Port Washington-based Modern Equipment Company Inc. makes furnaces and ladles that can undergo the stresses of metal melting at foundries. It can take several months to manufacture a product that can ...

Have you ever played with Rose’s metal? It’s a fusible alloy of bismuth, lead, and tin with a low melting point of around 100 °C. Historically, it’s been used as a solder for cast iron railings and ...

I’ve always thought that there are three things you can do with metal: cut it, bend it, and join it. Sure, I knew you could melt it, but that was always something that happened in big foundries- you ...