Before you pour metal in the mold you must remove slag from the molten metal, that's why you have all that crack. Also you must made and top part for the mold so you get both side equal
This is so cool! I want to do cast iron, haven't tried it yet. A large piece 3D printed in parts can probably be tricky. You kind of made it look easy. Very well done.
@@American_Innovation No problem at all, always happy to support my fellow content creators. I am looking forward to improving on my own current video format I have uploaded and, in the future, trying to create content as good as yours in the long-term.
We have a concrete floor in the gym we had a lot of weight on the bar and the clip fell off so the weight fell and two fell on top of each other so it broke
The clips weren’t my design, it’s on thingaverse. But my 3D printer is an Anycubic I3 Mega. It’s cheap, breaks a lot, but I’m young and broke so it does me good. 🤘
Personally I can’t make 45’s my furnace isn’t big enough to hold that much metal. I also don’t have the greensand. In theory it could be done but I don’t have the money to do it. I got the plate from my baseball facility, some idiot was squatting with no clips and the weights fell on each other and somehow broke. I didn’t see it happen I just saw the plate and an opportunity.
@@American_Innovation Understand. But the possibility of cast iron plates breaking seems slim I seen that happen and no plates broke. I've also heard of them falling out of trucks lol
I got my printer for $200, it’s about $20 per kilo of filament. It’s actually not that expensive although, who would want a loud machine to make tiny plastic things. Some do that but if you use it as a tool it is much more useful 🤯ik
Easy to fix the weight difference. Just drill holes or indentations on the heavier one till it matches the lighter one But anyway nice vid. Was thinking of ways to make $ and saw the prices of weights these covid days and thought about doing something like this. Sourcing the metal frm wherever.
Honestly you might lose money on that, it cost a lot of propane to melt iron and the iron itself is expensive. Leave that to the factories. Invest in a 3D printer and make clips and plastic tools I have a video where I made a forearm roller too I imagine you could sell those easily to baseball clubs they love forearms.
@@American_Innovation plates are still going up in price. Soon it may be the case that bags of coal/ cans of gas and foundry with scrap metal will be cheaper than buying plates. I havnt seen 55lb for under 120 USD.
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test at end is okay but,everyone has a stronger side in many cases...a scale is all you need... 10 pound plate that fits bar is fine and will do the job... i am sure with more experience you could make much better looking cast...This was interesting to watch..thanks for sharing
Well maybe but depending on its composition it could become stronger. Definitely don’t take everything from Ant man although I love that movie. Also liquid nitrogen is out of my budget.
I think that you should redo the 3D Printed mold plate until you can get it done in one piece and then try it again. I'd love to see it once you get it perfected.
I love the idea of doing things right. However, it’s not really what I do on this channel. I like to fail just enough that it’s a passing grade, I can learn much more in a short time doing that than spending weeks or normally months on making a marketable product. Perfection is essential for only artists. I shoot for what’s optimal.
@@American_Innovation What? Why would you want to fail? I thought that you were doing this to give as a gift. Was this supposed to be a homework assignment?
So this was sand casting done by a 15 year old w no money. Most of your weights at the gym are either sand casted, Milled, or injection molded. Meaning most of the time their molds don’t fall apart. Mine fell apart because everything I have is fairly cheaply made by me. Also the casted ones at the gym are normally 2 part molds, meaning they can cast on both sides, and they won’t have to worry about having one side larger than the other.
@@American_Innovation just one more question if i may, the jar you r melting things in from what material is it ? If it was metal y it is not melting as well inside the furnace ??
@@michaelconstantine5149 it’s called a crucible. Mine is made of a clay carbon mixture, you may know that carbon has one of the highest melting points of all elements. The structure is actually graphite to keep it strong yet not expensive. My furnace gets up to 2600°F and that isn’t near the amount needed to melt graphite. It will crack it due to thermal shock
Before you pour metal in the mold you must remove slag from the molten metal, that's why you have all that crack.
Also you must made and top part for the mold so you get both side equal
This is so cool! I want to do cast iron, haven't tried it yet. A large piece 3D printed in parts can probably be tricky. You kind of made it look easy. Very well done.
Casting Technology thanks
This is cool! Keep making stuff dude!
Love this channel, I am trying to learn more about this
Absolutely cool!
impressive video Art of Casting. I killed that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the solid work.
Thank ya thank ya
@@American_Innovation No problem at all, always happy to support my fellow content creators. I am looking forward to improving on my own current video format I have uploaded and, in the future, trying to create content as good as yours in the long-term.
Helping me on my gcse design technology, thank you very much
No problem, as you can tell I am a very credible source
Cool video, but I was way more excited about the 3d printable clamps lol Thanks for throwing that in the video!
Thanks, I didn’t design the clips so I didn’t think it was my place to include any more about them
How did you like how bright the crucible was when you pulled it from the furnace. Cast iron is brutal.
I almost see that more with copper, the heat this time was crazy though. I was sweating just standing next to the crucible after I poured
If you want to give these a better finished look you can dunk those in black flex seal and it would probably look professionally made.
Yah but then it would look like a bumper plate whisky is not what I was going for
Love it! thank you
I've never seen a broken plate in my whole life 😂😂😂
This was really cool to watch
Is there any other metal stuff you could smelt ?
Thankyou, melting things was kinda my channel before January
How the cast iron break, just wondering since im getting cast iron dumbbells?
