😡 There is a TYPO - The propane is set to 0.1 MPa, not 1.1 MPa as I typed in at 1:01 of the video. In this video, I'll be pouring some copper bars and copper rounds using my Devil Forge Furnace or Foundry. I have some copper pieces, plates and wire that needs to be consolidated so I am hoping to make a few pours that I will like! After some luck but more issues with my electric furnace, I decided to turn to the tried and tested Devil Forge to re-embark on my Metal Pouring Journey! It has NOT disappointed! I'm always excited to use my Devil Forge, the large cast iron molds, and with any luck, we'll have some beautiful bars to add to my stack or to offer to anyone interested. PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL - I am an Amazon Associate and if you shop on Amazon, please feel free to click one of my links below - I get a little extra every time you shop using my link: www.amazon.com/shop/robfindstreasure OR, you can directly click one of the links below for the items I used in this video: OR, you can directly click one of the links below for the items I used in this video: Devil Forge 5KG: amzn.to/2Qoq6gz 26" Cast Iron Crucible Tongs: amzn.to/31FecE0 Cast Iron Ingot Mold 250z: amzn.to/2Qb0KT3 Cast Iron Ingot Mold 40oz: amzn.to/2sXz4sJ Cast Iron Ingot Mold 100oz: amzn.to/2StbWNR Borax (for removing impurities): amzn.to/36WkBMo Rock Tumbler: amzn.to/2zneHFT 1 LB Jeweler's Mix Stainless Steel Polishing Mix: amzn.to/2QdyGQU I hope you enjoyed the video - if you did, please subscribe! goo.gl/7jX6g5 Here's the playlist of all my pours, if interested: th-cam.com/play/PLknd43YfQfvaBP4xO5vjv-8QZsF_bHlDm.html If interested, please join me on my other social media sites: Facebook: fb.me/RobFindsTreasure Instagram: instagram.com/robfindstreasure/ Twitter: twitter.com/RobFindTreasure robfindstreasure.com www.ebay.com/usr/robfindstreasure
Coin roll hunting, bill searches, metal pours and metal detecting!? How have I not found this channel until now? That's four of my absolute favorite things to do 😳😊😂
Good looking bars. Looks like there might have been some aluminum in some of your wire, some can look like copper and be aluminum on the inside. Colors can be a little off from glare and camera, but kinda looks like aluminum bronze based on the color.
Per my local trusted scrap dealer, they do not want home poured ingots of copper or aluminum. They must send them out for metallurgical testing. That reduces the value, as they have to pay for that. For best value leave the wire "as is" (and be sure to remove any oxidation from it, as that also reduces the value. Found that out the hard way).
Yeah, makes sense for sure - if I was planning on giving up the fun of the hobby and accumulating copper ONLY for investment, then I'd return the wire sans melting. But I would rather lose out on the small difference in value and get to do some pours.
He's awesome. Not everyone who pours and records can be him. I do have a dog, enjoy an occasional beverage and prefer US Flags (although the Aussie ones are cool too!)
@@RobFindsTreasure I know he is so awesome right, I have been subscribed to both you and him for about two years. In the future could you cast other things than bars? Maybe cast a massive Buffalo nickel in sand with aluminum and place in one of your CRH videos? It would be so cool!
I like them how they are. If you have a bench grinder, those fibre wheels work wonders on metals. I also use one of those smaller belt sanders then polish, speaking of that, you can get a buffing wheel for said bench grinder. I like the anvil on a solid surface you have going, keeps from "machine doubling". I sure like the metal melting video's. Have you considered using a press to stamp? Just curious. A hydraulic press is spendy but would make a great impression. I like them!
@@RobFindsTreasure I hear you. My '64 Chevy C10 has cost me a pretty penny recently and not near done. I put a crate 350 in her and got it running good. Your stamps are awesome though and a good strike makes it awesome. See you hopefully on Wednesday!!
Something else I noticed from watching gold bars being poured at a foundry...after they were poured, they had a torch pulled over the top of the mold, to keep it super hot...guessing to smooth out the cooling imperfections. doubt it as an option, just observation.
