I love Clark’s channel. You are lucky to have him as a friend and to be on the same side of the planet. Thanks for promoting Clark’s channel. He deserves it.
The casting process is such a lost art, a skilled person like Clark is one in a million. If you want to add letters or numbers to a solid/face in F360, check out and use the "Emboss" feature, it is amazing.
As seen in many Pakistani and Indian "backyard" aluminum foundry videos, they use common local sand but with a molasses binder, the end result looks pretty impressive too, and they rarely remove dross from the crucible, they just neck it back during the pour, I suspect it acts like a thermal blanket keeping the melt nice and hot so no degasser is needed.
Excellent content - so good to see these (soon to be) lost arts unless skiiled people like yourself and Clark pass them on through videos like these and people take an interest. Some YT creators are adding such value in this way. And excuse the little rant but we should avoid producing disposable articles and start producing components that last a hundred years again - with occasional fettling - wherever that makes sense. Sure they're more expensive initially, but if you take the end to end lifecycle view they're much cheaper and bring joy to many. Thank you.
Glad you mentioned to subscribe as is your MO. TH-cam!!! apparently knocked my subscription out somehow. Resubscribed. Bell on. All things are right in the world once again. Always enjoy your videos, Keith!
I did not know Stephen Cox was into all the metal casting and all, only seen him fix cars and fight fires. While I imagine it is fun having a number of instagram and youtubers together in one place, I bet things move pretty slow with everyone trying to get pictures and videos. Not exactly the thing you want when dealing with 1600+ degree molten metal in a cup that is cooling off quickly but fun still nonetheless. thanks for the videos and I hope you all enjoyed the pour.
Years ago my father ran the muller in a large foundry , i was amazed by the exotic things he added to the sand ! Macbeths witches could not have duplicated that brew !!
One other trick that is used is water-glass (sodium silicate) in the greensand. This helps to firm up the sand when it is exposed to air or CO2. Probably not needed with every casting, but very useful on some.
I develop investment cast parts here in Reno and I'm sorry to say there are no foundries around here (closest one is in Carson City), so I get my castings made in Los Angeles. It's sad because I have no doubt there was quite a lot of foundry and pattern making activity in next-door Sparks until the mid-1950s in support of the Southern Pacific steam locomotive fleet. When the SP went to diesel electric they demolished one of the largest roundhouses in the world and laid off many skilled and experienced machinists, foundrymen, etc. Almost nothing remains of the old metal bashing industry in the Reno area. I often think about trying to lure my LA-based foundry up here, where the standard of living is much better.
40+ years ago I worked in a foundry here in Birmingham. From what I was told we were one of the last foundrys that still cast certain parts for steam locomotives, fire grates primarily. The foundry was bought by a foreign company (Chinese) it is gone now.
Great Vlogs, like how you explain in detail the process, many people with the knowledge do not like to spare their know how and want to carry it to their grave. Good thing it have million of other people knowledge of how to do it.
Nice video glad you enjoyed your trip. One question from me is why was the propane tank you used for your heating tank (forge?) housed in a box and large basin?
I hope the person you made those for, can shoot you some video of him installing them into his cane mill, and get some shots of the improvement in the shaft turning inside those new bushings. If it is the mill that you were doing some work on, and did show the work you did on it for him, the shaft was very wobbly, and was the cause of some problems with the fit and workings on parts of it. It would be nice to see the end result of all this nice and expert work, in the restoration of the old cane mill. There is a nice resurgence in old time sweeteners, and lots of people say that nothing tastes as good as cane syrup, and cane sugars.
1st and yes, you have to get up pretty early. I've always wanted to get into this. Looks fairly straight forward with a whole bunch of nuance and trickery
I wonder if your regulator was "tripped" and all it needs is reset. I didn't get a good look at what kind it was , but some you can pull the cap off the long protrusion you can push a spring loaded rod in and reset it. The regulator needs to be inline and under pressure to reset it. I would try that before buying a new one.
Hello Keith, sorry to ask because you probably answered this question many times already, but I couldn't find an answer : What happened to the furnace that you built a few years ago ? It looked very good and promising, I enjoyed the videos of the build but never saw it again since then, I hope it didn't fail to work properly, or broke. Could you possibly make a video about it ?
I hate it when the sand drops out! One thing I noticed was the cope and drag was smooth on the inside usually they have a 1/2 dado around the center to act as a key against dropout.
