You should invite bigstackD over for a copper melting collaboration. In his video history he shows how to make a set of tongs that grabs the crucible lower down instead of at the top edge. He uses the same furnace you do. Here's hoping for a great scrapping year for you Ben!
If i was to pour, I would be so proud of this pour, and like you say, we will allways make mistakes, that's the learning curve, great video great pour, I really hope the people and animals in Australia are as safe as can be, my thoughts are with them, as always keep them coming 👍 👍 👍
hi ben good to see you back again we were worried about you all the fires ect glad you are safe and keeping well keep them vids coming ben we love them take good care ben cheers for now
Hi Ben! Yellow brass would be cool to see melted. But any metal will do! Its just fun to watch the process. Happy New Year to you and all the viewers!!
I’ve just made two identical to yours .thay turned out not bad .just bought the devil forge .awsome bit of kit .good inspiration you are to me Ben and I’m bang on it here in the U.K.
cool vid Ben you know after brushing your ingots you can keep that shine just by spray it with transparent lack, and one more thing as your using your file if you pulling the file towards you it does almost nothing to file off some material you need to push it away from you that is the way all metals file are made you need to push away then file will do the job, small hint but try that and you will see different happy scrapping my friend 👍😀👍
Yay! Been waiting for this. You were the first UA-camr I found when looking for copper melting. Thank you, Ben, you're rocking my world and I love your narratives. Anyway, I have a furnace forge (still in the box) and +/- 400lbs of Cu waiting for the heat. Thanks for teaching the art of TV retrieval. Like @David Galloway says, a collaboration with BigstackD would be a great video. You talk, he drinks beer, eh?
Hey Ben love your vids and i hope that you are all OK and I hope that ever love ones are ok and out of danger from the fires if there,s anything that I can do for you, all you have to do is ask so God speed and I will be praying for you and all of Australia
When you say bronze, do you actually mean brass? I don't think he finds any bronze out in the field. I know I don't. Either way I agree it would be a fun vid. Cheers from AZ, USA :)
Hey Ben, you should consider streaming some scrap out sessions on Twitch or UA-cam (Id go twitch, you make more $) if you can. It would be another way to earn some extra cash doing what you love. You already have a dedicated fan base. A video or two letting subscribers know you're gonna give it a shot and i bet you make partner inside a week or two. Plus it gives you a great opportunity to interact with the most dedicated of your subscribers and even network with other scrapers! Let me know if you like the Idea, Thanks Ben.
Here is a diffrent video also fun to watch i understand what u say its art every ingot is unique next time u can maybe melt my granulated copper just to see how that turns out
I watch BigstackD casting, an Aussie, as well and he can really clean his bars up nice so they do not oxidize. Im not sure why he is holding on to them for but he also sends out coins to patrons of his channel. I know my scrap yard really hates to take home poured bars, too many that are not 100% copper or brass. Maybe a metalsmith who can turn it into decorative art or something to that effect.
I’d suggest Ben stacks them for when the monetary metals are re valued to cancel the 2 quadrillion in fiat currency debt that’s presently circulating the planet. Sound investment right now...
Bars look good mate the only reason behind those "layer" lines on the bottom of the bars was due to lack of heat because the copper grains didn't have sufficient heat to meld together before cooling. But that's not a biggie because you said yourself you were mucking about with the pour and its only cosmetic.
It might cost a bit, but have your logo and Ewaste Ben together in a mold! Or... it'd be hard and take some practice but you could try your hand at sand casting!! That way you could make your logo out of Styrofoam and pour the copper or brass right into that!! Although brass has so much junk in it, it's not as easy as copper!! There are so many things you could do!! I wish I lived down the street from you, I'd help you get the sand casting started!! Even strip some wire for you!! If I could afford a plane ticket I'd fly there and work for free for a 2 or 3 weeks scrapping and helping you get a bunch of copper ready to melt!! Have a GREAT Day!!! P.S. I offered my local coin shop to work for free to help him sell and to learn what I can as well!! Hoping to start doing that soon!! When I love to do something like scrap or work with Coins I'd work for free!! Hope ALL goes well with you Ben!!!
I don't mind the smoke, but I can understand from your point of view 😂 Was a while ago I watched a video from you. You were the one that hooked me on scrapping, and thus collecting free copper 😁 you are still awesome!! But please be safe with melting. You wear an apron while pouring that is great! But I would advice to wear gloves when putting in metal in the hot crucible. Also getting a no 10 crucible with like 4 kgs of molten copper out of the furnace with some hinge tongs made me shiver! I would advice to use a proper lifter tong for that as I seen my crucible crack with a hinge tong. Furthermore why don't you put the ingot molds next to the furnace? Seems much more efficiënt 😁 What a nice stack of copper 😍😍😍 thanks for the video 👍👍👍
Great bars Ben If u spray your copper bars with clear coat lacquer they will stay shiny And you could try making a green sand mould for your Australia ingot Would b great if you made more melting videos 👍
you could add 10% pewter to the molten copper, to make a bronze, which would cast smoother and you could make more detailed castings. plus it would increase the scrap value of the copper
Got a jeweler mate that can advise Ben. Not sure if green sand pours would work but could be worth a try. maybe. Close melting point to cast Iron which uses sand casting as a default. Aluminium you can definitely cast in sand and needs 1/2 the temp. Take care mate. got to catch up soon.
