I appreciate your videos. No gimmicks. No bs cartoon thumbnails. No rave music. And no pleads for ‘like and subscribe’. While I don’t personally do any cast iron work, i enjoy watching a skilled craftsman such as yourself.
Suggested something half as ingenious as your pouring machine to another TH-camr and pretty much got called a loony. You've got yourself a really good setup! Just got to get mine off the ground.
I'm delighted to finally find someone who knows how to sand cast properly. I learned in Jr High, and have been annoyed with people on TH-cam ignoring basics of the process. Kudos to you!
luckygen1001 yeah... Some years later, I went back to see if they'd let me use the facilities to make something for my wife. That's when I found out that I only had to the end of that school year. The next year they'd be in a new school that didn't have the shop facilities for pretty much any metal work. (Sigh)
We had foundry shop at Brooklyn Tech in 1957, but we only made the cope and drag with a wood pattern and never poured metal, except the last day the teacher poured aluminum.
Edwin Wiles It seems to be the way "education" goes these days. Forget the trades apparently. Well, somebody has to actually do the work! I learned sand casting - believe it or not - as a Freshman in high school. That was 1984 in Wolcott Connecticut, USA. They still had a full on wood working, metal, auto and printing shop and it was not a vocational school! My favorite classes by FAR! I would bet good money that those "shops" are long gone now. Sad.
@@JViello thinking about it, it really does seem to be that the local schools carry whatever skills training that the local job market needs. There were foundries and metal working businesses when I was in school, when those businesses closed or moved, there wouldn't have been any reason to teach the skills locally, so the school didn't include them in the plans for the new school building. Understandable, but it still sucks.
My dads uncle Alan Forest was a black smith by trade and was very knowledgeable in metallurgy. He worked in the ship building yards during WW2 on the east coast of Canada, doing many types of different iron fabrication. He was very knowledgeable in working with coal forging iron work. After the war he returned home to the Maidstone area where he farmed and had a black smith shop and did work for the people around the country who came to his farm. Dad said he knew quite a bit of the old school ways and uses of how to make his own steel.
As my traďe was in ferrous and non ferrous work I have found this extremely interesting as I still have my own old tools of trade. You have possibly reignited my interest again.Thankyou
really well done. We need to see your burner and blower and pump design for the waste oil and diesel fuel burner for the furnace.... can you make a video on that ??
I love your channel. You’ve taught me a ton. I’m always open to new info and you give plenty of it. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. God bless and stay safe sir!!!!
Great video and extremely interesting. Our technical college teacher gave us a memorable demo 40 years ago and scooped off the glowing slag and dropped it in a pile on the concrete floor behind where we were standing. and carried on with the demo. A few minutes later there was a load explosion behind us and we were showed with hot concrete and slag, as the laboratory floor blew out leaving a smoking crater and some of us with burnt holes in our trousers!
Thanks for an excellent starter video.I once had the experience of watching a hand operation casting man hole covers.They were casual as hell but turned out a lot of covers. Lot of know how lost there.
yeah mate, its been sitting in the "To-Do" bucket for a long time, while I get my lathe and mill rebuilds completed. Finally got those both in and working now, so have resumed work on the electric furnace build... th-cam.com/video/kiWX_cyydqg/w-d-xo.html I'm really itching to start melting down some of the piles of scrap around the place
Great video. I have some time on my hands these days, bought a small furnace. I just changed the brakes on my buddy's truck. Looks like I have some experimenting to do. But first, I want to make sure I have a clue as to what I'm doing, and do it safely. Thanks for making this video. :)
Very nice bit of work ! I protect my concrete floor with bats of fibre glass insulation instead of sand. It's a lot easier to clean up, but it creates a "no walk" zone. I always look forward to you video postings. Thank you !
What was the tank of propane in the background next to the blower fan? Pressurized waste oil. Working on vehicles in a small town, the guy who owned it needed heat in the shop. We place a 55 gallon drum outside, with a tire valve in the bung, after filling it, air pressure added. The draft tube went to 2" off the bottom, ran inside to a valve, but we dripped it onto logs in the double barrel stove. One load of wood would last all day. Boy, you could tell when the auto tranny fluid started coming in. It burns way hotter than just used motor oil. We could get 2 vehicles and 1 school bus inside & close the door, so it heated a large area, but we used a box fan behind it about 5' away.