The emboss tool is what you want to get the letters on a curved surface like that in Fusion 360. That or if you really want them to truly wrap the curve you can use the Sheetmetal tools and flatten it out to put the numbers on it.
Keith,what ever happened to that very nice furnace you built a couple of years ago ? I was looking forward to seeing you using it and doing some casting.
We had metal casting boxes (cast iron ?) and the sides were as 'smooth' as cast iron :) also, half way down them they had a 'belly out' ???? so on the inside, the sand would fill that too. [something of the style in the image on the right of this picture: wiki.jefferyjjensen.com/_media/engineer-mechanical/metalcasting/backyardfoundry-aspin-p30.png
Interesting - dual heats ? ! I only used a lower one and no, NO regulator - You also have one on the tank - I use a 30 gallon tank that doesn't use the blocking part in the flow and it went directly into my foundry ! I had a ventory(sp) sucking in air and the hot flame kept pulling in the gas. I use red Pet 'green ' - I think it has pine tree pitch that runs at heat and creates a nice surface.
I'm wondering if part of your propane problems are the tank is too small for what you're trying to take off( propane is not vaporizing fast enough) and the safety valve in the tank not letting enough gas flow . I'm wondering if that set up maybe should be using liquid propane instead of vapour
Agreed, when I saw that 20lb cylinder, I was like I can't believe that it would vaporize fast enough to make enough heat.....lo and behold it didn't do it .
Adding text in Fusion 360 is very easy. Since the shape is cylindrical, you would add a plane tangent to the top and create a sketch on the plane. From there, you would extrude it.
@Bob Weiram I am "NOT" a Fusion 360 user, however, in it's 'big brother', Inventor, the function for adding text to a curved surface is "emboss". It allows the projection of the text from the sketch plane to either be raised or recessed to a certain height / depth from the curved surface. Look for a similar function within Fusion. Tutorial I found.... th-cam.com/video/aAjhTFxi2_w/w-d-xo.html Ken
14:55 Did you try reducing the airflow from the blower - I notice the throttle is wide open - might be too much air blowing the flame up the inside of the furnace ?????
You might have frozen your regulator with the amount of liquid propane you wanted to change to a gas. I needed to put a vaporizer on my propane tank. This acts as a heat exchanger and regulator. They are used on forklift trucks and the radiator water goes through it.
14:12 The guy on the left is holding the crucible tongs correctly. The guy on the right is not - he's too close to the crucible. This means the crucible is not sufficiently gripped and could slip out of the tongs.
In my forge the gas and air are best adjusted when all the gas is consumed inside and no flame is coming out the top. Also when casting with a new helper it is best to choreograph the motions and make sure there is nothing to trip on. Bitter experience.
@@millomweb I'm not sure what their forge is like, and I've never melted anything with a higher melting point than brass. It's a ratio. You can add a lot of fuel and a lot of air and get it all to burn inside the forge. Or you can make it sound like a rocket engine and blow flames out of the top. Mine would get very bright hot and I think I could melt steel but I just haven't done it yet.
@@johnlennon335 My dad had a go at melting brass in a baked bean can. Got it all nice and molten. Picked the can up and the bottom fell out of it :) He was just using coke and an air blast.
@@millomweb Well, that's how you learn! You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. I started with bituminous coal, then went to charcoal and then to propane. I used cast iron pots for aluminum for a long while and now have some decent crucibles. Also it is best not to use coke, or alcohol before metal casting.
@@johnlennon335 We removed some old lead piping from the house. Dad decided to melt it down - I was there having just come home from school. I must be one of the very few people to be able to correctly claim to have been shot with molten lead ! Obv. some water left in one of the pipes and he was pointing the pipe at me at the time. I returned to school with a darned jumper and holes in my shirt with bits of shiny stuff attached to it.
Need to watch windy hill, Clark works what he calls a "part time" 40hr a week job and does the foundry work at his home. He has a lot of behind the scenes shows.
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Been binge watching, from the beginning, finally only a year behind!
I love Clark’s channel. You are lucky to have him as a friend and to be on the same side of the planet.
Thanks for promoting Clark’s channel. He deserves it.
Looks great, we cast aluminium at the school metalworkshop in 1963-4 using the forge, good days.
Thanks Keith.
The casting process is such a lost art, a skilled person like Clark is one in a million. If you want to add letters or numbers to a solid/face in F360, check out and use the "Emboss" feature, it is amazing.
