Yes Adam I do coat my ceramic wool it’s just after awhile it does get a bit messy and looks like there is no coating but I can assure you I regularly touch it up to avoid the risk of fibres releasing from the furnace👍🏻
@Wo Jak by modern standards sure but Google any variation of "cast weapon archaeology" and you will see for yourself. I understand the value of concentrating molecules via forging and don't dispute it whatsoever especially combined with modern treating processes. But that was then and this is now.
The music you put in the end like discovering ancient advanced structures and artifacts. A true iron man maker. Glad I typed a search and come across this.
Also this brings me back to when i first found your channel i told you to make an iron ingot cuz no one else had done it yet and you said you couldn't now look at you your going up bro
And yet we can find videos of dudes in bare feet and shorts casting the stuff in India. I won't comment on the OH&S or the quality of the castings made
I got me a furnace and started melting things down I sucked at it to begin with because I didn’t have much experience but now I’m getting better and better and better I even got my hands on about 10 kg of German silver that I’ve been melting down I haven’t melted it all yet but I produce some pretty cool bars. Also I do a lot of aluminum copper and brass zinc and lead. Somebody even paid me to cast about 1 pound or around half a kilogram of gold jewelry that they have found over the years metal detecting. But I’m glad I found your channel because you have introduced me to a very fun hobby
i made a little forge out of a coffee can lined with sand/waterglass/plaster mix lining. First time i tried melting some copper to make aluminum bronze with it i used a cast iron crucible like i'd done before. I know copper and cast iron have pretty close melting points and a ceramic crucible would have been much better. but i didn't have one at the time. I guess I underestimated the heat of the little thing because when i went to pour i got bronze and a little lump of cast iron that poured out. I had started to melt my crucible. Now my retired cast iron crucible has a shiny golden bronze bottom lol
Impressive Bigstack. I’ve been planning to try cast iron at some point but I don’t think my setup is up to the challenge. Nice furnace you have there. Well done.
Fascinating how Iron reacts with oxygen to instantly make Fe2O3 with the sparks from actual iron particles in the air. Our bodies use a lot of iron in our hemeglobin to transport oxygen around our bodies in this way. I love this vid.
Reminds me of my cast iron pour. Melted furnace, ruined crucible, lots of propane and all I got from it was cast iron that was in a different shape from before I melted it. ;-) I suppose we all have to try it. Good to hear from you mid-week matey.
Melting cast iron is not an easy feat and you managed to melt that poor sucker of a rusted cast iron bbq plate. I'm impressed! You deserve a Sub from me as i LOVE watching Metal geting melted and poured
Man. Watching bigstackD work is like one of those old school Foster's commercials. This guy just did something, without even the use of a heat fan, that all of my peers have been warning me not to try. No matter what you do for fun where you're from, stuff like this convinces me it's WAY more hardcore in Australia!
I had to come back and re-watch your cast iron melt, I didn't remember the fireworks show last time I watched it till you mentioned it. I need to shine up the little cast iron ingots that I had leftover, I bet they will shine up good. Thanks for the inspirational videos. Can't wait to try cast iron again, and re-do my last project.
Cool no worries buddy . Yeah that cast iron one I shined up is still sitting on my shelf and hasn’t tarnished or rusted at all surprisingly , although it is sitting in a moisture free environment and inside my theatre room on the shelf so that definitely helps👍🏻
Just the start, snagging the iron and ffwd run from wife.... 😂😂😂 My life in a nutshell!! You made my day!! Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone!
Shiiiid, you're living my childhood dream. Love pretty shiny metals no matter what kind. Also meltigg stuff is fun and cool, if one is safe about it. 👍
@@THEKNI8 if he can melt cast iron it wouldnt be much harder to melt even high carbon steal, its only about 300 degrees farenheit away from cas itons melting point
Great vid dude! Never seen anyone melt cast iron and cast it into an ingot BTW sry for late comments I've been busy but anyways keep up the good work and Surprise me!
If it was Iron and not steel it wouldn't crack because of the lack of carbon particles. Carbon is present in steel and is what makes it harder and more brittle. Iron as an element is much softer.
No grill is safe from the SMELTING MAN...watch as he reduces all metals into submissive matter! Watch as mere metal shake in terror and become puddles before your eyes! The amazing SMELTING man!
Cheers bro. Yeah I thought I should chuck out a different vid on a different day for my loyal viewers 👍🏻. I’ll still release something every Friday but every now and then when I catch up I’ll do a mid week melt🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Well my friend I’m glad you liked that. Trust me I had absolutely no idea cast-iron would Shine like that either. I had to use a different piece before I melted and sand it down and buff it to make sure it was gonna be worth my while, I wasn’t gonna destroy the iron ingot that I poured so that’s why it didn’t get stamped . Please do stick around I’m sure I have other stuff you will like👍🏻
The temperatures for steel and iron is where I draw the line, I save that for the professional foundries as I used to work at 1 and when crucibles fail oh, it's really nasty I give you a lot of credit for doing this at home
Cheers buddy I appreciate your comment, I actually tried it again in last weeks vid just to do an element cube (yes Cast irons an alloy not an element ) I had a bit more success on that even though I poured like shit🤦🏻♂️ check it out if you wish if not have yourself a great week and stay safe my friend👊🏻😁.
