Making a Solid Copper Hammer
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2023
- In this video, I make a small solid copper hammer for use in my shop. I made pattern using fusion 360 and the 3d printed the patterns in a plastic called PLA. Then I made a sand mold with a sand called petrobond.
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Non-marring copper hammer was my first serious tool that I cast. I chose to keep a wooden handle, and make a couple, from 1 lb to 5lbs. The first one I made, a 3 lb sledge, I made with pure copper wire. That thing is >>SOFT
The pipes maybe still had some solder on them, which also melted, and made some kind of bronze
I love how the layers on the hammer head were captured in the sand and transferred to the casting
It's crazy how the 3d print layers stay through the process! Amazing the level of detail here!
Love your videos. Your craftsmanship is top notch. Nice work. Hope your family is doing well.
That is one damn fine thumb-detecting swing press!
Copper is my favorite metal so seeing people make copper tools that look really nice is cool
Another interesting chapter in tool making! There's nothing quite like the feeling of successfully designing and manufacturing your own tools. Keep up the good work.
One of your cleanest castings so far! Congratulations!
Your sandcasting techniques are spotless 👍
Loved the hammer. Excellent point of having a hammer that won't smash or mark up materials that need a good tap. Great video.
Lovely work, it's fascinating to watch the process.
perfect for use next to live wires or electrical circuits
Your videos are so relaxing and fascinating!
Excellent work and content, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for all your videos! I setup a foundry cuz of you with the copper penny sledgehammer build. It’s been a wonderful journey!
I love it when you make copper or other metal hammers good job man keep it up 😊
Beautiful work as always!
So therapeutic to watch! thanks.
Its a hammer that will get harder the more you use it! Thats pretty cool!
you're very good at casting. i want to try this summer
Simple and useful nothing wrong with that. Hope to see it in use in a future video.
So satisfying watching casting videos like this, thanks
So explain how it's satisfying. I don't understand
you need to make yourself some copper casting tools.... maybe a small trowel for carving out channels, a cone for forming spouts, a tamping hamer and maybe a levelling beam for flatting off the top and bottom of the sand
Great work as always.
This is the first video where i see amateur casting with feeders and feeling system. I like it.
That.is.one.BAD.ASS.looking.hammer.love.your.work.BRAVO 🏴☠️🇺🇲😃
have you considered switching to using an induction smelter? if so, why are you not using one?
Thanks for this, I'll try make my pouring holes like in this video next time i'm casting with copper.
Had some nasty holes in my previous copper casting,
This method will defenely turn my casting results around 🔥
I want to get into casting like this. Thanks for the video.
Good to have you back
Wow thats a cool hammer!
I used to make lead head mallets by taking apart dead car batteries and smelting the plates to pour into soup cans with a gas pipe handle, I sold them to English car owners that had knock off wire wheels, the lead mallets don't damage the knock off ears
Supercool - great work
So nice and clean! Really comforting❤️
Looks like it would be great to use in the kitchen
Came out great.👍😎
I need a hammer like that! It's amazing
OOh...V2.0 copper head, polished aluminum handle, 2 part hammer (where you can machine the aluminum to press into the head) [plus it would concentrate the weight at the head]
Such a great design and setup!
Very cool!
Keep em coming!!!!
Very nice work
Very nice hammer. The casting was interesting to see.
Regards
Being able to hammer metal without damaging it is always handy, nice tool.
nice design
cool hammer for sure.
Nice hammer !!
Totally rad
We liked this!
Maybe next time throw in pop corn 😂😂😂. Nice casting, thanks for sharing
Nice job.
The first think i though was: what use can have some "soft metal" hammer? Nice the addition of tin , awesome 😁
Superb!
Cute dog! And nice hammer.
“I threw some peanuts into the red hot crucible” caught me off guard haha
Hammer time🔨!
Commenting here until Robinson Foundry collabs with us! 🫡
cool hammer
You could cast just the head, cored to take a wooden handle. That might help bring the weight down a little. This one looks pretty nice as-is though. 👍
he did that before
Adding the peanuts could cause all future pours to have allergies now. ;)
Another finely-made work! I dub it "Pincher", for while its bigger sister (which I dubbed "Penny's Revenge") can pack a punch, this one works in a pinch! Also because of the funny pun.
