HELIUM TANK FOUNDRY - EASILY MELT METAL AT HOME! - ELEMENTALMAKER

hey guys welcome back to the elemental maker today I got a pretty cool project leading up from the Forge burner we built previously it is currently colder than a witch's tit here in the northeastern United States but we got a project that is gonna warm things up so let's get these packages cracked open and see what's inside Oh [Music] [Applause] can you read that stuff is called Satan night made from the ground up grumble cheese of Satan of himself with Stan's crazy high temperatures I forget the number off the top of my head but this is gonna be the inner lining of our Forge this is what's going to give us a long long service life out of a very inexpensive Forge to build heavier than I thought oh yeah that is the kind of blanket that tucks you in at night makes you feel all warm and cozy beautiful and cheap stuffs right off Amazon dereck cheap I think it was like a hundred bucks for this huge roll this I could make ten forges out of this stuff holy [ __ ] that's a win between these two components may be about 140 bucks in materials helium tank got it for free you could use a propane tank obviously granted make sure it's empty before you start cutting into it flush it out a few times but this is going to be great looks like I already marked the tank it must have been some time ago but uh I've had this plan for quite some time so let's move ahead with cutting the tank and we're going to make some modifications to it to make it a little more attractive for what we're doing these handles are going to be nice we'll put a vent hole right in the top cut out the lid we'll put some legs on it hopefully this is gonna be a good project so in the previous video quite a few people are kind of losing their [ __ ] because I used a galvanized wire fitting here I'm gonna show you how to remedy that real quickly just as an aside like a lot of people out there on YouTube love to tell you how smart they are oh my god that's galvanized you're [ __ ] idiot you're gonna kill yourself and give yourself sink food poisoning blah blah blah this is intended to be used outside I'm not worried about zinc poisoning I'm not gonna get zinc poisoning I'm not gonna stand right over the metal foundry on building and intoxicate myself as a that being said if any of you guys are using this indoors for a propane Forge burner there is that hazardous ink poisoning and because that I should have probably worn it in the video that but if you're if you're working with that kind of stuff that's probably something you should hopefully know so here we got some good stuff meri attic acid what I'm gonna do now this stuff won't give you poisoning it smells to the creek at high heavens and they call it Mary attic that's just trade name or some [ __ ] not oh no the old soap name for it but it's 32 percent hydrochloric acid it's 20 bomb which is some old measurement who the hell knows but what we're gonna do is just strip the zinc coating off turn it into zinc chloride the HCL will strip it away release some hydrogen gas and you've got to see that all happening now I'm gonna slowly lower it in there because I want to prevent this from overflowing but you see that zinc's already gone it is that quick and it reaches if I've declared acid inking which I'm not breathing indirectly but I can smell the bit a few yo non leave it in there for a minute so that's probably done the aggressive bubbling is done zinc is gone that quick it's that easy I'm gonna get dunk this under the sink a few times and then give it a nice little coat with some like VHD flame proof paint so and it'll be ready to go ready for service there we go nice clean flare fitting totally stripped of all the galvanization no more zinc honor where is that fume coming from alright there's still a little HCl left in there I gotta go up don't get on a sink a couple more times but now what's pretty wild about this is it'll form a rust coating super super quick as soon as it dries off so you can you've probably been able to see it as its drying off its forming a super thin coat of iron oxide on it pretty amazing how quick the oxygen attacks raw I just feel it I got the glove on the wrong hand there we go guys no more worries about the zinc poisoning done and it won't even Ross that bad now because it's coated with cheap flame proof paint it's good stuff it'll last a while so I got my mark you're probably seeing better here little guys but I'm just gonna use a piece of tape you follow them all around doesn't have to be the most accurate thing in the world we're not going for two fowler it's here [Music] my vibrator in my pocket popular man tonight and we try to make them meet kids why not perfection right so that'll give us a nice guide to follow and chop it straight along there so I'm just gonna pop outside and cut this sucker off got the cutoff wheel on the old day Walt here but uh one thing to not screw around with are these angle grinders they especially with the cutoff wheels I've seen more of these things freaking fly apart than I can count and when they grenade they freakin have some force to him my buddy sliced his angle this place his hand this thing flew off and just got him real good so don't screw around if it hit your face it would be devastating yep did a good proper face shield these these are one instrument that really scares the [ __ ] out of me and I mess with a lot of dangerous stuff but these