I've watched casting videos for 5-6 years now. The fact that you showed (and explained) what didn't work, in addition to what did work, makes this one of the best casting videos I've seen. When I have a specific shape I want to cast, it really helps to see what other people have done for venting and pouring locations in their mold design. Learning what doesn't work is just as important as learning what does work, and you covered it wonderfully.
the cool thing about needing brass is, when you are done at the range i go to, there is usually tons of other peoples brass as well! freeebeeee! always leave with more than you came with ;)
Well done lad. Thompson is a wealth of GOOD type info. The only changes I made were to add a bunch of stainless wool to the sand,plaster mix for extra toughness. Thanks friend ! ! !
You know what. We see all these "Its so easy to cast aluminium, Brass e.t.c" videos and they do make it look SO easy. Its GREAT to see you fail (I dont mean that in a negative way) and your processes into making it successful. A WHOLE lot more realistic and helpful...IMHO.
Really like this video, fun to watch the process you went with the trial and error, much more interesting than just seeing you get it right the first time.
Peter!! I've watched you on flite test for forever but I never thought to look for your channel. It seems like you have a slight gun addiction just as I do. Love it, man love it. Keep up the good work!
oh definite luck with the basic sand/foam evap casting! still good a very good lesson. next up, go for wax and investment plaster. fairly soupy with vibration will get bubbles out, for really complete bubble elimination you'll want to whip up a vacuum bell (can be done with a coffee can for smaller projects!). you can get BOTH actions (vibration and vacuum) out of a decent size strong aquarium air pump by sealing its seams and giving it an air intake tube, to pull a little vacuum in the can while vibrating everything in it.. mount air pump solid to your board with seal (for the upside down big coffee can), board's feet are thick foam rubber stuff so whole thing vibrates same time as it's pulling air out of the investment plaster inside the smaller soup or coffee can, with the BIG coffee can as vacuum bell. hope you get the image of what I'm typing here, this is a very low budget low tech good working vibe table vacuum bell, you can get nearer jewelry castings out of it. it'll typically take 20-30 minutes vibe-vacuum time for the bubbles to rise up out of the plaster in first part of it's way to drying. if you get the picture do it, it'll really surprise you!
I once worked in a foundry as a sand molder. Outlet holes are important to let the air out and to also gauge when its full. You can also poke small holes evenly throughout the sand mold and spray C02 into those holes to harden the sand to a solid mold, this would help with detail. I really enjoyed that work, casting is amazing.
I tried something like this with a smaller forge and turned random old tools I had laying around but I had the same problem with heat. The forge just wouldn't get hot enough. Thanks for the idea buddy
Hey Peter you'll get better but here's a few tips and I'll be sure to upload some videos of me casting when I get better. When you put your foam in, don't make the sand so damp (judging by the color of the sand) and it always helps me to put it through a kitchen strainer to kind of make it less coarse. Lastly, foam coolers make the best forms and melts away the best in my experience
Liked the video, you covered a lot of detail with minimal words or time. There's something about working molten metals that reminds me of sitting around a camp fire. Almost feels natural. Try using wax instead of foam, might be surprised.
Where did you get the crucible, how long does the furnace last? Can you scale the the furnace up? What temperatures can you reach in the furnace? I think I would like to duplicate this process. Great channel, I think I see where you are going with this. This looks like fun!
I'm seriously impressed. I didn't think your furnace could get hot enough for brass; how did you regulate the temperature so you didn't cook off the zinc? Myself, I was lucky enough to find a bag of refractory cement in a local home improvement place, so when I put mine together it'll last quite a while. EDIT: Also, use a steel bucket instead of a plastic one.
I love it. 3:57 (how fitting right?) "But before that, let's go to the range and get some brass". I subscribed to your channel immediately following that.
Tip for lost PLA casting. Use plaster paris instead of sand. You'll get a finer detail. bake the plaster mold in an oven at 350*+ F upside down with a tray at the bottom for at least 6 hours, 24 hours at 300* is more ideal. This it to bake out all the water so the mold won't crack or explode when you pour a cast. Upside down, to drain the PLA (good habit stemming from lost wax casting). Once poured and ready to break it out, dunk the whole plaster block in a lot of cold water. This will shock the plaster and shatter in the water, making it easier to get at the piece.
Peter, I have been wondering why you weren't in any new flighttest videos. Glad to see you are doing your own thing! I'm excited to catch up on your channel and looking forward to the future of your channel. Thanks for sharing your creativity with the world. - Stanford
I used my 3d printer to make a replica of the final object that needed to be cast for someone, and they were able to make some sort of resin mold from that, which you could pour the brass into. The result needed some cleaning but it was still a pretty efficient way of doing it.