@@bigstackD I'll definitely check it out buddy, I'm currently in the process of building the new Foundry, I have a lot of copper and aluminum laying around that I need to melt into ingot, I really enjoy making aluminum bronze. I try to be really careful with that so I don't get an exothermic reaction, although it's highly unlikely the mixture has to be just right for that to happen. You ever noticed when you're melting copper and you add aluminum to Copper it melts almost instantly when the aluminum comes into contact with the copper?really cool reaction, if you have a temperature gauge to measure the temps inside you should see how quickly they rise when the two metals come into contact to form the alloy
Actually buddy I have melted off camera for my friends probably 40 or 50 kg of aluminium bronze over the last few years and I always melt the aluminium and copper at the same time. I know that’s not how it should be done but I don’t need my aluminium bronze to be perfect I’m not doing precision pieces I’m not making stuff that needs to be exact and my friends just want some cool bars that they can sand and shine up And chuck on their workbench or desk. Melting The copper and aluminium together at the same time will lower the Coppers melting point save on time and gas and with a couple of stirs before pouring it comes out almost as strong as steel that’s why I never stamp my aluminium bronze because there’s really no point dulling my steel stamps👍🏻
@@bigstackD yeah I definitely agree with that I add my aluminum to The Copper just before the copper starts to melt but that's just my style no real reason for it. I noticed it's super hard so yeah there is no reason to stamp any of it if anything I guess it could be etched. Anyway I love your videos, maybe after my foundry is finished this summer Ill send you some,of my casted stuff to do whatever you want with them. Always fun making new friends and meering cool people here on YT. Take care brother!! Be safe and most of all, have fun!
I was with you right up until the ice block cooling scene... building in thermal stress into a finished product..especially if it will be used in a heated or cold application..is building in failure. Patience is the most important aspect of casting any metal.
There is something fascinating about your channel. Obviously the work you put into your videos makes them as good as they are but there's something else which I can't quite put my finger on. I think maybe it has something to do with metal being one of the only materials that you can take the finished product and quite easily (Compared to other materials) just reset it back to its basic state. Whatever it is I really look forward to your videos coming out! Keep it up :D
Lucky gen 1001 talks about crucible burns in some of his vids. He is now showing his adding nickel to his cast. Nickel is not cheap, good source is US 5 cent ( nickle) 75% nickel, 25% copper. I have been waiting for this to see how you handled the high temps. Good show and the wife won't believe the dingo story after what you did to her jewelry. Lmao. Word of caution, after working in a foundry I remember seeing concrete burn from molten steel.
Absolutely loved the sparking when you poured it... can really tell it's super-high in carbon, both from the sparks & that messy black grit that results when you try machining the stuff. Sucks that the crucible failed first time... no warranty???
@@jamesburriss1086 super late reply, so maybe you've looked it up by now. Wrought iron has a very low carbon content. Steel is like .1% to 2% or something. What we call cast iron has a high carbon content, above steel.
Nice bro! Those fireworks coming from the pour was great and the surfing 🏄♀️ ingot cleanup 👍🏻 to bad you only got one use out of that crucible. Did you temper it first 🧐 I’m sure you did but gotta ask anyways haha. It’s good to know that the foundry will get hot enough to melt the cast iron. Great work as always 🍺🍺🍺
Cheers bro. Yeah I normally get the crucibles nice and dry and red hot then let them cool overnight so it should’ve been fine although I’m thinking I could maybe still use it with aluminium as the hole might be full of cast-iron and I won’t be going anywhere near those temperatures again I’ll try it in my old furnace if I do. I got your email that sword looks pretty awesome is that this Fridays video?
bigstackD Casting oh yeah that’s a good idea! Didn’t even think of that haha. Yeah hopefully I’ll have this video ready by Friday. Gonna finish filming tomorrrow so I can edit it all day tomorrow. It’s been a struggle but it should be up 👍🏻 just gotta smash something stupid with it if I can pick it up 🤷🏻♂️🍺🍺talk soon my friend
That little forge is amazing. The pour went great my friend ! Bummer on the crucible. What a mess eh.I often wonder why you balance the crucible on the edge of that brick. Easy to tip ?
It looks like it’s dangerously close to tipping on this brick but it’s actually quite safe and as the crucible with its contents weigh normally quite a few kilos it would take a descent knock to tip over 👍🏻
Honestly I have no idea but my friend told me they use this type of stuff in sparklers mixed with some other stuff which kind of looks about right🤷🏻♂️.
