I think you did a great job with this video. Not having music was great because you used good sound from the furnace itself, and of the surrounding project. Thank you for the great work.
I have to say, this was one of the most well filmed melts I have ever seen. I personally enjoyed how long the video was and the sounds were extremely relaxing.
I agree with Alexis Starlyn. The lack of music does make your video relaxing to watch. Enough so that I think I'll subscribe. And instead of selling your ingots for scrap, wouldn't it be cool to make an aluminum wall inside your house or maybe a badass bed? The imagination can go wild with them things! Love your one man setup too. That furnace is awesome.
First of all, VERY enjoyable! Second, I Like that there was no music. And I compliment you on a beautiful set-up. It is obvious that you worked hard to equip yourself. Excellent camera work, too! Thank you for this, I appreciated the whole thing.
five minutes in and I'm really appreciating the equipment you're using to cast ingots, I saw a different video and the guy was casting copper from old wires and he had a single ingot mold and used tongs:/ your tools for holding the crucible and the rack you have for casting the ingots is something I haven't seen before (albeit I haven't seen many ingot casting videos) so I'm like ".....huh" when I see the clever tools you use. Thank you for the video, I learned a lot(:
It really is fun melting Aluminium!!!! Maybe our base desire is destroying and creating!!! You really are well prepared and it is a beautiful furnace. Very relaxing to watch and your camera work was brilliant
honestly I would NOT include music in any future videos that you do that are similar to this one, like many other people have said already.. It was just relaxing not having music in a video for once... and the sound of the furnace was very soothing (or am I the only one that thinks the sounds of a furnace is soothing haha , oh well) I really enjoyed this video.. it makes me want to try melting some scrap aluminum that I have lying around, I also have lotttt of copper too
Beauiful ingots! Maybe you should remelt the dross or slags and put in Ingot mold. When it warm, you hammer it tight to make it look nice and sell as casing aluminum at scrap yard for some dollars. Keep aside enought dross Ingot to sell for enough money for free propane tank refill.
If you would put the dross in the crucible and flux with light salt(50%sodium chloride & 50% potassium chloride) you can extract a bunch more aluminum from it. Add the salt and mix it well while liquified in the crucible and the dross will become more like a dark rocky sand leaving a nice pool of clean aluminum underneath. Just a tip to get a better yield.
It would be interesting to weigh the crucible before and after a big melting session like this to see if the difference from the scale forming is detectable.
As with the majority here, I just want to say "Thank God you didn't add music"! That would've been to distracting of the content of your video. No words were spoken; only writings that was a good factor to. Talking about what you are or were bout to do would be a distraction to. Talking in the end is okay about summarizing what took place. Thanks for the video.
You can reduce the dross by adding salt into the molten aluminum! The heat is enough to melt it with the aluminum. The salt acts as a sort of flux and you will come out with a larger yield of usable metal.
Building a frame from scrap lumber to hold a broom stick, then winding the wire onto the broomstick would possibly save labor of cutting it and feeding the wire scrap into the furnace.
The high percentage of dross is caused by the exposed metal creating oxide as it heats before it melts. So to get less dross simply start with a small puddle of metal then feed in. Start with an ingot left over from a previous melt. When its a molten puddle then start feeding new metal in (prewarm it first by resting on lid but not too hot). Purpose of prewarm is twofold. 1. any water escapes as steam preventing pops and xplosions. 2. if you put a lot of cold metal in then surface freezes with moltem metal underneath - which expands - explosion time again (unlikely but there you are). When feeding in metal - feed each piece in quickly until melted. Then next piece. This way the metal melts into eth pool as fast as possible and does not 'burn' creating dross. Do not start with a pile of old alu that slowly melts into a puddle. most will be dross. This effect is most visble when melting cans. feed then in one at a time = much less dross. Takes longer though...
Man that was only 55lbs? It looked like way more than that to me. I love your furnace. That’s about the size I want. I haven’t figured out the best place to buy this stuff but I’m learning. I’ve built a few smaller furnaces but none of them have been very durable and they didn’t last very long. Great vid bro and thanks for sharing. I’d appreciate any advice to get me started with a bigger better furnace. And oh yeah, you don’t need any music dude. I liked hear the real sounds better than some dumb music. Lol
So... 12 approximately 2kg ingots and one around 0.5kg? Very good melt, i like the way you have your molds set up.. i will have to try that when i get a furnace.