We have a concrete floor in the gym we had a lot of weight on the bar and the clip fell off so the weight fell and two fell on top of each other so it broke
Which 3d printer do you use? Those clips are smart 🤘
The clips weren’t my design, it’s on thingaverse. But my 3D printer is an Anycubic I3 Mega. It’s cheap, breaks a lot, but I’m young and broke so it does me good. 🤘
maybe make them a bit bigger and you can use a grinder to make it your target weight
Can you give me the stl of the weight clips?!:)
Boys : let's go to the gym
Men : let's make the gym
Thanks bro!!
there is around a 3-5% slag waste when casting iron, so can assume a 5% weight loss
Good effort
Awesome but how did you get a broking plate never seen that? Can you also make 45 ib plates?
Personally I can’t make 45’s my furnace isn’t big enough to hold that much metal. I also don’t have the greensand. In theory it could be done but I don’t have the money to do it. I got the plate from my baseball facility, some idiot was squatting with no clips and the weights fell on each other and somehow broke. I didn’t see it happen I just saw the plate and an opportunity.
@@American_Innovation Understand. But the possibility of cast iron plates breaking seems slim I seen that happen and no plates broke. I've also heard of them falling out of trucks lol
@@zachthamm9595 idk they were old and a little rusted anyway.
@@American_Innovation Even so rusty weights last forever I have some garage sale finds of plates from the 70s
@@zachthamm9595 okay what if that was the first plate to fall and the others fell at the same time and broke it?
3D printing is out of this world. Blows my mind. I would like to do casting too. Wonder how expe sive I gotta be.
I got my printer for $200, it’s about $20 per kilo of filament. It’s actually not that expensive although, who would want a loud machine to make tiny plastic things. Some do that but if you use it as a tool it is much more useful 🤯ik
de que material es el recipiente donde lo funde y lo transporta ?
grafito de arcilla (clay graphite crucible)
Easy to fix the weight difference. Just drill holes or indentations on the heavier one till it matches the lighter one
But anyway nice vid. Was thinking of ways to make $ and saw the prices of weights these covid days and thought about doing something like this. Sourcing the metal frm wherever.
Honestly you might lose money on that, it cost a lot of propane to melt iron and the iron itself is expensive. Leave that to the factories. Invest in a 3D printer and make clips and plastic tools I have a video where I made a forearm roller too I imagine you could sell those easily to baseball clubs they love forearms.
@@American_Innovation plates are still going up in price. Soon it may be the case that bags of coal/ cans of gas and foundry with scrap metal will be cheaper than buying plates. I havnt seen 55lb for under 120 USD.
Fun toys you have it you gotta scoop out that slag!
In theory, great idea, in practice I can’t pay for a new slag stick every time I melt cast iron. Well I probably could but I don’t want to
Hola ....muy lindo trabajo!!..me gustaría aprender a hacer también los discos y mancuernas de hierro.
Pero nunca hice.....si me podrías ayudar.....soy de Paraguay
thumbs up for doing iron.. wow. good stuff
Thanks, I like you’re jack o lantern
test at end is okay but,everyone has a stronger side in many cases...a scale is all you need... 10 pound plate that fits bar is fine and will do the job... i am sure with more experience you could make much better looking cast...This was interesting to watch..thanks for sharing
if you freeze the weight in dry ice/liquid nitrogen it should shatter w a light strike
Well maybe but depending on its composition it could become stronger. Definitely don’t take everything from Ant man although I love that movie. Also liquid nitrogen is out of my budget.
Nice Video! Can you post the files for the clips?
They aren’t mine but yah I can do that
www.thingiverse.com/thing:3655644
@@American_Innovation Thank you!
@@MatthiasSimons no
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I think that you should redo the 3D Printed mold plate until you can get it done in one piece and then try it again. I'd love to see it once you get it perfected.
I love the idea of doing things right. However, it’s not really what I do on this channel. I like to fail just enough that it’s a passing grade, I can learn much more in a short time doing that than spending weeks or normally months on making a marketable product. Perfection is essential for only artists. I shoot for what’s optimal.
@@American_Innovation What? Why would you want to fail? I thought that you were doing this to give as a gift. Was this supposed to be a homework assignment?
May i plz ask, why it is so messed up ? I mean the ready ones in the gym is perfect .. what went wrong ??
So this was sand casting done by a 15 year old w no money. Most of your weights at the gym are either sand casted, Milled, or injection molded. Meaning most of the time their molds don’t fall apart. Mine fell apart because everything I have is fairly cheaply made by me. Also the casted ones at the gym are normally 2 part molds, meaning they can cast on both sides, and they won’t have to worry about having one side larger than the other.
@@American_Innovation oh got it, thank you
@@michaelconstantine5149 yah np 😂
@@American_Innovation just one more question if i may, the jar you r melting things in from what material is it ? If it was metal y it is not melting as well inside the furnace ??
@@michaelconstantine5149 it’s called a crucible. Mine is made of a clay carbon mixture, you may know that carbon has one of the highest melting points of all elements. The structure is actually graphite to keep it strong yet not expensive. My furnace gets up to 2600°F and that isn’t near the amount needed to melt graphite. It will crack it due to thermal shock
2:25 I subed. Why? Because you just seem like a cool dude stuff what people think this this your way and I’m watching it 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Just get an angle grinder and make a little cut where you want it to break.
Do 45s next time
Why this iron so weak now no one will buy iron plates what's the reason
That cast weight could have been repair welded quite easily.
So it would seem
Would have been better to just weld the part back together
Aha sure but, I don’t have a welder.
I thought nobody can break those iron plates in da gym 🙄
Hey idk what random crap went down but somehow they did it
At least you didn’t die I guess! 🤦🏼♂️
Why not just Cut it over
Can you give me your plates🤦🏽♂️
Sorry, already gave them away
@@American_Innovation it’s ok brother I’m all the way in Fiji 🇫🇯
This iron is weak,😁😁
Indeed