I'm currently fighting cancer right now, and your videos are one of the things that I look forward to. Thank you Nate and Grant for making such great videos!

@kman33ful

6 жыл бұрын

get well

@isaacnewton8983

6 жыл бұрын

I pray that you have a quick recovery i have a friend that has leukemia.

@meerasingh4927

6 жыл бұрын

Get well soon bro

@angy101rulz

6 жыл бұрын

Britnie Levi I'll pray for you.

@marzuqahmed218

6 жыл бұрын

Get well soon

Your fired clay one was actually a GREAT casting medium, but you forgot to pre-heat the mold! Try it again with your fired clay mold pre-heated in the oven to remove any humidity it might have absorbed. It should also have been thicker-walled. You can also set the fired clay mold into a sand bucket to help cool the metal slowly and prevent the expanding cooling metal from pushing the mold apart. One big advantage is that clay is really easy to work with. You could easily write something in your clay before firing (mirrored), and get something legible after casting.

@pauljs75

6 жыл бұрын

Dried may have worked if it was oven-dried too. I think this was part of the problems with the grill-firing in the other video. (Not exactly dry enough. What's considered trace moisture by most observations is still enough to cause problems.)

@urduib

6 жыл бұрын

And glazing ceramic clay would be another cool experiment

@HMan2828

6 жыл бұрын

Lowest heat glazes usually go from ~1100C on, and melted aluminum is only 660C, so yeah a glaze would at least prevent it from absorbing more humidity, and make the surface smooth for melted metal to just slide right over. But really just preheating the molds without glaze (and without cracks ideally) to say 450F for 10 minutes before pouring would greatly reduce thermal shock and would eliminate steam bubbles.

@glenecollins

6 жыл бұрын

Other types of clays can be pretty easy to work with and more stable to temperature changes. There was a foundry near my home town which cast a lot of intricate metal parts in clay based shapes.. they used local clays which have high bentonite but I don’t know the mixtures... I suspect they were a commercial secret

@mattkaroscik859

6 жыл бұрын

HMan Actually, there are some cone 022 glazes that are roughly 650°C.

Im a ceramic artist and if you would have wedged your fired clay before you fired it and let it fully dry before firing it wouldn't have had cracks in it and im sure if you did but you should use a real ceramics kiln this will let you know if you have fully fired the clay to zero moisture content. Also using a type of clay body that can absorb the rapid temp shock such as porcelain or Raku Clay it would have worked better and would have a better chance of not cracking.

@MrAutobot390

6 жыл бұрын

Okay but he wanted to see if he could fire clay in a Barbecue grill. It was kinda the whole point of the previous video

@SeventhEve

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but if he wants to see if fired clay is a viable option for aluminum casting, he should have used properly fired clay instead of the one from the previous video.

@bjmaguire6269

5 жыл бұрын

Plus heating the clay just before pouring would reduce thermal shock. I wonder if coating the clay in sand would help?

@soupyiscool3239

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's smart

@1lovemycats

4 жыл бұрын

Namjoon's Butt .omgsame

Fun fact, the capstone of the Washington monument is aluminum, because it was worth more than gold at the time the monument was completed!

@slayla2494

5 жыл бұрын

I feel educated now

@Literaturenjoyerman

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah at the time it was really freaking hard to extract the aluminum from soil

@MegaRazorback

4 жыл бұрын

@Nij Jin Nope, Aluminum at the time was a VERY rare metal and as expensive as SILVER and even harder to process/melt/cast in the dimensions that were drawn up for the capstone, at the time it was cast it was the largest single piece cast in the WORLD. It was also a record for the time in terms of purity, a 1934 analysis showed it had a purity of 97.8% Aluminum and barely any impurities, a rather big feat for 1884!

@thefalloutphoenix

4 жыл бұрын

@Nij Jin it was to protect the monument from lighting

@thebread._

2 жыл бұрын

Ya'll out here with all these facts and im just here with my ramen just clueless at whats going on...

Lol Nate's so cool he's like a really excited puppy

@tr_slimey6811

6 жыл бұрын

Hmm, what kind of puppies are u used t0???

@johnnapuusa1200

6 жыл бұрын

LeSavage 77 i

Again, Nate you’re doing great! Really like the behind the scenes shots!

@Me-vx4eu

4 жыл бұрын

So did I.

@Me-vx4eu

4 жыл бұрын

I aswell.

@Me-vx4eu

4 жыл бұрын

Am I late?

@Nn.553

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@p3c66

2 жыл бұрын

Balake

Camera man wouldve gone blind in one eye if he didnt have glasses on.