Iron and by extension, steel makes sparks when it's heated (either from being melted or from the friction of an impact or abrasion) because some iron on the surface spontaneously oxidises and gives off heat. There are lots of factors at play, like for example iron is the only commonly known metal that has an oxide compound with a lower melting point than the metal itself. (FeO melting point is 1,377 °C, pure iron melting point is 1,538 °C). It's also simply due to the chemistry of iron oxide. Iron oxide isn't very chemically stable when compared to another metal oxide like say, Aluminium oxide. Aluminium never burns in air. You can get it down to an even finer particle size and higher surface area than iron or steel and it still won't burn. Steel wool will burn when ignited, aluminium powder or atomised aluminium won't burn. Simply put, heating the metal increases the likelihood of oxidation because the atoms on the surface have higher energy. When it does oxidise, this oxidation releases more heat and oxidises other nearby atoms in a chain reaction. It turns out that iron oxide isn't a very insulating or chemically strong material, so it doesn't prevent further oxidation like aluminium oxide does. When this oxidation chain reaction happens, eventually a whole clump of atoms is flung off the surface and continues to burn in the air until it's reduced to nothing but fine iron oxide powder. This is the spark. I don't have an explanation for what mechanism actually causes the iron to fly off of the ingot. Perhaps it's due to opposing magnetic forces as the iron(ii) oxide further oxidises into another oxide compound such as hematite or magnetite? Though, I can't find any source to say that this happens.
bigstackD Casting its actually the iron3+ combining with the oxygen in the air and burning to produce iron4+. When you do iron next you need to sand blast the rust off first (which is why your ingot is full of pits), and put a bunch of flux in the crucible so it protects the metal from oxidation and the silica in the flux will also make its own ferrosilicon which will make the cast iron more ductile. Anyways good job getting hot enough to melt iron, but I can’t imagine what it cost in propane. I’m still working on a waste oil drip feed for mine, I went and saw my buddy that owns a autoshop the other day but it got super cold and we spent more time drinking to stay warm than working on my project.
@Guodlca Very good point, I hadn't considered their Curie temps and I was betting on there being some amount of Fe3O4, though I'm pretty sure that can't form just from the oxidation of iron in air.
Very well done. I wanted to melt steel for a 75 cylindrical pipe as a template to round galvanised iron around a downpipe as they no longer make it anymore.
That is an awesome piece of cast iron there Meneer BigstackD! I love cast iron to cook with! Gonna hoard some in bullion just in case the Apocalyse comes about!
It looks like he had done that. The problem is you need to be gentle with them. Don't fill it with chunks of broken iron then tap it on the the ground in an attempt to settle the chunks into the crucible. Which is exactly what he did. And exactly why it cracked. You could see the crack before he even put it in the fire.
I'm completely intrigued by your hobby. I believe I may start taking some small steps 2 doing some of this myself. I live in rural Mississippi and when I tell you this enough junk in the woods out here to build New York City, I am not joking. Though I am Joe King
Iron is the most common metal we have on Earth (though Aluminium is more common in the crust, it's harder to find and refine), the planet is literally made of the stuff and all of our buildings are constructed with a framework of steel. It's not worth a lot because it's so common.
That's great buddy that you have reached such high temperature 👍 Great job! Of course it's a pity that the crucible cracked but when we speak about such high temperatures there is no guarantee that it will sustain.
Cheers matey but you did beat me by over a month and You melting copper is impressive but that vid blew my mind with the iron you melted has on completely aware of just how high the temperatures need to be to do that type of thing👍🏻😁🍻🍻🍻
@@bigstackD Eh... In fact I've made that video during summer of 2017 🙂 Of course it's possible to go further and melt something with even higher temperature using this type of furnace but crucible should be made of pure graphite 😀
You should aim that thermometer at the ice block/water. Would be interesting watching the temperature drop and how quick it rises as water. Great videos 👍🏽👊🏽👌🏽
for cast iron stock, make a trip o your scrap dealer and buy some pieces of cast iron sewer pipe, then apply sledge hammer. Also, don't make mistake and try graphite crucible - go sillion carbide/mullite, and do -not- stack a cucible wih solid before heating. Peheat pieces, and melt one by one. Expanding solid can crack a brand new crucible.
Great video mate!! 1) would have loved to have seen the temperature of the tank before, the bucket of water before submerging it, and the temperature of the water after you were finished to see how cold it got
As resource consuming as melting iron is I have to admit these are some of my favorite videos. Would like to see more but I understand it costs a lot of resources to melt iron and it adds a lot to your kilogram pile because it's dense.
Yes buddy I’ll definitely be doing a little bit more iron as I want to make a heap of iron coins as I don’t think I’ve seen that done before , obviously once I’ve cleaned them up I would need to spray some clear acrylic on them or they could start to rust on me👍🏻
I just thought that with most of your videos you get such nice looking ingots that one day you should try coating one in gold leaf or something like that and adding to your pirate's treasure
Another great video! This was a really great addition to your stack! Every time you show up I can’t help but look in the bottom left corner and think about the door that came from lol 😂 Love it brother keep it up!
