As a Dutch person, you had me at "free"

@EivindKreyHanssen

4 жыл бұрын

As an disabled person and on welfare, he had me too at "free". ;)

@larrypostma2866

3 жыл бұрын

I’m Dutch and disabled. Proof that water seeks its own level.

@thesusboomerroblox6516

3 жыл бұрын

He had me to I’m fricken poor

@TheChrisey

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not poor but this is definitely something I want to try out. Aluminium stock is crazy expensive here, but I can get tubes and profiles for free

@peatergriffin

2 ай бұрын

I'm just a cheap MF. You had me at free too.

Hi, before casting your aluminum, (or other), plan a mechanical system to vibrate the mold as you sink, as for vibrated concrete, the vibrations will strongly tamp your metal and prevent the formation of internal bubbles and other crevices. Good luck

@ahmadkamali8547

4 жыл бұрын

Exlent idea

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

Damn I never thought of combining the two processes, but if your metal is hot enough and you pour carefully I don't think that it is required. Make for a good experiment.

@benadams5557

3 жыл бұрын

Reciprocating saw without a blade, clamp the pipe to a bench and use the saw to rattle the bench

@indian.techsupport

Жыл бұрын

great idea, but i defenetly dont want a vibrating mold, when im pouring hot metal

@dualxsurvival155

Жыл бұрын

Not sure if it was done but preheating the mold might be a good idea aswell not only to stop it from causing uneven cooling but to remove possible moisture buildup causing an explosion and spraying molten aluminum out the top of the tube

Now that came out of the form easiliy. Wasn't expecting that.

@MMitchellMarmel

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was wondering that myself.

@DL24StaS

4 жыл бұрын

Aluminum expands ~50% more than iron/steel when heated, it also contracts more as it cools down. Now, if you try to cast an aluminum part around a steel rod to have a hole in it... good luck with removing the rod )

@davenicholson3491

4 жыл бұрын

M. Mitchell Marmel shrinkage

@verdigrissirgidrev4152

4 жыл бұрын

you can cast it around a sand core, there are recipes for that purpose

@DieselRamcharger

3 жыл бұрын

it shrinks as it cools. falls right out.

I have been working a lot on the bench grinder this week. Video about that coming soon... Next week!

@craigkeillor8642

4 жыл бұрын

May I have your old belt grinder?

@user-yj5uq2dd3z

4 жыл бұрын

Black Beard Projects, Спасибо тебе!

@jimmyeatshoe

4 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see the build! Keep up the great content 👍

@ericstoever9577

4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it!

@bryzabone

4 жыл бұрын

Black Beard Projects how many KG of aluminium was that you poured In the steel tube? Love ya work 👌

Very cool idea. I just made some more arms for my homemade 2x72 and I also use tubing and had to add some weld around the arm to make it secure. This would have been a decent idea... though my forge isn't setup for casting this much aluminum. Good tip for the future. PS - I was surprised as well it came out so easily. Did you add anything on the inside first?

would be even more useful when cast in a round tube as a lathe stock. Nice idea!

@EvoKeremidarov

4 жыл бұрын

I thought exactly the same thing.. however for what he needs to do with it is actually perfect..

@anotherguy9402

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that you can't put a square bar in a lathe.....

@Nevir202

3 жыл бұрын

@@anotherguy9402 Sure you can, but then you’re wasting about 22% of your material to turn square stock down to a round of the same size. Even if the aluminum is free, the fuel to melt it isn’t, so a 22% material waste is a 22% waste of fuel. Not to mention the wasted time on the lathe.

@sharmageddon2171

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nevir202 how did u come up with the 22% figure? Math used to be my forte about a decade ago but I've lost touch and would love to know

@Nevir202

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharmageddon2171 a 1x1 square obviously has an area of 1. A circle of a diameter of 1 is pi • r^2 which in this case works out to 0.78.... That makes figuring out the percentage easy as you’ve set 1 as 100 percent, and anything below the decimal automatically becomes the percentage. So a round bar of the same diameter has a surface area on the end of 78% of the square, or 22% less. As the length is irrelevant to this you don’t have to worry about the third dimension for these calculations at all.

Pro tip: Make sure to stock a good amount of square tubing all from the same batch if you’re gonna do something like this for this purpose. Sometimes the welds are in different places and thus new stock of the same dimension may not fit, without further modification.

Spectacular welds, I love your humor in showing it like that :D

Hey man, actually better than i expected. Good stuff!

Can’t wait for the new belt grinder!!!

@Itsfrenchbass

3 жыл бұрын

High

I'm instinctively shielding my eyes from the welder LOL it's a video

Excellent as usual! Looking forward to seeing more of this.

Bella la voce inglese italianizzata 😂👍❤

Love this channel, you always come up with cool solutions to fit your needs.

Looks like the bars came out great! Cool stuff man, can't wait to see the new grinder project!