@S8tan7

5 жыл бұрын

iiAmFrosty glasses help you see in more ways than one

@DrSalsa-fk8nc

4 жыл бұрын

Put your glasses on and nothing will be wrong

@kadenkissh7618

4 жыл бұрын

He would have a metal I

@corbinashworth4004

4 жыл бұрын

Frozty h

@zacharyclausen1113

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe I've had slag hit me in the eye and nothing happened

need a collab with the slo mo guys when for when the clay explodes

@lewis6737

6 жыл бұрын

Ethan Alker if he collabed he’d get more views

@gbrl_ht01

5 жыл бұрын

SergeantSpoon Right!

Great work Nate! Glad you can step in to keep the experiments going while Grant works on something random (and awesome I'm sure).

Oh my gosh, Nate, please wear safety glasses! This is a really cool demonstration and experiment, but I get really worried for your and your camera-guys safety when you work with potentially dangerous material without obvious PPE. Keep up the fun experiments, but please take care? I do think you are doing an awesome job sharing your clear excitement and pure joy for science.

@KingNothing22

6 жыл бұрын

he wore a weldimg mask

@robert9595

6 жыл бұрын

it's all fun and games till someone takes molten aluminium to the skin

@DarthSears

6 жыл бұрын

Only after something already exploded, though, Michael. Precaution from the start is way smarter--and safer--than taking precautions afterward.

@gurumurthysrinivasan7052

6 жыл бұрын

RBabik Ii or until someone's frozen solid

Someone's probably gone into scientific explanations for each type of clay, but from the viewpoint of an art kid, I can give a general idea as to why the dried and fired clay did what they did. With the dried clay, it was probably just air-dried, meaning the inside still had a small moisture content. That's why the temperature of pottery kilns is slowly increased over at least a few hours, to gradually dry out the clay without cracking. When the molten aluminum was poured in, the temperature skyrocketed, so rhe moisture and heat clashed, causing the clay to ezplode from the force of the resulting air bubbles. As for the fired clay, there's only so much heat that can be applied directly to clay before it becomes more fragile than say dried clay that is easily misshapen or broken. Adding more heat to a fired piece wants to remove moisture that isn't there, which can cause cracks and breaks. Did any of that make sense? Probably not. I'm dyslexic and basically unable to see properly, but I wanted to share.

@MGSLurmey

5 жыл бұрын

Your spelling and grammar are near perfect aside from a few small mistakes here and there "so rhe moisture", "ezplode" which appear to be simple typos. R is right next to T, Z is right next to X, etc etc. If I were to diagnose you just from this, I wouldn't say you're dyslexic in the slightest. Though, I don't know the extent of your difficulties so I can't refute that you are at all. :P Just saying, the only problems I saw were simple typos. Your typing is otherwise significantly better than many others I've seen. Might I suggest getting Grammarly for your browser? It'll catch simple typos like that and even point out any errors in your grammar, hence the name. It's not an autocorrect, though, so no frustrations there. ;)

@Project2025WILLRUINYOURLIFE

5 жыл бұрын

i had no problem understanding what you've said and your information was useful :)

Try putting liquid Nitrogen in a really hot Liquid Copper

@Literaturenjoyerman

5 жыл бұрын

Tataram K Chawan wouldn’t that explode from thermal shock or some madness?

@pingchen1424

5 жыл бұрын

hot vs cold...

*Aluminum twizzlers!*

@gyrothepyro694

6 жыл бұрын

TechByte probably easier to bite trough then normal ones

@Veela666

5 жыл бұрын

Red Vines*

@redpandarolex2625

5 жыл бұрын

You will defenetly have cavities after eating

Hee Grant, obviously there are more people working on the video's then you and Nate. Can you introduce us to your team?

@joshua5483

6 жыл бұрын

Jan Jaap van der Most the kings of random

@airpls2822

6 жыл бұрын

the kingdom of random

@joshua5483

6 жыл бұрын

AirPls that’s a better name.

@GuitarSamurai17

6 жыл бұрын

Jan is that you from sam and niko/ corridor digital?

@jordanthecommander6977

6 жыл бұрын

An introduction to the Court of Random.

Well, this saved me a lot of time and experimentation.

Very interesting results. I was not expecting any of the outcomes, but I always love to watch metal melt.

I’m loving the videos every day. Keep up the good work Nate! Loving the content you are putting out

Nate is the man. I'm liking this channel more and more

Can a metal mold be used to cast the same metal as the mold??