The cheapest uninsulated Aluminum wire, if you sold it on ebay or Amazon, is worth three times (3x) more than you could get at even the most generous scrap yard (and that wire was probably worth 'substantially' much, much more). The amount of work put into making Aluminum into wire probably blew away any environmental 'good' that you could have possibly done by recycling it. As a 'scrapper' its good to understand when it pays to send materials to a scrap yard versus reselling it directly to the end user. You could have sold it at a bargain price to someone who would use it in its current state and made a shitton more tan you made by scrapping it. (But since you used propane to melt it I would hazard a guess that making money in your operation is not your primary goal). Nevertheless the video is produced very well and liquid Aluminum is quite beautiful.
Hey MP I just built my latest furnace and it’s about half the size of the one you are using in this vid. I used refrac cement only. Is fire brick better than pure refrac cement? Does it hold and maintain heat better or is refractory cement just as good? I bought a roll of 4 inch thick ceramic blanket but couldn’t use it in this furnace because I didn’t make the chamber big enough to allow for it. Is ceramic blanket better than refrac cement. Sorry for asking too many questions. The little furnace I’ve got right now isn’t a Fire Breathing Dragon by any stretch but it eats cans as fast as I can put them in. I would like to know what the best materials are for my next furnace because each one that I build gets a little better than the last. Thank you for any help/advice you or other viewers can give on this.
I think you did a great job with this video. Not having music was great because you used good sound from the furnace itself, and of the surrounding project.
Thank you for the great work.
SERIOUSLY like the flipping ingot molds! Good design!
I actually liked the lack of music VERY much, super relaxing
Yeah, its like ASMR
Alexis Starlyn some of the sped-up parts sounded like when you are on a plane, which is peaceful to listen to
Alexis Starlyn I know it felt guud
sarcasm?
just the sound of the fire (and the flames)
I have to say, this was one of the most well filmed melts I have ever seen. I personally enjoyed how long the video was and the sounds were extremely relaxing.
Those are the most beautiful bars of aluminum I've ever seem.
I agree with Alexis Starlyn. The lack of music does make your video relaxing to watch. Enough so that I think I'll subscribe. And instead of selling your ingots for scrap, wouldn't it be cool to make an aluminum wall inside your house or maybe a badass bed? The imagination can go wild with them things! Love your one man setup too. That furnace is awesome.
I have no idea what kind of mortar you could use to make a wall out of aluminium bricks... He should totally try that!
This was one of the moat satisfying and therapeutic videos I've ever watched. I got sad when you turned off the propane
Your form is really good and your ingots are very smooth and clean. Good to watch someone that knows the craft.
First time I've seen your videos, love it an the mold flip design is pure genius
I like it when they dont spend 10 minutes talking about what they are goin to do before they do it. Who cares melt the metal!! No music good too
I love the table you made for your molds very ingenious!
I agree, Scott. That's the best device I've seen for that purpose.
And I've worked in a couple of top notch foundries.
So Exactly what does he do with these ingots? Does he sell them? He'd make a pretty penny with those!
i melt aluminum my self but not at this quantity, mainly aluminum foil and cans
The sound when you first turned on the furnace gave me CHILLS!!
First of all, VERY enjoyable! Second, I Like that there was no music. And I compliment you on a beautiful set-up. It is obvious that you worked hard to equip yourself. Excellent camera work, too! Thank you for this, I appreciated the whole thing.
lets just say i dont like to cook...
cylo lloyd Let's just say, you are gay
;0 0; did you even watch the video?...
cylo lloyd Ye why?
lets just say that you're a thicc bch
CAT FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
Love the setup and glad to see you moved indoors!
I enjoy very much without background music: real and raw! Thank you!
Says "That was fun" with the lest amount of emotions i have ever seen xD your awsoman. Really like you and your vids :)
Nice to see that you can feed raw material into the crucible without removing the furnace top. Thanks for sharing.
five minutes in and I'm really appreciating the equipment you're using to cast ingots, I saw a different video and the guy was casting copper from old wires and he had a single ingot mold and used tongs:/ your tools for holding the crucible and the rack you have for casting the ingots is something I haven't seen before (albeit I haven't seen many ingot casting videos) so I'm like ".....huh" when I see the clever tools you use. Thank you for the video, I learned a lot(:
quality fabrication best I have seen so far well done
That is a massive melting operation, you're taking this to industrial levels.