In 1970 I mixed sand for the Arkansas foundry that cast molds to make parts for Coca-Cola bottle capping machines. They didn't even have the sand mix written down, just some guy told me once to take so much of this, of that, and of something else, wheelbarrow it over and dump it in the big mixer, let it run for awhile, then wheelbarrow it over to a pile near the casting floor. Of course I got the mixture wrong, forgot which sand got which amount, and ruined a half-day production. They still didn't write down the mixture anywhere, but I didn't screw up again. It was 120F inside the building, and I lost ten pounds down to 125 . I quit after a week, but only because the room mate with a car run off and left me on foot with no way to get to work. I had one paycheck, and a very painful swelling of one earlobe. I had to take a Greyhound home to Texas and parents and a family doctor who lanced the boil for free. So much for my first try at independence. Grrr.
Wow it turned out really well! I was helping my father change his rotors and pads recently and thought what a waste it is to throw out or return the rotors. Now after watching this I see a reason to even keep the oil! Can't believe it required almost 11 quarts worth plus around 3 quarts of diesel but if it's recycled motor oil the diesel is cheap. Problem I see for me is getting setup in the first place would cost prohibitive here in Florida as there isn't a lot of industry in the southern US historically, so it would all need to be shipped quite far $$$.
$$$? They got's lot'sa cars with disc brakes in Florida don't they? My furnace shell was free, a really big old water heater tank. Made the furnace barrel and a 5" ring of it for the lid. A friend at a local cement plant gave me a few bags of out-of-date High temp refractory, (lines the huge rotary kilns that cook limestone into cement) I built a 20' radius swing crane and hung a small Harbor Freight 500 pound electric winch ($50?) under the I-beam on wheels, because my large crucible is just a 12" chunk of 8" sched.80 (3/8" wall) water pipe (it was a free cut-off and I've got several feet left) with a scrap 1/4" plate bottom and 1" square lugs welded on, to lift it out of the furnace. I lined it with more of that refractory. OK, that's my big non-ferrous crucible, I think I paid quite a bit for my large silicon-carbide crucible for iron. As much free, used motor oil in Florida as anywhere else right? Does $$$ mean $3? OK, I did pay nearly $100 for my new 160 Amp Lincoln buzz-box welder, back in 1960 or '61, but it's been paid for many times over. I just remembered, I used a brake disc from a Pontiac Firebird to lock the the crane I-beam swing 10' up on the mast, with rod to an over-center, (locking) handle below. And luckygen, I live in the California "High" desert, preheats my furnace feed. ;-)
Well... I never had to break the rotors. My furnace held a full ton of rotors with room to spare. And our flasks were about 6 feet long usually. I did not have that funny cart to wheel around my crucibles. I poured everything by hand and crucibles were measured to amount of iron needed for each casting Good job. Good video.
I used to work in a Foundry, MJ Allen. We made all sorts of stuff, I was a fettler but I enjoyed watching the blokes make the castings and moulds. When hand making moulds for cast Iron they would use a white, chalky looking liquid which they painted over the sand and it blocked up those grain holes that make the castings look rough. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called but it's worth asking around, I'll see if I can contact the blokes I worked with.
When I was working as a ladle operator on steelworks, we used a mixture of water, diesel and compressed air to heat up the ladles. Started with diesel and compressed air and then we mixed in pressurized water in the burner .
Thanks for the video, wanting to restore an old coal forge so might have to try my hand at casting iron myself. Although one of those things that sometimes having a professional show you or do it can make things easier in the long term
@@luckygen1001 Thanks for the comment/reply. Not in the coal one as its a historical piece that is more for the experience, this video years ago was actually my inspiration originally to build a furnace/forge but due to lack of experience + safety forethought about oil/diesel mix i caused a fire due to a leaky valve, so have only been using Gas (thankfully i had foam extinguishers on hand for my vehicles/Equipment) As my workshop is now full of old cast equipment from 1900-1960 i want to go back to using the oil/diesel mix with gas to do my own castings as looked at electric but don't have the coin for that setup as yet. 100% know that before i even try do any iron casting (I have done Ali,copper,brass on small things) that i need to get some hands on experience with a knowledgeable person that can help me mitigate the risks and provide advice (same reason i have a professional engineer that i can double check things with when doing machining work) Thanks and didn't mean for the long reply
You sir, are not only an amazing artist but a magician as well! Nice work on the vids. They are a task in themselves!! Thank you for sharing all your work! Very informative and enjoyable ❤️❤️❤️👍✅
your videos are absolutely inspiring! i am getting into scraping but castings are expensive. now that i know you can make them at home with some throw away brake rotors and some motor oil / diesel,.i will definatly be looking into making a furnace.