Dude, your channel is the shiznit! I'll kick it with you anyday of the week and just melt sh!t. Make that money brother. I'm gonna be around for the long haul. I can't wait to binge watch. Yee
I see you putting the propane tank in a water bath to warm it up. I've got the opposite problem here in Norridgewock, Central Maine. Come winter it's quite cold. Sometimes 20-30 F below zero (-29 to -34 below) and the propane won't come out of liquid. This is a problem because I BBQ all year round, regardless of the weather. I try to keep the propane tank inside and this resolves the problem.
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bigstackD Casting can you provide a link for your ingot molds, and crucibles? Thank you
Next time melt stones
Do you not coat your ceramic wool?
Trevon I get all Molds and crucibles from eBay I don’t have a certain supplier I just look for good deals👌🏻
Yes Adam I do coat my ceramic wool it’s just after awhile it does get a bit messy and looks like there is no coating but I can assure you I regularly touch it up to avoid the risk of fibres releasing from the furnace👍🏻
This channel is literaly just the story about a man with no impulse control as he slowly melts everything he owns.
Final video: MELTING MY HOUSE 9001°c+
I am thinking that Mrs D might have something to say about that.
I got a funny feeling that I should hide my metal belongings
Like Ray from trailer park boys ripping out the copper from his walls to buy booze.
@@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite LMAO I remember that that guy is a lawyer in real life him and his fake disability 😂😂
"Honey... where did my pots and pans go?"
"..... Like my new battle axe?"
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Hahaha love this comment!
Uh they absolutely cast swords and ace heads for thousands of years in both the iron and bronze ages buddy.
@Wo Jak by modern standards sure but Google any variation of "cast weapon archaeology" and you will see for yourself. I understand the value of concentrating molecules via forging and don't dispute it whatsoever especially combined with modern treating processes. But that was then and this is now.
@Wo Jak in the end caring to keep metallurgy knowledge and skill a living thing is apology enough for me. Keep doing what you do bro.
I like how I asked you about steel and iron over a month ago and then suddenly you're producing iron casting videos. Keep up the awesome content!
The music you put in the end like discovering ancient advanced structures and artifacts. A true iron man maker. Glad I typed a search and come across this.
Glad you liked it Ronald👊🏻. I actually will melt some more cast iron in today’s video that will come out in about 3 1/2 hours👍🏻
Seems like no metal in your house is safe when you get the itch to melt and cast.
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@@bigstackD 😂😂
Doesn't seem like he melts high carbon steel tho.
@@lasmgoogleaccount9728 with a propane furnace I don't think it be entirely safe for him to be able to do so.
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Except the metal already made into bars
Also this brings me back to when i first found your channel i told you to make an iron ingot cuz no one else had done it yet and you said you couldn't now look at you your going up bro
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Legit the only good cast iron melting video on TH-cam. Nice!
Well hopefully the world agrees with you😉👍🏻🤔
Check out Cast Iron Gypsy.
luckygen1001 has some nice content on iron / steel melting
BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL MADMAN ON THE LOOSE IS MELTING LITTERALLY EVERYTHING HE CAN FIND
Can he melt steel beams????
@@AMRAMRS They said madman, not jet fuel
@@jackoneill8050 you don't really need jetfuel just a industrial furnace mate but they are insane
@@AMRAMRS if he can melt iron he can definitely melt steel
@@jgilly3362 just heat is all
Wow cast iron! I'm impressed! That stuff isnt easy!
Yeah it’s some serious damn heat that’s for sure bro 😖. But I’m very glad I atleast tried it 😁👍🏻
And yet we can find videos of dudes in bare feet and shorts casting the stuff in India.
I won't comment on the OH&S or the quality of the castings made
@@bigstackD , now your next step will be stainless steel ;-)
@@markfryer9880 the welding videos crack me up, barefoot, shorts and fingers as a mask :)
OMFG that was the transformation of a lifetime... Amazing bar and not at all what I expected, I didn't expect it to shine up like that... Beautiful...
Mid week melts are a great idea you should definitely do more of them
If I get time matey I would love to every now and then but we will see 😉👍🏻
I got me a furnace and started melting things down I sucked at it to begin with because I didn’t have much experience but now I’m getting better and better and better I even got my hands on about 10 kg of German silver that I’ve been melting down I haven’t melted it all yet but I produce some pretty cool bars. Also I do a lot of aluminum copper and brass zinc and lead. Somebody even paid me to cast about 1 pound or around half a kilogram of gold jewelry that they have found over the years metal detecting. But I’m glad I found your channel because you have introduced me to a very fun hobby
Ok, next up tungsten.
LoneDeathWolf I'm thinking magnesium would be interesting
LoneDeathWolf If he can get that furnace up to 6,192 degrees Fahrenheit( 3,422 degrees Celsius), he's out of luck.
Ah No. Ever heard of incendiary bombs used for setting cities on fire during WW II?