scare the crap out of me so I'm gonna go outside it's dark I probably won't be able to get video probably come back top will be off and we will proceed so got on the split not a perfect cut but you see it's a close enough it's good enough so I'm just gonna drill holder here I'm debating on whether to drill the hole for the side now or after the insulating rule is in place this is wrong in so many ways but we'll see if it works hi guys my face doing it downside up might be a little bit better it's probably a way that is a million times easier and safer to do that but I was determined to get that done don't don't repeat that oh this guy I got to think that through there's got to be a better way a little piece of steel got mangled but we have a nice vent hole up here cut the handles intact that's a nice feature not too bad so at this point I'm gonna just use some scrap steel I have here to kind of just weld up a little base for it I think this is just junk from Lowe's or Home Depot but I have a twenty nine and a half inches still left so seven times four twenty eight so if I do a base seven by seven by seven I can do that and then I'll just tack weld it on to the bottom and hit it with a little spray of something to stop it from rusting my trusty old partner on maggot is my machines for me keep that away from the welder [Music] last little beep [Music] sorry kind of shitty that'll make for a nice base though good sturdy don't have to worry about the forge tipping over [Music] that's spittin I'm about to leave up as is and it'll hold nowhere it's about that [Music] sure is ugly at least this much for a busted that ain't moving anyway good so we got these suckers cut out doubt yeah the hole in our our lid here and uh you can probably see I've I've got pretty steady hands in the you know Michael J Fox sense of the word phrase rather but uh what we'll do now is cut out some of that insulating blanket and we're going to use or at least my thought is we're going to use the st. night to actually kind of glue our blanket to the steel surface so I'm gonna try to rough this up in some way and then get a real thin layer of say tonight and then put the insulating wool on top of that and probably use some kind of weight or something to keep it glued in place while the safe nice scary but well we'll figure it out as we go so got this piece cut out well rough piece cut out and I'm just going to trim it maybe leaving an extra centimeter of material because uh we are gonna make it deflect a little bit to get into the headspace here or fill up the headspace over every I don't want to say all right so that doesn't get caught on too many edges here I should fit in there pretty nice don't know if that's enough overhang I want that to sit pretty flush up there I don't know if that's gonna do it for me I might cut out a little more yeah yeah I'm gonna say has a no-go this will uh no worries we're not gonna put this piece of waste that will work perfectly in the bottom chamber here I'll work real nice in there yeah I don't want to stuff it down there cuz I'm gonna use a slightly smaller piece to kind of fill the bottom in there get a nice flat surface so I'll have a kind of smaller one and then this guy is the floor and I might maybe put a little little piece of fire brick or something just have a hard flat surface for this stuff to rest on but yeah stuff is really nice to work with - I was expecting this to be horrific but it's it's I mean if you've ever worked with fiberglass insulation this stuff beats the hell out of it every day it's nice all right round two I guess I'll go for maybe an inch you know if a metric doesn't work why not switch to Imperial well let's leave an inch inch ish might be a better way of wording this that looks a little more promising actually stuffs in there I think that I'll actually work pretty nice with a trimming a st. night in there to actually grab it and then kind of let it dry in there it'll be nice and fused and then we can just run the blade along the top get a nice flat surface Oh as flat as the Michael J Fox guts and then we'll we'll cut this sucker out we'll be left with a nice lid there good insulating Lee what I think I'm actually going to do is give it a light coat of a that VHD flameproof or rust-oleum high heat paint just so I don't cause it to rust with the st. night because it's a water-base mix so just going to rough up the surface alright got the can of a comb gutter also known as instant answer in a can got the flame proof get rid of any priests residues or whatever else might be lurking in here yeah sucker nasty dirty so off-camera I'm going to do the same thing to the big lower section of the foundry Forge thing whatever just to get it cleaned up and sprayed pretty uh pretty even code there I'm not gonna complain about that we go one of these for one of these one of these trees here we go so let that dry up and I will mix up some say tonight gotta look up the mixing instructions for that five pounds should be enough to do basically using it as the glue here and then once everything's set I'll probably give it an initial firing just to test it out but then I'm gonna coat the inside of the foundry with the same night as well that'll keep everything nice and rigid and stop this stuff from losing its integrity it'll keep it nice and sturdy so you got the st. night out of its package here only what this stuff made out of it see a lot of refractive little stuff I