I like the bottoms left as they are. I was wondering what grit disk or sandpaper were you using??? Also, I like the rubber pads on you vice. Gotta have some good gloves to do that kind of work. Great video.....thanks Rob!!!! 😁♥️😁♥️♥️
Hey Rob, or anyone else who does melts, have you ever had a glassy substance form when doing melts? After melting aluminum the other week I had a thick layer of what looked and felt like glass form in the crucible and in the junk I poured out afterwards.
@@RobFindsTreasure I have yet to ever add anything to the metal such as Borax. Thinking it may be silicates that are leaking out of the crucible some how.
LOL why be safe 😂 🤣 I see you're still pouring with canvas shoes on. Sometimes you must learn the hard way, I sure did. I have a scar on the top of my right foot you can lay a marble into.
I have big fire gloves but these are a smaller thick leather glove that gives me just enough time - easier to use but NOT the safest for prolonged periods of time.
The bottom of the bars? Eh, I'm mixed. If it's going to have a rough texture, then I'd rather not have any dips/craters in the middle (heat those molds up more since the outer part is getting cooler and set than the middle) or any blemishes from splashes or dirty pours/molds. Since you are doing a rough cleaning on the bars, then the rough texture is fine. What annoys me about some of the TH-cam smelters is that they put a polish on the bar and leaving the bottom looking like garbage. If one is going to polish the bar and making it look nice, then do the entire bar and sweep up the copper dust for future melting. I do love your silver pours though, and when you do copper pours your bottoms tend to come out much better when you do not overfill the mold. Out of curiosity - have you considered in experimenting with minting your own coins? Not medallions or deblumes from pouring into round molds, but I mean taking the copper you smelt, having it rolled into a sheet then planchets punched out of them, then using a high tonnage bearing press and dies to mint? That would be pretty cool to see and experiment with. Keep up the good work though!! I look forward to all of your videos!! :D
It's not, but my stamp is OZT so instead of stamping an O and a Z, I elected to measure it in OZT to save time stamping. Maybe one day they'll think of it as a precious metal and it'll be measured as such. LOL
Should you weigh copper in TROY ounces? Troy ounces are what precious metals are weighed in. Copper is not a precious metal. I think it's considered a semi-precious metal. I only stamp my bars in Grams or ounces. I don' melt im-pure copper objects into bars, IE copper pipes with solder on them, Tin-plated copper plugs, or tinned (silver colored) copper wire. If the item is just coated in some other metal, I'll try to grind it off before melting it. If it's not pure copper, then what's the point? it's considered Brass or Bronze at that point and worth considerably less. I do save all my copper pennies though, when it becomes legal to melt them down, I'll purify them through an electrolytic copper cell.
Melting copper into ingots ONLY serves one useful purpose and that is to reduce copper for easy storage. What is the value of melting into ingots money-wise when you simply have #2 copper going in and #2 coming out?
😡 There is a TYPO - The propane is set to 0.1 MPa, not 1.1 MPa as I typed in at 1:01 of the video.
In this video, I'll be pouring some copper bars and copper rounds using my Devil Forge Furnace or Foundry. I have some copper pieces, plates and wire that needs to be consolidated so I am hoping to make a few pours that I will like!
After some luck but more issues with my electric furnace, I decided to turn to the tried and tested Devil Forge to re-embark on my Metal Pouring Journey! It has NOT disappointed!
I'm always excited to use my Devil Forge, the large cast iron molds, and with any luck, we'll have some beautiful bars to add to my stack or to offer to anyone interested.
PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL - I am an Amazon Associate and if you shop on Amazon, please feel free to click one of my links below - I get a little extra every time you shop using my link:
www.amazon.com/shop/robfindstreasure
OR, you can directly click one of the links below for the items I used in this video:
OR, you can directly click one of the links below for the items I used in this video:
Devil Forge 5KG:
amzn.to/2Qoq6gz
26" Cast Iron Crucible Tongs:
amzn.to/31FecE0
Cast Iron Ingot Mold 250z:
amzn.to/2Qb0KT3
Cast Iron Ingot Mold 40oz:
amzn.to/2sXz4sJ
Cast Iron Ingot Mold 100oz:
amzn.to/2StbWNR
Borax (for removing impurities):
amzn.to/36WkBMo
Rock Tumbler:
amzn.to/2zneHFT
1 LB Jeweler's Mix Stainless Steel Polishing Mix:
amzn.to/2QdyGQU
I hope you enjoyed the video - if you did, please subscribe!
goo.gl/7jX6g5
Here's the playlist of all my pours, if interested:
th-cam.com/play/PLknd43YfQfvaBP4xO5vjv-8QZsF_bHlDm.html
If interested, please join me on my other social media sites:
Facebook: fb.me/RobFindsTreasure
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Always hear you molds! Lol
@@mrturtleturtle7878 Wouldn't be a melt video without a typo...
@@RobFindsTreasure Yep! Lol
How fast do you go through propane
Coin roll hunting, bill searches, metal pours and metal detecting!? How have I not found this channel until now? That's four of my absolute favorite things to do 😳😊😂
I think leaving that side natural is awesome
Awesome pour video. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome copper pours like to see more of theses or silver pours I'll be watching for them
Your videos are always fun and educational. Thank You and be safe.
I like the bars just as they are! It's a cool contrast!
Those are absolutely gorgeous Rob!
I know copper is cheaper than silver, but copper is definitely my most favorite metal! 😁
I love metal pour videos. Some of my favorite to watch.
I really like the purple bottom on that one bar.
Leaving one side with its raw poured texture is the way to go. Great video.
Great video Rob, love me some copper brother🤤👍
Beautiful bars Rob, I like them just how they are!
Love the video! Thanks for the bar, I just got home from Elk hunting (no luck) and came home to the awesome gift!
Really nice bars Rob!! You’re getting so good!! 👏✌🏼
good stuff amigo!
Thank you brother!
Hi Rob I'm a new member plus this is satisfying to watch.
Thank you!
These pour segments are very cool , really enjoyed watching. 👍
Not finishing the bottom gives character. Looks good to me!!
I think the bottoms look fine. I like the look of the first one. Great job!
Very nice bars Rob!
Great job Rob!!!
I recognize some of that copper, lol. Love your videos and always love to watch you melt and pour. Your ingots look great the way they are.
Thank you good sir!
Sweet pours brother!
I love the videos where you pour bars!
That plating on the lugs is silver. You can acid wash the silver off first for recovery before melting down the lugs.
I love these videos! Great bars!
The dirty copper bars had a purple look to them. Really neat colour!
This is quite relaxing
Hello Rob the bars look cool!!
Copper has a cool color to it that makes me want to grab it through the screen!
Forge scale is beautiful!
I'd love to learn to do this, it looks like a fun and relaxing hobby, thanks for sharing.
Really cool pours.
Hey Rob awrsome pours mate they turned out good rob thanks for sharing take care Regards Gregory Lee from Melbourne Victoria Australia.
I love my Devil Forge as well I only have the 4kg one but works just fine for me
Nice job they look great
Thanks for posting brother! Always enjoy these vids.
Awesome pours!
I think you dhould leave the bottoms of the bars they look nite with them on good job rob i love copper
Good looking bars. Looks like there might have been some aluminum in some of your wire, some can look like copper and be aluminum on the inside. Colors can be a little off from glare and camera, but kinda looks like aluminum bronze based on the color.
Cool!
Hi Rob! Catching back up on your videos!
leave em ruff Rob good job
Hey Rob how are you doing today
Doing well - and you?
@@RobFindsTreasure I’m doing great thanks for asking
That was fun to watch
Thanks
Very cool anvil
I'm enjoyed the belch from the Devil Forge after you scooped the slag...but I'm not exactly normal... :D
Per my local trusted scrap dealer, they do not want home poured ingots of copper or aluminum. They must send them out for metallurgical testing. That reduces the value, as they have to pay for that. For best value leave the wire "as is" (and be sure to remove any oxidation from it, as that also reduces the value. Found that out the hard way).
