Casting of Aluminium Ingots with Homemade Tongs and a Graphite Clay Crucible
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2016
- Hey guys! So far classes at Penn State Behrend are going pretty well. I've joined SAE supermileage club and a few other clubs. I have also checked out the Erie Makerspace. It's small and doesn't have half the tools HackPGH does however it still kinda has a home away from home feel to it. I will do my best to continue congealing videos together for you all. I might do a live stream sometime. Anyone interested in that? Thank you guys for sticking around! I've got lots of cool videos backed up in the pipeline that I recorded over the summer. I just need more time to edit them... Also let me know whether you like the music by voting in the poll. Click the little ⓘ cards icon in top right hand corner of the video or by posting a comment. If you guys want me to use a little more background music then I will try to find a friend who will make me some original tracks. I don't want to use all the overused junk that UA-cam provides through creative commons.
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I don't know who would dislike this video it's a very well made video it looks like Makerj101 did take his time and didn't rush the video and it really does make me want to try melting more than just lead and reusing bullet lead to make my own bullets.
You inspire me. Ambient music is nice. Thanks for the Great videos!
Cool! Thank you!
Cody, you remind me of myself when I melted aluminum in high school shop in the mid '70's.
Keep up the good work and keep learning, and have fun! Bavarian Machinist.
+Christopher Ruble Cody? I also watch Cody's lab. But this isn't Cody's lab. I'm Joachim! Glad you enjoyed it!
Can't wait to see you turn these.
I like your style of video with the music and the wheel borrow shot
Thank you! To be honest I'm kinda nabbing some of the style from the Wranglerstar. I like Cody's style of videos.
No flux given. Nice video man. Yeah I liked the music scene. Artsy
Hahaha Thank you!
There's no better music then then sound of a crackling fire.
just something cool about melting stuff lol
evening shot is great
Yeah! It did turn out pretty nice! Thanks!
I liked how you did not put music in the video, to me the music just gets in the way most of the time. Thanks for the upload.
I liked the use of music in the video, definitely should use it in future videos. Also cool Zippo trick.
Thank you!
thats a pretty smart idea for the crucible tongs
saw you at maker faire pittsburgh today. this channel is amazing.
3rd like, I love your videos bro!! Really helping with a school history project, I'm casting a medieval sword out of aluminium using a plastic medieval sword and green sand. I watched your other tutorial on green sand. Thx for the help!
I was planning to do that with a big claymore with a steel blade tip and steel rod reinforcements.nothin like swinging a giant sword that's actually practicle in combat nice and light.
Thank you! Cool! I'm glad it's helping you out! Let me know how it turns out! Post a video of the casting and such!
That's cool man nice work!
Great vid dude.
Thank you!
Great video!
Thank you!
"The second batch I did no fucks"
LOL it does kinda sound like I said that hahahha
can we see mor of your engine plees
Red hot ingots in the dark, awesome. :))
Good video. I would suggest making a sliding cover for your handles to lock them down might make it easier to work with.
I've been thinking about that. I haven't figured out exactly what I want to do for a lock yet. I think a loop of wire would work. But I kinda want to do something more fancy hahaha
FINALLY another video!!!!
Yuuuuupppppppp :D
Really great crucible tongs! But it occurs to me, with a sliding ring, you could make them locking. Really interesting channel. Thanks
have you ever thought about redoing some of your internal combustion engine with aluminum parts instead of copper? i don't really know if there is much thermal difference between copper and aluminum. but if there is it would do well as a cylinder wall and water jacket combo when you finally do the cooling so it will keep compression and actually run for more than a few minutes
nicely done
Great job.
Thank you!
great video as always, the amount of music is fine. i dont come here to listen to top 40. the only issue i have with your videos is the time between them. i know you are busy, keep up the good work
great video man! keep it up!
Great video! Yesterday my brother and I melted a bunch of lead we have collected from various things into an Ingot. We plan to make a Lead Pig to store radioactive materials.
Thank you! Cool! Let me know how that turns out! I should also make a lead pig for all my radioactive samples! What types of radioactive samples do you have?
Makerj101 We don't have any yet, but we plan on taking apart smoke alarms to get Americium and go Uranium ore hunting soon!
Cool! I have lots of uranium glass. Maybe I could send you a piece if you'd like.
Makerj101 Thats kind of you, but no thanks :)
No problem! This is the glass that I'm talking about. ua-cam.com/video/TeV4R9KOUWg/v-deo.html
haha the metal muffin man (M3) strikes again! :D
great vid, i missed you, gd luck
good stuff man!