Aye graphite molds are crazy priced for designs. You could try delft clay/petrobond casting is how I got round it. Get some silicone cake molds with designs and cast with wax or epoxy then use it for the delft clay 👍
Hi Ben, welcome back. I have a quick question. What would you value a kilo of mixed IC chips at for scrapping? I've got a guy making some offers but I'm not sure if he's trying to take advantage or not. Just looking for some round numbers, nothing specific. Thanks Ben.
@@eWasteBen Thanks Ben, that gives me a great place to start. I have another question. Do you happen to sell any of your IC/BGA/etc on ebay or elsewhere? Id be willing to pay the shipping to the US just for the simple fact that i know i would be getting exactly what i'm paying for with you. It may just be your youtube persona but just watching how you do business, you've earned my trust lol.
I'm not sure if I'm right, but maybe when you put lacquered copper into already melted copper, then it doesn't releases fumes, because lacquer dilutes copper and mixes with it, but if you put lacquered copper wires into a fresh crucible, then lacquer have a chance to escape as fumes, because it's not submerged into already melted copper.
Y do we have wait 2 months for a scrap marathon! Are you kidding me. The scrap I see outside piled up at everyones house you can fill you van 20 times a week and do everything scrap metal and then some sorting
Nice job brother, i still work on my furnace. Good look bars.
You should invite bigstackD over for a copper melting collaboration. In his video history he shows how to make a set of tongs that grabs the crucible lower down instead of at the top edge. He uses the same furnace you do. Here's hoping for a great scrapping year for you Ben!
for real that's what I was about to say lmao
The problem is that Victoria and Perth are so far away
Samuel H I think border is still closed too...
yayy you did a melt. good work.
It grate to know now that you all good I stared to get worried as I had not seen any videos lately thanks for letting us know :)
If i was to pour, I would be so proud of this pour, and like you say, we will allways make mistakes, that's the learning curve, great video great pour, I really hope the people and animals in Australia are as safe as can be, my thoughts are with them, as always keep them coming 👍 👍 👍
Glad you are ok!
Ben, you should get a mint stamp to personalise you bars. I think you may get some value added. After all you are a celebrity!
Glad to hear you’re safe from the fires!
Glad to hear you are safe from the fires . Good the copper isnt smoking, you have enough smoke there already. 😃
Nice to see your videos again.
Your garage looks immaculate!
So glad to see you're ok....very sorry to hear about the bad situation happening over there!
Well done Ben, not to bad for being out practice. Looking forward to the next pour.
hi ben good to see you back again we were worried about you all the fires ect glad you are safe and keeping well keep them vids coming ben we love them take good care ben cheers for now
Hi Ben! Yellow brass would be cool to see melted. But any metal will do! Its just fun to watch the process. Happy New Year to you and all the viewers!!
GREAT VIDEO BEN CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR OTHERS MELTING VIDEOS, I WATCH ALL YOUR VIDEOS OVER AND OVER KEEP BRINGING THE VIDEOS DUDE 👍👍
@@geoffupton DUDE GROW UP
Enjoy watching your melt video’s!
Glad to see you back at it. With the fires going on in Australia I hope you are doing well. Best of luck and stay safe. Keep the great content coming
Do more of this kind of video excellent keep on scrapping wait until the next video watching from the UK 👍👍🇬🇧
Mate the shed looks great concrete floor and a clean work bench Well Done & Happy New Year.
I’ve just made two identical to yours .thay turned out not bad .just bought the devil forge .awsome bit of kit .good inspiration you are to me Ben and I’m bang on it here in the U.K.
cool vid Ben you know after brushing your ingots you can keep that shine just by spray it with transparent lack,
and one more thing as your using your file if you pulling the file towards you it does almost nothing to file off some material you need to push it away from you that is the way all metals file are made you need to push away then file will do the job, small hint but try that and you will see different happy scrapping my friend
👍😀👍
Yay! Been waiting for this. You were the first UA-camr I found when looking for copper melting. Thank you, Ben, you're rocking my world and I love your narratives. Anyway, I have a furnace forge (still in the box) and +/- 400lbs of Cu waiting for the heat. Thanks for teaching the art of TV retrieval. Like @David Galloway says, a collaboration with BigstackD would be a great video. You talk, he drinks beer, eh?