It really is fun melting Aluminium!!!! Maybe our base desire is destroying and creating!!! You really are well prepared and it is a beautiful furnace. Very relaxing to watch and your camera work was brilliant
This video was unbelievably fascinating!
Your molder/demoulder device is genius in its simplicity.
without the music, it reminded me of a Primitive Technology video
This is relatively rather primitive technology. The most high tech part of this is the ability to do this with liquid natural gas.
I love the natural mechanical noises. Hate when people put (loud) music that doesn't match with the theme in videos.
Liked the video, wish you would have stacked and stamped your bars.
I think the sound of the furnace in the background has something hypnotic
Someone likes the forest XD i could instantly tell from the plane axe as your profile picture.
SupertechOriginal Well observed.
I think my vids also speak for that
honestly I would NOT include music in any future videos that you do that are similar to this one, like many other people have said already.. It was just relaxing not having music in a video for once... and the sound of the furnace was very soothing (or am I the only one that thinks the sounds of a furnace is soothing haha , oh well) I really enjoyed this video.. it makes me want to try melting some scrap aluminum that I have lying around, I also have lotttt of copper too
Great video, really well edited, with great angles and really interesting to watch
Very nice to watch and very cool video/editing quality!
why is this video so enjoyable
I really enjoyed watching your videos. Please make more and don’t change a thing!
Thank you for sharing the video. Well done and I truly enjoyed it
Great Owen and system you have made, very effective. Great video, thanks!😀
i don't know, but i think this kind of video is satisfying for me
That was a GOOD video to see you have a great set up with everything. Thank you for the video.
Beauiful ingots! Maybe you should remelt the dross or slags and put in Ingot mold. When it warm, you hammer it tight to make it look nice and sell as casing aluminum at scrap yard for some dollars. Keep aside enought dross Ingot to sell for enough money for free propane tank refill.
Love your ingot table. I’ll be making one of my own soon.
Jeffrey Kroll what is the best material to use for this
I appreciate that you don't use any annoying music. :-)
Your really producing some reserves for the next crisis :D
You are the best, greetings from Saudi Arabia
Love watching this...you are a professional.
If you would put the dross in the crucible and flux with light salt(50%sodium chloride & 50% potassium chloride) you can extract a bunch more aluminum from it. Add the salt and mix it well while liquified in the crucible and the dross will become more like a dark rocky sand leaving a nice pool of clean aluminum underneath. Just a tip to get a better yield.
Awesome! The extruded aluminum with the paint is why I melt aluminum outside
It wasn't paint but more like powder coated. I think that's why it smoked so much
That little flipping table is a great idea.
Okay, when's the next mass aluminum melt? This video was fantastic, it's amazing ASMR.
That was satisfying to watch the metal melt
I love the sound that the forge produce
I love the Hypno Toad sound track you used for the background music! O-O
It would be interesting to weigh the crucible before and after a big melting session like this to see if the difference from the scale forming is detectable.
The aluminum dross sticks to the crucible and it is difficult to clean out resulting in inaccurate readings
I thought that might be a problem... and even without that issue the difference would likely not even be detectable on normal scales anyway
Ones upon a time, aluminum was expensive than pure gold.
As with the majority here, I just want to say "Thank God you didn't add music"! That would've been to distracting of the content of your video. No words were spoken; only writings that was a good factor to. Talking about what you are or were bout to do would be a distraction to. Talking in the end is okay about summarizing what took place. Thanks for the video.
I'm a very very fan of your channel 💛💛
Thanks to your video it has given me a few good idea's, thank you and keep up the good work.
"Well that was fun" *has the face of depression*
It's called multi-generational Soviet conditioning.
I have seen this video several times. It is very interesting
That was fun to watch, Great job.
i love the way you cook metal spaghetti. nice vid bro
It was so satisfying to watch him remove the slag!
Your new furnace is beautiful
Who thinks this a satisfying channel I love it like if you agree
Like watching spaghetti get dragged into hell
Pat Daly 😈my tipe😈
Oh god
Some body touch a my spaghett!
Metal spaghetti
I love how u think
Starts off with a few pieces of wire, then at the end, he'd roping in huge clumps. Haha. Thats a big ass crucible.
Two words, oddly satisfying
You can reduce the dross by adding salt into the molten aluminum! The heat is enough to melt it with the aluminum. The salt acts as a sort of flux and you will come out with a larger yield of usable metal.