wonder if that's silica sand good thing is it doesn't seem to be very dusty I'm not wearing an n95 i'll they don't need that much actually say to mix it to the consistency of sour crumb so want to go for a nice sour cream consistency here that way you can spread it on your tag is going for a nice even coating here something for the wool there really sticks to you I think that's pretty good looks nice let's just run it like that screw the wool all right I'm just trying to make sure it contacts the entire inner inner wall of that lid so we can get a good good bond everywhere god I wonder what the composition is here there or here though the so many times I've tried making my own refractory mixes and I mean using silica sand or you know obviously Portland cement at the best thing but fire clay perlite I just can't get something repeatable with professional results so that's why I moved to the wool here I was really kind of leaning on doing a totally homemade refractory but my results over the course of years have have not been that great I haven't gotten anything that can survive you know 20 30 firings whereas this should be I don't want to say a lifelong tool but this should last you know a number of years and quite a few firings yeah big plan with this is I've been saving one of aluminum cans so I'm hoping that in a future video we can melt those down we're gonna make some Magn Allium and then in another video someone actually beat me to it on YouTube but I was hoping to make a ar-15 lower out of aluminum cans someone already got a video out there it's a pretty darn good if you search for soda can a ar-15 or something like that but uh yeah someone beat me to it but yeah cool video nonetheless all right let's uh I'm just gonna repeat pretty much everything I did here for the bottom I'll probably walk you through a bit of that too because I'm gonna do a couple things different maybe but this seems good happy with it so we've got the lower section here you can see I cleaned it hit it with the comb gutter use the VHD flameproof and I've cut out two sections this was the circle we made earlier and you can see here this is gonna be my lower one just to kind of take up some of that roundness that's about eight inches in diameter you gotta set that down in the bottom there c3 to loose in there because we're just looking to kind of make up for that bottom I'm gonna put this sucker in going for a pretty tight fit this might be a little too tight but we'll see how that flattens out pretty nice on the bottom that works good that one was about ten and a half inches in diameter so we got the bottom in there and what we're gonna do is cut out a square section that'll wrap around the inside of this so our diameter is nine and a half nine times 3.14 nine and a half times 3.14 we're looking at basically 30 to be pretty darn close there and 35 a tin quarter and we'll be good pop that out back out again I'll give you guys a final measurement here he's run cheese scissors oh swear these things sounded good at the beginning of this all right so what are we at right I think that's what we're going for all right I like that I like that a lot so I don't think I'm gonna bother cementing the bottom down I'm gonna leave that in I'm just gonna mix up a little bit of st. night in here with some water again paint the inside and stick this inner liner to it [Music] all right let's get the wool in their teeth made of wool you know the movie comment below nice so I'm gonna let those sit overnight to cure hopefully her family's dry up the st. night won't cure without a lot of heat the hopefully the inner lining here won't ever get hot enough to actually cure but just hot enough to act as a glue all right so it's uh been today this stuff is dried on I think I think it's pretty well glued to the underlying steel so at this point we're gonna cut the excess and then drill our entry hole and after that everything is flush we got our hole drilled we're gonna coat it all in say tonight and call it a day yeah pretty happy with that looks good let's get that hole drilled I think both of my batteries it diet all these poor things they don't want to go there anymore deuce I'll bling Wow okay we're freaking through all right got the wordfriends a little cleaned up and now that we're all clear I'm gonna mix up fair amount in this scene right here yeah cuz I'm pretty nice it's not too shabby coming eat a lot of this [ __ ] to the for the lower section of it the holy smokes just wrapped up coating the top it actually only took about one and a half cups of the yeah st. night pretty cool nice uniform coating I missed a few little areas I don't think that'll affect performance if the does I'll just give it a quick coat over yeah got the hole down here all coated just gonna get it on your fingers and give it the delicate touch your projects love it when you you know give them that kind of attention they they bond with you really well alright guys it's been a day since we applied the st. night here and I actually already fired up the foundry for a few minutes and it hardened everything up I forgot to catch it on video so I apologize but as you can see st. now it's pretty pretty hardened has a bit of a hollow sound to it but it's just cuz it's a really thin coating maybe I will put a second layer on at some point but for now I'm just gonna leave it as is I'm gonna show you guys the forge in operation so let me get the propane tank all right