I don't think you'll have much joy with trying to melt SS in a cupola furnace for casting. You say tghat you desire the end product to be "weldable,machinable, corrosion- resistant, and can be finished to a degree of reflectivity that Im familiar with", yet you go on to say that the resultant product need not adhere to any "particular rigorous performance standard." That jseems contradictory; on the one hand you want it to be just like a standard ASM alloy (read, meet standards), while on the other hand you say it need not.
There is no rational hope of obtaining a consistent, dependable alloy from a cupola melt. The process is inherently fraught with uncertainty as regards the outcome. As noted previously, those who routinely casrt SS use induction melters, generally in a controlled atmosphere, to obtain pieces that are weldable, machinable, etc. I don't think you can possibly achieve that in a cupola.
If you do succeed, I would love to hear your process.
I don't think you'll have
I don't think you'll have much joy with trying to melt SS in a cupola furnace for casting. You say tghat you desire the end product to be "weldable,machinable, corrosion- resistant, and can be finished to a degree of reflectivity that Im familiar with", yet you go on to say that the resultant product need not adhere to any "particular rigorous performance standard." That jseems contradictory; on the one hand you want it to be just like a standard ASM alloy (read, meet standards), while on the other hand you say it need not.
There is no rational hope of obtaining a consistent, dependable alloy from a cupola melt. The process is inherently fraught with uncertainty as regards the outcome. As noted previously, those who routinely casrt SS use induction melters, generally in a controlled atmosphere, to obtain pieces that are weldable, machinable, etc. I don't think you can possibly achieve that in a cupola.
If you do succeed, I would love to hear your process.