Yeah, the pets are always kept away when the work is potentially dangerous for them. Ash is a great shop cat, but some things he can't be around for! 🐶🐕 🐈🐈🐈
This was fascinating. I felt a little sorry for all those candlesticks and such, but maybe they'll be happy in their reincarnation as a lovely statue. :)
The brass was "brazing" itself to the steel muffin forms. Use a light dusting of graphite powder, or perhaps some "soot" as one other guy suggested. Graphite powder do you proud every time! Good luck in future melts!
We should always be alert when working, but should be even more alert when working with hot/molten stuff because everything there will hurt you badly if you aren't careful! 👍
Hehe, Pam probably won't work, I was just kidding. ...but it might, I don't know! There are things you can coat molds with to improve finish quality and to keep things from sticking (soot is my favorite). And indeed it had never happened before! I don't know what was specifically about those spots that made the brass stick. It can't have been too hot, the brass was about 1000°C, and the mild steel the mold is made of shouldn't start to melt until around 1350°C. So yeah, I dunno!
@@SculptyWorks lol I guess you got me there. I don't think I will be lining my own muffin tins with soot anytime soon:-D I know nothing about any of this, so it's all interesting--thank you for clearing this up for me, ha.
Yeah it wasn't an ideal setting, but thankfully everything worked out. 😊 Those refractory bricks are remarkably light (and fragile), and that's an iron pipe, the brick didn't stand a chance! 😉
Did they make one like this? This one I came up with on my own; seemed like a logical way of putting things together. 😉 th-cam.com/video/ReurqjlFRpI/w-d-xo.html
Hey fox!, Happy independence Day!, I'm not really an American, so just a normal day for me, but I hope you had fun!, oh and also....did you just use a pot as a foundry?
To make little brass muffins! 😉 I'm planning something that will need a lot of brass, and when working with scrap metal, it is generally better to first melt it all together and have it in a consolidate form (like brass muffins, or casting grain, or ingots/bars) than to cast it straight from the scrap.
Quick tip. Cardboard under crucible before you turn on your forge will keep it from sticking.
I'll do that next time! 👍
Wow! Glad the cats and the puppy weren't anywhere around that! Happy 4th. Can't wait for the video where you make the finished product.
Yeah, the pets are always kept away when the work is potentially dangerous for them. Ash is a great shop cat, but some things he can't be around for!
🐶🐕 🐈🐈🐈
This was fascinating. I felt a little sorry for all those candlesticks and such, but maybe they'll be happy in their reincarnation as a lovely statue. :)
Don't feel sorry for them, they were old/ugly/damaged. 😉
The brass was "brazing" itself to the steel muffin forms.
Use a light dusting of graphite powder, or perhaps some "soot" as one other guy suggested.
Graphite powder do you proud every time!
Good luck in future melts!
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Thanks!
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Forbidden honey. Melted metal is always my forbidden honey. Why do I want to lick that thing? 😂😂😂
Don't lick the forbidden honey!
Oddly satisfying to watch metal melt.....
And pour.....
I got nervous seeing all that molten brass for some reason, but you are a professional so I should know better haha. I just don’t like high heat
We should always be alert when working, but should be even more alert when working with hot/molten stuff because everything there will hurt you badly if you aren't careful! 👍
I wondered just how you would keep molten metal from sticking to that metal muffin tin! Guess you don't spray it with nonstick spray;)
I'll use some Pam next time. 😉
That had actually never happened to me before!
@@SculptyWorks I'm surprised it had never happened to you before and also that you actually can use something like Pam!
Hehe, Pam probably won't work, I was just kidding. ...but it might, I don't know! There are things you can coat molds with to improve finish quality and to keep things from sticking (soot is my favorite).
And indeed it had never happened before! I don't know what was specifically about those spots that made the brass stick. It can't have been too hot, the brass was about 1000°C, and the mild steel the mold is made of shouldn't start to melt until around 1350°C. So yeah, I dunno!
@@SculptyWorks lol I guess you got me there. I don't think I will be lining my own muffin tins with soot anytime soon:-D I know nothing about any of this, so it's all interesting--thank you for clearing this up for me, ha.
There were hiccups, still you did it!
The pipe hit by a brick worries me a bit, hope it is firm enough.
Yeah it wasn't an ideal setting, but thankfully everything worked out. 😊
Those refractory bricks are remarkably light (and fragile), and that's an iron pipe, the brick didn't stand a chance! 😉
@@SculptyWorks 😄👍🏿
I know a king of random furnace design when I see one haha
Did they make one like this?
This one I came up with on my own; seemed like a logical way of putting things together. 😉
th-cam.com/video/ReurqjlFRpI/w-d-xo.html
Nice video! Good way to make me curious about what kind of statue you have in mind for all that brass. And I still prefer kilograms over pounds. ;)
Kilograms are always better! But we shall be nice to America today. 😉
Is there anything that you cannot do?
I'm not a good dancer, and my cooking is lousy. 😉
Hey fox!, Happy independence Day!, I'm not really an American, so just a normal day for me, but I hope you had fun!, oh and also....did you just use a pot as a foundry?
Yes I did! ...there's a video on that, too, because of course there is! 😉
th-cam.com/video/ReurqjlFRpI/w-d-xo.html
@@SculptyWorks 😂, what ever works, works I guess, oh and why did you use bricks as the lid?
@@James-en1ob They're refractory bricks. They keep the heat in. 😊
@@SculptyWorks ah I see
@@SculptyWorks just wondering, have you ever tried glass working?
Why melt brass
To make little brass muffins! 😉
I'm planning something that will need a lot of brass, and when working with scrap metal, it is generally better to first melt it all together and have it in a consolidate form (like brass muffins, or casting grain, or ingots/bars) than to cast it straight from the scrap.
:O
😁