Just caught your channel by accident. I work in the steel industry in the UK and was amazed by your set up. We make the iron from raw materials and in batches of 250T but the principles and the way the iron was transported and poured (although we use trains) are the same. Great work.
Thanks for another great video. I appreciate the captions and showing of them dirty details. I don't remember the pouring dolly from high school metal class? Your videos make me want to build a foundry in my backyard.
It takes 40 mins to melt and another 10 mins to get the metal hot enough to pour. This time I gave it 20 mins because all the castings are thin section and the last metal needs to be hot for the last mold.
very nice job -- will be making one soon for pouring grates for inside wood heater -- 2nd wood heater we had and back and front walls are collapsing inward -- will rework this summer with my version of cast iron grage
Every time I watch your videos they inspire me! Best set up for casting that can be seen on the net. Very impressive, thanks for sharing you are doing all of us that are interested a huge favour. Second casting book by Steve Chastain " A small casting manual, Vol 1" is very very good. For me, much more relevant than the cupola book. Good luck and good health luckygen.
I have an antique cast iron pan that has an electric element molded in the bottom. It works wonderfully. I was looking at the possibility of casting one of my own using my antique pan as a pattern. Is it possible to cast a pan having the electric heater as an insert in the mold then pouring in the iron without damaging the element? Any ideas how to do that?
There are heating elements that can be deformed. Yours is probably a little flattened on the bottom. It started out round, then was placed into the casting and pressed.
Thanks for the info. Here is an ebay item number to give you an idea 181597937051. I thought the element would have been suspended within the mold some how and the iron poured in. It is unique and cooks wonderfully.
I have an old washed stove that was my great-grandmother's. My daughter broke the legs on it and it's got the door is cracked I think I may try to repair that
Have a look at my melting crankshafts video th-cam.com/video/PVIwU7at7mw/w-d-xo.html plenty of iron spilt on the floor and no molten metal flying everywhere.
Just caught your channel by accident. I work in the steel industry in the UK and was amazed by your set up. We make the iron from raw materials and in batches of 250T but the principles and the way the iron was transported and poured (although we use trains) are the same. Great work.
Your castings are superb finish.Your pouring dolly is pure genius.
Very impressive castings. Your back yard casting look way more professional than the castings I machine at work.
That pouring trolley is a great idea. Very precise , controlled pour but you're 6 ft away from hot splashes!
Sure is, that stuff is hot. Love the old timers, they know how. Cheers!
You are the most organized guy I've seen! Well done! Do you have a video of your system?
Awesome stuff!
Really smart thing with the pouring trolley
Thanks for another great video. I appreciate the captions and showing of them dirty details. I don't remember the pouring dolly from high school metal class? Your videos make me want to build a foundry in my backyard.
absolutely bloody brilliant- definitely subscribed!
That is absolutely amazing!
It uses about 9 liters of waste oil in 60 mins of running, propane is only used for 2 mins to warm up furnace. It will not start on waste oil.
What an impressive result / casting qualitie !!
You can compete with any industrial casting qualitie as far i can see.
RESPEKT (from Berlin Germany)
Thank you.
It takes 40 mins to melt and another 10 mins to get the metal hot enough to pour. This time I gave it 20 mins because all the castings are thin section and the last metal needs to be hot for the last mold.
very nice job -- will be making one soon for pouring grates for inside wood heater -- 2nd wood heater we had and back and front walls are collapsing inward -- will rework this summer with my version of cast iron grage
I only measure furnace temperature so it is about 1570c so the metal temperature is about 1430c
Awesome job... thanks very much for passing down your knowledge.
Every time I watch your videos they inspire me! Best set up for casting that can be seen on the net. Very impressive, thanks for sharing you are doing all of us that are interested a huge favour. Second casting book by Steve Chastain " A small casting manual, Vol 1" is very very good. For me, much more relevant than the cupola book. Good luck and good health luckygen.
wow that is quite a temperature you have there... very nice ill try some brass soon but i don't think i can touch the casting iron subject....
what are the casts used to make cast iron pans made from?
Nice setup, thanks for posting.
Pouring shank (trolley is first class)
there are so many mad in world this is one of them. i love these kind of mad.
