While a wood fired foundry does sound cool, electricity is so cheap here that it basically costs me a nickel to run my electric furnace and melt aluminum. Supposedly can do copper and bronze and all that too, but I'm mostly into melting down heating trays and curtain rods. Still, good melting, however you can do it.
I built a propane furnace a few years back, done over 300 melts and still going strong. Looking forward to seeing how the wood powered one goes. Well done on 60,000 subs, well deserved. The videos are approaching the flawless quality of those welds.
Stephen's video is still as great as ever! I'm really happy to see you using Arccaptain‘s’ welder to make such a great stove, the welds are so beautiful! The pulse so great! Looking forward to seeing the final product! If you guys have any suggestions, I'm here, ready to listen and assist.
Keep doing what you’ve always been doing. Making great content, from bloopers to wowing us. That’s what makes your videos awesome and I look forward to seeing many more.😊
I am a novice welder & maker (I use scrap steel when I can get it, to keep the costs down) and love your videos. They've inspired me to try a couple of rocket stove builds, with some success. I very much enjoy the building process. I'd love to learn TIG as it would open up so many more 'making' possibilities for me. I shall keep all of my appendages crossed & hope that I can win my very own TIG!! 😊😊
Very nice work, and those welds! I need to go practice. Great tip on the 'MIG-TIG' weld. I wish you told us the pulse parameters you're using too. Thanks for the enjoyable video!
Hello Steve, thanks for another great video, I loved the TIG welding and how pulse makes such an amazing difference to the finish. I would love to have a fully adajusable TIG welder to try out those great functions.
I was surprised at the lack of ring in the anvil - I didn't think tight chains would dampen it to that extent. A "hand forged" anvil is pretty special. Congratulations on your wise choice of extended relatives. I have my father-in-law's old hand blacksmithed bale hook - I currently have no use for it, but it is a one of a kind thing of beauty (1 handle between 2 hooks)
16:56 gave me flashbacks. I spent years working out in the desert, and I had to do more than a few things at night, because some ringer had broken something we needed next morning. You'd be almost finished a perfect weld and ZAP! A moth (or its combusted remains) were now embedded in the weld. That smell never leaves you
Its always great to watch you weld and I always pick up a little tip or technique that always helps. I've been following you for a few years and honestly love your content. I also make the same comment when working with wood 😂 keep it up and 100K will come in no time!
I'm just starting out in my journey into MIG welding and your craftsmanship is extremely inspiring. Keep the vids and welding tips coming, not to mention the new projects 👍
I have made a couple rocket stoves with my kids over the years inspired by your videos, only ever with a stick welder. i would love to learn tig welding one day. Congrats on the 60K and keep up the good work.
Excellent tips for tig. I was a certified sheet metal fabricator years ago. Never liked cranking out parts in an ugly, loud, cold factory, but I've been thinking of welding for my own projects. I was taught to tig by carefully, steadily wiggling the rod through my fingers, but I have to admit I've never seen anyone else do it that way. Welding jobs offered half a McDonald's wage, so I moved on to work for more humane wages.well done
Amazing skills and educational format. I will leave the give-a-way opportunity to others. Thanks Steve. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother.
Yeah I recon you’re doing yourself a disservice. That thermocouple is just after the firebox. BUT you’re operating a jet engine, literally. So combustion takes time and I mean a physical duration of time and since your moving your fire down the line forcefully your burn won’t be complete at the thermocouple point. So put the thermocouple in the chamber. Also if the fuel can’t burn in time it will burn once it swirls and spreads in the furnace chamber. The extra air you needed was because the palm nuts are full of oil and that is a dense fuel but until it burns it’s just soot aka ultra fine charcoal. So you need more air. So you mentioned the draw before… well that hot burn air pushed and forced into the furnace chamber, expands and rises and sucks more air.BUT YOU’VE FIXED THE AIR SUPPLY WITH THE FAN. So it’s burning rich and FLARES out the top when superheated unburnt fuel hits oxygen rich fresh air. You need more air or less fuel. So air it is. Blow more or since it’s drawing hard then open a new air hole. Webber style as you say. FOUNDARY a place that smelts metal, makes ingots, pours molten metal into moulds (casting a brass bell, car engine blocks) FORGE is as it says, a place that forges metal. So here you don’t melt metal to liquid but heat and beat it into an item. FURNACE what you built is the device that heats the metal to forge it or smelt it. So a FOUNDARY and FORGE are a place where you have your stuff and tools to work the metal you heated to hot or molten as you require.