@elmobarrethawk3566

5 жыл бұрын

it would bond with it and become one cohesive block of metal so no

@alexandriahunter2125

5 жыл бұрын

What Elmo said. Imagine trying to use an ice cube tray made of ice.

@MrAdriansalsa

5 жыл бұрын

He has done it before when he is using the steel tray for baking for aluminium casting and it doesn't stick to it , look for H13 die casting

@Jermain-cz4bh

5 жыл бұрын

you mean casting aluminum with aluminum something like that? then no the molten aluminum would melt the aluminum and would be an extreme fire hazard because the molten aluminum is over 660.3c which is the melting point of aluminum i said aluminum for reference it will do the same thing with every other metal

@razbuzz4147

5 жыл бұрын

No

Your the best guys in the world you made me smarter thank you for that Nate and grant

@ZaelDinn

4 жыл бұрын

overwatch master you’re

Be careful Mark

@MarkShaneHansen

6 жыл бұрын

You don't tell me what to do :)

@HighlanderNorth1

6 жыл бұрын

Specific Love Creations Yeah right, as Robin would say "holy melted metal minute men, this could be dangerous"

@kirboysgaming6937

5 жыл бұрын

Hi

@seasides68

5 жыл бұрын

I love the mouse for a bit then a little more about this job I have you put in the order I

@seasides68

5 жыл бұрын

Sssssssxsssssssssssesxsssssssssssssssssex

Hard to believe this is Nate’s first job in front of a camera, he’s doing very well. His videos are as great as Grant’s 😊

This is the definition of cool, glad nobody got hurt thanks

That was so amazing! My adrenaline started pumping just watching! I can only imagine how you two felt!

If you put food coloring in water and then put it in the distiller you used in a previous video and would the food coloring evaporate with it and land in the top or would it stay behind

@seven_chords

6 жыл бұрын

Trevor Ogilvie would like to see that one too

@AldoHam

6 жыл бұрын

me to well 3 really

@selah2367

6 жыл бұрын

Trevor Ogilvie most food dyes have an atomic weight of around 400 to 800, water has an atomic weight of 8. It would most likely stay behind.

@wobeck

6 жыл бұрын

Trevor Ogilvie Each color is different. Some food dyes evaporate with water, others do not.

@xANTHQNY

6 жыл бұрын

Food dyes are not an atom, so that would be mollecular weight

You are doing awesome Nate

"Holy heat batman" 😂

I loved it when these videos were almost more diy-ish. I still love the new ones, but these how to do random cool stuff videos are always so fun :)

What does Molten Metal do to Jake Paul?

@pureslowmotion2918

6 жыл бұрын

what is 'Molten'

@MonsterPumpkin

6 жыл бұрын

cures the world

@gaylord9871

6 жыл бұрын

Slow painful death exactly what is needed

@sweetkuridreamer

6 жыл бұрын

grim death

@eliasdosch5742

6 жыл бұрын

Some nasty burns xD

What if you put wet clay in a vacuum chamber

@theking2475

6 жыл бұрын

Jeet Sharma nothing There is no air in clay and even if there was air in clai it would just blup and stay put

@TheLowten

6 жыл бұрын

This could be interesting you can remove water with a vacuum chamber you could end up with clay that cracks less when fired

@sushen1931

6 жыл бұрын

Jeet Sharma INCREASE YOUR KNOWLEDGE BY WATCHING MY KZread CHANNEL FOR AMAZING INFORMATION AND MIND BLOWING FACTS AND SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE!!!!!

@christopyper1287

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing

@kazshoichi9369

6 жыл бұрын

hwhat about the moisture in the clay ? what will happen to it? will it causw the wet clay to expand?

Sooo cool! The explosion was the best!

That explosion WAS SO COOL

THANK THE GLASSES FOR MARK NOT GETTING HIT BY A SPITTLE OF ALUMINUM

@frankwest810

6 жыл бұрын

if it his skin it would be like liquid nitrogen sort of

@robomanrobo6777

5 жыл бұрын

lol spittle

not all heroes wear capes. some have cameras.

I love the way you got the aluminium. It was satisfying in some way.

Clay, you're FIRED!

Top-notch stuff Nate!

Negative X experiments please!

Curious, what if you added a small amount of clay slurry to send mixing it will? When working with clay there’s all kinds of clay with different firing characteristics. Air bubbles is the biggest problem in all clays. Porcelain clay I have never worked with.

I was not expecting that!!

Can you melt metal and quickly freeze it with liquid nitrogen plz

@FFKING1140

6 жыл бұрын

Momiji hardwired on caffeine it would be awesome. Everyone loves watching explosions.