Excellent job!
cheers Luckly nice view of the pipes here
Those pipes are two burners, one is the oil burner and the other is a propane burner.
Kaowool or fiberfrax, I use both.
How many grams of each ingredient did you put in?
Cast iron bells would be a good thing to make. Easy to sell.
So does every one in china.
Buy American.
Cheaper to buy from China.
can you estimate the amount of fuel burned while heating? gallon/h of oil and litres of propane? pretty sweet setup you have!
I have an antique cast iron pan that has an electric element molded in the bottom. It works wonderfully. I was looking at the possibility of casting one of my own using my antique pan as a pattern. Is it possible to cast a pan having the electric heater as an insert in the mold then pouring in the iron without damaging the element? Any ideas how to do that?
There are heating elements that can be deformed. Yours is probably a little flattened on the bottom. It started out round, then was placed into the casting and pressed.
Thanks for the info. Here is an ebay item number to give you an idea 181597937051. I thought the element would have been suspended within the mold some how and the iron poured in. It is unique and cooks wonderfully.
Hello there , extremely professional setup , did you make the furnace yourself . Do you have plans.
I was wondering since some car engines are made up of iron, won’t the car engine melt when it reaches this temprature
Very very impressive.
Is the waste oil gravity-fed, or do you push it? If the latter, is it a pump or compressed gas that does the pushing?
Compressed air.
Awesome job guy
Do you you separate crucibles for aluminum and for steel or do you use the same one for both?
I use a separate crucible aluminium and cast iron.
what kind of crucible are you using?Are you preheating the burner air supply?
Would it be possible for a couple guys to melt enough cast iron for a 300 lb pour with the use of a crane. If so what type of furnace would be needed.
That is a lot cast iron to melt. When I needed large amounts of cast iron I used a cupola furnace.
"R" type wire which is good for 1770c. It is also very expensive!
what kind of crucible you used what it made of ? ?
What did you use for your refractory?
Thank you so much.
How long does it take to melt that much scrap?
how do I get in contact with you to ask advice.
what did you make your furnace out of? what kind of lining did you use?
Steel shell came from a hot water heater and the lining I used was kaowool.
Where did you get that ladle?
I have an old washed stove that was my great-grandmother's. My daughter broke the legs on it and it's got the door is cracked I think I may try to repair that
You will need to have very hot iron to fill up stove parts molds.
Bravo !vous m 'avez donne' une bonne idee'
very nice
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Is the wastoil pressurized or gravity?
I use compressed air to pressurize the waste oil.
good explanation
why use both WVO and propane? can you use just WVO?
propane is used only to preheat the furnace.
curious, I use wood because its free, I just used coal yesterday and accidentally melted steel. do you add stuff to your oil or just use more of it?
I add a little diesel to thin out the WMO, it burns a lot easier.
that's a good point. I find WMO is harder to keep lit than WVO
what is the oil pressure in the barrel?
150-300 kpa.
How did you melt the iron? Were those two bottles propane and oxygen?
+Karl Whistler One bottle has propane in it and the other bottle has waste oil in it. You do not need pure oxygen to melt cast iron.
Ah thanks! Is the oil necessary?
Karl Whistler No.
Beautiful work, thanks for sharing. How hot do you need to get the CI for a pour? Thanks, bigearl67
I think its around 1570°C
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Clay graphite.
14 kgs
Thanks!
Woah cool
thanks
Project pdf?
How can I buy crusible and costom made mold
+ogbonna emebo You will have look around your area for foundry supplies.
+luckygen1001 otherwise get Plaster of Paris and sand
+Mario Cuevas (Mariobro82) No. Dont.
cool. i want to do the same.
Melting temp of cast iron is 1538 C. That crucible looks like a miniature sun. This is not for the careless...
Shouldn't you be pouring over sand? One drop on concrete and you have chunks of concrete and molten metal flying everywhere!
Have a look at my melting crankshafts video th-cam.com/video/PVIwU7at7mw/w-d-xo.html plenty of iron spilt on the floor and no molten metal flying everywhere.
Why? What is a secret? Preheat all floor? Very interesting
@@tor9885 it's not the heat. It's the moisture.
Super
That was my intention.
wow...
I came here from katyj98