DIY Metal Casting Sand from Kitty Litter - Green Sand
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2017
- Homemade green sand for metal casting. Recipe: bentonite clay from ground kitty litter, 10% by weight. 90% fine sand by weight. Mix dry and then add water while mixing until it holds it's shape when pressed together. If it sticks to your hands then it is too wet. This stuff is great for casting most metals including, aluminum, brass, copper, and bronze. Not sure about others as I have not tried them.
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I am just on the verge of doing some casting so this is great timing, thanks for posting!
Thank you for this video. I have waited for this!!!
That stirrer is a weapon,good job.
Glad that green sand is this simple. I live in the country and our local hardware store has powder bentonite in 40 lb. bags, so that should be simple enough. They actually mine it in the black hills about 100 miles from where I live and train cars of it go by every week. I believe that back in the 80's several bentonite cars derailed at our neighbors and they just dug a hole and berried it.
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Thank you for posting this!
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I made green sand for my casts, bought the bentonite in a 10lbs bag on Amazon. Still had to strain the play sand I used but no grinding. Need me a stir stick like that!
Very interesting system you have.I think I will try a blender. Great information and a very good video. You got my sub.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏
You remind me of myself when I was that age.My parents tried to discourage me from some of my experiments but in the end, they just gave up!They must have been worried all of the time.Be careful!
very nice job.
1: You can find #5 bags of bentonite powder on ebay for around $25, and many sellers don't charge shipping either. 2: Green sand is made with oil, not water. Reason being: water will without fail evaporate, leaving your sand a useless solid mass until you bust it up, mull it again and rehydrate it. Even in a sealed bucket, the sand will still evaporate. Oil keeps the sand at a set consistency and will not evaporate which prevents many hours of work at a future date. Oh and green sand will cast any metal that you can melt.
I can’t believe no one has corrected your comment. Green sand is made with water sand and clay. Oil bonded sand is not green sand.
You're thinking of petrobond sand not green sand
Very good video.
I already mixed some with my and that isn't ground. It started absorbing the oil, I wonder if it will wear the oily outside layer away and absorb more and break down over time if I keep stirring it
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Don't use used kitty litter haha by the way nice job you did on that steam engine in the past and I'm looking to get into this new hobby myself for metal casting
Where did you find fine sand? What state do you live in? I’m in ct and have the hardest time
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try using a crushing method for the kitty litter with a bar roller
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try holding the grinder at an angle it should be led taxing on it and a bit faster
any chance u would try lost plastic casting from 3d printing
Pure bentonite clay already ground fine can be bought from pottery supply in 50 lb bags
idk if anyone knows this but if you take the kitty liter and just mix water with it and let it sit after you squish it around for awhile the clay will mix in the water than you can just pour the clay water mix into your sand instead worked for me
Can we use brick powder?
Can anyone tell me if you can use this formula with oil instead of water?
Wouldn some non flammable oil/wax mix would be better than water? Boiling water is last thing i want in my metal casting molds..
+marko Helenin wax and oil boils just as easily at this temperature. Sand is porous so the steam and gases can escape through it
Okey! In Finland we have red "green sand" it has some high temp silicon based oil that doesn't burn, Cool vid, another use for my cats bentonite, heh..
Maybe if you add 2 1/2lbs or 3lbs of clay you can pack the molds tighter, to lesson the texture of the sand? The molds would come out smoother maybe?
+Integra DIY yes, you could. However then It is not a porous so the gases can't escape as easily. You especially need places for gases to escape when doing lost foam method.
Makerj101 gotcha! Hey man check out a guy on UA-cam named Jonathan W he's making a home made replica vintage motor cycle engine, he's going to cast the engine himself. Be sure to check it out, Let me know if you like what you see
Lol true thing on cleaning the test tube, I got a sample into a beaker (after seeing your first video of you doing that) and it was a bitch to get out. (Can't imagine getting it out of a test tube)
is the green sand reusable and if so how many times can you reusable it?
Sort of a "how long is a piece of string" question, but if you keep the sand free of metal slag and dross, add a bit more water each time and the occasional amount of clay then the life span is almost limitless.
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You should go back to that old abounded crane again
He's so cute
J whats the green sand used for?
For "Green sand" casting, you pack it into a flask around a pattern, split the mold, remove the pattern, reassemble the flask, then pour molten metal into it to create a metal replica of your pattern.
It would be a lot quicker to go to,your local Farm supply depot.
Bentonite clay is use in animal feeds
Instead of milling/grinding the clay, why not just add water and mix it in with the sand....
+IMAKE I did try that. You have to add a lot of water and the clay just kinda stays in clumps. If you had a sand muller that would probably work.
ah, ok.
he said kitty litter number ones and twos lol.
Just beware that there is a difference between Play Sand and Builders Sand with Builders Sand being the finer of the two.
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