I'm surprised that you don't have More subscribers than you got right now. You are very skilled and I love watching your videos! 500k subs in 2017? Keep it going :)
Awesome! Curious, have you considered a mold using a plaster investment? My dad is a goldsmith (he casts gold, silver, platinum, bronze and brass) and uses the lost wax technique - he'll make wax patterns and create a hard plaster mold around them, then burn/steam the wax out. I should think styrofoam would be no different? You'd need a heat source big enough to house the mold, but your level of ingenuity is like 9000 so I wouldn't think that would be too much of a problem . . . ;) Also, a suggestion, I'd love to see a DIY homemade jet engine, and from the garage mechanic/tinkerer channels I've seen on youtube, you have both the knowledge and production capability to make a thing like that both possible AND entertaining!
Next time, have the sprue stick out of the sand and put a tin can around it. This causes the metal to form head pressure (and keeps it from flowing out on to your bucket) which forms the part better . It also gives a large mass of metal to allow shrinkage without causing voids in the mold when the metal cools.
I've done the hole metal casting thing with this kind of forge but I haven't done the gas conversion yet but when I do it if it gets better results I'll make sure to do another comment as an explanation of what I did but basically when you go to remake the donut put metal wires in it to increase the durability of it and when you do the forge again put a steel almost outer crucible with a welded bottom going into the floor of the bucket which will also increase the longevity of it
I'm sure someone else has probably said this already but it's not a forge, it's a foundry or furnace. Other than that awesome job. that gives me hope for making my own.
Honestly, your channel is one of the best channels I've found.
Agreed i subbed for all the random quality videos glad he shows the fails too, in a way he reminds me of peter brown with more tech
SkyAviationHD Agree
I second that!
This IS the best channel on TH-cam I was with u at 8k Peter. Keep up the good work man.
SkyAviationHD I
I've watched casting videos for 5-6 years now. The fact that you showed (and explained) what didn't work, in addition to what did work, makes this one of the best casting videos I've seen. When I have a specific shape I want to cast, it really helps to see what other people have done for venting and pouring locations in their mold design. Learning what doesn't work is just as important as learning what does work, and you covered it wonderfully.
the cool thing about needing brass is, when you are done at the range i go to, there is usually tons of other peoples brass as well! freeebeeee! always leave with more than you came with ;)
haha, funnything is that the last shooters left 100+ rounds of spent 556, I didn't even shoot more than 50 rounds!
You NEED more viewers man.
Stupid TH-cam algorithm.
#burnthealgarithm
Lol
i love u even more peter. after the range scene!
Best way to get your own brass. So happy I subbed.
RIP Grant
You will always be remembered
Yes
Ganesh Neelagandan ummm what now?
Mr Hernandez what do you mean
Ganesh Neelagandan did he pass?
@@dutchman55 unfortunately yes
Best. way. to. get. brass. ever!!!!
funnything is that the last people left 100+ rounds of spent 556! I didn't need to shoot much at all!
PeterSripol
Brass for days!!!
Did you press the spent primers out first?
Love it when I go to the range and there are hundreds of brass casings lying around. Love it.
Erik Jensen a lot of primers are brass so he might not have had to
Love the style at the beginning of the video! Really lightens the mood
hes such an amazing engineer .. i love to see his every vid
I LOVED that short clip of emptying the revolver brass onto the camera
Great music as always! Love your videos
Well done lad. Thompson is a wealth of GOOD type info. The only changes I made were to add a bunch of stainless wool to the sand,plaster mix for extra toughness. Thanks friend ! ! !
Peter you deserve at a million subscribers! Keep up the good work!😉
yes he does a good job
You know what. We see all these "Its so easy to cast aluminium, Brass e.t.c" videos and they do make it look SO easy.
Its GREAT to see you fail (I dont mean that in a negative way) and your processes into making it successful. A WHOLE lot more realistic and helpful...IMHO.
Back from the range...awesome sauce!
dang! I never realized Peter was packin so much heat!
Another great video. It's gratifying to see that young people still do the kind of crazy stuff that I did when I was young.
Enjoying the Videos and the pretty chill community , keep up the entertaining inventions and what ever else is in your future
I like that you showed the failures. Let us avoid those issues!
I absolutely love the editing style and your sense of humor. Great work. Keep it up!
Really like this video, fun to watch the process you went with the trial and error, much more interesting than just seeing you get it right the first time.
thanks mate! awesome to see someone that actually posts up the stuff-ups so we can learn.
Nice video, I like that you showed what you tried and what ended up working
belt buckle... just saying...