Next up: Graphite
Tungsten is EXTREMELY hard to melt, thats why its used in TIG welding
i made a little forge out of a coffee can lined with sand/waterglass/plaster mix lining. First time i tried melting some copper to make aluminum bronze with it i used a cast iron crucible like i'd done before. I know copper and cast iron have pretty close melting points and a ceramic crucible would have been much better. but i didn't have one at the time. I guess I underestimated the heat of the little thing because when i went to pour i got bronze and a little lump of cast iron that poured out. I had started to melt my crucible. Now my retired cast iron crucible has a shiny golden bronze bottom lol
Impressive Bigstack. I’ve been planning to try cast iron at some point but I don’t think my setup is up to the challenge. Nice furnace you have there. Well done.
Fascinating how Iron reacts with oxygen to instantly make Fe2O3 with the sparks from actual iron particles in the air. Our bodies use a lot of iron in our hemeglobin to transport oxygen around our bodies in this way. I love this vid.
Reminds me of my cast iron pour. Melted furnace, ruined crucible, lots of propane and all I got from it was cast iron that was in a different shape from before I melted it. ;-) I suppose we all have to try it. Good to hear from you mid-week matey.
WHAAT!!! Mid week Melt! And Cast Iron too!
WOOOHOOO!!!!
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I know right hahaha
I hadn't thought of that surfing game for about 30 years. Great imagination!
Melting cast iron is not an easy feat and you managed to melt that poor sucker of a rusted cast iron bbq plate.
I'm impressed! You deserve a Sub from me as i LOVE watching Metal geting melted and poured
Well then welcome aboard my friend. Be sure to check my other vids I’m sure there’s some there you will love😉👍🏻😆
Man. Watching bigstackD work is like one of those old school Foster's commercials. This guy just did something, without even the use of a heat fan, that all of my peers have been warning me not to try. No matter what you do for fun where you're from, stuff like this convinces me it's WAY more hardcore in Australia!
"Before the wife gets home" 🤣 thats relatable.
Learn something new every day I didn't know cast could shine like that? Thanks for sharing have a great day Brother.
Achievement: acquire hardware
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Ah, a man of culture.
Minecraft?
I had to come back and re-watch your cast iron melt, I didn't remember the fireworks show last time I watched it till you mentioned it. I need to shine up the little cast iron ingots that I had leftover, I bet they will shine up good. Thanks for the inspirational videos. Can't wait to try cast iron again, and re-do my last project.
Cool no worries buddy . Yeah that cast iron one I shined up is still sitting on my shelf and hasn’t tarnished or rusted at all surprisingly , although it is sitting in a moisture free environment and inside my theatre room on the shelf so that definitely helps👍🏻
Just the start, snagging the iron and ffwd run from wife.... 😂😂😂
My life in a nutshell!! You made my day!! Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone!
Just a dude playing with fire. Love it
Shiiiid, you're living my childhood dream. Love pretty shiny metals no matter what kind. Also meltigg stuff is fun and cool, if one is safe about it. 👍
Been watching you for months and now I know why you send all your steel to a friend, great video!
When your propane tank has no more propane you should melt it
That tank is made of steel or some othe iron alloy... It won't melt or would be a really pain in the ass.
@@THEKNI8 if he can melt cast iron it wouldnt be much harder to melt even high carbon steal, its only about 300 degrees farenheit away from cas itons melting point
When it gets low and starts to freeze, should use that somehow to keep drinks cold.
A propane tank that is empty is still full of propane.
@@StephenGillie a refrigerator?
The sparks that flamed out when you poured the molten iron are almost like fireworks in your video, I love it!
Great vid dude! Never seen anyone melt cast iron and cast it into an ingot
BTW sry for late comments I've been busy but anyways keep up the good work and Surprise me!
Yeah!! you´re in The Iron Age. Now you can build wonders, fortifications, Cataphracts, war elephants and more. COOL 👍👍👍👍
I was surprised the cast iron didn't crack due to thermal shock when placed on the ice.
Its iron dumass iron dont crack cus ice is just frozen water
@@youremybiggestfan i hope what you said was a joke
@@youremybiggestfan Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
That quote never gets old man.
If it was Iron and not steel it wouldn't crack because of the lack of carbon particles. Carbon is present in steel and is what makes it harder and more brittle. Iron as an element is much softer.
@@Relatablename from who is that quote come from?
FINALLY! I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS! Thanks so much for the video mate.
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No grill is safe from the SMELTING MAN...watch as he reduces all metals into submissive matter! Watch as mere metal shake in terror and become puddles before your eyes! The amazing SMELTING man!
Woot! Mid-week pour!
Cast iron, too! Very cool!
Cheers bro. Yeah I thought I should chuck out a different vid on a different day for my loyal viewers 👍🏻. I’ll still release something every Friday but every now and then when I catch up I’ll do a mid week melt🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
I have never seen cast iron shine like that before. That's interesting.
Well my friend I’m glad you liked that. Trust me I had absolutely no idea cast-iron would Shine like that either. I had to use a different piece before I melted and sand it down and buff it to make sure it was gonna be worth my while,
I wasn’t gonna destroy the iron ingot that I poured so that’s why it didn’t get stamped . Please do stick around I’m sure I have other stuff you will like👍🏻
The temperatures for steel and iron is where I draw the line, I save that for the professional foundries as I used to work at 1 and when crucibles fail oh, it's really nasty I give you a lot of credit for doing this at home
Cheers buddy I appreciate your comment, I actually tried it again in last weeks vid just to do an element cube (yes Cast irons an alloy not an element ) I had a bit more success on that even though I poured like shit🤦🏻♂️ check it out if you wish if not have yourself a great week and stay safe my friend👊🏻😁.