As a person has previously mentioned about your blast furnace, I would like to know how you built it and what you used for materials in the construction of it. Thank you very much for this video
Back in the days of Galleons and cannons firing cast iron balls, a foundry in the UK used to dust their molds with Plumbago, which I believe is Graphite. it was only mined in the UK at that time and this process allowed the casting of far superior balls to any other country. I live in S. Australia, where do you get your Ferrosilicon from? The foundries that I used to work on furnaces, have now closed up.
good videos you made, and i remember the goldsmith use borax powder tomelt gol easily, and one the ore is melt he poor a tea spoon of table salt to evaporate the ipurities, the impurities makes gold carcking.
I have an old vise that is cracked. I want to try my hand at gas welding it with cast rod. The only cast rod i can find is very expensive. Some people say to use piston rings. I was just thinking of this video and came back to it. I wonder if I could cut some longer strips close to the center and use the rotor material? I wonder if the alloy is too hard? Ill plan on doing a long post heat and cool down.
Fantastic video, great pics and awesome audio. I am just getting into casting and found this video really good so have subscribed and will back track now to learn more. Keep them coming
I've been collecting brake rotors and wheel hubs for a friend who has a furnace that can handle cast iron. Working at a car dealership I have a virtually inexhaustible supply. :) My furnace barely manages to melt aluminum (but that was the design goal, burning wood scraps to melt aluminum), but someday I'll have time and room to build a nice one.
Try changing from wood scraps to ordinary barbecue charcoal... that’s what they used in the “Bronze Age”. And if you want to get really serious use coke
Thanks for posting the info sheet at 15:36! It's always nice to know what the efficiency of a process is! I take it the amount of ferrosilicon you used was pretty negligible?
15kg in 50min from cold start, without preheating air. 👍👍👍 That is excelent result. Your furnace ist the best and moust effective i have ever seen on TH-cam. And also more effective than my furnace. Great job very nice 👍
It would be cool to see how you machine that plate to have a smooth flat finish, and what you will use it for. What is the advantage of using the graphite over using talc ?
Now is there any possible chance you would consider to show the rigging or your oil burner? I mean for years I have been thinking about to preheat it.. but you seem to have a more sneaky way to do it!!
I really enjoy watching your foundry work. It's inspiring. I've made a little hairdryer/20 litre bucket/refractory cement/BBQ fuel furnace and have been melting scrap aluminium in to ingots ready for a project at some point. Do you think a propane burner (of correct size) would be hot enough to melt brass in this style of furnace? As I have a bucket of old taps and plumbing fittings that I'd like to re-cycle too.
What a brilliant idea with the disc brakes. I never would of thought to try this. Just brilliant. I actually have to old large disc brakes. I have just bought a old lathe I'm doing a full restoration. And have a broken lathe change gear with a couple of teeth broken. and wondering if I could try this method to make a new cast of my gear. The lathe is 94 yrs old. And just can't find a replacement gear. Do you think trying your method melting the disc brakes. This would work. Would love to give it a shot. Beautiful casting you made there. Turned out great. New subscriber
If you do another surface plate, design it with 3 feet instead of 4. That is how most of them are done so they won't twist under their own weight. The twist us usually tiny, but if you are going to scrape it flat to 10ths it is enough to cause a problem. Great video
I was a little reading on compacted graphite cast iron and it seams that disk breaks and drums are made from this. If you can would you be able to do a clip on this type of cast iron and if it is possible to get good results in you foundary thanks
All the disc brake rotors I have broken up do not bend before they break but exhaust manifolds I have broken up bend before they break. I have read that they are made from compacted graphite.