Good effort Peter. Good luck with the parts you trying to make. Looks like a fun project.
Peter!! I've watched you on flite test for forever but I never thought to look for your channel. It seems like you have a slight gun addiction just as I do. Love it, man love it. Keep up the good work!
Nice Beretta I have a 90-two and I love it!!
I enjoyed your stuff on Test Flight. Love you went out on your own to try some other projects. keep up the great work!
fantastic video Peter. looking forward to more. you really did a good job.
I'm really looking forward to that thing you said near the end of the video! (about casting 3d printed parts!)
Ur very courageous, creative n a Riot! Getting free spent brass, urs or others
at the range is also great. Thx!
It's really cool that you showed all the failure modes
This isnt forging it's casting or founding, forging is when you stamp hot metal into a shape, the thing you melted it in is a furnace
title updated! I'm an idiot haha, it shows what I know! :D
oh definite luck with the basic sand/foam evap casting! still good a very good lesson. next up, go for wax and investment plaster. fairly soupy with vibration will get bubbles out, for really complete bubble elimination you'll want to whip up a vacuum bell (can be done with a coffee can for smaller projects!). you can get BOTH actions (vibration and vacuum) out of a decent size strong aquarium air pump by sealing its seams and giving it an air intake tube, to pull a little vacuum in the can while vibrating everything in it.. mount air pump solid to your board with seal (for the upside down big coffee can), board's feet are thick foam rubber stuff so whole thing vibrates same time as it's pulling air out of the investment plaster inside the smaller soup or coffee can, with the BIG coffee can as vacuum bell. hope you get the image of what I'm typing here, this is a very low budget low tech good working vibe table vacuum bell, you can get nearer jewelry castings out of it. it'll typically take 20-30 minutes vibe-vacuum time for the bubbles to rise up out of the plaster in first part of it's way to drying. if you get the picture do it, it'll really surprise you!
Try to make a spaceship
I once worked in a foundry as a sand molder. Outlet holes are important to let the air out and to also gauge when its full. You can also poke small holes evenly throughout the sand mold and spray C02 into those holes to harden the sand to a solid mold, this would help with detail. I really enjoyed that work, casting is amazing.
I thought forging was the process of moving heated metal around/shaping it
Great edit, and well paced! Liked the music and funny bits too!
This has to be one of my favorite videos you have done!
The best Art Deco themed build channel!
You are brilliant. I am hopelessly wasting my life. I want to create and innovate as you do.
I tried something like this with a smaller forge and turned random old tools I had laying around but I had the same problem with heat. The forge just wouldn't get hot enough. Thanks for the idea buddy
I love your channel Peter. I watched you on flight test and it's great to see you doing your own thing.
That is excellent work, Peter. Nice job!
I always find his editing very clean and smooth as well as amusing it is
Nothing more to say than, AWESOME!
This is THE best outro on TH-cam!
Nice work. Thanks for also explaining your failed attempts.
This guy teach us that we must never give up and keep try...
You should do a workshop tour. or show us what your favorite tools are.
Really darn interesting video. Great job Peter!
YESS, the one channel I actually check for uploads everyday. New video is like Christmas.
thanks man! :D you guys all watching keeps me making more vids! I just need to get back on schedule.
PeterSripol a schedule? that's even better. keep it up man! :)
Hey Peter you'll get better but here's a few tips and I'll be sure to upload some videos of me casting when I get better. When you put your foam in, don't make the sand so damp (judging by the color of the sand) and it always helps me to put it through a kitchen strainer to kind of make it less coarse. Lastly, foam coolers make the best forms and melts away the best in my experience
Liked the video, you covered a lot of detail with minimal words or time.
There's something about working molten metals that reminds me of sitting around a camp fire. Almost feels natural.
Try using wax instead of foam, might be surprised.
will do! I've even seen some 3D printable waxes!
Very nice.... keep up the good work. tech stuff is good and the editing is awesome.
Where did you get the crucible, how long does the furnace last? Can you scale the the furnace up? What temperatures can you reach in the furnace? I think I would like to duplicate this process. Great channel, I think I see where you are going with this. This looks like fun!
Out-friggin-standing stuff Peter.
I'm seriously impressed. I didn't think your furnace could get hot enough for brass; how did you regulate the temperature so you didn't cook off the zinc? Myself, I was lucky enough to find a bag of refractory cement in a local home improvement place, so when I put mine together it'll last quite a while. EDIT: Also, use a steel bucket instead of a plastic one.
I love it. 3:57 (how fitting right?) "But before that, let's go to the range and get some brass". I subscribed to your channel immediately following that.