Thank you!
I've enjoyed U R vids for a long time and have found them very informative. Now - is there a chem test for zinc vs alum. Tnks keep it up.
Cheers!
i cant believe you stuck your hand in that fire to put the crucible in hahah
Very good. What are you planning on doing with the cast pieces?
I use old car pistons for good quality aluminum, ( usually free from repair shops) Also old transmission cases.
I enjoyed the music along with the set up process very much. Keep at it!
More like "Casting Aluminum Muffins."
Fuck it: just play some jams!
Great JOB on the video, budd!
Hey young man just a little advice! you see all those dry leaves around you! they are great to start a fire and not for anything but it also helps to clean the area you are working in. I only hope you had a fire extinguisher or water near by. SAFETY FIRST! YOU NEVER KNOW! #SMOKEYBEAR
Nice vid :)
I calculated once that it was cheaper to make washing soda from baking soda than it is to buy it. Just bake it at like 400 degrees or so for an hour and it decomposes into washing soda. I use it to make film developer.
Interesting. I did not know you could convert them like that. I'd think the cost difference between the two is pretty trivial though. Unless you need a lot.
did you ever turn the different casting to see the effect of the different fluxing?
Nice vid btw
If you have any spare convection ovens or spare toaster ovens, you can use their heating coils to melt aluminum.
Yes i could! I rather burn stuff than use electric though. Just my personal opinion. When I make a nice metal melter I'm going to make it propane powered so I can take it anywhere without worrying about whether there will be enough electrical power to use it.
While true, you could do that, just trying to offer a solution to your carbon contamination issue from the coal burning.
You've actually given me a really good idea. I wonder how well a toaster oven heating element would work. Cause like everyone can get that kinda heating element easily and if that can be used to melt aluminium then it would open up aluminium casting to a lot more people. Now I gotta try this some time! Thank you for inspiring the idea!
Anything to help out! Its going to take a little bit of know it on wiring and a different design, but if anyone can do it, its you man!
Bay-sickly
So what do you do with the aluminum once it's in ingot form, art project of some kind, take in to the recycling bin or something else?
Mrbandit81 mostly just keep it for projects or whatever
How did it go getting or keeping the crucible clean? At the end when you pan over the crucible, it did look very clean inside :-)
+patchpaddy while the crucible is still hot right after I pour the aluminum out I scrape it out real good with an old spoon. Works pretty good. Bought the crucible on Amazon for around $50.
Is that coal you are using in the fire? And where are you located? If in the southern states or the midwest, hedge wood, black locust, and mulberry woods will burn as hot or even hotter (thus using less fuel to smelt the metals) than coal. (I know about hedge as I made my wood stove "dance" using it!).
YES A NEW FRIKIN VIDEO! ≧ω≦
YUUUUUPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!! XD
Lol
glad your back
I'm glad to be back!
Have you ever tried sooting molds to keep them from sticking? Soot is a pretty good flux.
You should make a jet engine. Seriously people have made tin can jet engines that work so you should have a go!
also engine blocks are a very good source of metal for good castings you need some Silicon in the metal
Thumbs up :)
Thanks!
Makerj101 👍👍
Man i miss these videos.
I'm young and I want to get in to aluminum casting but I don't know how to get started can you give me some tips to get started and ps love your videos
+Tyler B a pile of bricks, or a hole in the ground works pretty good. Then use lump charcoal for fuel and a hair dryer for air. Bottom of an empty propane tank works well for a crucible. I have a video about cutting then open without exploding yourself. Fire extinguishers lounge Grant Thompson used are too rare. Pretty much have fun and experiment. It's not as dangerous as everyone says it is. Be careful and use common sense.
Im old ,,, and think ill do the same thing ...😎👍
I'm sure someone asked before, maybe even me, but what is the degassing for?
lol 3:08 looks like the over the wall scene from 28 Days Later!
if you make the pouring handle vertical and hold it a certain way it should make it easier to pour stuff
What was the results of degassing? Would you do it again? if so , why?
teach me the ways senpai
Haha
Good video! I see that you mention MyFordBoy quite a bit. I have been following his videos for quite a while. He is great! He is such a skilled individual. I wonder for your crucible lifter if you added a handle that stuck straight up from the one that you have now to help you with leverage to dump it. One hand would do most of the holding and it would pivot in that hand while the other hand would supply the dumping/rotating motion on the added 12 inch handle. Know what I mean?