Congratulations on 60k subscribers. I'm happy your doing this video as I've been wondering if this would be possible. Thanks for the videos, keep up the great work.
Congrats on 60k! I would love to try the 200P TIG. I am currently limited to DC, no pulse. I was thinking how sexy stainless is, and then you played sax! Love it.
Thanks to the algorithm I’ve just found your channel. Nice bit of TIG welding you had happening - makes me want to get a TIG. Subbed and looking for part two
Interesting build, and I like the welds, pulse can get some amazing results. I just scored a free foundry furnace last week, its a big one capable of handling a 30 litre crucible and I will be firing it with waste oil as it's already setup to use a gun type burner. I am looking forward to see how this rocket foundry furnace goes when finished.
Mate have I got the solution to your draft/airflow conundrum. Liddell power station has closed and they have 2 stacks looking for homes. Give ‘em a call, you might be able to grab one. You might be able to grab a couple of buckets of electricity while yer there. 😲 🙄 Job well done. Thanks for posting.
love the sexy music at appropriate times in the video, really shows what you think of your welding which is beautiful by the way and obviously the quality of the welder. congrants on 60k
Wow! I am a home-shop welder and make cradles and bits for my dinghy sailing club. Wish I could get my welds that neat! Will try pulse - that looks awesome!
Love these video's... would love to have a welder... does it come with expert training? ;) Many of us will never have the skill you have, but we can try.
Have started on a waste oil furnace. Sourced the supplies and was about to start the build when this video came along. Now I'm going to put it off till I see your final product, cause no doubt I will get a little gem of an idea on the construction from you. Love the videos... cheers mate.
That welder seems to be a really nice machine. The tip on lay wire technique will come in handy. I tried it before but now I know what to do to make it work. Thanks.
your explanation of "why use an electric motor" makes sense and demonstrates yet again that you consider a problem /solution in detail before commencing a build.
My daughter took welding in highschool and I welded things on the farm. I have been thinking about buying a welder to see who could weld the best. I could use a welder from time to time. My daughter worked on the space station and is now working on going to the moon. She works on the earth not in space.
love the welding tips. also self-taught, literally the first thing i forced myself to do was to not lift off too soon. makes a huge difference. also my cheap welder has no pulse function, have to do it manually. not as bad as it sounds.
Stephan love your content! Love that you have an idea and do the aussie thing and give it a go! Inspired me to have a go at building a smokeless fire pit and a rocket stove! Thanks for it all keep it up!!
While a wood fired foundry does sound cool, electricity is so cheap here that it basically costs me a nickel to run my electric furnace and melt aluminum. Supposedly can do copper and bronze and all that too, but I'm mostly into melting down heating trays and curtain rods. Still, good melting, however you can do it.
Hi Derek
You have won the Arccaptain welder if you want it?
@@LittleAussieRockets Wow, super awesome. Now no excuse not to level up.
Keep on going! I really like your humor and the way you integrate family, food, chicken,.. into your videos. Very down to earth! 100k are coming..
Just keep people wowed with your craftmanship and the 100K will be a breeze.
Congrats on 60k!
LOVE the chill vibe of your videos and the fact that you explain how stuff works. Keep it up!
I built a propane furnace a few years back, done over 300 melts and still going strong. Looking forward to seeing how the wood powered one goes. Well done on 60,000 subs, well deserved. The videos are approaching the flawless quality of those welds.