Yeah, makes sense for sure - if I was planning on giving up the fun of the hobby and accumulating copper ONLY for investment, then I'd return the wire sans melting. But I would rather lose out on the small difference in value and get to do some pours.
Dings give it character
Beautiful im so jealous
They look pretty cool with the bottom left alone I think it shows the pours and gives it a real copper bar look. How are you doing Rob?
Wow Rob, everyday you are converting more in to Bigstacked. Hey you should get a dog, some beer, and a big aussie flag and you'll be all set!
He's awesome. Not everyone who pours and records can be him. I do have a dog, enjoy an occasional beverage and prefer US Flags (although the Aussie ones are cool too!)
@@RobFindsTreasure I know he is so awesome right, I have been subscribed to both you and him for about two years. In the future could you cast other things than bars? Maybe cast a massive Buffalo nickel in sand with aluminum and place in one of your CRH videos? It would be so cool!
You should get a mold for a giant Indian head center:D
Now that would be cool!
Rob Commented Before The Video!!
LOL - I am not going to lose twice in a row! :) BOOM! 💥
Have you ever burned or dropped the glowing red container
Not yet! Thank goodness!
I like them how they are. If you have a bench grinder, those fibre wheels work wonders on metals. I also use one of those smaller belt sanders then polish, speaking of that, you can get a buffing wheel for said bench grinder. I like the anvil on a solid surface you have going, keeps from "machine doubling". I sure like the metal melting video's. Have you considered using a press to stamp? Just curious. A hydraulic press is spendy but would make a great impression. I like them!
Yeah. It’s a little out of my price range but I may invest in some more equipment like you mentioned for 2021.
@@RobFindsTreasure I hear you. My '64 Chevy C10 has cost me a pretty penny recently and not near done. I put a crate 350 in her and got it running good. Your stamps are awesome though and a good strike makes it awesome. See you hopefully on Wednesday!!
AUCTION THEM OFF THIS FRIDAY.👍🏽
Something else I noticed from watching gold bars being poured at a foundry...after they were poured, they had a torch pulled over the top of the mold, to keep it super hot...guessing to smooth out the cooling imperfections. doubt it as an option, just observation.
I like the bottoms left as they are. I was wondering what grit disk or sandpaper were you using??? Also, I like the rubber pads on you vice. Gotta have some good gloves to do that kind of work. Great video.....thanks Rob!!!! 😁♥️😁♥️♥️
Rob you should take the bars after you poor them and put it on a raw steak or block of ice!
How do you stop pits from forming
Is it ok to mix number 1 and number 2 copper to melt
I like the rough look of the bars (not shinny). For the 23 oz bar, is it still available?
Three bars out of such little amounts of copper shown. Any pennies make their way into the batch?
No way! I do not melt Copper cents. I showed the box of copper at the start and it still has 1 Kilo left in it.
@@RobFindsTreasure then what's the point t of saving copper coins if they are only worth face value?
@@EpAzK77 if they ever legalize it, or at least allow me to cash them in for their copper content, I’d have a lot of it.
watching you handle the crucible at the beginning without gloves = inner screams.
LOL - it was cool when I did it. I know better, believe me!
Hi Rob, why do you seperate the copper pennies when coin hunting? Do you end up melting those?
No. I keep that copper for my stack. Plus, you cannot legally melt US Cents or US Nickels.
where can i get tongs like that, both of them?
Great video , new subscriber here. 👍😁
Hey Rob, or anyone else who does melts, have you ever had a glassy substance form when doing melts? After melting aluminum the other week I had a thick layer of what looked and felt like glass form in the crucible and in the junk I poured out afterwards.
If you add Borax, that is what the residue looks like. If you did not add Borax, then I am unsure other than slag/dross byproducts.
