I would like to melt a few old (but clean) pistons to pour into the heat crossover passage on a cast iron cylinder head. After doing some research, it seems melting pistons is quite a popular way to do this. I did a search in this group for "melting aluminum" and many posts were people who were building a furnace and this is getting a little more involved than I was planning. Since this is a one time only thing, would I get the desired results by placing the piston in a cast iron frying pan, and directing the flame from an oxy acetelene cutting torch head (without using the oxygen cutting air obviously) right on the piston? Just not sure if this would keep it in a molten state. Any cheap alternatives to this? CC
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20 years ago