Still good after so long.
So happy you are ok
I enjoy these videos Ben
Looking at my eWaste Ben poured copper Australia while watching this vid...awesome!
Loved watching this beautiful turn out
Great trick BEN thanks
Good job 👍 Ben ,
Hi Ben : I enjoy your channel, glad to see you pouring again.
Hey Ben love your vids and i hope that you are all OK and I hope that ever love ones are ok and out of danger from the fires if there,s anything that I can do for you, all you have to do is ask so God speed and I will be praying for you and all of Australia
These are my favorite videos of yours
Very beautiful video. Hopefully we'll see some more copper bars from you, greetings Turkey,
I was wondering if you were ok from the fires, glad to see you're back at it #Happyscrapping
Good to see your doing alright, keep it up old boy, cheers from London.
Hey Ben! I would love to see you do a brass bar, just to see how it looks in comparison to pure copper bar, if you don't mind the effort.
When you say bronze, do you actually mean brass? I don't think he finds any bronze out in the field. I know I don't. Either way I agree it would be a fun vid. Cheers from AZ, USA :)
@@xurx2838 Yeah, brass. My bad.
Go look at BIGSTACKD all metals without jibber
your the best u doing more vids like this i love it
Enjoyed the new content
awsome video ben ,, i pray for australia ,,i'm supr glad your safe ,,BEN . bless you ,
Hey Ben, you should consider streaming some scrap out sessions on Twitch or UA-cam (Id go twitch, you make more $) if you can. It would be another way to earn some extra cash doing what you love. You already have a dedicated fan base. A video or two letting subscribers know you're gonna give it a shot and i bet you make partner inside a week or two. Plus it gives you a great opportunity to interact with the most dedicated of your subscribers and even network with other scrapers! Let me know if you like the Idea, Thanks Ben.
You can make different copper shapes by using sand casting with a flask.
Love the copper melt
Good to see you melting again!
Great job on the melt Ben! Very interesting watching the pour master at work! LOL
Happy new year from Queensland
Great stuff 👍 your garage looks clean haha 😋
When street scrapping and you see a BBQ check the gas bottle. I haven't bought gas in years and I BBQ 2 or 3 times a week
Hi Ben, Recycle Specialist again, I wou like to recommend you watch BigstackD Casting and sreetips, it might help you a bit.
Nice . Been looking forward to this. Garage is looking good too.
Here is a diffrent video also fun to watch i understand what u say its art every ingot is unique next time u can maybe melt my granulated copper just to see how that turns out
Kitted out like Ned Kelly ...lolol awesome video thanks Ben
I watch BigstackD casting, an Aussie, as well and he can really clean his bars up nice so they do not oxidize. Im not sure why he is holding on to them for but he also sends out coins to patrons of his channel. I know my scrap yard really hates to take home poured bars, too many that are not 100% copper or brass. Maybe a metalsmith who can turn it into decorative art or something to that effect.
I’d suggest Ben stacks them for when the monetary metals are re valued to cancel the 2 quadrillion in fiat currency debt that’s presently circulating the planet. Sound investment right now...
Thought this was bigstackd until you started talking haha
Keep the copper videos coming
Bars look good mate the only reason behind those "layer" lines on the bottom of the bars was due to lack of heat because the copper grains didn't have sufficient heat to meld together before cooling. But that's not a biggie because you said yourself you were mucking about with the pour and its only cosmetic.
Hheey... We miss the street scrapping videos.. :)
Oh and I really love the bars, no worries there mate! Good job on them 😍 as it was 1 year ago not bad. Keep them coming 👍👍👍
Great video bro
put your molds beside the melter so it wont cool as much
Thank you for this great video! :D
Ben it’s good to see your good with the fires down there and where did you get you furnace I’m trying to start making copper bars
👍great video some dice shaped moulds would be nice copper cubes?👍
I would like to see you made some brass bars
Also a nice radial pattern on the bottom of the large ingot
It might cost a bit, but have your logo and Ewaste Ben together in a mold! Or... it'd be hard and take some practice but you could try your hand at sand casting!!
That way you could make your logo out of Styrofoam and pour the copper or brass right into that!! Although brass has so much junk in it, it's not as easy as copper!! There are so many things you could do!! I wish I lived down the street from you, I'd help you get the sand casting started!! Even strip some wire for you!! If I could afford a plane ticket I'd fly there and work for free for a 2 or 3 weeks scrapping and helping you get a bunch of copper ready to melt!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
P.S. I offered my local coin shop to work for free to help him sell and to learn what I can as well!! Hoping to start doing that soon!! When I love to do something like scrap or work with Coins I'd work for free!!
