Casting an Aluminum Sign, Sand Molding and Polishing | 10K Part 2
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- In this video, I will use the pattern I made in part 1 to cast the aluminum plaque using petro bond. I will then sand, polish and paint the sign.
The plaque is to commemorate reaching 10K subscribers at the beginning of this month. I had told people I would make one for 10K, but I had no idea how soon I would be making it!
Thank you very much!
PART 1
• Casting an Aluminum Si...
What a gorgeous sign, I would love to give this a try with my logo. Time to fire up the bucket forge again.
Love how you titled the things you used as you used them , great work
awesome, just watched all your videos in one sitting, have my mind intrigued and at curious. i will say you have a talent and patients. i could never do the casting part, have no patients, im more of the architect than the builder, but watching you do it really makes me want to try casting even more and i have watched a lot of these videos and your videos really hit the spot.
+puffy1333 Thanks! I think you have shown that you can be patient if you sat through some of my earlier videos :). I cast some lead when I was a kid. Grew up, became an architect and decided to try casting again. This was spurred on to a large extent by UA-cam!
Just rewatched this vid and still love it.
And now you are close to 80k... well deserved, Sir.
Thank you for your knowledge shared.
Hi. I've seen other aluminium casting videos but yours have the best finish, even before sanding and polishing.
I was wondering, in order to have a good quality, how much important are this factors:
- Degassing the melted aluminum
- The type of sand used in the mold
- Temperature of the melted aluminum
Thanks for your videos!
+Bruce Olds Don't really know, the best advise I'd have is not to use crap aluminum. I noticed that the ingots were much nicer when the aluminum I was scrapping was thick castings. Thin castings have more surface area and oxidation. I melted down some extruded aluminum in a separate batch and it is not as nice as the cast scraps either. I imagine soda cans are really bad for casting, super thin, wrong alloy, lots of paint and contamination, etc... but as far as your questions...
I have always degassed, so I have no way of comparing unless I purposely didn't degass as an experiment.
I used wet play sand for lost foam and petrobond for molding. Both turned out well.
I was told by experienced casters to wait 3 minutes after the last piece melts before removing from the furnace and pouring. I have a thermocouple rod for measuring the temp, but I have not used it yet.
Best looking pattern I’ve ever seen! Beats my 3d prints anyday! Superb job!
Better than a play button
Agreed, the 100k one YT gave me looked like someone licked the button before sealing it up, lol! I have been meaning to surgically remove it from the case, polish it and reseal it...
Beautiful plaque and beautiful video. Keep up the quality work and you will soon have subscribers in numbers you've never dreamed of. The time and care you put into your work shows in the finished videos people really dig that.
Awesome work. I could see it for weeks, and hope to see a new video soon.
Very Very Cool..sound makes it right on, Thanks for giving one of the 10,000+ another look !!
a keg furnace. WTF!!!! You can't get much more American than that! subscribed!!!
This video was really helpful! Good work with getting that glossy look!
This one was cool but the first 5k plaque was absolutely bad ass!!!
This was simply amazing work! I love the way that your piece turned-out! That would make a great belt buckle. YOu made this look so easy. I have not yet attempted to cast anything, but I know that I want to work with aluminum, and some silver for a few different products. This is definitely motivational! Thank you!
your casting is crazy!
+TDUD3 Thanks!
Your furnace is AWESOME!
Why is this so satisfying?
The result was great.
I guess this gives a visual to telling someone to go pound sand. Kidding. Great job, and your attention to detail shows in your finished work.
I have watched a lot of casting videos, and the results you got is by far the best I have seen especially with the high finish even with lots of details. I think using the flour sifter was a good idea especially since you used it for ALL the sand. Great job man!!
+James P Thanks!
Sweet keg forge setup! Best tools I've seen so far. That extraction, pouring combo tool is niiiice!
+pyronaught Thanks!
Excellent work. I like the use of the keg.
Thanks!
This was better than "How It's Made" Good work man!
"The worker rams up the sand.."
Beautiful Work
Wow am totally in love with this
+Maha Sultan Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching this in '19 and from the 10k celebration you now have 165k.... great growth and well done.... cheers.
this is how youtube buttons should look. nice job Brian. amazing sign
Veddy Nice. Ive watched this one 4 times in a row while eating dinner.