@@RobFindsTreasure I have yet to ever add anything to the metal such as Borax. Thinking it may be silicates that are leaking out of the crucible some how.
How long does your propane usually last?
I cool on ice blocks
Boy that water is boiling hot 🔥
It's smarter for sure but hate using up freezer space for blocks of ice making.
LOL why be safe 😂 🤣 I see you're still pouring with canvas shoes on. Sometimes you must learn the hard way, I sure did. I have a scar on the top of my right foot you can lay a marble into.
Wht kind of gloves do u wear 2 handle the hot stuff?
I have big fire gloves but these are a smaller thick leather glove that gives me just enough time - easier to use but NOT the safest for prolonged periods of time.
Like welders gloves u do have correct. 0608 here in pgh
Have you got a price on the little guy I’d like to purchase it
The bottom of the bars? Eh, I'm mixed. If it's going to have a rough texture, then I'd rather not have any dips/craters in the middle (heat those molds up more since the outer part is getting cooler and set than the middle) or any blemishes from splashes or dirty pours/molds. Since you are doing a rough cleaning on the bars, then the rough texture is fine. What annoys me about some of the TH-cam smelters is that they put a polish on the bar and leaving the bottom looking like garbage. If one is going to polish the bar and making it look nice, then do the entire bar and sweep up the copper dust for future melting. I do love your silver pours though, and when you do copper pours your bottoms tend to come out much better when you do not overfill the mold.
Out of curiosity - have you considered in experimenting with minting your own coins? Not medallions or deblumes from pouring into round molds, but I mean taking the copper you smelt, having it rolled into a sheet then planchets punched out of them, then using a high tonnage bearing press and dies to mint? That would be pretty cool to see and experiment with. Keep up the good work though!! I look forward to all of your videos!! :D
That’s a great idea! I’d love to mint my own coins but I’d be starting from scratch. Might have to look into it. Thanks for the comment brother!
Wow
shiny!!!
Do you have a link for your mats?
It’s always in the video description but here you go as well: RobFindsTreasure.com/whats-for-sale/
Nice
if u melted copper wire with red over it. it’s lacquer know as candy copper
Can I buy a large copper bar?
That's some .maybe tin in there?
I think something for sure. Oh well, still came out cool even if 98% or 99% copper on a few.
Leave them like they are I'll take the 17 os. one.
I didn't think that copper was measured in ozt...
It's not, but my stamp is OZT so instead of stamping an O and a Z, I elected to measure it in OZT to save time stamping. Maybe one day they'll think of it as a precious metal and it'll be measured as such. LOL
Ea Nasirs quality tops this🗿
Should you weigh copper in TROY ounces? Troy ounces are what precious metals are weighed in. Copper is not a precious metal. I think it's considered a semi-precious metal. I only stamp my bars in Grams or ounces. I don' melt im-pure copper objects into bars, IE copper pipes with solder on them, Tin-plated copper plugs, or tinned (silver colored) copper wire. If the item is just coated in some other metal, I'll try to grind it off before melting it. If it's not pure copper, then what's the point? it's considered Brass or Bronze at that point and worth considerably less. I do save all my copper pennies though, when it becomes legal to melt them down, I'll purify them through an electrolytic copper cell.
Melting copper into ingots ONLY serves one useful purpose and that is to reduce copper for easy storage. What is the value of melting into ingots money-wise when you simply have #2 copper going in and #2 coming out?
Did you pour the bars in pounds or ounces?
I used troy ounces for these pours, although regular ounces is the correct measure of copper and all things not considered precious metals.
That coating was most likely silver
If melting pennies was legal, would you be doing that?
Not sure. It would hurt me to see nice copper cents melted.
Auction them off!!
Ihave some pound of copper
Get that water out of there when you are pouring!
FIRST!!
Nope! Not first! Lol
@@mrturtleturtle7878 You were close though 😁
@@burner-e7y VERY CLOSE!
I was pretty close! It think I was in top 5!
@@mrturtleturtle7878 you were third just behind me by like two seconds well if you count Rob Fourth
First