Hope ALL goes well with you Ben!!!
That a clear garage have any more video of you doing it
Mike Dando i think he's hiding those vids til hes 101% done and well pleased with the results!)
Nice vid Ben, how about brass. Keep the vids coming.
NICE!!!
Hi Ben, I was wondering how you separate the copper from the aluminum in those copper stackers?
Nice to see you pouring copper bars again.
Nice job
Great video keep it up!! New year new videos heck ya! I'll take the small one lol its beautiful!
I don't mind the smoke, but I can understand from your point of view 😂 Was a while ago I watched a video from you. You were the one that hooked me on scrapping, and thus collecting free copper 😁 you are still awesome!! But please be safe with melting. You wear an apron while pouring that is great! But I would advice to wear gloves when putting in metal in the hot crucible. Also getting a no 10 crucible with like 4 kgs of molten copper out of the furnace with some hinge tongs made me shiver! I would advice to use a proper lifter tong for that as I seen my crucible crack with a hinge tong. Furthermore why don't you put the ingot molds next to the furnace? Seems much more efficiënt 😁 What a nice stack of copper 😍😍😍 thanks for the video 👍👍👍
Really interesting seeing the process that’s for sharing. Would love to see how much you get with a big melting day.
Great bars Ben
If u spray your copper bars with clear coat lacquer they will stay shiny
And you could try making a green sand mould for your Australia ingot
Would b great if you made more melting videos 👍
Ben have you watched Big Stackd Casting brilliant you tuber
hairspray will preserve the shiny copper colour. and then you can wash it off with water if need be
Glad you are ok Ben the fires not by you i take it .
HEY BEN YOU GOT A BAG POWER COPPER IN MAIL 11 MONTHS AGO THAT WILL BE A GOOD VIDEO TO MAKE IN YOUR ELECTRIC MELTER. 👍👍
Nice copper bars Ben, you should sell them on ebay , Thanks !
btw one tiny bar is on the way to you sir tiny 100 grammer hope it will be there soon 👍😀👍
you could add 10% pewter to the molten copper, to make a bronze, which would cast smoother and you could make more detailed castings. plus it would increase the scrap value of the copper
Got a jeweler mate that can advise Ben.
Not sure if green sand pours would work but could be worth a try. maybe.
Close melting point to cast Iron which uses sand casting as a default.
Aluminium you can definitely cast in sand and needs 1/2 the temp.
Take care mate. got to catch up soon.
The have a polisher for a drill .that u can use to polish the bars and make a lil more money than what you have been making
Nice melt down vid
26:50 what about an oily coating?
spray-Oil like WD40? this should prevent the oxidation
Ben have you ever scrapped out a macintosh 512 or 128
Hi mate just started watching your video and was wondering how do know when people are putting out the scarp outside?
use tongs to feed it
Just you all know I use xylene I have a bucket metal bucket I keep xylene waste so I dip my candy copper in there removes the lacquer
A question to Ben, Are those bushfires near to you? Here ( in Finland ) the news gives us picture that hole Australia is going to burn down...
Aye graphite molds are crazy priced for designs. You could try delft clay/petrobond casting is how I got round it. Get some silicone cake molds with designs and cast with wax or epoxy then use it for the delft clay 👍
Hi Ben, welcome back. I have a quick question. What would you value a kilo of mixed IC chips at for scrapping? I've got a guy making some offers but I'm not sure if he's trying to take advantage or not. Just looking for some round numbers, nothing specific. Thanks Ben.
Not all IC chips have gold but I base them on 1 gram gold per kilo, maybe a little more, maybe a lot less.
@@eWasteBen Thanks Ben, that gives me a great place to start. I have another question. Do you happen to sell any of your IC/BGA/etc on ebay or elsewhere? Id be willing to pay the shipping to the US just for the simple fact that i know i would be getting exactly what i'm paying for with you. It may just be your youtube persona but just watching how you do business, you've earned my trust lol.
I'm not sure if I'm right, but maybe when you put lacquered copper into already melted copper, then it doesn't releases fumes, because lacquer dilutes copper and mixes with it, but if you put lacquered copper wires into a fresh crucible, then lacquer have a chance to escape as fumes, because it's not submerged into already melted copper.
I'd be thinking sand molds. Check out Navajo sandcast jewelry at some point. It's not absolutely perfect and looks better that way.
Kilo bars sounds great
Where are you in relation to all the fires?
I believe what you are referring to is called pyrolysis, the plastic film turns to a gas
Y do we have wait 2 months for a scrap marathon! Are you kidding me. The scrap I see outside piled up at everyones house you can fill you van 20 times a week and do everything scrap metal and then some sorting
Ben go and wtch BIGSTACKD casting no narrative or jibber , just gets the job done all types of metals check it out