Making a Brass Sign with Sand Casting
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2023
- This video it is part of a bigger restoration video ,I bought another machine just to get the sign, it cost me $350 and I needed two of them however this section was getting too long and I thought it was a video within itself, as you can guess by now some of my projects do take a while to restore as I'm a glutton for punishment. I have purchased a smelter recently a devil's Forge and I'm going through the learning processes of using it, Casting new parts that are damaged or missing
I have been watching other UA-camrs videos for examples for learning Olfoundryman @olfoundryman8418 and Lundgren Bronze Studios @lundgrenbronzestudios .too good channels to learn sand-casting from.
Hope you enjoyed watching see you on the full restoration video coming to a entertainment device near you
#restoration #antique #asmr #sand casting
I like, what you did, try and try again, until it works as you wanted and show us all the steps. Finally results is all we get from others. 👍
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate your support and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Trying and trying again is definitely the key to success in any endeavor!
@@richardrestorations Yeah more than likely I would have thrown it in the yard a few times if it was me doing it HAHAHAHA
I loved watching it the first time you posted it, and meant to thank you for demonstrating what others don't - that what you do is hard, and not always as pretty and polished as it seems. I do think, even the failures we beautiful. Love you're work - from New York.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate your support and I'm glad that you enjoyed watching my video. It's true, creating content can be challenging but it's also rewarding to share the real and unfiltered side of things. greetings from New Zealand
Making castings is not easy.....try try again for sure . Thank you for showing us all of the castings..... this real life and things dont always go so smooth but I think you did a great job !! Cant wait to see that neat old scale !!! 👍👍
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate your support and encouragement. Making castings can be challenging, but I'm glad you think I did a great job. Stay tuned for more exciting content!
Boy, you jumped in the deep end, brass is a lot more difficult than aluminum, and long thin pieces like that are more difficult to make fill than thicker shapes. Good job persisting and getting it figured out!
I appreciate your support and encouragement! It means a lot to me. I'll keep pushing myself to take on more difficult projects.
That was entertaining.
Well, I try my best to keep you entertained. Glad I succeeded!
Great job I could tell by your pour what one come out right LOL Only from watching others doing it, I'm 100% sure I would have done worst than you did for sure!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Great job working through it and getting it right without giving up!!!!
Everyone likes to tell others what they did wrong even when they haven't done it themselves!!!!!!!
Haha, I'm glad my pour turned out right! It's always a challenge, but hey, at least it wasn't a complete disaster, right? Thanks for watching and laughing along!😜
still on top of it way to go mate
thanks pete 😀
Definitely not setting yourself up for an "easy win" casting such a long and thin part. Casting metal can be finicky at the best of times, and this part has so little volume and so much fine detail that the metal needs to settle into before it starts to solidify.
Big thumbs up for showing that things are not always as easy as some like to make it appear.
Casting this part was a real test of my metal (pun intended). It required patience, precision, and a whole lot of trial and error. But hey, who doesn't love a good challenge, right?
@@richardrestorations Damn right.
On the bright side: When casting your material is at least (near-) infinitely recyclable. Didn't work the first or the second or the tenth time, well back in the furnace for another go. And your local propane supplier will love you, harhar.
It seems like a lot of guys keep a styrofoam spacer in the sand and the molten metal evaporates the styrofoam. The benefit of doing that in casting is that it keeps the sand in shape and allows the metal to fill in the space entirely. I suggest you look into that!
Thanks for sharing I will look into the future ,but I was reproducing a product that was already existing, and I was aware that it would be difficult because it was so thin, I probably should have shown that I 3D printed four different Gates systems that I made for it, but the video so getting long that I realized I couldn't insert it into the main video which I'm still working on😃
@@richardrestorations Gotcha. Maybe then more pour tunnels were needed to provide more access points for the molten metal? It was interesting to watch though, great video!
@@mikel1199 I had 8 in the end
@@richardrestorations Another idea I had was to make the sign thicker and then cut it down to the desired thickness. That's an idea for next time!
Thank you for the video. I know it is popular for most content creator's not to show a mistake, but you did and even though l would never do this (smelting, l think it is called) l do enjoy learning about it. My only request is you explain what the problems were. I do have to admit it was interesting trying to figure out where you went wrong each time....lol
Anyways love the videos and your work look forward to seeing more.
Hey, thanks for the love! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and had fun trying to figure out where I went wrong. Smelting can be a bit of a challenge, but hey, we learn from our mistakes, right? I'll definitely explain the problems in future videos, so you can learn even more. Keep watching and stay awesome!
I know absolutely nothing about casting.
That said, could it be that your metal was cooling down too fast?
I would love to read about what you have learned.
The metal was very thin I didn't show it on the video but I had changed my openings or Gates from two to eight you can find it in the last casting you can see there is eight gates for the metal to get into the sign, from emails from other metal casters there were thankful they didn't have to try and do it but it was an interesting experiment that took me two weeks of trying three bottles of LPG and 4kgs of brass, I think in total this about 16 attempts, I have total respect for the original fabricators of this masterpiece from 1909, thanks for watching and you comments