite mold is pretty much useless (it comes packed inside one of the gloves). Did need to purchase rigidizer separately, but I knew that ahead of te.

it all works great with one exception... Make your own set of pliers for grabbing the Crucible. The ones that come with it just grabs about 3/4" square of the side of the Crucible, which is not enough to safely when lifting the Crucible out of the furnace when loaded with molten metal. Make something that's circular that grabs the entire Crucible all the way around it's outside. Preferably with a set of handles on each side so 2 people can lift it out when the metal is liquid so you can have a firm grip on the Crucible. I sincerely doubt the Crucible will hold up very long with the pliers you get.