Love your videos, you’ve gotten me into restoring tools I find at flea markets😂 Keep it up!👍

@johnhartley3596

4 жыл бұрын

James W hope you follow Scout Crafter on you tube.

@capitaldd5840

4 жыл бұрын

"That's what she said"...👍

Pro tip: heat the metal tube 1st before pouring. You can tell the difference by looking at the results

Very cool. After watching many of these diy casting videos makes me wonder about internal casting anomalies creating weak points in the structure. I still hope to try this some day.

These long bars seem to come out pretty well, only a bit "lost" to shrink defect at the top. Have you tried making short, wide shapes (e.g. a 25mm thick 150mm dia disk) open faced into a steel mould? Just wondering how much would be usable.

Did u heat up the steel at all before pouring?

Happy I saw this video. I am going to be making round stock for coins. Been considering different ideas. I am going to try some black pipe.

First thing I thought of, perfect toolbar for a belt grinder 😁

That was pretty cool to see, thanks for sharing :D

So simple idéal ! I never imagine it would be so easy to get the bar out of the tube...Thanks for tutorial

Well that was a pleasant surprise. I did not expect the bar to release as easily as it appears it did. I would love to see you cast a shorter bar with the mold preheated to about 100-150 C. That way if it sticks it should be easier to melt out a short bar. Now I am really bummed that I don’t have a legitimate shop with some machine tools. Guess I will have to make do with my garage, a claw hammer and a hand drill...😕 And thank you for the tutorial on something that I had wondered about, your proof of concept was enlightening.

Y’know, I just realized, you could use that as construction material you wanna to build some sort of reinforcement. You’re not just storing the aluminum in bar form but you’re also using it for constructive purposes as well. That would be pretty solid for framing.

bigstackd says always preheat your mold, I can't see it hurting any.

@josephmorgan8370

4 жыл бұрын

Preheating will reduce cracks and fissures in surface of bar

@smokeyspock

4 жыл бұрын

And its to not make a steam explosion but since hes doing it like that theres no point and its for graphite molds

@vikassm

3 жыл бұрын

Pre-Heating will expand the iron mold too, the alu-casting will behave like a shrink fit part & wont come out anywhere as easily as it did in this video! Ask me how I know :)

@lesbaty8919

3 жыл бұрын

You need to preheat your mold to remove any moisture, if you don’t and you get moisture in your pour your going to have a very bad day, although it’s a great idea on how to make bar stock just be careful

You can buy square and round stock without the seam. That would make it easier to remove.

So yeah, now all I need to do is save up a few thousand aluminum cans... THANKS! ;)

Молодец!) Очень круто!

Enjoy every one of your videos. How hard would it be to push that aluminum bar through a die and make some heat-sinks for transistors?

I was wondering if you could do that with extruded steel.....now I know. Thank you for sharing your experiment it saved me time and materials. I will give this a try once my furnace is up and running. Thanks again....I thoroughly enjoy your channel you make some really cool things

4:55 *little girl screaming at the dentist*

Looking forward to the build 👍👍

New tooling arm for the grinder- great idea.

Awesome you just gave me a great idea for making the the things for my windchimes that has really nice tone and sustain in it thanks

Still an awesome idea man! I might try that myself 🤙

Hello Sir, great video ! Can i do the same with Lead 99%(Pb) cause i want to make a X-ray inspection cabinet (12mm of lead in thickness)

Hello from France to you Italian friend and can't wait to see more of your project in the future ^_^

@Kawka1122

3 жыл бұрын

Why are you racist?

What a great idea! I did not think you would have been able to drive the aluminum mold from the square tubing

hiya BB, was noticing that you were looking at the inner weld seam on the square tube you used to cast the aluminum ingot. there is a way to remove that seam so you wont have that grove in your ingots... go look at fireball tool ... the guy there has a video on how to make a tool to remove that inner seam. its a handy dandy tool for sure =)

4:58 My cat is very concerned.

What did you salvage for aluminium stock to melt down? It looks like solid round or square bar?

Fireball tools has a video on how to get rid of that internal weld on the square pipe, so you won't have a seem

That's awesome. It seems like a good idea to make a inner weld bead removing tool for the 2 inch square tubing.

@ThompsonJosh98

2 жыл бұрын

Or just buy seamless tubing lol

Italiano? OMG! Bellissimo joby, my friend :D

ingenious, Didn't heat the profile and then pour aluminum to minimize cracks?

That's funny when you popped in and said you're going to be making a belt grinder. When you are sanding down the aluminum I was thinking man I could use that shit to make a belt grinder

@BlackBeardProjects

4 жыл бұрын

Eheh... Same thought! Nice to see you mate. Thanks for watching for so long!

Genius! Would it work similarly with Copper, Bronze, Brass etc?