Awesome work getting that 60k mate. I'm excited for the future, for you and your channel. Onward to 100k!
Stephen's video is still as great as ever! I'm really happy to see you using Arccaptain‘s’ welder to make such a great stove, the welds are so beautiful! The pulse so great! Looking forward to seeing the final product! If you guys have any suggestions, I'm here, ready to listen and assist.
Those welds are beautiful. Looking forward to the full build. Running many fuels does come with complications
Keep doing what you’ve always been doing. Making great content, from bloopers to wowing us. That’s what makes your videos awesome and I look forward to seeing many more.😊
Congratulations on making it to 60k, and thank you for all the wonderful videos. Keen to see what's next!
I am a novice welder & maker (I use scrap steel when I can get it, to keep the costs down) and love your videos. They've inspired me to try a couple of rocket stove builds, with some success. I very much enjoy the building process. I'd love to learn TIG as it would open up so many more 'making' possibilities for me. I shall keep all of my appendages crossed & hope that I can win my very own TIG!! 😊😊
Very nice work, and those welds! I need to go practice. Great tip on the 'MIG-TIG' weld. I wish you told us the pulse parameters you're using too. Thanks for the enjoyable video!
Hello Steve, thanks for another great video, I loved the TIG welding and how pulse makes such an amazing difference to the finish. I would love to have a fully adajusable TIG welder to try out those great functions.
I was surprised at the lack of ring in the anvil - I didn't think tight chains would dampen it to that extent. A "hand forged" anvil is pretty special. Congratulations on your wise choice of extended relatives. I have my father-in-law's old hand blacksmithed bale hook - I currently have no use for it, but it is a one of a kind thing of beauty (1 handle between 2 hooks)
16:56 gave me flashbacks. I spent years working out in the desert, and I had to do more than a few things at night, because some ringer had broken something we needed next morning. You'd be almost finished a perfect weld and ZAP! A moth (or its combusted remains) were now embedded in the weld.
That smell never leaves you
Its always great to watch you weld and I always pick up a little tip or technique that always helps. I've been following you for a few years and honestly love your content. I also make the same comment when working with wood 😂 keep it up and 100K will come in no time!
Awesome job, I have been thinking about the whole rocket powered forge idea, can't wait for part 2
Of all the motors I collect for my machines, I never considered how handy the HD pedestal fan head could be.
Again a nice video! Would be nice to win the welding machine! Greeting from. The EU
I'm just starting out in my journey into MIG welding and your craftsmanship is extremely inspiring. Keep the vids and welding tips coming, not to mention the new projects 👍
If I had a TIG welding machine I'm sure it would scare me to bits to begin with too.
I pulse capable welder would be awesome, I have never done TIG with a pulse welder.
I wondered for a long time if a rocket stove could be used as a foundry.
Candle lit welding isn't something you see every day. 😁
I have made a couple rocket stoves with my kids over the years inspired by your videos, only ever with a stick welder. i would love to learn tig welding one day. Congrats on the 60K and keep up the good work.
Greetings from Europe (the Netherlands)! I love the way you build your rocket stoves! They are a very big inspiration for my own projects.👍😀
Thank you very much😊
Excellent tips for tig. I was a certified sheet metal fabricator years ago. Never liked cranking out parts in an ugly, loud, cold factory, but I've been thinking of welding for my own projects. I was taught to tig by carefully, steadily wiggling the rod through my fingers, but I have to admit I've never seen anyone else do it that way. Welding jobs offered half a McDonald's wage, so I moved on to work for more humane wages.well done
Yes, it is similar here in Australia, production welding jobs can be a bit of a grind.
Arccaptain my Arccaptain :-) 60k fantastic stuff
Amazing skills and educational format. I will leave the give-a-way opportunity to others. Thanks Steve. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother.
That's perfect for me mate to forge his knives in. In the NT
Congrats, always learning something new here
That pulse really makes the welds look great.
