Making aluminum bronze

me and 4k grandeur - but that doesn't matter neither ortho those things matter today because today at long last I'm going to make my aluminum bronze and I've been wanting to do this for quite some time I started melting the aluminum I got my forged by my Forge my foundry furnace up to the forked it can actually melt copper so I'm excited we're gonna make this stuff now I know a lot of guys talk about oh I should be ninety two point three point eight seven six percent aluminum and cotton I'm gonna get close to about I think I'm gonna get close to about eighty nine percent a copper and eleven percent aluminum I'm gonna try but you know what we're talking about a little scale in my garage we're talking about dross is gonna form and we're gonna be close we're gonna be ninety eight ninety ten percent copper and aluminum so I also want to mention that we're doing kind of a little different thing here if you don't watch Paul's garage channel over the Midwest the great Midwest of the country he's got a great channel I love Paul's content a lot of fun to watch just to meet things Paul and I are going to be doing a competition there's not really competition because we're both winners just from compete just because we participated we're both winners right we're both been and make hammers out of this aluminum rods and so it'll be interesting for me to see how things kind of progress Paul and I have talked quite a bit on email but I don't know a lot of details about what he's doing and I don't think he knows a lot of details about what I'm doing so it'll be kind of fun to see how things go I will link Paul's Channel at the end of this video so go for watch this video it should have released just a few minutes before mine I'm gonna pry to plan it for that so that if you've watched his maybe he's gonna send you over here I'm definitely gonna send you over there so go look at his video all right let's get started with the process of figuring out how to get this this alloy figured out okay I got I've got plenty of copper my hammer that I'm making is really not going to be all that big so I think I'm gonna do two of these pieces of copper we're at a thousand fifty eight so if I want to get an eighty nine percent copper alloy not sure exactly how you do that thousand fifty eight divided by 0.8 nine is like I think it's like eleven eighty eight let's check see how close I got look at that oh I am an arithmetic whiz aren't I anyway so that's going to be my total weight the difference between the two of these so 1058 zero 330 grams of aluminum is what I need next so I've got lots of aluminum and we'll just see that's interesting because aluminum is not nearly as dense Wow Wow that's pretty darn close right there we're going to have to I'll come up with the extra pieces to get to 130 but basically there you go there's what you're that's what your ratio is going to look like if you're if you're looking at doing this not like that so not a lot of aluminum compared to the compared to the copper let's get it melted there we go finally focused I'll go ahead and close this thing up we'll let it heat and melt and once we get it melted the copper will start going again I ran our propane this is the aluminum we're starting to melt I ran out of propane all righty off to the store I'll be back the way had ordered i I just stole the barber tank off our barbecue grill this is going to be far more important than eating okay anyway it's full we're gonna get this melted now all right it was in the oven aluminum bezel it was interesting the aluminum actually stayed melted the whole time I had gas off and I was running around the house trying to find a tank and uh so what I'm doing now is I'm just going to go ahead and keep eating until I get to a yellow hot I know it looks yellow on the camera I can see the long term I'm looking at but it's really kind of a orange color right now so I'm going to keep going until I get closer to yellow before I add my copper because copper designo won't melt at this orange temperature I guess I could be preheating my look by copper but anyway I'm gonna keep letting gonna get hot before I put her down okay I'm getting pretty close to yellow a very light RH I'm going to go ahead and stick these pieces of copper down into the crucible they've been up here heating character black from from their nice copper color they had so let's go ahead I'm going to stick one in at a time and just began starting to get about going Wow I don't know what happened you missed it I didn't get the camera turn on a time I got to yellow and the copper ingot that I put in melted almost I mean he just want to get in and when it did that I had a huge billow of white smoke come out probably something toxic and I may not make it to the end of the video but that ingot is almost completely melted in there is maybe much left maybe inch and a half left so I'm going to go ahead and get this guy stuck down in there no I don't want to drop it you have no idea how much I don't want to drop this in there okay okay we're melted I am going to leave the camera focused on this it's a live shot see I'm gonna leave the camera focused on that on the other and get mold i heated it up it's sat on top of my my furnace here for a little while just to drive there's no moisture in my garage but just in case and I wanted a little bit warm so now Porcia it looks pretty clean I'll go ahead and shut the gas off ah and it's why it's suddenly quiet in here there we go let's see we get how about that almost what I put into it there's a whole bunch of stuff you see that bunch of stuff down in the bottom just scrape that to see what that is and yes those of you that are observant you will have noticed my foundry furniture or my furnace furniture or whatever it's called sticking to the bottom of my crucible and look at this this is so cool you can see that you see the color there it's gold and that's drying gold look at that one ah it's golden alrighty I'll come back when those are cool they look good don't they alright well looky there gold gold you know who needs Gold Rush and those kind of shows all you need is some old some old scrap plumbing an old screen door and look what you can make gold okay interesting I started off with I think it was twelve eighty eight something like that 1.2 88 grams or kilograms of material and I'm at a thousand I'm right up one kilogram and this is what I pulled out of the crucible you can't see it is pulled out of the crucible a bunch of junk on the bottom there's no question there's just draw some stuff down here but this all looks pretty good I add that and I bet it's not going to tell me how much a ways I think this was like yeah this is like 70 kilogram 70 grams which would have got me pretty close to where where I started all right aluminum bronze I did it pretty excited next step is to make the hammer if you want to go see what paul is up to I'll link this thing right here if you want 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Channel: swdweeb

Views: 47,580

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Keywords: foundry, furnace, bronze, aluminum bronze, copper, alloy, casting, melting, diy, howto, home foundry, ingots, competition, hammer, sprue, vent, gate, flask, cope

Id: ULdylV1sKDc

Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2017