@@luckygen1001 thanks for the reply when I can find the time I will finish my foundary and then when I can find the time I will make a patten and so on appreciate your content thanks again
Use a slurry mix of graphite and paint the surface of the mold this will eliminate the ""quake" marks or scabbing. It creates a barrier between the iron and sand.
Great video. You now going to have to leave that casting to weather and age before machining? Surprising just how much castings can warp as the stresses work their way out?
luckygen1001 Thank you,that will be interesting. I have just spent some time hand scraping a high spot off my surface plate that could only be down to warping? I have used a fly cutter in the mill to machine large flat surfaces but takes time to get clocked in perfect. Look forward to watching the video,be interesting to see if it does move any after machining since the casting still quite green?
I appreciate your videos. No gimmicks. No bs cartoon thumbnails. No rave music. And no pleads for ‘like and subscribe’. While I don’t personally do any cast iron work, i enjoy watching a skilled craftsman such as yourself.
Thank you for watching my video.
Suggested something half as ingenious as your pouring machine to another TH-camr and pretty much got called a loony. You've got yourself a really good setup! Just got to get mine off the ground.
I use it because it takes the weight of my aching back.
@@luckygen1001and because you’re smart!
WOW! Aluminum is one thing, Iron is completely another ball park. Nice work!
Yes. Iron is...a whole 'nother league.
Glad someone appreciates.
I'm delighted to finally find someone who knows how to sand cast properly. I learned in Jr High, and have been annoyed with people on TH-cam ignoring basics of the process. Kudos to you!
You are so lucky to learn foundry work at school. My school started teaching it about 4 years after I left. I had to teach myself everything.
luckygen1001 yeah... Some years later, I went back to see if they'd let me use the facilities to make something for my wife. That's when I found out that I only had to the end of that school year. The next year they'd be in a new school that didn't have the shop facilities for pretty much any metal work. (Sigh)
We had foundry shop at Brooklyn Tech in 1957, but we only made the cope and drag with a wood pattern and never poured metal, except the last day the teacher poured aluminum.
Edwin Wiles It seems to be the way "education" goes these days. Forget the trades apparently. Well, somebody has to actually do the work!
I learned sand casting - believe it or not - as a Freshman in high school. That was 1984 in Wolcott Connecticut, USA. They still had a full on wood working, metal, auto and printing shop and it was not a vocational school! My favorite classes by FAR!
I would bet good money that those "shops" are long gone now. Sad.
@@JViello thinking about it, it really does seem to be that the local schools carry whatever skills training that the local job market needs. There were foundries and metal working businesses when I was in school, when those businesses closed or moved, there wouldn't have been any reason to teach the skills locally, so the school didn't include them in the plans for the new school building. Understandable, but it still sucks.
My dads uncle Alan Forest was a black smith by trade and was very knowledgeable in metallurgy. He worked in the ship building yards during WW2 on the east coast of Canada, doing many types of different iron fabrication. He was very knowledgeable in working with coal forging iron work. After the war he returned home to the Maidstone area where he farmed and had a black smith shop and did work for the people around the country who came to his farm. Dad said he knew quite a bit of the old school ways and uses of how to make his own steel.
As my traďe was in ferrous and non ferrous work I have found this extremely interesting as I still have my own old tools of trade.
You have possibly reignited my interest again.Thankyou
You Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! A++++++
Mighty fine work and presentation!
I absolutely love that phrase. I don't know why but I do lol
really well done. We need to see your burner and blower and pump design for the waste oil and diesel fuel burner for the furnace.... can you make a video on that ??
I love your channel. You’ve taught me a ton. I’m always open to new info and you give plenty of it. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. God bless and stay safe sir!!!!
Love the setup for poring solo.
yes! I need to make one of those rolling carts to hold bigger crucibles
I second that! Good thinkin.
Great video and extremely interesting. Our technical college teacher gave us a memorable demo 40 years ago and scooped off the glowing slag and dropped it in a pile on the concrete floor behind where we were standing. and carried on with the demo. A few minutes later there was a load explosion behind us and we were showed with hot concrete and slag, as the laboratory floor blew out leaving a smoking crater and some of us with burnt holes in our trousers!
Thanks for an excellent starter video.I once had the experience of watching a hand operation casting man hole covers.They were casual as hell but turned out a lot of covers. Lot of know how lost there.