As seen in many Pakistani and Indian "backyard" aluminum foundry videos, they use common local sand but with a molasses binder, the end result looks pretty impressive too, and they rarely remove dross from the crucible, they just neck it back during the pour, I suspect it acts like a thermal blanket keeping the melt nice and hot so no degasser is needed.
They also ram the sand with their bare feet
@@donniebrown2896, they probably get a better feel for it that way!
Nice job Keith on the Bearings. Fun times at Clarke's.
I love this video! Thanks for showing how often things don’t go perfect!
0:18 Looking at the background and shaking my head...there's one in every group, I guess. LOL
Izzat Steven Cox being zany?
Wears on my nerves 😒
Excellent content - so good to see these (soon to be) lost arts unless skiiled people like yourself and Clark pass them on through videos like these and people take an interest. Some YT creators are adding such value in this way. And excuse the little rant but we should avoid producing disposable articles and start producing components that last a hundred years again - with occasional fettling - wherever that makes sense. Sure they're more expensive initially, but if you take the end to end lifecycle view they're much cheaper and bring joy to many. Thank you.
great looking castings Keith
Glad you mentioned to subscribe as is your MO. TH-cam!!! apparently knocked my subscription out somehow. Resubscribed. Bell on. All things are right in the world once again. Always enjoy your videos, Keith!
so cool to see the process - thanks for capturing it!
Always a party at Windyhill Foundry! I hear Dollar is a good host. :-)
You have my dream job. Thanks for sharing
I did not know Stephen Cox was into all the metal casting and all, only seen him fix cars and fight fires. While I imagine it is fun having a number of instagram and youtubers together in one place, I bet things move pretty slow with everyone trying to get pictures and videos. Not exactly the thing you want when dealing with 1600+ degree molten metal in a cup that is cooling off quickly but fun still nonetheless.
thanks for the videos and I hope you all enjoyed the pour.
Thanks for explaining the need for the lugs.
Love to watch Clark work. It does look a bit dangerous.
Nice project
Frank
Love all these videos! Thanks for doing what you do!
Nice that you were ale to wrap up or come closet to wrapping up some more projects :) I enjoy your channel as always, keep on keeping on!
THANK YOU...for sharing. Enjoyed and thanks for taking us along.
wow look at that new apron :)
Years ago my father ran the muller in a large foundry , i was amazed by the exotic things he added to the sand ! Macbeths witches could not have duplicated that brew !!
Keith. Real interesting. Fully enjoyed!! Thanks! 👍👍
One other trick that is used is water-glass (sodium silicate) in the greensand. This helps to firm up the sand when it is exposed to air or CO2. Probably not needed with every casting, but very useful on some.
That is used to make cores that are inserted in the mold to make holes in the casting.
Hey! I work on Johnson Gas’s boiler at there shop here in Cedar Rapids Iowa. I also work at the owners house on there boiler as well!
I develop investment cast parts here in Reno and I'm sorry to say there are no foundries around here (closest one is in Carson City), so I get my castings made in Los Angeles. It's sad because I have no doubt there was quite a lot of foundry and pattern making activity in next-door Sparks until the mid-1950s in support of the Southern Pacific steam locomotive fleet. When the SP went to diesel electric they demolished one of the largest roundhouses in the world and laid off many skilled and experienced machinists, foundrymen, etc. Almost nothing remains of the old metal bashing industry in the Reno area.
I often think about trying to lure my LA-based foundry up here, where the standard of living is much better.
40+ years ago I worked in a foundry here in Birmingham. From what I was told we were one of the last foundrys that still cast certain parts for steam locomotives, fire grates primarily. The foundry was bought by a foreign company (Chinese) it is gone now.
GREAT PORE, GREAT VISIT, GREAT JOB, GREAT VIDEO, [ BACK TO WORK ]
Great Vlogs, like how you explain in detail the process, many people with the knowledge do not like to spare their know how and want to carry it to their grave. Good thing it have million of other people knowledge of how to do it.
What a fun time, wish I was there
Now that was fun to watch .
Hey Keith and Clark
It’s great to have a friend like Clark, who is very knowledgeable about castings. Without him what would you do?
Nice video glad you enjoyed your trip. One question from me is why was the propane tank you used for your heating tank (forge?) housed in a box and large basin?
