[SEL] Tod Engine Works Foundry

[jbcast at charter.net]

>  As you put power to the coil the magnetic 
> fields move the electrons in the metal back and forth thousands of times per 
> second.  That banging and crashing of electrons back and forth creates heat 
> and continues to make heat until the metal melts.
> 
> The coil itself does not heat up, as a matter of fact water flows through 
> the coil to keep it cool. An inch or two away is molten metal ranging up to 
> 3000 degrees.  The material that keeps the two seperated is Alumina, Al2 O3

You could turn on an induction furnace, reach in and touch the bottom, but if you have a ring on your finger it will melt off before you get to the bottom.
J.B. Castagnos