@janellstephenson2478

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that would be great

@theperfectspecimen2697

5 жыл бұрын

Thermal shock is always fun

Can you cut the aluminum in half so we can see the air bubbles in it? It seems like it would make an aluminum sponge.

@jamesr.2017

6 жыл бұрын

S P O N G E

Wow! That is really cool

exactly what I needed to know thank you so much!

@Yogitoki

3 жыл бұрын

Should try firing the clay on top of the furnace and then pour when the molds still hot

can make a knife sharpner ?

Make a foundry with clay!

Watching aluminum melt is SO satisfying

Great video. Thanks for sharing

I Wondering What Happen When You Melt Magnet??

@joelsimpson7638

6 жыл бұрын

Gaming With Dan a magnet is a material with all its atoms facing the same direction (atoms have a slight magnetic charge so when they are all facing the same direction the charges add together giving a strong magnetic force), if you heat up a magnet you simply make all the atoms move about and face different directions making the magnet lose its power.

@steven-qk1sg

6 жыл бұрын

Skyler Extravaganza that wouldn’t happen when the magnet gets too hot it loses its magnetic powers

@roystonhuang9610

6 жыл бұрын

Skyler Extravaganza That's not how it works.

@Rich.Staples

6 жыл бұрын

It would lose the structural alignment that is responsible for it being magnetic

@davidnielsen4890

6 жыл бұрын

Once it passes the Currie temperature it loses its magnetic properties and then it’s just a hunk of iron

Love you nate!! 💗💗

Thanks for this video,you kept me from wasting a lot of time.

These videos are awesome (metal melting) please make a playlist with all your metal melting videos

You must have a couple people editing videos to get them out this quick.

@eave4305

6 жыл бұрын

Or they make them ahead of time and schedule them.

@Smellyfoot71

6 жыл бұрын

or maybe a magic editor

@felixculpa4192

6 жыл бұрын

.... or donkeys? Yeah, I'm almost certain that donkeys are somehow involved....

@aure_eti

6 жыл бұрын

Or ... they just record a video in 1 part

@bobbywhite5319

6 жыл бұрын

He definitely has editors, it makes sense if you knew how big KZread channels work

Can you try putting the dry clay into the vacuum chamber to remove all of the moisture before casting with it?

nat'es first time on camera? his best performance.

Love this guy

Great video, Nate! I'm really enjoying these!

The only reason why it exploded in the unfired clay is because it hadn’t been bisque fired to remove the air bubbles so when the heat hits it all at once it starts to expand the clay forcing it to explode the wet clay didn’t do that because it hadn’t had enough time for it to solidify the air bubbles in the clay so they escaped through the top of the clay

@kfz7594

6 жыл бұрын

A bisque fire actualy removes any remaining chemically bonded water. Any air bubbles worked into the clay can lead to explosive results thats what process like wedging/kneading are required and why de airing pug mills exsist.

Cool u turned aluminum to foil omg omg it's legendary. ALI-A intro plays

The thumnail looks like Aluminium coconut Plus i have a playlist in wich i add videos about/casting metal everyday playlyst called *_Metal_* Sorry for my bad spelling

Nate's awesome! Duke of Random!

@StefanReich

6 жыл бұрын

Uncle of Random

@zachlast4888

6 жыл бұрын

Esquire of Random

@cassandralovell2253

6 жыл бұрын

Prince of Random!!

@jasonpan6537

6 жыл бұрын

Senior of Random

@CartooonTHAT

6 жыл бұрын

lol duke of random!

Thumbs for Mark the camera man!

@Smellyfoot71

6 жыл бұрын

whyd u copy the top coment

I am doing this for a year know and you make a VIDEO thanks !!!👌

*hey, I just thought of something, you said that the weight of the metal would sometimes cause the sand to break apart right? What about if it was compacted ? the biome would be easy to compact, but if you come packed at the sides around the foam maybe it wouldn't do that?*

Next up: Will molten aluminum cook human ocular tissue? Follow up: Ocular surgery! Is it even covered?

Rip Clay bowl

@tapank415

6 жыл бұрын

Exploding clay has gave me shock!

Thank you.

So satisfied in this video

Nate the Great.

@andrejmaster7172

6 жыл бұрын

Also my Mate

Yay Nate!

@Kamal_AL-Hinai

6 жыл бұрын

Yay Jessica!

Fired clay molds work best when their thick and encased in a box frame to hold pressure, they are also typically one time use things since the mold becomes brittle so anything that isn't designed to slide out when done (like an ingot) the mold is broken to retrieve the cast... it's actually where the term "breaking the mold" comes from. So I suggest if your going to try using clay molds, make sure to mold the outside to fit into a some kind of frame.

your amazing king of random team! ::D

Try making sheet metal!