Great video. Especially impressive was the rolling crucible-pouring device.
Agreed.
One of the best examples if not the best example of a well done casting on youtube from a DIY-er.
Don't know how I ended up here watching this but thank you it was fascinating..
Fantastic video. Very detailed. I loved the camera angle while you were wheeling the molten iron in.
I have a stack of rotors waiting for my furnace to get finished to try this exact thing, thank you for sharing!
Are you still building an electric furnace?
yeah mate, its been sitting in the "To-Do" bucket for a long time, while I get my lathe and mill rebuilds completed. Finally got those both in and working now, so have resumed work on the electric furnace build... th-cam.com/video/kiWX_cyydqg/w-d-xo.html
I'm really itching to start melting down some of the piles of scrap around the place
Really long video dude. Make it more shorter.
"Make it more shorter." You can make your sentence shorter by saying "make it shorter". Then it'd be more better.
It was 40 minutes, showing the same actions being done six times. The comment has merit.
You know your stuff Chap , good seeing this type of knowledge on You Tube.
I really like your one man foundry!!! I did that the same way in 1975....Tony
Great video. I have some time on my hands these days, bought a small furnace. I just changed the brakes on my buddy's truck. Looks like I have some experimenting to do. But first, I want to make sure I have a clue as to what I'm doing, and do it safely. Thanks for making this video. :)
One thing is for sure there is no shortage of them.
Very nice bit of work ! I protect my concrete floor with bats of fibre glass insulation instead of sand. It's a lot easier to clean up, but it creates a "no walk" zone. I always look forward to you video postings. Thank you !
I really miss to see your work! thank you very much for keep doing this! It truly inspire me! "Even do I only do Aluminium and some times brass!"
Nice to see you melting.
I love your furnace, running on waste oil is super, do you have some video you could share on how you built it . I would really appreciate. Thank you.
What was the tank of propane in the background next to the blower fan? Pressurized waste oil. Working on vehicles in a small town, the guy who owned it needed heat in the shop. We place a 55 gallon drum outside, with a tire valve in the bung, after filling it, air pressure added. The draft tube went to 2" off the bottom, ran inside to a valve, but we dripped it onto logs in the double barrel stove. One load of wood would last all day. Boy, you could tell when the auto tranny fluid started coming in. It burns way hotter than just used motor oil. We could get 2 vehicles and 1 school bus inside & close the door, so it heated a large area, but we used a box fan behind it about 5' away.
In 1970 I mixed sand for the Arkansas foundry that cast molds to make parts for Coca-Cola bottle capping machines. They didn't even have the sand mix written down, just some guy told me once to take so much of this, of that, and of something else, wheelbarrow it over and dump it in the big mixer, let it run for awhile, then wheelbarrow it over to a pile near the casting floor. Of course I got the mixture wrong, forgot which sand got which amount, and ruined a half-day production. They still didn't write down the mixture anywhere, but I didn't screw up again. It was 120F inside the building, and I lost ten pounds down to 125 . I quit after a week, but only because the room mate with a car run off and left me on foot with no way to get to work. I had one paycheck, and a very painful swelling of one earlobe. I had to take a Greyhound home to Texas and parents and a family doctor who lanced the boil for free. So much for my first try at independence. Grrr.
Made you appreciate your parents, didn't it, lol.
It happens
Best story I have ever read. Everyone should know this story. It is beautiful, even the difficult parts. I hope you are well now.
Borrow money from parents, get a bicycle, pay parents back, keep the job.
For those who missed it, gather round, I hear he may tell it again..
Wow it turned out really well! I was helping my father change his rotors and pads recently and thought what a waste it is to throw out or return the rotors. Now after watching this I see a reason to even keep the oil! Can't believe it required almost 11 quarts worth plus around 3 quarts of diesel but if it's recycled motor oil the diesel is cheap. Problem I see for me is getting setup in the first place would cost prohibitive here in Florida as there isn't a lot of industry in the southern US historically, so it would all need to be shipped quite far $$$.