Keep having fun
That dog was so cute
Would it be worth making the indentations in the handle deeper, and even continuing more up the rest of the handle to shave some weight?
Very cool project! I too made a copper hammer for my mini mill and I'm sure you will find your hammer fun and useful! (There is something very satisfactory in making hammers, isn't it?)
Nice hammer
Very cool i love the whole need a tool make a tool thing.
Two thumbs way Up !!!!!!!!!!!!
For milling machines and the sort, I prefer rubber dead blow hammers, but copper and lead are good alternatives.
I definitely like the music you are using these days way better. The quality of the video overall is good as usual. Have you thought about gettting a resin printer?
He has one
Hello! Question. Is the petrosand reusable after the casting? Can you scrap off the burnt parts and reuse it? Thank you.
You should try using PolyCast PVB filament instead of PLA. You should also give ZA-12 alloy a try for casting.
Will you seal the copper hammer to preserve the copper color or allow it to oxidize and eventually turn green?
nothing is better to start a day than watching peanuts burn
What is a good flux / degasser for copper? Thanks.
Do you use flux when melting copper?
Thanks for sharing this insightful video. Do you ever add borax to your metal melting process.? It is used to remove impurities from metals that are being melted and refined. Wishing you a great week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings. Peace brother
Any particular reason you make the majority of your hammer heads square as opposed to rounded?
That came out so nice! I saw someone get rid of those print lines by covering the print in wax before taking the mold, could be an interesting experiment. Keep up the good work!
Sand yer prints! Or fill them. It's worth it. Saw layer lines from the thumbnail
Is anyone else disappointed he didn't start the video with "it's hammer time?" 😂 nice hammer though
Need to get yourself some starrett die cutter bandsaw blades
Did you think of making that wooden 'Petrobond' casting frame out of metal 'boards' that you can just screw or bolt together? That would make for a really nice video or two, and you never have to worry about about it catching fire or making a new one.
- I'm hoping you like this idea and we get to see you making it AND add some really cool design 'final- touches' :)
This is a great video, and the casting came out very nice, and I hate to nitpick, however the title list this as "solid copper" and it's simply not. That chunk of tin/antimony pewter made all the difference in how this came out.
Are you happy with your PM-30? Do you wish tou would have purchased a larger mill?
what kind of forge do you use?
Why did you choose to use the hand file to clean up the handle and the belt sander to clean up the ends of the hammer?
Just curious do you think you could do a head bust of a famous person, both printing and casting?
Is there a reason you don’t remove the line where the two 3D printed pieces came together
I absolutely love your channel I wish you would do videos more often
Schaut toll aus! Ein Handgriff aus Holz wäre mir aber lieber, da Kupfer doch leicht toxisch ist.
I have a video suggestion! How about you compare molds made with petrobond and plasture+silica sand?
What's it used for ?
For beating solid copper nails !
Loved the way the hammer turned out, but hate to see the line left by the two parts of the sand mold.
how long did this take from start to finish after you had the mold made??
These molds usualy take 30 - 60 minuttes to make, depending on what you'r making
you seem like a dwarf to me having fun in the forge so maybe you chould make some dwarven esc fantasy things i don't know what but it would be cool!
Nice, but I still prefer that skeletonised hammer from a while back. That is an epic looking little hammer.
please make another video about lost pla of complex object.
Can you electrify it like in the games?
Awesome hammer! But you didn’t remove the cast lines D:
I'm sure you can drill the bottom of the handle out a bit to lighten it up a bit; just don't drill too far in or drill too much out, I'd venture to say you can run a 1/2" drill about 5 inches up with no real issue to integrity or strength. Cheer's...
dont you wanna pound tubes flat before smelting them as there is a chance an air bubble can get trapped and cause an explosion of sorts (explosion as a little pop but sprays hot metal around)
you can, but flattening the pipe can also cause air to be trapped in it. the only thing you really have to worry about with casting metal is your medium being wet or moist, thats what causes the explosion