@@bigstackD I'll definitely check it out buddy, I'm currently in the process of building the new Foundry, I have a lot of copper and aluminum laying around that I need to melt into ingot, I really enjoy making aluminum bronze. I try to be really careful with that so I don't get an exothermic reaction, although it's highly unlikely the mixture has to be just right for that to happen. You ever noticed when you're melting copper and you add aluminum to Copper it melts almost instantly when the aluminum comes into contact with the copper?really cool reaction, if you have a temperature gauge to measure the temps inside you should see how quickly they rise when the two metals come into contact to form the alloy
Actually buddy I have melted off camera for my friends probably 40 or 50 kg of aluminium bronze over the last few years and I always melt the aluminium and copper at the same time. I know that’s not how it should be done but I don’t need my aluminium bronze to be perfect I’m not doing precision pieces I’m not making stuff that needs to be exact and my friends just want some cool bars that they can sand and shine up And chuck on their workbench or desk.
Melting The copper and aluminium together at the same time will lower the Coppers melting point save on time and gas and with a couple of stirs before pouring it comes out almost as strong as steel that’s why I never stamp my aluminium bronze because there’s really no point dulling my steel stamps👍🏻
@@bigstackD yeah I definitely agree with that I add my aluminum to The Copper just before the copper starts to melt but that's just my style no real reason for it. I noticed it's super hard so yeah there is no reason to stamp any of it if anything I guess it could be etched. Anyway I love your videos, maybe after my foundry is finished this summer Ill send you some,of my casted stuff to do whatever you want with them. Always fun making new friends and meering cool people here on YT. Take care brother!! Be safe and most of all, have fun!
Me: no way that's cast iron
*sees it break like glass with a hammer*
Me: ok, fair enough
I was with you right up until the ice block cooling scene... building in thermal stress into a finished product..especially if it will be used in a heated or cold application..is building in failure. Patience is the most important aspect of casting any metal.
I love your videos mate! Cast iron? Sick! Shelf is looking phenomenal.
Ace video, loved that.
This is the first video I've watched from the channel, looking forward to watching more, peace brother xx
There is something fascinating about your channel. Obviously the work you put into your videos makes them as good as they are but there's something else which I can't quite put my finger on. I think maybe it has something to do with metal being one of the only materials that you can take the finished product and quite easily (Compared to other materials) just reset it back to its basic state. Whatever it is I really look forward to your videos coming out! Keep it up :D
Cheers matey I appreciate this comment 👍🏻. If only all comments were this nice😉. If you keep watching I’ll keep posting my friend😀
You may regret saying that in 500 years after they've invented a way to live forever and I keep bugging you for new videos 😆
That’s a risk I’m willing to take 😉👍🏻
Going to be a very crowded Earth by then.
I like the California games music when sanding. Nice retro reference for us oldies.
Yeah I grew up with that game 😉👍🏻
Lucky gen 1001 talks about crucible burns in some of his vids. He is now showing his adding nickel to his cast. Nickel is not cheap, good source is US 5 cent ( nickle) 75% nickel, 25% copper. I have been waiting for this to see how you handled the high temps. Good show and the wife won't believe the dingo story after what you did to her jewelry. Lmao. Word of caution, after working in a foundry I remember seeing concrete burn from molten steel.
Beautiful mid week melt mate love the process great vid big fan 👍👍
Cheers Mark 👍🏻😁
Absolutely loved the sparking when you poured it... can really tell it's super-high in carbon, both from the sparks & that messy black grit that results when you try machining the stuff.
Sucks that the crucible failed first time... no warranty???
Cheers mate . no warranty on this it was just an eBay purchase not to worry Live and learn
If it is super high in carbon wouldn't it be steel ?
@@jamesburriss1086 super late reply, so maybe you've looked it up by now. Wrought iron has a very low carbon content. Steel is like .1% to 2% or something. What we call cast iron has a high carbon content, above steel.
Waiting for that big silver pour! Great vid friend.