Need to watch more of your stuff Peter, specifically the followup video to this one. I do like your collabs with William Osman too.
I love the way you "get brass"
xD
Also appreciate you posting where you hit pitfalls.
Dudes... hilariously entertaining video.😆 Nice shop, and nice music.
looks like grant imahara when at the shooting range
I really like your creations! Keep it up.
This actually turned out realrly good
Kinda amazing you got it this well on your first attempt
FLYING CAR PART 2 I SM DYING PETER!
its coming its coming! :D need more time for engine experimentation!
Please make a store! The only planes I like on the ft store are your design. I would love to support you directly. Thanks so much!
Awesome yet again Peter!!
this channel deserves more subs
the effort you put into your end sequence is what separates your from other youtubers
Damn good for your first try peter
Tip for lost PLA casting. Use plaster paris instead of sand. You'll get a finer detail.
bake the plaster mold in an oven at 350*+ F upside down with a tray at the bottom for at least 6 hours, 24 hours at 300* is more ideal. This it to bake out all the water so the mold won't crack or explode when you pour a cast. Upside down, to drain the PLA (good habit stemming from lost wax casting).
Once poured and ready to break it out, dunk the whole plaster block in a lot of cold water. This will shock the plaster and shatter in the water, making it easier to get at the piece.
it feels nice that one of my favourite youtuber watches one of my favourite youtubers videos
PeterSripol you genius ...!
Peter, I have been wondering why you weren't in any new flighttest videos. Glad to see you are doing your own thing! I'm excited to catch up on your channel and looking forward to the future of your channel. Thanks for sharing your creativity with the world. - Stanford
I used my 3d printer to make a replica of the final object that needed to be cast for someone, and they were able to make some sort of resin mold from that, which you could pour the brass into. The result needed some cleaning but it was still a pretty efficient way of doing it.
The slightly moist sand made me nervous when you were pouring the brass in, but I'm glad it worked well. Can't wait to see what else you do!
weird huh! :D spill a bit of it on concrete and it explodes all over the place... damp sand and not so much!
I'm surprised that you don't have More subscribers than you got right now. You are very skilled and I love watching your videos! 500k subs in 2017? Keep it going :)
Awesome! Curious, have you considered a mold using a plaster investment? My dad is a goldsmith (he casts gold, silver, platinum, bronze and brass) and uses the lost wax technique - he'll make wax patterns and create a hard plaster mold around them, then burn/steam the wax out. I should think styrofoam would be no different? You'd need a heat source big enough to house the mold, but your level of ingenuity is like 9000 so I wouldn't think that would be too much of a problem . . . ;) Also, a suggestion, I'd love to see a DIY homemade jet engine, and from the garage mechanic/tinkerer channels I've seen on youtube, you have both the knowledge and production capability to make a thing like that both possible AND entertaining!
Great video Peter. Def something different. Hope you had a great New Year.....peace
Loctite 565 is what you want for plumbing Peter. BTW Nice choice of "brass separator" tool.
Love your AR-15 Pete!
Next time, have the sprue stick out of the sand and put a tin can around it. This causes the metal to form head pressure (and keeps it from flowing out on to your bucket) which forms the part better . It also gives a large mass of metal to allow shrinkage without causing voids in the mold when the metal cools.
I've done the hole metal casting thing with this kind of forge but I haven't done the gas conversion yet but when I do it if it gets better results I'll make sure to do another comment as an explanation of what I did but basically when you go to remake the donut put metal wires in it to increase the durability of it and when you do the forge again put a steel almost outer crucible with a welded bottom going into the floor of the bucket which will also increase the longevity of it
I'm sure someone else has probably said this already but it's not a forge, it's a foundry or furnace. Other than that awesome job. that gives me hope for making my own.
Loved seeing the king of randoms forge design being made by someone else. Ive made a few things from his channel and wondered if anyone else had
Good work man! The most cute Forge i even see
I was watching some rotor riot vids and stumbled across your channel!
Good video. Like the way you do your layouts
I like your brass collection method.
That turned out awesome:)
I hate that you left flite test but I'm super happy to see you are doing good and have your own channel that is also doing very well
*HI* this is the best channel I have ever found
Soo awesome peter!!! Loving the videos!!
Cool stuff. Keep on keeping on.
I really like the way you shoot your videos.
awesome to see the mistakes too so I can try it!
Good tips thank you, might save me some time!
thanks for posting your failed attemps so i don't have to make the same misstakes
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sorry
infinitely better than that king of random guy could ever hope to achieve since you know what you're doing
Hey peter I've been subed for a long time you have inspired me now i have started building models 🙂
Great work!