+Charles Maxwell Awesome! I guess I need to make the videos 4X as long then :)
beautiful end piece very nice furnace very nice craftsmanship
Excellent video and explanations,show how to sand cast aluminum parts.Great Job!
Thanks!
You're very talented.
I so glad the surface had a surface.
Gorgeous piece
Thanks!
UA-cam show award these instead of play buttons, way cooler .
Lembro que há 3 anos atras vi varios videos seus. Hoje eu lembrei do seu canal e fiquei horas procurando. Como voce ainda não tem mais de 1 milhao de inscritos?
I'm a little late to the show but I wanted to say. AWESOME video. You inspired me. Well done!!!
+John Gillen Thank you very much for your comment! It means a lot.
MAN, your work is outstanding for real..all the best from Serbia
Thanks!
i luv it h0w he made his own plaque
Great Finish really like the multiple steps it took to make the finish piece, again very inspiring work keep them coming!!!
+SwitchSkillz Thanks! Will do.
You're got one more for this. Very well done. Great job.
+Lamialle Gerald indeed
That's a superb casting, top work. Cheers
Amazing......amazing! Thanks for showing us your process..amazing
Very cool, I got a kick out of the Keg Foundry Furnace!! Unique and efficient!! Subscribed!!
Real cool project Brian! Thanks for sharing.
Flawless and so satisfying to watch.
Great work.
it is 15K now, waiting for the new sign :P
Congratulations Brian
Excellent work!
+DE S thanks!
Wow... I just recently started getting into this and this is just amazing.. I can't believe what is possible with metal casting. I'm young and want to be as good as you one day at this craft.
you did something?
Nice motion picture.
This was very cool to watch!
Seems like a very cool way to make amazing things.
great work Brian .......from Argentina.
+Marcelo Lovotrico Thanks!
Love the videos. The raw casting alone looked great but by the time it was done it was quite awesome. Subscribed.
Oh and awesome foundry. Time for a redo on mine.
Nicely done👍
Georgeous.
+ZaphodsPlanet Thanks!
its almost time for that 20k plaque! :)
Beautiful ,👍👍,good job
Another great video , love watching them , plz keep them coming ...
Excellent video..really good clean cast and good showing of process
What a mess lol - Congrats - Perfect design! Hello from Brazil!
Awesome talent 😎
Nice work Brian, the best ive seen.
that video was peaceful and smooth. Nice work man!!
I'm waiting for the 30.000! You do great job! It's artneering
Nice job.
I used a bit of cast pipe as the former for my furnace. if only I thought of using a beer keg that looks nice. I have a 9 litre crucible, and it is mainly only a ladling furnace, there is only a 1 cm gap between the furnace and the crucible so not much room for tools to grab the crucible .. when I was learning I had a mix that was reusable and free hand mouldable, like sandy clay depending on how much binder I used , the binder I used was molasses, it is very sticky but it is organic, and goes hard like cement when cooked, so it is safe to hold and move around, it dose need to be cooked like a cake, but it goes rock hard. depending on how much molasses you use, it can be free flowing like your sand, or if you use more molasses it can be used like moulding clay, it still crumbles like normal before you cook it in an oven, but when cooked it sets hard just like the more toxic chemical sand, but if you use too much molasses it dose make gas, from the burning molasses. and the boxes I have where cast so they could take the heat in the oven, i had the same wood boxes to start with, but I used them to make a mould of them self, so i could make metal versions with locator pins, so I could do double sided biscuit moulding as well .. I was told to use molasses by a man called jack cough's, not shore if that's how you spell his name
I looks like the jumanji board!!!
Great job Brian! +myfordboy would be proud! :)
There's another guy with astonishing skills.
Gorgeous, usually when it melts aluminum it gets full of pores and imperfections that kind of aluminum you used, grateful
Awesome skills! Loved the video...
+tabaccopuro Thanks!
Amazing project ! To bad i don't need a 10K plaque... please send some over :)
Love the flower sifter !! man that beats sifting the sand by hand !!!
Thanks for the comment! There is one other type of sifter I want to try. I think it is designed for making pasta, but I think it might work as an inexpensive muller/sifter.
Fantastic!
+Mário Sérgio Barboza Thanks!
This turned out amazing.