Nobody: Subtitles at 5:45 : [Music]

After seeing how expensive that kind of aluminum is for the thickness I need I’m definitely wanting to do this

Hello big like thanks for this beautiful video i love the result bravo see you later

Hello, do you ever try including a red heated rebar just before casting aluminum? a 1/2' rebar centered in the tubing will give an extra strenght to the aluminum bar with only a little extra weight, and if you give a decent pre-heating to this rebar, (red hot) it will help a smoother casting by giving extra heat to melted aluminum, Try it ;-) --- Thanks for this vid ! Axelle.

Did you do anything to prep the tubing before the pour? Like clean it up with something or smoke the inside tube with soot?

When you friend says he’s rock solid

Where do you get your scrap aluminum?

I would like to recommend that you clean the inside of the mold and preheat it in order to get a more sound casting.

The grinder sound at 5 minutes drove my dog crazy....

Very cool idea!

Cant wait to see your future project with alluminium !

Cool video and walkthrough. Can you tell me about the welding device used to secure the foot to the steel tube/mold, please? Thank you

Is it possible to cast t and v slotted Profile using ready made as reference?

Excellent vid - What do you use for flux. Thank you

nice clip. What did you put in the liquid aluminium to clean out?

I wonder if white out would make it easier to remove the bar from the mold

Do you plan on tring to try and forge these aluminum bars in the future?

welding 80 lvl

Great proof of concept test!!!

Could you weld on tabs to clamp the bottom to rather than having to cut welds after the pour?

@benadams5557

3 жыл бұрын

Itd make more sense to weld a flang on and have it simply holt on

What degassing material was used?

one question, what did you add to the molten aluminun?

@skifiles

4 жыл бұрын

@Stuckgrenadepin thank you!!!!

@vallesan

2 жыл бұрын

Borax

Excellent 👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing. Who needs to buy aluminum for projects? Melt scrap aluminum. COOL

This video was Oddly Satisfying to watch 👍 thank you for another great and informative video 😁

Heat the tube first :)

Why did the sped up aluminum melting remind me of that movie Pitch Black?

@2:15 what did you flux with? and was that salt?

Good job. What powder is added in 2:17?

Thank you for sharing, good work for what you have available, wishing you success for the rest of the project at hand, have a nice day.

Always preheat your form! this is a metal casting rule. If you don't not only steam bubbles can form in your casting and cause imprefection it can also splash and explode molten metal around. You never know if the mold is moist or has small ammounts of water on it even if it sits in a dry environment.

Nice

Relaxing video

I think when you pre heat the tube it would be a much better cast.

@barstowrat

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest the same

I'm still waiting for prepare your own steel to knives 😂 good job master 🔥

Just awesome man! Thank you for sharing!

Great job. Cheers

Nicely scrounged! :D

Hi man! What did you put into the aluminum un the minute 2:15?

@vallesan

2 жыл бұрын

Borax

@pablozaina2707

2 жыл бұрын

@@vallesan thanks! 2 years waiting for the answer!

@vallesan

2 жыл бұрын

@@pablozaina2707 . You welcome . I just started melting aluminum and copper 2 weeks ago . Is a lot of fun. You can add borax or boric acid to aluminum . I used boric acid . Do not add to copper. It become glass. I bought my furnace on eBay ..but I'm building a bigger one next week.

@pablozaina2707

2 жыл бұрын

@@vallesan I sincerely hope that you will be successful in this exciting world of metal casting. I have been doing this for 8 years and I have used salt and chlorine to strip molten aluminum. I knew that borax is used for bronze, but I did not know that it also worked for bronze.

@vallesan

2 жыл бұрын

@@pablozaina2707 thank you . i melted aluminum and brass yesterday . only made ingots . but i want to cast stuff .

Very good 👍

Great idea....looking forward to your grinder build.

Gostei 👍

what substance he added in the minute 2:15

What is the powder that he put in the metal

@Vault57

4 жыл бұрын

I think it is borax or something similar. I have seen others do this also, helps to remove contaminants from the metal prior to pouring or casting. Dump it in the crucible, stir a bit, remove the dross.

@donniebrown2896

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vault57 borax? Probably salt, there are several types of aluminum used in hobbies, the worst is from cans, extruded ok but the best is from wheels and engine parts as they can be milled quite easily. Borax is primarily used in the melting of copper, brass, and bronze. Also gold and silver.

Is there a way to make it less porous at the end?

Hola buen trabajo, quiero saber que le echas después de sacar la escoria?

I think you have to preheat the mold so it doesn't cause the layers like that in the finished product

I poured in piece of tubing once and it didn’t work out like that at all lol I had to melt it back out.

5:07 my dog got so pissed

Might have come out easier and had less imperfections if you had smoked the inside of the mold with "lampblack" from a candle or acetylene flame before casting.

Great video and idea, thank you!

Does anyone know if this process would work for brass?