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Yellow Alloy

Yellow Alloy

Yellow Alloy

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I am looking for an alloy similar to brass but with a lower melting point.

My kiln only reachs 1000oc and does not make the brass liquid, I need to brass to be liquid at 900oc or lower and with a light brass colour.

Regards

RE: Yellow Alloy

I presume that looks are all that matter in this case.
There are a couple of very high lead bronzes that might work.
There are also some brasses with less than 60% Cu and small amounts of Mn that have low melting points.  C86400 and C86500 are actually rather high strength and commonly used for marine hardware.  I have never cast them, but I would expect that you would still need 950C to get good castings.  There should be a lot of information on 865 available.  Try copper.org

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