Melting Brass in Charcoal Foundry Forge, 5lb Ingot from Bullet Shells Casings, Aluminum Casting Pt 5
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2016
- Part 5: Casting a shiny beautiful round 5 lb brass ingot form spent bullet shell casings in my Large $50 Mini Homemade Metal Foundry Furnace Forge propane or charcoal DIY.
Thank You to all that Continue to Follow me on this journey! ...Look back at previous videos to see How I made my large mini home foundry forge to melt Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Silver, & Gold... and to forge Iron & Steel.
This design allows for use with charcoal or later adding a propane burner torch to make it gas powered.
*PART 1 Foundry • How to make a Large $5...
*PART 2 Lid & Blower • How to make a Large $5...
*PART 3 Crucible Tongs • How to make a Large $5...
*PART 4 First Firing Aluminum Casting • Large $50 Mini Homemad...
I made my blower air intake on the bottom to maximize efficiency and even heat distribution. (would be best to use a hair dryer so you can lower the amount of air)
How to make a Large $50 Mini Homemade Metal Foundry Furnace Forge propane or charcoal DIY
$28 Professional A6 Clay Graphite Crucible
$18 Plaster of Paris (2 gallons)
$ 4 Bag Of Perlite
FREE Play Sand (from sandbox)
FREE Air intake tube (old recycled car intake)
FREE 2x Plastic Planter Pots
FREE Recycled Blower Motor
Plaster of Paris begins to cure as soon as you mix the water in it, hardening to an unworkable state in 3 minutes to as little as just 30 seconds, so plan ahead and Do Not mix more then you can evenly mix and pure in a few minutes!
The extreme high heat associated with and risk of severe burns makes this extremely dangerous. Attempt at your Own risk!
I am not a professional, just a hobbyist.
Final Thoughts: If planning on using the backyard foundry heavily I would opt for refractory cement, clay, Kaowool, or other ceramic fiber insulation, in order to promote heat retention and longevity but if just looking to try out and do only a few melts then this mix will suffice.
Goodluck & God Bless! - Наука та технологія
Thanks for posting this video. It’s the most realistic casting video I’ve seen. It was cringy, funny, and informative at the same time. It was great!
Haha lol thanks for the support for my amateur attempt at a backyard foundry
A couple tips, if you don't mind: Wear heavy gloves - don't pull your crucible out of the charcoal to replenish it - Drop your replenishment right down thru the hole in the brake rotor - Don't use a PLASTIC bucket for your forge (but you already knew that).
lebomm johnson I’m no expert but if the charcoal got into the crucible could it add a hardening/brittle effect like with iron or steel?
I wanted to see you make the homemade cymbal for your drumset, it's a shame that the lid broke and let the heat out.
There are these women in Ethiopia who make traditional jewelry from bullet shell brass that they just find.
The beauty of war
Wondering how many reloaders are cringing
there would be a lot more of them cringing if they knew about the 3,500 lbs of brass shell casings we bring to the scrap yard every month from the gun range just to be shipped to china to be melted down.
Did you just get these from a range? If so how willing were they to just let you go pick the casings?
Could be an unmanned range like the one I collect casings at. I pick up shells and resize them to 8mm mauser.
I also load for the 8x57 getting hard to find the cases cheap now days
@@LivingTheGoodLife Hey can we have a couple it would be greatly appreciated we are trying to do this.
The brass bits in the pan look like fucking scrambled eggs LOL
Kinda Smelled like it too haha
Kaowool and some refractory cement would be your lightest and better option.. You can cover part of the intake on your blower to adjust the air flow to slow it down on startup and open it later to get the final melt..
Better to run your blower pipe in the side at an angle to swirl the heat around the crucible.
Easy to build a propane burner. Same setup you have with the blower,,, just get a tank and regulator and a copper line or brake line to inject the propane at least 6" from the furnace.. 12" better to allow the air/propane to fully mix before entry.. You don't need any mig tips or special size orifice.. easy to play with and get a good test burn.. Keep the volume low to begin with.. As the forge heats up, it will burn much better.. Try to get the swirl action around the crucible.. will melt quicker and better use of the heat... You are getting plenty of heat.. I can't tell for sure, but, looks like your brass was melted.. Remember. You also have metal primer, wadding, lots and lots of ashes from the coal, etc.. The brass is thin, and not a lot of it.. Clear out the dross and the brass will be there.. I forget what kind of flux to use, but, I think Borax is correct for brass...