Yeah I think I know what you mean. Kinda like how this one has a bar sticking down to give you more leverage/raise the center of gravity? The other thing I could do is put more of a bend in the handle to make the center of gravity more centered.
Here's the one with the bar that I was talking about www.modelflying.co.uk/sites/3/images/member_albums/114346/613877.jpg
Ya that is the sort of thing I was thinking.
I have a furnace like yours and it melts brass or aluminum I use dry hard wood for it.
Heeeeeey where'd you get that crucible lifter-majig? The crucible holder, picker-upper thing?
Oh you made it. Could you make a video on how to make one of those?
+Lordhermitcrab yep, I made them. And good news for you! I already did a video on how to make them. Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/n8OMMHk1yXQ/v-deo.html
That carbon from the coal is a good thing. You wont need to flux the liquid metal for impurities as much or at all because of the carbon the coal put into the aluminum.
Just wondering if you have the results from the flux / no flux experiment? cheers Makerj101
You do warm the tin over the fire before pouring right? Bad idea to pour molten metal into cold metal.
+logandh2 No I do not warm them. I don't see any problem with pouring hot metal into a cold mold. If I was using a cast iron mold then it might crack from the shock. That's the only problem I could see. What are you thoughts on why it is a bad idea?
+Makerj101 Its not so much the cold, though that does play a part, if there is any moisture on the surface of your mold then it will erupt into steam in contact and potentially cause an explosion of liquid metal due to the steam pushing it back out in an effort to escape. To avoid this you really should consider place your molds over the flame for a little while before pouring to really ensure that they're dry, just wiping them down won't necessarily do the trick. Trust me, you don't want liquid hot metal blown in your face
I'm glad you stopped melting aluminum on your shop table. That always seemed a little on the dangerous side.
You were burning bituminous coal right? I'd suggest trying anthracite coal, it might be a bit more expensive but it burns hotter and much cleaner that bituminous
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Yes I was! IDK where I'd get anthracite coal. I have access to free bituminous coal in my back yard so I'd rather just keep using that even though it's messy.
A little bit of music goes a long way. What you used in this video with the low volume, was good.
Yea you should use more music in your vids. Theyre good either way.
I always called them metal muffins ; )
What was the degaser???? I've Ben useing just borax
Very naic
you should try to file the ingots so the cristalation doesn't get in your way
I'll be cutting them in half and then polishing them in a future video if that is what you mean.
yes perfect :D
what do you do with your aluminum cakes?
hey brother word of advice take all that slag and break it into pieces small enough to fit into your crucible and get it up to aluminum melting temps theres alot of aluminum still attached to the slag and you can get alot of it to pour out
+Lizzy & Owen Quinn I could. Not worth it tho. I always take the slag and aluminum mixture to the scrap yard and get money for it lol :D
Makerj101 lol true
add magnesium and silica powdered play sand in ball mill then put with borax. if u use sodium carbonate it adds carbon (carbon)ate
Interesting. Sounds like it would help. Where do you find information like this? Thank you!
+Makerj101 where do I learn this stuff well the ball mill I learned from cody's lab and the other knowledge from wikipedia and if u can't find it there I check on google pattents and msds sheets online that can hold secret ingrediants. Ingrediants that can be made if you decifer the latin name and go strait to the periodic table. No collage needed LOL!
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excellent vid. I think you would have more control pouring (and not have it be so awkward) if you raised up the platform the muffin tin is on....so you arent bending over and trying to control the stream of aluminium from so high up. probably worth trying, if you haven't already.
I always forget you're in your 20s xD your voice doesn't match your body. Regardless, I still love your videos ;0
I'm gonna be 21 in half a month! :D Thank you!
@@makerj101 wait what? I thought you were around 17, max!
i did enjoy the zippo trick but great video without it too :D
Should add a locking clips on the jaws so u can hold it out farther
IS IT OKAY TO USE SODIUM BICARBONATE AS FLUX??
That microwave is filthy son. That tool looks to cumbersome to be effective. Looks to be a wrist killer.
cool video +1 sub
I like the music in this vid around 3 mins.
it already is pretty over-used IMO
I like the song too but yeah it is over used way too much. That's cause I just grabbed it from UA-cam's creative commons. Same CC music everyone else has access to. I want to try and higher a friend with some musical talents to make me some music.
Makerj101 good idea to have your own music, like Cody'sLab do for example
I just need to find someone who is at least a little musically talented and wants to make a few dollars. (I'm not musically inclined at all so that kinda eliminates the option of making my own music.)