Nice bro! Those fireworks coming from the pour was great and the surfing 🏄♀️ ingot cleanup 👍🏻 to bad you only got one use out of that crucible. Did you temper it first 🧐 I’m sure you did but gotta ask anyways haha. It’s good to know that the foundry will get hot enough to melt the cast iron. Great work as always 🍺🍺🍺
Cheers bro. Yeah I normally get the crucibles nice and dry and red hot then let them cool overnight so it should’ve been fine although I’m thinking I could maybe still use it with aluminium as the hole might be full of cast-iron and I won’t be going anywhere near those temperatures again I’ll try it in my old furnace if I do. I got your email that sword looks pretty awesome is that this Fridays video?
bigstackD Casting oh yeah that’s a good idea! Didn’t even think of that haha. Yeah hopefully I’ll have this video ready by Friday. Gonna finish filming tomorrrow so I can edit it all day tomorrow. It’s been a struggle but it should be up 👍🏻 just gotta smash something stupid with it if I can pick it up 🤷🏻♂️🍺🍺talk soon my friend
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bigstackD Casting go enjoy your family and tell the wife I stole the grill 🤪 I’ll take the blame 👍🏻 🍺🍺
Loved the video. Btw what time did you post this . Cause i. Half way across the world rn and it's 2:30 am. It says the video was posted an hour ago
So awesome man the soothing fire makes everything better 😎🔥
That little forge is amazing. The pour went great my friend ! Bummer on the crucible. What a mess eh.I often wonder why you balance the crucible on the edge of that brick. Easy to tip ?
It looks like it’s dangerously close to tipping on this brick but it’s actually quite safe and as the crucible with its contents weigh normally quite a few kilos it would take a descent knock to tip over 👍🏻
Blowing oxigen into melted Metall ( Sauerstoff) you have steel.The crucible is the key piece.Thanks for posting!
Yahooooooooooooo looks great
Well that answered my question about keeping your Devil Forge so clean! Great work.
Why did it spark like that mate?kool melt once again.👍👍
Honestly I have no idea but my friend told me they use this type of stuff in sparklers mixed with some other stuff which kind of looks about right🤷🏻♂️.
The sparks were likely carbon burning out of the metal.
Iron and by extension, steel makes sparks when it's heated (either from being melted or from the friction of an impact or abrasion) because some iron on the surface spontaneously oxidises and gives off heat. There are lots of factors at play, like for example iron is the only commonly known metal that has an oxide compound with a lower melting point than the metal itself. (FeO melting point is 1,377 °C, pure iron melting point is 1,538 °C). It's also simply due to the chemistry of iron oxide. Iron oxide isn't very chemically stable when compared to another metal oxide like say, Aluminium oxide. Aluminium never burns in air. You can get it down to an even finer particle size and higher surface area than iron or steel and it still won't burn. Steel wool will burn when ignited, aluminium powder or atomised aluminium won't burn.
Simply put, heating the metal increases the likelihood of oxidation because the atoms on the surface have higher energy. When it does oxidise, this oxidation releases more heat and oxidises other nearby atoms in a chain reaction. It turns out that iron oxide isn't a very insulating or chemically strong material, so it doesn't prevent further oxidation like aluminium oxide does. When this oxidation chain reaction happens, eventually a whole clump of atoms is flung off the surface and continues to burn in the air until it's reduced to nothing but fine iron oxide powder. This is the spark.
I don't have an explanation for what mechanism actually causes the iron to fly off of the ingot. Perhaps it's due to opposing magnetic forces as the iron(ii) oxide further oxidises into another oxide compound such as hematite or magnetite? Though, I can't find any source to say that this happens.
bigstackD Casting its actually the iron3+ combining with the oxygen in the air and burning to produce iron4+. When you do iron next you need to sand blast the rust off first (which is why your ingot is full of pits), and put a bunch of flux in the crucible so it protects the metal from oxidation and the silica in the flux will also make its own ferrosilicon which will make the cast iron more ductile. Anyways good job getting hot enough to melt iron, but I can’t imagine what it cost in propane. I’m still working on a waste oil drip feed for mine, I went and saw my buddy that owns a autoshop the other day but it got super cold and we spent more time drinking to stay warm than working on my project.
@Guodlca Very good point, I hadn't considered their Curie temps and I was betting on there being some amount of Fe3O4, though I'm pretty sure that can't form just from the oxidation of iron in air.
Might be my new favorite video from you. Thanks!
“bigstackD Casting Casts Cast Iron” should have been the title of the vid.
wut
Very well done. I wanted to melt steel for a 75 cylindrical pipe as a template to round galvanised iron around a downpipe as they no longer make it anymore.
Did you preheat the crucible? Btw congrats on you 50k sub
Yeah mate I got it red-hot and let it cool overnight so was quite surprised that I got a hole🤷🏻♂️.
bigstackD Casting what was that cruiciple made of
Clay graphite
I think PMC Supplies LLC is the best graphite clay crucible manufacturer. I got one months ago and it's still doing good. (I don't melt everyday)
A mate of mine had a crack in a clay graphite crucible and after it was heated again it healed itself.
Okay
This pretty much answers my question for melting ferrous metals
Iron is just awesome
Before the wife gets home, like she'd stop you?
That is an awesome piece of cast iron there Meneer BigstackD! I love cast iron to cook with! Gonna hoard some in bullion just in case the Apocalyse comes about!
June 2020 - the stash shelves looks so empty from here.
Love your vids! You’re such a clean freak. Your wife must be so proud.
A brand new crucible needs to be heated empty 1st time to "season it"
It looks like he had done that. The problem is you need to be gentle with them. Don't fill it with chunks of broken iron then tap it on the the ground in an attempt to settle the chunks into the crucible. Which is exactly what he did. And exactly why it cracked. You could see the crack before he even put it in the fire.