Florida is hot all year so the last thing I would want to do is melt cast iron. I live in the cold part of Australia.
$$$? They got's lot'sa cars with disc brakes in Florida don't they? My furnace shell was free, a really big old water heater tank. Made the furnace barrel and a 5" ring of it for the lid. A friend at a local cement plant gave me a few bags of out-of-date High temp refractory, (lines the huge rotary kilns that cook limestone into cement) I built a 20' radius swing crane and hung a small Harbor Freight 500 pound electric winch ($50?) under the I-beam on wheels, because my large crucible is just a 12" chunk of 8" sched.80 (3/8" wall) water pipe (it was a free cut-off and I've got several feet left) with a scrap 1/4" plate bottom and 1" square lugs welded on, to lift it out of the furnace. I lined it with more of that refractory. OK, that's my big non-ferrous crucible, I think I paid quite a bit for my large silicon-carbide crucible for iron. As much free, used motor oil in Florida as anywhere else right? Does $$$ mean $3? OK, I did pay nearly $100 for my new 160 Amp Lincoln buzz-box welder, back in 1960 or '61, but it's been paid for many times over. I just remembered, I used a brake disc from a Pontiac Firebird to lock the the crane I-beam swing 10' up on the mast, with rod to an over-center, (locking) handle below.
And luckygen, I live in the California "High" desert, preheats my furnace feed. ;-)
Your one person pour system is sweet!!
Well... I never had to break the rotors. My furnace held a full ton of rotors with room to spare. And our flasks were about 6 feet long usually.
I did not have that funny cart to wheel around my crucibles. I poured everything by hand and crucibles were measured to amount of iron needed for each casting
Good job. Good video.
Hi There, Making mold was one of my first jobs I had out of high school...You're doing a good job,, Tony
I used to work in a Foundry, MJ Allen. We made all sorts of stuff, I was a fettler but I enjoyed watching the blokes make the castings and moulds.
When hand making moulds for cast Iron they would use a white, chalky looking liquid which they painted over the sand and it blocked up those grain holes that make the castings look rough. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called but it's worth asking around, I'll see if I can contact the blokes I worked with.
Fantastic work. It always amazes me how you manage to melt iron in your back yard.
It still amazes me that I can melt iron in my backyard.
@@luckygen1001, modest!
Good video Mate, enjoyed watching it alot. Just did a brake job and got me 4 rotors to melt down, thanks for the example.
Enjoyed watching ,thanks for posting ,great recycling !
We always learn the right thing with you.
Please do more video.
Best regards
Thank you for watching my latest video, there will be more videos in the future about melting disc brake rotors
Very nice presentation, I like how you are keeping track with statistics and added them in the end of the video
you are doing hard work in your own shop that is great thing you can do in your life and feel it all day
When I was working as a ladle operator on steelworks, we used a mixture of water, diesel and compressed air to heat up the ladles. Started with diesel and compressed air and then we mixed in pressurized water in the burner .
Very cool! I like your pouring mechanism I see people who are literally 3 ft away from pouring and I cringe at the fact that anything can happen.
Full PPE. Well done flawless video presentation
Thanks for the video, wanting to restore an old coal forge so might have to try my hand at casting iron myself. Although one of those things that sometimes having a professional show you or do it can make things easier in the long term
Are you going to melt iron with the forge?
@@luckygen1001 Thanks for the comment/reply.
Not in the coal one as its a historical piece that is more for the experience, this video years ago was actually my inspiration originally to build a furnace/forge but due to lack of experience + safety forethought about oil/diesel mix i caused a fire due to a leaky valve, so have only been using Gas (thankfully i had foam extinguishers on hand for my vehicles/Equipment)
As my workshop is now full of old cast equipment from 1900-1960 i want to go back to using the oil/diesel mix with gas to do my own castings as looked at electric but don't have the coin for that setup as yet.
100% know that before i even try do any iron casting (I have done Ali,copper,brass on small things) that i need to get some hands on experience with a knowledgeable person that can help me mitigate the risks and provide advice (same reason i have a professional engineer that i can double check things with when doing machining work)
Thanks and didn't mean for the long reply
@@boltonky Please do fix those leaks as oil fires can be scary.
Really interesting process,....
Thanks for putting up this video.
You make it look easy. Well thought out.
You sir, are not only an amazing artist but a magician as well! Nice work on the vids. They are a task in themselves!! Thank you for sharing all your work! Very informative and enjoyable ❤️❤️❤️👍✅
That you for that.