I'm just gonna run it really low because I am inside it's way too cold to go outside I do it the garage door open for ventilation let's say anything else don't forget I just have the the burner kind of leaned in at an angle it's not gonna fall out it's pretty secure there and for the first couple runs I'm gonna do really light burns anyway alright that's a little better didn't have the regulator up enough so as you can see here orange is running quite nicely and I should be grabbing it with a long hand when I tilt it you see the flame swirls pretty nicely in there that's exactly what we're looking for when we actually have the foraging use so since everything's pretty new here I want to give it a couple relatively light burn ins in ca1 really dumb thing overlooked I should have taken the paint off of the forge cos where the the lip doesn't completely line up because of the you know shaky cut there some of the flame did get through and actually uh get some of the paint hair and I'm sure you know after I run it for a while it would probably heat up the tank to the point where it is gonna burn away the paint and it just smells terrible so if you guys replicate this definitely make sure when the tank is still bare and you just cut the section I would just still click a little bonfire or something in here just to burn the paint off it so you don't have to worry about that anymore I'm probably gonna end up just using the burner and blasting the outside of this to just burn all that paint right off of it so it's not anything I have to worry about anymore and at that point I'll just hit it with some of the the flame proof paint again just get a nice matte black color not have to worry so much about rust and and all that but we have a working Forge it's uh not quite up to heat yet in there but verify [Music] turn to the Roma and actually see so I think because there's still a tiny bit of internal moisture oh yeah you can see a flame kind of poking out the side there in there that's alright by the way I do have several fire extinguishers are ready to go at a moment's notice and the propane tank is about 15 feet away so just let you guys know I'm not completely batshit crazy shucks the fire alarm hasn't gone off yet but that's a good thing I guess so some of the upcoming projects with this one of the first projects I do is probably going to be making magnesium it's a 50/50 outlay of aluminum and magnesium and the benefit to that alloy is it's super super brittle so once you make it you can easily crush it and turn it into a powder which all right so that frickin thing always rudely interrupts me but anyway so the Magnolia --m super easy to powder same process we did in the ball mill with aluminum powder there so if you haven't seen that video check that out I'll put a link in the description below and I'll probably also give you guys a link to some of the tools I used in this bill I mean welding is pretty optional the the bottom of this isn't even remotely hot yet it's barely even lukewarm honestly yet it is brightly glowing in there so I really don't think the feat would be necessary the big benefit to having the the stand welded on there is that you're not gonna have to worry about it tipping over by accident it's you know well planted whereas if you just have the original feet on there it might be a little more prone to tipping so and there's easy ways they overcome that you could just catch the bottom in some plaster of Paris get a nice flat base on there and and you're golden nothing to worry about so it looks like it's gonna be way too easy to make main Allium with this thing because that thing reaches temper really quick and it's amazing how cool the outside of this thing stays I mean that that is I mean it's it's pretty hot now but it's still touchable and it's not roasting your hands down at the bottom here I mean down here it's like barely warm up here it's pretty warm that's still easily grabbable pop that sucker off look at that that is a hot Forge or a foundry rather I apologize in a future video though I'm definitely I'm either gonna be making a smaller Forge just specifically for knife making or I'm gonna figure out a way to convert this into a Forge but honestly I think at this point maybe leave leave the foundry of the foundry and build a separate Forge specifically for that maybe just something I can swap the burner out in and and we'll be good to go so I hope you guys enjoyed the build if you if you replicate it please be a little safer than I was with the drill press I didn't have my cordless drill at the time it was at a renovation I'm doing so I unfortunately had to use the drill press but looking back in hindsight that was really dangerous should not have done that so don't try to replicate that definitely burn the paint off beforehand because it smells and sets off fire alarms and it's no fun to deal with and I'm gonna have to do it anyway so get it done early on just cut the top have a little bonfire in there all the paint will burn right off and that's about it thank you guys so much for watching I hope you like my channel enough to subscribe and have a good one I'll see you in the next video [Music] you

Channel: ElementalMaker

Views: 365,791

Keywords: DIY foundry, forge, satanite, melt metal at home, diy propane forge, diy propane burner, making aluminum ingots

Id: SXkjfaePPdo

Length: 34min 12sec (2052 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2018