Thank you. And you speak clearly as well.
I am considering adding value to my scrap by smelting.
Nice preparation and safe technique. Liked and subscribed,
That ingot set up is cool
I'm not real sure but I think that by adding Borax o to your molten Doss it will separate the doss from the good aluminum. Happy smelting and be safe.
Building a frame from scrap lumber to hold a broom stick, then winding the wire onto the broomstick would possibly save labor of cutting it and feeding the wire scrap into the furnace.
Super! I really like Your equipment :)
Nice texture pack mate also that’s weird looking iron ore
Can't wait to see next video you have in store for us.
The high percentage of dross is caused by the exposed metal creating oxide as it heats before it melts.
So to get less dross simply start with a small puddle of metal then feed in. Start with an ingot left over from a previous melt.
When its a molten puddle then start feeding new metal in (prewarm it first by resting on lid but not too hot).
Purpose of prewarm is twofold. 1. any water escapes as steam preventing pops and xplosions. 2. if you put a lot of cold metal in then surface freezes with moltem metal underneath - which expands - explosion time again (unlikely but there you are).
When feeding in metal - feed each piece in quickly until melted. Then next piece. This way the metal melts into eth pool as fast as possible and does not 'burn' creating dross.
Do not start with a pile of old alu that slowly melts into a puddle. most will be dross.
This effect is most visble when melting cans. feed then in one at a time = much less dross. Takes longer though...
Beautiful Slavic man 😍
Great Work!
Very enjoyable video
Man that was only 55lbs? It looked like way more than that to me.
I love your furnace. That’s about the size I want. I haven’t figured out the best place to buy this stuff but I’m learning. I’ve built a few smaller furnaces but none of them have been very durable and they didn’t last very long.
Great vid bro and thanks for sharing. I’d appreciate any advice to get me started with a bigger better furnace. And oh yeah, you don’t need any music dude. I liked hear the real sounds better than some dumb music. Lol
très bonne idée les moules basculants !
fine job MP.would love to see you make something that isn't a weapon ....
This set up is awesome 😎😎 minimal bending over I'm 6foot.2inchs. i love the mold set up perfect
Awesome video man, you should make copper ingots next!
wow love your mold😀
Hey awesome videos! Where are you doing this work? Looks like an abandoned building.
Love these kinds of videos, please more. Maby some vids of where you scavenge them from
thank for sharing bro .... i'm learn a lot from this video .....
So... 12 approximately 2kg ingots and one around 0.5kg? Very good melt, i like the way you have your molds set up.. i will have to try that when i get a furnace.
The cheapest uninsulated Aluminum wire, if you sold it on ebay or Amazon, is worth three times (3x) more than you could get at even the most generous scrap yard (and that wire was probably worth 'substantially' much, much more). The amount of work put into making Aluminum into wire probably blew away any environmental 'good' that you could have possibly done by recycling it. As a 'scrapper' its good to understand when it pays to send materials to a scrap yard versus reselling it directly to the end user. You could have sold it at a bargain price to someone who would use it in its current state and made a shitton more tan you made by scrapping it. (But since you used propane to melt it I would hazard a guess that making money in your operation is not your primary goal). Nevertheless the video is produced very well and liquid Aluminum is quite beautiful.
best video ever.
i love this video so much
I like your videos, keep it up.
Oh and not having music is a plus.
Hey MP I just built my latest furnace and it’s about half the size of the one you are using in this vid. I used refrac cement only. Is fire brick better than pure refrac cement? Does it hold and maintain heat better or is refractory cement just as good?
I bought a roll of 4 inch thick ceramic blanket but couldn’t use it in this furnace because I didn’t make the chamber big enough to allow for it. Is ceramic blanket better than refrac cement. Sorry for asking too many questions.
The little furnace I’ve got right now isn’t a Fire Breathing Dragon by any stretch but it eats cans as fast as I can put them in. I would like to know what the best materials are for my next furnace because each one that I build gets a little better than the last.
Thank you for any help/advice you or other viewers can give on this.
great to watch ,ive loads to melt down will use my forge.but where do you get the melting and pouring jug from please .
really satisfying
Melted aluminum just looks awesome lol.
I work in a aluminum plant,we pour 35,000 pound ingots using water forms... you mixed in a lot of different alloys...
Thank you especially for using NO Musik!
Very good video well done thanks
Cool video keep up the good work