I casted at multiple jobs doing lead now was doing steel in Alabama an casted counterweights for forklifts great cast very clean too
Boy do I need to get crucibles big enough for that. Small crucibles just won't do for my project
your videos are absolutely inspiring! i am getting into scraping but castings are expensive. now that i know you can make them at home with some throw away brake rotors and some motor oil / diesel,.i will definatly be looking into making a furnace.
Good video, very interesting. Without sounding trollish, all it takes to get started from scratch is $10,000 worth of tools, and 10 years experience.
Every metal working hobby needs money and experience.
Very impressive work! Thanks for sharing.
As a person has previously mentioned about your blast furnace, I would like to know how you built it and what you used for materials in the construction of it. Thank you very much for this video
Great video, thanks for sharing!
You can also use old brake drums too.
Yes.
truck brake drums especially, 100+lb each
Mr 1001…! Very good detailed video I like it very much.Can we use stainless steel container as a crucible
For iron no.
@@luckygen1001 thanks
Now it's time for some milling and hand scrapping! Great work!!
Always a pleasure and a privilege to learn from you!
Great video. Whenever I see a large crucible of molten metal I can't help but wonder what a horrible mess would occur should the crucible break.
Don’t know why but haven’t seen your videos for a while. Anyway glad to be back and learning from you.
Back in the days of Galleons and cannons firing cast iron balls, a foundry in the UK used to dust their molds with Plumbago, which I believe is Graphite. it was only mined in the UK at that time and this process allowed the casting of far superior balls to any other country. I live in S. Australia, where do you get your Ferrosilicon from? The foundries that I used to work on furnaces, have now closed up.
Try cast metal services Australia, that is where I got mine. You may have to buy a minimum amount.
Great video. What is the best formula for Green Sand when casting iron at 1300 Farenheit vs aluminum at lower temperatures ?
I use coal dust to improve surface finish for cast iron but with aluminium you can leave out the coal dust.
@@luckygen1001 thank you
Loved it. Very nicely done sire. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
good videos you made, and i remember the goldsmith use borax powder tomelt gol easily, and one the ore is melt he poor a tea spoon of table salt to evaporate the ipurities, the impurities makes gold carcking.
Awesome vid, now I have ideas for all the rotors I have laying around
I have an old vise that is cracked. I want to try my hand at gas welding it with cast rod. The only cast rod i can find is very expensive. Some people say to use piston rings. I was just thinking of this video and came back to it. I wonder if I could cut some longer strips close to the center and use the rotor material? I wonder if the alloy is too hard? Ill plan on doing a long post heat and cool down.
Fantastic video, great pics and awesome audio. I am just getting into casting and found this video really good so have subscribed and will back track now to learn more. Keep them coming
I am in love with the pouring system, I would like to see the design and build of that myself.
I've been collecting brake rotors and wheel hubs for a friend who has a furnace that can handle cast iron. Working at a car dealership I have a virtually inexhaustible supply. :) My furnace barely manages to melt aluminum (but that was the design goal, burning wood scraps to melt aluminum), but someday I'll have time and room to build a nice one.
Try changing from wood scraps to ordinary barbecue charcoal... that’s what they used in the “Bronze Age”. And if you want to get really serious use coke
Great content, so glad I found your channel.
I like your set, very clever man!
Ok master, good to see you again!
wow thanks for sharing learned a lot, like your cart , beats lifting it
Thanks for posting the info sheet at 15:36! It's always nice to know what the efficiency of a process is! I take it the amount of ferrosilicon you used was pretty negligible?
I use 0.25% ferrosilicon to soften the iron.
Very impressive!!! Great work!!
15kg in 50min from cold start, without preheating air. 👍👍👍 That is excelent result. Your furnace ist the best and moust effective i have ever seen on TH-cam. And also more effective than my furnace. Great job very nice 👍
Vielen Dank für das Ansehen meiner Videos und Grüße aus Australien
@@luckygen1001 Es war mir ein Vergnügen. Ihre Videos waren sehr Lehrreich 👍👍👍
It would be cool to see how you machine that plate to have a smooth flat finish, and what you will use it for. What is the advantage of using the graphite over using talc ?
Graphite is supposed to give abetter finish on the surface of cast iron.
Cool thanks for the tips. We're do buy the stuff you mix in to the cAst.