Cody'sLab is my fav UA-cam channel! XD
make future videos in this style!
I'll try! Thank you!
@@makerj101 you are really superb youth . Lots of wishes for success. From India .
How long has one muffin pan lasted for you?
I've poured aluminium in this muffin tin at least 20 times. It'll last a long time
i sure it will, cool video!
Ever think of going with propane?
YES!!! That'd be wayyyyyy faster and easier and cleaner and safer and just lotttttssss better. I just need time to make one.
I bought a high pressure LPG regulator and adapted it to the Grant Thompson propane jet it was very easy and works great
is the type of regulator that use for jet cookers and fryers not the type for gas grills
One of the ones with a variable pressure? Can you send me a link to where I can buy one? Thank you!
I'm looking at them on eBay right now. Looks like most of them are 10psi but there are some that go 0-60psi and others that are 0-30psi. How much pressure do I need? Thank you so much!
Are you ever going to revisit that concrete basement room thing again?
+William Laidlaww maybe eventually
It would be cool to see inside it without it being floode
+William Laidlaww I'll see what I can do this summer
awesome!
36 gigabytes of footage?! Wow, did you have the camera on the whole day?
Nope! Not all day! That new camera I got, the Sony a6000 does some amazing Full HD at 60FPS which is my stranded now. The bit rate is 50mbps which means it takes takes about 1 GB to record 3 minutes of footage. So around 100 minutes via the maths. In reality it is more like 70 min of footage. The final file that I uploaded was 8.7GB. Took around 10 hours to upload. Uggggghhhhh I hate slow internet. Thank you Time Warner Cable. Very timely. Very timely.
Makerj101 Wow, 1GB for only 3 minutes of footage! And that really is slow Internet speed! My connection would take ~4 hrs to upload 9GB, and I thought that was slow! Well, thanks for going through all that to upload this video, I really appreciate it!
+A. Zak that's not too slow. I could go up to Penn state and use there really fast internet but then I'd have to sit there while it uploads and log onto the school computer with my UA-cam account. They have 500mbps up down on the school desktops. The WiFi is so slow tho. It's just easier to set it up and let it uploaded while I'm sleeping. My internet is 20 down 2.5mbps up. I'm so spoiled from the fiber optic that I had back in Pittsburgh. What internet provider do you have? I've got Time Warner Cable.
+Eman2000 what internet provider do you have? Do you have DSL? seems rather slow. I go though all the work and time to process this high quality footage so I wouldn't want to take the chance of down grading it any. Plus I highly doubt that software would support the special Sony XAVC-S format that I use. I could always render it in a smaller and lower quality format like MP4. But again, I want to give UA-cam the highest possible quality to work with so my videos look just a little better. I don't know how much of a difference it really makes. It's just my obsession hahaha
I've got Cox Cable Internet, currently at 32 mbps down, 17mbps up.
Problems with the ingots falling out. I think that is because of the coating sticking to the ingot. I had the aluminium very hot when I tried it for the first time with a coal furnace and the coating exploded into flames. Nothing to dramatic but that coating was gone and the ingot fell out with out me trying. The second time i was casting with a torch and decided to try the ingot mold since i had it then it wasn't as hot and it stuck. I ended up heating it up from behind for a while but it came out after 10 min. The main issue i have is the crucible. I lost like 3 KG of aluminium because of bad crucible. I got my shit together now and i will order a crucible soon. But anyway like the new style/music .
I think you are right. Probably the coating melting and gluing the ingots in. Yeah I lost a full propane tank of my best aluminium right into my coal forge. It clogged up the whole air supply pipe and made a huge unusable artwork of coal and aluminium. That's what caused me to invest in a real crucible because it p@#$ me off a lot. Thank you! I will try finding some more original music.
hey mate were you been i like your videos but only just subscribed. just wanted to know if anything has happened because your videos are great and i would realy like to see some new one :D hope all is okay and your all okay
Awesome video.... In my opinion music is just enough, don't add more.... zippo trick was cool
hey bud I'm new to ur channel could you make a an ingot I'm just a kid with serious leg problems
Your pouring would be much easier if the crucible was centered on the handles axis, or at least much closer.
Try melting copper
That's on my list of things to do! Brass and bronze are other metals I really want to cast.
@@makerj101 I have cast brass bell and it sounds great Its about 5 inches wide at the bottom.I use bentinite from Southern states store. and play sand
try making a v-twin engine like a small harley
I'd love to!
We live close to each other I live by Erie
why not try a natural gas powered forge? more even heat with greater control over the heat