I hope the person you made those for, can shoot you some video of him installing them into his cane mill, and get some shots of the improvement in the shaft turning inside those new bushings. If it is the mill that you were doing some work on, and did show the work you did on it for him, the shaft was very wobbly, and was the cause of some problems with the fit and workings on parts of it. It would be nice to see the end result of all this nice and expert work, in the restoration of the old cane mill. There is a nice resurgence in old time sweeteners, and lots of people say that nothing tastes as good as cane syrup, and cane sugars.
Keith, what happened to the furnace you made? Hope to see you at the next Bar-Z. Thanks for the video. Jon
very interesting video, thanks
Good evening from SE Louisiana 29 Mar 21.
1st
and yes, you have to get up pretty early.
I've always wanted to get into this.
Looks fairly straight forward with a whole bunch of nuance and trickery
I wonder if your regulator was "tripped" and all it needs is reset. I didn't get a good look at what kind it was , but some you can pull the cap off the long protrusion you can push a spring loaded rod in and reset it. The regulator needs to be inline and under pressure to reset it. I would try that before buying a new one.
Nice!! Cool how software and a printer can make you a pattern maker...:-)
Myfordboy does that as well, to great effect.
Hello Keith, sorry to ask because you probably answered this question many times already, but I couldn't find an answer : What happened to the furnace that you built a few years ago ? It looked very good and promising, I enjoyed the videos of the build but never saw it again since then, I hope it didn't fail to work properly, or broke. Could you possibly make a video about it ?
I was reading the comments to see if anyone brought this one up. I was hoping that he would finish that project up, and let us see it.
I hate it when the sand drops out! One thing I noticed was the cope and drag was smooth on the inside usually they have a 1/2 dado around the center to act as a key against dropout.
The emboss tool is what you want to get the letters on a curved surface like that in Fusion 360. That or if you really want them to truly wrap the curve you can use the Sheetmetal tools and flatten it out to put the numbers on it.
Keith,what ever happened to that very nice furnace you built a couple of years ago ? I was looking forward to seeing you using it and doing some casting.
Those 12" straight edges look great! Are we going to see a 24" version?
very interesting.
"Let's see if that will fall right out when you tip it upside down?" Sure did! ;)
Smooth sided flask doesn't help.
We had metal casting boxes (cast iron ?) and the sides were as 'smooth' as cast iron :) also, half way down them they had a 'belly out' ???? so on the inside, the sand would fill that too.
[something of the style in the image on the right of this picture: wiki.jefferyjjensen.com/_media/engineer-mechanical/metalcasting/backyardfoundry-aspin-p30.png
The castings look great, a few fun projects well hopefully see soon?
Interesting - dual heats ? ! I only used a lower one and no, NO regulator - You also have one on the tank - I use a 30 gallon tank that doesn't use the blocking part in the flow and it went directly into my foundry ! I had a ventory(sp) sucking in air and the hot flame kept pulling in the gas. I use red Pet 'green ' - I think it has pine tree pitch that runs at heat and creates a nice surface.
I can help: "Venturi" (just about) every carburetor has one as well.
owwwwww its magic it turned 90 deg during the ramming
Hey Keith, do you still have that furnace you made on the channel? I think you built it before the new workshop started.
I'm wondering if part of your propane problems are the tank is too small for what you're trying to take off( propane is not vaporizing fast enough) and the safety valve in the tank not letting enough gas flow . I'm wondering if that set up maybe should be using liquid propane instead of vapour
Agreed, when I saw that 20lb cylinder, I was like I can't believe that it would vaporize fast enough to make enough heat.....lo and behold it didn't do it .
Is that Navy foundryman "sandrammer"?
Dude.. that made me laugh , , don't drop the sand out...... great vid...
Adding text in Fusion 360 is very easy. Since the shape is cylindrical, you would add a plane tangent to the top and create a sketch on the plane. From there, you would extrude it.
@Bob Weiram I am "NOT" a Fusion 360 user, however, in it's 'big brother', Inventor, the function for adding text to a curved surface is "emboss". It allows the projection of the text from the sketch plane to either be raised or recessed to a certain height / depth from the curved surface. Look for a similar function within Fusion.
Tutorial I found.... th-cam.com/video/aAjhTFxi2_w/w-d-xo.html
Ken
The smooth sides of the wood cope and drag contributed to the failure of the first attempt.
The RPM of the cane mill is what ever the horse turning it can go. Depending on the length of the pole, maybe 1-2 RPM's. Nice castings.