Look into Green Sand for your moulds.. Just for Ingots, you can use Capped angle Iron pieces to pour your excess into..
Just a few thoughts on your project.. Keep working at it.. Your mix didn't have much of a chance with more than a hair dryer blower.. Just enough to melt the aluminum.. You are getting pretty hot in there with the volume of air..
Cheers..
I like the water on the pan that was a cool effect. “they don’t make frying pans like they used to” 😂 From what I’ve heard the charcoal you want to use is lump charcoal made from whole wood, the charcoal briquettes have a lot of sand and filler in them. Also you need some flux on that brass. I had a similar thing happen with aluminum bronze. It’s tricky.
Have you even had any issues with left over gun powder or anything like that in the brass casings?
That powder is from to much heat you separate the tin from copper it's no longer brass
Not sure what to think🤔🙄🥱😂🥺. One thing is your very persistent and imaginative. I'm sure by now you been overloaded with positive comments as well as negative. Your learning and trying different techniques. I love the disc brake idea. I'm starting to learn about smithing work just for a hobby and I'm glad I found your video. It gives me ideas on what to do and not what to do. Don't see how you didn't scotch the hair off your arms. When work becomes a headache and a disappointment you resort to playing, loved it. I wish I knew you, you'd be a hoot to work with and just to hang with. I'm not sure of your age but I know I'm much older than you, but if younger folks would try something new like this and stop playing videogames or protesting this would be such a better place. My hats off to you and I'll give you a five 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 rating.
Hey Mark, Im glad you were entertained & learned from my video. It was my first time trying it and I thought I would make this video showing what an amateur's, first attempt looks like. Thank you for watching & Subscribing to my channel!
fucking hilarious, careful though boys, i know this was a year ago, hope youre all still alive :DX will watch a few more vids! thanks
Ooops ! Guess I should watch the whole vid B4 giving advice. Sorry, just tryin' to help.
I'd knock those struck primers out those cases first. they all still have some explosive left in them especially the rimfire cases. plus you'd think that would also increase the purity of the final product.
I left the primers in and it did not cause any explosions, most likely because they were already spent.. just make sure not to use any live bullets. Also if you scoop out the slag it kind go purifies it.
Good luck with your project, Thank you for watching & Subscribing!
Good small horn on the coals
Did you ever think that aluminum has a lower melting point then the metal that you’re trying to melt?
how long does it take to melt brass?
It depends on how hot you can get the foundry/crucible... It took me extra long because I was using standard BBQ charcoal briquettes and not raw charcoal which burns hotter, or even better use propane.
Also my lid cracked so I had to improvise and I was loosing a lot of heat from there. Thank you for watching and subscribing!
3:30 buckets just melting away lol
green flame is the copper burning if its blue its the zink inside the brass burning
those are cartridge cases not bullet shell cases!
Quit opening the lid dummy so then it will melt correctly because cooling it too quick will make go into shock and powder up...
This was frustrating to watch. Interesting, and worth the time, but frustrating. Not alot of people try melting brass, so I appreciate the effort. Still, every time he did something that made me face-palm, I was thinking "Is this guy trolling us?"
9:44 leidenfrost effect
What?
@@phoenixray7345 drop of liquid floating ontop of a surface.. and is held up by it's own vapour
i need help...my charcoal in the foundry is not burning ..i also dont have propane torch so HOW TO LIT CHARCOAL IN MY FURNACE
techno id
I like to make a small wood fire outside the furnace first and add some charcoal to it so it's open to more oxygen to burn. Once they get red I shovel the hot coals out with a little garden spade and transfer them into the furnace. The spade helps a lot reloading more charcoal around the crucible too so you don't burn your hands, whether it's briquettes or homemade lump charcoal. But the lump charcoal tends to give off more sparks depending on the wood its from.
use gloves so you don't hurt yourself
okay if it wont melt then use the black oil coals i dont know the name but the coals are Mde from the trash products that is left after making diesel and gasoline do anyone of you know the correct name of them? in danish it's called energi koks. energi= energy and i dont know what koks is
They sell regular medium to large raw coal/charcoal pieces that burn hotter.. I was using the preformed charcoal briquettes made from dust that are specially formulated to burn slower and at lower temperature for BBQ grills.
Painful to watch.
man, you need more practice
this was my very first attempt
LivingTheGoodLife ok, for that not so bad. but show more respect. melted metal is really without mercy, when you pour it on your skin
Hahahaha what a careless video dude you dont have the right things to used for you're job ,all in all its a good try