Congratulations on 60k, thanks for the welding tips, love your work 👍
Congrats on 60k
You deserve it, all the best for the future mate
Great to see you getting the equipment needed to showcase your skills 👍
Congrats on 60k 🎉
Your welds are amazing.
Thanks for being such a patient teacher, your tips have made me a better welder.
Keep the great work going sir 😊👍
7:52 ew cat's eyes
I'm enjoying the channel especially on your stoves and the skills you have. Look forward to you building a bigger shop... Maybe....
Yeah I recon you’re doing yourself a disservice. That thermocouple is just after the firebox. BUT you’re operating a jet engine, literally. So combustion takes time and I mean a physical duration of time and since your moving your fire down the line forcefully your burn won’t be complete at the thermocouple point. So put the thermocouple in the chamber. Also if the fuel can’t burn in time it will burn once it swirls and spreads in the furnace chamber. The extra air you needed was because the palm nuts are full of oil and that is a dense fuel but until it burns it’s just soot aka ultra fine charcoal. So you need more air.
So you mentioned the draw before… well that hot burn air pushed and forced into the furnace chamber, expands and rises and sucks more air.BUT YOU’VE FIXED THE AIR SUPPLY WITH THE FAN. So it’s burning rich and FLARES out the top when superheated unburnt fuel hits oxygen rich fresh air. You need more air or less fuel. So air it is. Blow more or since it’s drawing hard then open a new air hole. Webber style as you say.
FOUNDARY a place that smelts metal, makes ingots, pours molten metal into moulds (casting a brass bell, car engine blocks)
FORGE is as it says, a place that forges metal. So here you don’t melt metal to liquid but heat and beat it into an item.
FURNACE what you built is the device that heats the metal to forge it or smelt it.
So a FOUNDARY and FORGE are a place where you have your stuff and tools to work the metal you heated to hot or molten as you require.
Congrats on your 60k milestone.. weldporn lol.
Arccaptain still doesn't have $AU pricing, plug or shipping. 😞
The candle lit, Barry White style footage was flippin hilarious!!! Love your work mate!!
Congratulations on 60k subscribers. I'm happy your doing this video as I've been wondering if this would be possible. Thanks for the videos, keep up the great work.
Congrats on 60k! I would love to try the 200P TIG. I am currently limited to DC, no pulse. I was thinking how sexy stainless is, and then you played sax! Love it.
Thanks to the algorithm I’ve just found your channel. Nice bit of TIG welding you had happening - makes me want to get a TIG.
Subbed and looking for part two
Interesting build, and I like the welds, pulse can get some amazing results. I just scored a free foundry furnace last week, its a big one capable of handling a 30 litre crucible and I will be firing it with waste oil as it's already setup to use a gun type burner. I am looking forward to see how this rocket foundry furnace goes when finished.
Congratulations on 60 thousand subs. You deserve it for your hard work. Keep it up. Ps yay Arc captain! Would love a welder!
Mate have I got the solution to your draft/airflow conundrum. Liddell power station has closed and they have 2 stacks looking for homes. Give ‘em a call, you might be able to grab one. You might be able to grab a couple of buckets of electricity while yer there. 😲 🙄
Job well done. Thanks for posting.
You should make 100k subs with your welding 😂. Love your work and I've taken a little inspiration from it
Another nice video with your beautiful work and comments, I enjoy watching it. greetings from Belgium 👍🏻
Thank you for showing tips and tricks and your wonderful craftsmanship! 🙏🙏👍
Congrats on the 100k subs! (This comment should age well…) Cheers for the instructive and humorous videos.
Love your work, entertaining, educational and informative. Keep it up. Cheers
Such a shame New Zealand is left out of the competition. If Arccaptain or you change your mind, that'd be great! But looking forward to part 2.
being able to glue metal sounds great count me in.😁
You're in!
SWEET !
love the sexy music at appropriate times in the video, really shows what you think of your welding which is beautiful by the way and obviously the quality of the welder. congrants on 60k
Your work is inspirational, and thanks for sharing. Stopped by for the foundry, stayed for the welds.