What kind of friend is that?, you go to his house for a get together and he sends a bunch of work back with you.
What ended up happening to the furnace you built years ago?
Keith, what is the desired temperature for the molten Bronze when pouring is into the mold?
Interesting name "fall board". On a piano, a fall board is that lid which drops over the keys and protects it from dust.
What ever happened to the furnace you were building a couple years ago?
14:55 Did you try reducing the airflow from the blower - I notice the throttle is wide open - might be too much air blowing the flame up the inside of the furnace ?????
Maybe have a video on the conversion from one metal to another?
What kind of glass was used to shield the bronze while melting it?
Wondering why you didn't use the riddle before putting the petrobond over the mold ?
I am curious about the stoker engine that you were working on. What is the status of that?
hiya Keith
No shop cats?
You can't have a Vintage Machinery video, without the shop cats.
There is a dog at :40, that's Dollar.
Giday Keith. What is the latest on the stoker engine?
You might have frozen your regulator with the amount of liquid propane you wanted to change to a gas. I needed to put a vaporizer on my propane tank. This acts as a heat exchanger and regulator. They are used on forklift trucks and the radiator water goes through it.
OK, Keith what happened to the furnace you built?
I guess you didn't watch the whole video. That is Keith's furnace they are using.
Yeah this isnt the furnace he was building then.
That isn't the furnace he built.
MrPete has complained about the surface texture left by 3d prints. Have you done anything special to make the 3d printed pattern smoother?
People sand and fill with bondo (it requires VERY little!)
14:12 The guy on the left is holding the crucible tongs correctly. The guy on the right is not - he's too close to the crucible. This means the crucible is not sufficiently gripped and could slip out of the tongs.
In my forge the gas and air are best adjusted when all the gas is consumed inside and no flame is coming out the top. Also when casting with a new helper it is best to choreograph the motions and make sure there is nothing to trip on. Bitter experience.
I wondered if they had too much air - so the fire was being blown up the furnace. I noted the air throttle was pretty much fully open.
@@millomweb I'm not sure what their forge is like, and I've never melted anything with a higher melting point than brass. It's a ratio. You can add a lot of fuel and a lot of air and get it all to burn inside the forge. Or you can make it sound like a rocket engine and blow flames out of the top. Mine would get very bright hot and I think I could melt steel but I just haven't done it yet.
@@johnlennon335 My dad had a go at melting brass in a baked bean can. Got it all nice and molten. Picked the can up and the bottom fell out of it :)
He was just using coke and an air blast.
@@millomweb Well, that's how you learn! You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. I started with bituminous coal, then went to charcoal and then to propane. I used cast iron pots for aluminum for a long while and now have some decent crucibles. Also it is best not to use coke, or alcohol before metal casting.
@@johnlennon335 We removed some old lead piping from the house. Dad decided to melt it down - I was there having just come home from school.
I must be one of the very few people to be able to correctly claim to have been shot with molten lead ! Obv. some water left in one of the pipes and he was pointing the pipe at me at the time.
I returned to school with a darned jumper and holes in my shirt with bits of shiny stuff attached to it.
The old bell makers used sand mixed with horse manure. Maybe that's what makes his sand green
I have one word.
SAFETY GLASSES AT ALL TIMES IN THE SHOP!
Dude seriously needs to clean that shop up.
Need to watch windy hill, Clark works what he calls a "part time" 40hr a week job and does the foundry work at his home. He has a lot of behind the scenes shows.
Does anyone know where to purchase a furnace like Keith's?
Love your videos Keith but I have to invoke the wise words of Judge Judy..."Take the word 'basically' out if your vocabulary." Keep up the good work.
At this point if he quit saying the word basically, I wouldn’t recognize who it was talking! Same as if he quit saying the word oll instead of oil! Lol
I can live with oll because I live near Balmer, or Baltimore to the rest of the country.
I hope people do not spread the rumor that Keith and Clark had a "falling out". :-)
Took me a second! Lol
What material do you use to 3D print your patterns?
why is your tank in the tub of water ??
What ever happened to the stoker engine?
👍
Ah, reality intrudes. Thanks fir the video.
Why doesn’t Keith ever engage with his viewers in the comments section?
Bro.... is your dog ok ?? looks like he ran 5 miles.
He/she looks like a very elderly dogger.
Nice session, enjoyed the time.