@TheMilanMovies

6 жыл бұрын

Tabeeb Rahman you know how many steps it takes to make sheet metal?

@jessemarchese7245

6 жыл бұрын

Milan Meiland ovb he dosent

@retovath

6 жыл бұрын

Milan Meiland, cast a block of your alloy of choice, temper, roll until you approach the max cold work percentage of your material of choice, temper at recrystalization temperature, roll, repeat to your desired thickness, shear, heat treat, store/sell/use. That or you could run the molten metal through a die until it approaches its supercooled state within about 10% of your final desired size and hot work(roll) from there to your final desired size.

Nate- Clay you are fired.. Clay - But I cast metal for you.... Y U DO DIS 😢😢😢

@colewales9308

6 жыл бұрын

Anupam Jha Unity Rejection Cappies Rights In No Guys Egg Yo

More weekend projects please.

I know this video is old but you should try casting molten metal in a metal cup

When did mate happen? Where's the King

Me and my grandad always used to cast lead in wet clay molds and it always worked perfectly!

I use to work in a foundry and we used a liquid solution on our sand that i am not sure what it was made of but that is how our casts packed together so well and stayed firm during the pouring period.

Nice work

Nate you are doing well thank you

you should really get real casting sand, its sand with high amounts of clay and not the "green sand" you guys use.

I went camping and i thru aluminum cans in the campfire and they melted pretty fast and even thru glass bottles and they also melted not as fast but did after couple minutes could a camp fire work for casting? It would be cheaper

Glad you're okay. That was a close one!

Great video keep it up I think Nate and grant r amazing

@caydenramos3541

6 жыл бұрын

Matt. W yes

Happy holidays to the people who read this!

@phillipmiller3601

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Kid film theater

@tr_slimey6811

6 жыл бұрын

Why, thank you sir. I do wish all the same to you.

@SteraFaux

6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas.

Amazing

The explosion from the dry clay was cool

99.97% of the comments are about Nate. 0.03% are about the video.

@brodybrody487

6 жыл бұрын

Actually it'd be 00.03

@mattrodriguez294

6 жыл бұрын

I’m that 00.03%, I feel special

@jaredpeterson8893

6 жыл бұрын

Mr Sulu you both are the 00.o3

@kettlecorn8452

6 жыл бұрын

Actually check the comments before you say this

@oztynz

6 жыл бұрын

where is the original guy

hey watching from Pakistan and still love your videos

was the fired clay properly baked? how had it been stored after firing? no glaze on it and no preheat, so was it thermic shock that cracked it?

Well, this is all extremely explainable. The fired clay hadn’t been fired all the way. There was still some water in it, which is why it puddled up underneath and why it was so fragile. The dry clay still had a lot of water in it, but it was rigid, which is why it exploded. The water vaporized inside the hardened clay and the pressure caused the explosion. The wet clay didn’t explode due to the pliability of the wet clay. I greatly enjoyed watching this video.

What happens if we boil gallium

@charliemcrobb2791

6 жыл бұрын

The world is vapourised

@valinkdevr5520

6 жыл бұрын

Gallium gaz?

Awesome videos! Keep 'em coming guys! Suggestion: pour it into cold water 😉

@MichelleWilliamsPewDiePie

6 жыл бұрын

MCP - Minecraft & Programming that would make really cool shapes

u should make clay rectangle forms and make aluminum bars

Well done that man...

The fired clay would have worked better if it was fully cooked in a kiln. Putting it on a BBQ only cools the surface. Try cooking the clay in the forge

@manofcraft

6 жыл бұрын

not exactly, sure u fire it again to cook the glaze on it but that metal probably gets hotter then a normal kiln so it could break it like it did in the vid

@zackattack3700

6 жыл бұрын

Might be a little late, but it would work much better if he heated the fired clay up first, thermal shock is a large problem.

@nerd1000ify

6 жыл бұрын

aluminium melts at 660 degrees C, which is substantially cooler than a typical pottery kiln.

@shannahmiller

6 жыл бұрын

Fully firing the clay would help, and also using raku clay would help. It's made to withstand a certain amount of thermal shock.

Nate, the jack of trades

The King of Random You should try Hydrophobic sand, it would be a cool experiment to try. also, I think it would be really cool to see the team do experiments with ferrofluid. maybe try solidifying the ferrofluid, or maybe try mixing gallium with ferrofluid and then see what kind of really cool proporties the new mixure has.