Nice belt buckle ;)
That was incredible
realy ? realy ? ...
i just coment under ur 5k spacel that that was the best casting i have ever sean but this ist even BETTER u are like a good in casting :O i love ur contnen and i just wached 2 vidios of u xD but i am already a fan!!! props
ps. sry for my bad englisch i come from germany
+Albert Strauß No Problem, Mein deutch is sehr schleskt
+Albert Strauß ich auch aber lerne netehrland xD
Albert Strauß great bro :D
Congratulations! You should have been named 'Leonardo'.
Masterpiece
Just stumbled onto your channel. You helped me out with the drag knife files over at the zone. Subscribed. Keep up the great content!
ART!!!
+res1492 Thanks!
your tong looks awesome!
+BS K Thanks! I have a video on them if you want to see more...
I like metal casting and your videos! I just did my first tiny scale(40 gram Al) sand cast test successfully this week hehe! Today I made a set of wooden cope/drag of A4 paper-sized for my real project. I think tong is very important because it is directly related to safety issues. Your tong video will be very helpful when I am scaling up the volume of molten aluminum!
love the keg
+davisx2002 Thanks!
that one bad@$$ subscribe button that made me subscribe.
nice work
83K and counting :)
your videos are awesome! casting is something I've been wanting to do for a while. and I like your kiln!
+franky mosqueda it's called an oven technically, a kiln is used to fire pottery, and a forge is used to "forge metal" but I call mine a forge too.....
And yes, it IS slick.....clean....a lot nicer than my 5 gallon metal bucket one.....
very beautiful work, keep going.
wow. AWESOME . very well done
LOVE your work.
Another great job. I wasn't sure you could top your 5K plaque. I stand corrected =) Good stuff.
you did and amazing job with this casting. I am just getting into aluminum casting at home and your videos have been a great help to me. I'm curious what to use to completely clean the molten aluminum. I've heard about degassing and flux being added but can't find what to use. I would like my projects to come out as clean as yours. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the great work.
fucking sick, and coming up on 15k
Congrats
Thanks, still in shock...
Congratulations on 10K!
Great response to Jason Anderson re no TV for 10 years. ;-)
You 5K plaque was designed very well with lots of elements for eye appeal.
The 10K plaque contained disconcerting elements making it real hard for old guys to discern the art.
All great signs and logos have elements that simply work. I’m sure you get my drift.
I consider this a positive critique not a negative critique.
I hope you do too!
Loved the video.
Yup, I welcome any constructive comment! The 5k plaque, I wanted to be like one you would see on a monument somewhere. It is purposely old-timey with the 3d text for the 5k. The ten k plaque is a bit more off-roading from a content generation standpoint but it is more my aesthetic and if I still lived in Montana, it would make an excellent belt buckle, lol!
“Off-roading/generational content” = Excellent Description! LOL
I’d have a hell of a time capturing a customer’s vision….unless he said: “You know...Off-roading!"
Wow, that's awesome, you seem able to work with any material. ;)
wow.. very interesting work and good one . teach us more koz a like t
nice one
thx man it looks like youre the first guy on YT thats familiar with casting in sandmolds, you did a pretty good job but try to get oilsand for the best possible level of detail
I'm not at all familiar with sand molding. I have done resin and rubber casting and a lot of that experience transfers. This is oil sand or 'petrobond' it will cast your finger print if you leave one in the mold! Check out myfordboy on YT if you want to see someone with experience!
Thanks for the fast reply, yes petrobond is pretty close to the stuff i am using at work. You are doing a good job even with aluminium, i´d like to see more of your work but unfortunately YT is blocking most of it in europe
+antipax hmmm, really? There might be a couple blocked due to music rights. I should re up those at some point now that youtube has a free use library of songs...
Wow, nice work!
that was great; so I'm watching this 42 days after it was uploaded and subscribers are just a bit over 20k so congrats...better start thinking what you are going to do for the 50k mark:D
very nice work..
Thanks!
Did you make the "tongs" for grabbing the crucible, or is that something available for sale?
Nice crucible btw. : )
I wonder if you could cast glass like this. The only thing is you would have to cover it after you pour the glass and let it set for several days before removing the sand otherwise the thermal shock would destroy it. That would be interesting too.
+tstuff I think it would be more effective as a slump mold. I don't think glass would flow like the aluminum does.