From bronze age to iron age. Love it. ❤️👍🏻
I like you Videos
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I'm completely intrigued by your hobby. I believe I may start taking some small steps 2 doing some of this myself. I live in rural Mississippi and when I tell you this enough junk in the woods out here to build New York City, I am not joking. Though I am Joe King
I like to think that he is using the money he makes from his channel to buy him and his wife new things and just melting the old ones.
Nah nah nah he's going to use it to slowly but surely conquer the world.
Going way back with this one man i am still so impressed with everyone of your videos. I am loving playing a playlost andbseeing them
Scrap value ?
As sad as it sounds this Ingot is probably worth 20 cents at the scrap yard 🤷🏻♂️
Iron is the most common metal we have on Earth (though Aluminium is more common in the crust, it's harder to find and refine), the planet is literally made of the stuff and all of our buildings are constructed with a framework of steel. It's not worth a lot because it's so common.
In Kentucky iron is 5 cents a pound at the scrap yard. 😣
We prefer Reinforced Concrete buildings here in Australia.
@@markfryer9880 What is the concrete reinforced with? Steel rebar...
That collection is wicked!
Just says that the emu raid your house
Well well well... That was awesome mate, great work, an great ingot...... I wanted to see something like this.... Congratulations
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That's great buddy that you have reached such high temperature 👍 Great job! Of course it's a pity that the crucible cracked but when we speak about such high temperatures there is no guarantee that it will sustain.
Cheers matey but you did beat me by over a month and You melting copper is impressive but that vid blew my mind with the iron you melted has on completely aware of just how high the temperatures need to be to do that type of thing👍🏻😁🍻🍻🍻
@@bigstackD Eh... In fact I've made that video during summer of 2017 🙂 Of course it's possible to go further and melt something with even higher temperature using this type of furnace but crucible should be made of pure graphite 😀
You should aim that thermometer at the ice block/water. Would be interesting watching the temperature drop and how quick it rises as water. Great videos 👍🏽👊🏽👌🏽
for cast iron stock, make a trip o your scrap dealer and buy some pieces of cast iron sewer pipe, then apply sledge hammer. Also, don't make mistake and try graphite crucible - go sillion carbide/mullite, and do -not- stack a cucible wih solid before heating. Peheat pieces, and melt one by one. Expanding solid can crack a brand new crucible.
ما شاء الله اول مرة ارى حديد يذوب انت حقا شخص مبدع
Great video mate!! 1) would have loved to have seen the temperature of the tank before, the bucket of water before submerging it, and the temperature of the water after you were finished to see how cold it got
Wife: ''Whatever happened to [various items around the house]?''
D: ''Gone. Reduced to atoms''
Who wants iron projects and new cruicble ! And nice video
Very impressed, no blower just a venturi burner.
انا أقدر ما تقوم في عمله أستمر في هذا الإبداع أتمنى لك النجاح الدائم... أتابع من العراق العظيم
اني هم من العراق
This was a cool video, I guess I have never even thought about melting down cast iron. it sure cleaned up nice. thanks for video
You should do another cast iron melt!! Love the videos friend!
I am a big fan of you now - Keep posting :)
Ok I will 😁👍🏻
Love the comedy element. Isn’t there a ferobronze? You could use the iron dust for that. I think it’s used for plaques.
As resource consuming as melting iron is I have to admit these are some of my favorite videos. Would like to see more but I understand it costs a lot of resources to melt iron and it adds a lot to your kilogram pile because it's dense.
Yes buddy I’ll definitely be doing a little bit more iron as I want to make a heap of iron coins as I don’t think I’ve seen that done before , obviously once I’ve cleaned them up I would need to spray some clear acrylic on them or they could start to rust on me👍🏻
@@bigstackD just polish and oil. or etch it with something like phosphoric acid or ferric chloride.
I just thought that with most of your videos you get such nice looking ingots that one day you should try coating one in gold leaf or something like that and adding to your pirate's treasure
Man's happiness is just so simple.
Another great video! This was a really great addition to your stack! Every time you show up I can’t help but look in the bottom left corner and think about the door that came from lol 😂
Love it brother keep it up!
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Propane tank freezing up in Australia. I'm impressed.
It's what happens it's part of it lol you don't know much do you
Dude, your channel is the shiznit! I'll kick it with you anyday of the week and just melt sh!t. Make that money brother. I'm gonna be around for the long haul. I can't wait to binge watch. Yee
Show off L.O.L. Love it. Keep up the good content.
Thanks for reply just want to say u r legend
Which metals r most valuable?thanks
can't wait for Friday
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I see you putting the propane tank in a water bath to warm it up. I've got the opposite problem here in Norridgewock, Central Maine. Come winter it's quite cold. Sometimes 20-30 F below zero (-29 to -34 below) and the propane won't come out of liquid. This is a problem because I BBQ all year round, regardless of the weather. I try to keep the propane tank inside and this resolves the problem.
NICE! I didn't know cast iron clean up like that!