Thank you for your time and lesson. You my friend are a pro
great stuff man.I can't wait to get melting again.
Now is there any possible chance you would consider to show the rigging or your oil burner? I mean for years I have been thinking about to preheat it.. but you seem to have a more sneaky way to do it!!
No sneaky way of doing it I just use waste oil mixed with air from a vacuum cleaner.
just light it like you would a smudge pot, just light an old rag/cloth soaked in oil. doesn't take much to get one going
What about heat treating after machining? Are brake rotors heat treatable?
Very Very interesting and enjoyable to watch
Does the oven work with oil or gas?
Both.
nice work , could you make a video of your burner and furnace? thanks
Did you build your forge? Im curious about the build and oil/diesel system. Haven't seen many being used but sounds like a cool idea.
I really enjoy watching your foundry work. It's inspiring.
I've made a little hairdryer/20 litre bucket/refractory cement/BBQ fuel furnace and have been melting scrap aluminium in to ingots ready for a project at some point. Do you think a propane burner (of correct size) would be hot enough to melt brass in this style of furnace? As I have a bucket of old taps and plumbing fittings that I'd like to re-cycle too.
Propane will melt brass with a decent sized burner
This was fun to watch, thank you.
What a brilliant idea with the disc brakes. I never would of thought to try this. Just brilliant. I actually have to old large disc brakes.
I have just bought a old lathe I'm doing a full restoration. And have a broken lathe change gear with a couple of teeth broken. and wondering if I could try this method to make a new cast of my gear. The lathe is 94 yrs old. And just can't find a replacement gear. Do you think trying your method melting the disc brakes.
This would work. Would love to give it a shot.
Beautiful casting you made there. Turned out great. New subscriber
It is not a good idea to cast teeth for a gear, better to cast a blank from the old one and then cut the teeth on the blank.
@@luckygen1001 ok thanks
Disc break rotors make great little forges IMO.
If you do another surface plate, design it with 3 feet instead of 4. That is how most of them are done so they won't twist under their own weight. The twist us usually tiny, but if you are going to scrape it flat to 10ths it is enough to cause a problem. Great video
Well that's a new one 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Would love to know your equipment setup for melting iron
Excelente explicación.gracias desde argentina
Does the frame ever catch fire ?
Absolutely brilliant work,one day -------
A press with a vee or ball bearing pressing insert might break the rotors more easily than grinding.
I don't have a press but could use a hydraulic jack instead.
I was thinking that my 25 ton log splitter could work
I just bash em with a 4 lb drilling hammer. I often do it on accident removing seized ones for replacement.
A sledge hammer would work well, with proper clothing and equipment of course.
i could listen to you all day, this stuff fascinates me...thankyou
What is your startup procedure for a hot furnace,propane then blower,then oil ,like a cold start ,or will oil self ignite,then blower?
Ah foundry work! Brings back happy memories of my student days at Loughborough.
get a grsnite baking board from a cook shop it;s cheaper !
Holy shit... That's 1 hell of a forge!
I was a little reading on compacted graphite cast iron and it seams that disk breaks and drums are made from this. If you can would you be able to do a clip on this type of cast iron and if it is possible to get good results in you foundary thanks
All the disc brake rotors I have broken up do not bend before they break but exhaust manifolds I have broken up bend before they break. I have read that they are made from compacted graphite.
@@luckygen1001 thanks for the reply when I can find the time I will finish my foundary and then when I can find the time I will make a patten and so on appreciate your content thanks again
Use a slurry mix of graphite and paint the surface of the mold this will eliminate the ""quake" marks or scabbing. It creates a barrier between the iron and sand.
Great video. You now going to have to leave that casting to weather and age before machining? Surprising just how much castings can warp as the stresses work their way out?
As soon as I get time in the next week or so I will machine the surface plate.
luckygen1001 Thank you,that will be interesting. I have just spent some time hand scraping a high spot off my surface plate that could only be down to warping? I have used a fly cutter in the mill to machine large flat surfaces but takes time to get clocked in perfect. Look forward to watching the video,be interesting to see if it does move any after machining since the casting still quite green?
You always make it look so easy mate!
Welcome back! I am hoping that we all can see some more videos from you.
Plz tell us in detail of furnace and burner