I am constantly amazed by your videos. Not only is the work you do amazing, but the way you present it is also amazing. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos.

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Rob Rob You bet! Thank you very much for your comment!

Seeing the plan first is a very professional approach to your videos. Thank you.

Your videos really make me want to try aluminum casting.

Thank you sir for sharing your awesome work, when I see there's a new video of yours, I make myself some coffee and get a pleasant time watching.

Awesome video mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@R3V0LV3R45

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video, and not noticed you had commented on it! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Seeing beautiful work is so satisfying!

LOL, loved the buzzer sound. Great thinking on the molds. Should hold up much better too.

Awesome! Looks like it worked out pretty well!

Suggestion: A set of tongs to fit one of these ingots so you can put it gently into the crucible and avoid splashing. I'm planning on starting out with this type of ingot mold precisely because it will allow loading ingots through the top hole without removing the lid. The fewer thermal stress cycles on the rim of the crucible, the better. :)

Simple but effective! Nice work

Outstanding!👍👍👍👍

Thank You - T had the same problem with my keg and I never thought of this - Thank You

Awesome bro

Love the sound effects!

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Joshua Hutcheson took me awhile to find the right ones!

Good job Man

That porta-bandsaw is the business

amazing work sir I'll need two shipped to tampa fl lol.

Nice idea !

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Muzkaw Thanks! Not my idea, just my take on it!

Embossing a name or design onto the steel ingot mold...just because you can. That would be awesome....just a thought

Nice!

Hey Brian, nice work as always. Very thoughtful. What are the fancy crucible tongs I see you using? Chris

I like it!

Hey Brian nice video I love the idea but could you tell me what crucible and holder you use

MP Dragon has a really cool ingot mold that you should check out

you should make a Apature style cover for the hole... Like ... just because :) dont know how much use it would be but hey...

дуже гарна і проста ідея дякую

Great videos! Just curious, where do you source your aluminum?

@Grunblau

6 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Girgen Local recycling yard. Only look for cast aluminum...

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when will the plans for the foundry be done thank you Richard Westerfield

Is that mold useful for casting bronze?. And if i use this mold for casting bronze , i should make the mold hot before put the bronze inside or no?

Nicely done! But... what about the splashing?

@NickCharlton0

8 жыл бұрын

+brenovsky they are longer so can be lowered down into the crucible I think

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Charlton This is the hope! The lid is about 4" thick at the hole and the crucible is about an inch below that. This leaves about 3" of ingot to hang down into the crucible. If it isn't touching the top of the aluminum, it would be very close. The shape might at least lend itself to between a 9.4 and a 9.8 on the Olympic splash scale...

@NickCharlton0

8 жыл бұрын

Brian Oltrogge Hahaha yeh you wouldn't want to be in the 'splash zone' for that one!

@brenovsky

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Oltrogge Oh I see! Thanks! :D

@jagboy69

7 жыл бұрын

Splashing always sucks when ya drop the kids off at the pool.

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damn this guy works fast. You can come work for me anytime. ..........

It would make any difference pouring copper vs aluminum would it?

@Grunblau

Жыл бұрын

Not really. Obviously, the weight would be different.

I melt lead and that shit always get stuck, why and what can i do?

Make a thing to make some things to make some other things.. DIY purity.

I've been meaning to ask, what kind of crucible do you use?

@pinnaclemotoring8393

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Cavanaugh He made it himself, if you look at his past videos, there is a multi part series on the entire build.

@DC0919

8 жыл бұрын

+Hopeless Semantics the crucible is what holds the aluminum in the furnace

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Cavanaugh #10 Budget graphite crucible from lmine.com this is the first one I bought and it is still going strong!

noice

where can i get a saw that cuts that fast. i have three and none cuts that fast . still waiting where to send these cubicles

@Grunblau

7 жыл бұрын

+427med I thought you were building a foundry! Won't you need the crucibles?

@427med

7 жыл бұрын

we already made four from 5 inch pipe . a deal is a deal. will send you e mail address

can you fit soda cans thru the hole in the lid?

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Jones I don't think so, unless you drink a lot of 12oz red bull... (~2" diameter). Aluminum cans are about the worst source for aluminum thin, wrong alloy and covered in misc coatings...

@ChristopherJones16

8 жыл бұрын

Brian Oltrogge just curious. Im about to chop my half keg tomorrow to make this to burn soda cans.. so i guess ill make my hole just a bit bigger than yours

Fuckin beauty ! Do you use any type of flux, to slag off impurities ? Or do you just remove what ever floats?

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+Brainmalfuction Morton's lite salt for flux. Arm and Hammer Washing Soda for degassing. Then remove what floats...

@Brainmalfuction

8 жыл бұрын

thanks a bunch for all the responses!

METRIC!

@Grunblau

8 жыл бұрын

+MarcBot Nope Yeah, I wish the schools would have tried harder when they were trying to convert all of us in the early 90's

@AlexNZL

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Oltrogge I grew up and live in New Zealand where it has been metric my whole life yet I still use inch's and feet.

@DC0919

8 жыл бұрын

+AlexNZL Merica here, we use feet and inches, you'd be a good American

Can I buy or are you gonna do any like special giveaway

@Grunblau

7 жыл бұрын

+Simon cavazos Give away for ingot molds? :). Drawings are all there, it would be cheaper to buy a welder a beer than to pay for shipping!

I detect that you are very smug at the end of the video and so you should be! In the immortal words of Hannibal ( A-Team not the Carthaginian general ) “I love it when a plan comes together!”

I melt lead and that shit always get stuck, why and what can i do?