Yay!
I've learned more to refine my TIG technique from your video's. So glad I subscribed!
Wow! I am a home-shop welder and make cradles and bits for my dinghy sailing club. Wish I could get my welds that neat! Will try pulse - that looks awesome!
Really enjoy your videos. The content and the edits are perfect. Thanks for sharing your creativity and expertise with us.
Love these video's... would love to have a welder... does it come with expert training? ;) Many of us will never have the skill you have, but we can try.
Congrats on the 50k subs. Still rockin my compact stove from a few years ago and loving it.
Blessed by the algorithm - really glad to have discovered you. Great blend of engineering and shedgineering. Look forward to being here at 100k
Would love a chance at finally owning a welder! G’day from the Blue Mountains ✨
Followed you for a while now getting better every video, I did same with my anvil never better. Really jealous of your welding table keep them coming.
G'day Steve,
I am really enjoying the channel and recently learnt to weld. Please put my name in. Keep up the good work.
Have started on a waste oil furnace. Sourced the supplies and was about to start the build when this video came along. Now I'm going to put it off till I see your final product, cause no doubt I will get a little gem of an idea on the construction from you. Love the videos... cheers mate.
My tig at work doesn’t even pulse😮 it’s so unfair 😂
Keep up the good work and don’t change anything
Great video. Wish I could weld like that, I guess practice makes perfect.
Found you a while back looking up rocket stoves. I really enjoy your casual and just make it work style. Keep at it.
Awesome stuff, look forward to the next installment and congrats on the 60k subs.
Love the content…. Have built a few metal items thanks to your inspiration. Please enroll me in the welder giveaway!
Grats on 60 k, great content as always🐔
Interesting looking foundry.. looking foward to the next installment.
Great video & build! That's a nice looking bead you're laying down too!
Excellent idea, congratulations! There is no technical drawing of the dimensions of the metal melting furnace?
That welder seems to be a really nice machine. The tip on lay wire technique will come in handy. I tried it before but now I know what to do to make it work. Thanks.
I really like the increased intimacy of your videos lately. Keep up the good work!
your explanation of "why use an electric motor" makes sense and demonstrates yet again that you consider a problem /solution in detail before commencing a build.
Congrats. You have an awesome talent mate. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Oh you are going so well.i think your welding tips are just fantastic . Good luck keep on going
My daughter took welding in highschool and I welded things on the farm. I have been thinking about buying a welder to see who could weld the best. I could use a welder from time to time. My daughter worked on the space station and is now working on going to the moon. She works on the earth not in space.
love the welding tips. also self-taught, literally the first thing i forced myself to do was to not lift off too soon. makes a huge difference. also my cheap welder has no pulse function, have to do it manually. not as bad as it sounds.
Another entertaining and instructional video, as always. The scenic rim is a breeding ground for ingenuity.
Thank you for making these videos, always an instant click!
Nice video. Looking forward to part 2! Gratz on 60k.
onya Steve
Thumbs up on your skill(s) and patients in creating the videos. On to part 2
sweet! My son would love a foundry, keeps hassling me..
good stuff on the 60k subs stephen! fellow aussie subscriber here! keep up the good work! cheers
Stephan love your content! Love that you have an idea and do the aussie thing and give it a go! Inspired me to have a go at building a smokeless fire pit and a rocket stove! Thanks for it all keep it up!!
You’re a talented fabricator and I’ve gotten sooo many ideas from your builds
Well done mate!! Always good to hear an Australian voice on topics I love.
Love the steel massage. Trusting that the UK 🇬🇧 is included in the giveaway. Onwards to 100k
Nice project good luck with the new subscribers
grat job my friend! i love your rockets , keep it on!. greetings from argentina.
I watch several hobby welders on UA-cam, and it's nice to see welds that don't need the grinder.
I´m dying "did I just put a 6mm end mill in the drill machine..?" :)