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When you are melting the cans it burns all the paint and coating on the cans. This all floats around in the crucible, as you add more cans to melt down the dross gets stuck in the mixture. The salt dross ball reacts with the dross and turns it into a power and that floats to the top making it easier to remove before you pour.

Yeah and it was free!

Awesome dude! The Han Solo pour is lit!! 🔥🔥🛠️👍

@@MetalMan90 Thanks!

That is very true if i sold the parts to a scrap dealer. Pretty much all i do is scrap items that have copper and alloys. then i normally melt them down to ingots or other interesting things and sell them online. I can up to eight times the scrap value when they are ingots or if i make a nice coin out of them.

@@Coppercasting I've thought about that but I would only do it with bare bright wire. I've seen a lot of people stamp their ingots 99.9% copper but if they're not made from bare bright they're not pure.

@@newsweathertraffic18 Over here in NZ all copper water pipes and all electrical cables are 99.9% pure copper.

And you think i care why?

The problem with the first attempt was the pouring basin (cup) was too small and the sprue was not wide enough for the copper to flow. The second attempt came out 50% I think because the coins were different thicknesses and liquid always flows through the path of less resistance so it went to the thicker coins first then by the time that had filled up the cavity of the thicker coins it cooled to a solid state. Thanks for watching!

What put me off is the scales have a number 8 right on the half way mark. With metric that would be a 5..so should i be saying 2 pound 8 ounces? I take it there is 16 to a pound.

Yes a couple of people have said that on my other videos. Might look into it next time and see how it goes. Thanks for watching.

@@Coppercasting you're welcome, I enjoyed watching it, you'll probably like that method a lot

It is only illegal here in New Zealand to damage or destroy bank notes. This is a 5c coin which was taken out of circulation in 1990. and i made a coin 300% bigger than the original from the US. ..so illegal on how many levels?

90% sand 10% clay and just enough water to hold it all together without sticking to your hand. cheap easy and very good results. Plus no annoying flames or making vents to vent the gas

Thanks and welcome to me channel

Well its not a mystery alloy, it is silver plated cupronickel, (copper and nickel) zinc and lead are soft, why would you put soft metals in forks that are poison which you put in your mouth?

@@Coppercasting Because they are naturally found with copper and nickel. You’re ignorant if you think the manufacturer spent money to separate the metals to get all the other base metals out of their alloy! You’re extremely ignorant if you think you were not breathing in toxic fumes!

@@THR33STEP looks like im just an ignorant person all around then. Thanks for you comment and thanks for watching:)

You sure do. I could have just edited my mistakes out but then no one would be learning. At least we know how not to do it lol

Yeah the bean cans do not last very long. That cup is made from stainless steel so it should last a bit longer than a bean can

The cat did it :)

Yeah i have seen it done like that before but i do not have one of those so i just make do with what i have

Stator not the armature. The armature has a steel rod running through it.

​​@@ScrappingScotland You are probably right, but an Armature can be moving or not moving. An armature carries AC electric current in windings.

@DavidGS66 the armature revolves mate and it's held within the stator. Yes it also can contain copper windings. He was trying to remove the copper from the stator though, not the armature

Yeah you soon learn how not to do things lol Cheers mate.

Fantastic idea i will look into that

Thanks for taking the time to watch my videos, I hope you enjoy them.

The grinder is good but it wastes 1.5mm of materials each cut due to the thickness of the cutting wheel. So you can easily end up wasting a lot of copper. The cutting shear is super-fast and no wastage of materials and it was fairly cheap to buy.

​@@Coppercastingstop buying the 1.6mm cutting discs- get the 1mm ones. I use them in my 4 and 5 inch grinders scrapping and fabricating, any time cutting copper I do it where I can sweep up the copper dust- have a half kilo so far after 3 years.

These things are a dime a dozen over here. Plus i already have a nice copper still :)

I didnt know that. I thought it was normal for all low pressure systems to be made of copper. Only our high pressure or "mains" pressure tanks are made of steel over here.

Yeah, I did level it off but not enough. Next time i will put a top on the mold and that will take care of that problem. Having the open cast i can see whats going on so im pretty sure it will flow good with a top on next time

Yeah mate they are well worth it.