What metals can I melt in my new furnace?
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2017
- I know that my new furnace can melt aluminum quite fast, but what I also wanted to know is can I melt brass and copper. So I made 3 small steel crucibles and tried to melt copper brass and aluminum for comparison. From a cold start the aluminum melted in 14 minutes shortly followed by the brass. Copper melted in half an hour. The ingot mold is made from sand that’s mixed with sodium silicate and hardened with CO2 gas. The resulting ingots weighed aluminum 194g, brass 629g and copper 598g.
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Fascinating.
So copper took longer to melt than brass.
Learning new things everyday.
brass is a copper alloy
I was surprised that the brass melted as fast as aluminum
Very therapeutic to watch melting metal be poured 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I always love watching you vids, please do not ever stop uploading, loving the new furnace and workshop look forward to more vids coming soon!
Good video MP! Can't wait till I get my furnace up and running 👍🙂
I love it when copper is poured. It's so nice and golden and it pours just like water.
MP Dragon. awesome video, be careful though when casting and melting brass, the fumes are toxic and when even the smallest drop of water will hit it, you will have to deal with a hail storm of molten brass. Molten brass itself will burn you to the bone. I work at a metal casting factory/foundry and I have seen some really violent accidents. I want you to be save. Stay awesome.
Cloudburn yes the way you put it less dense metals would be safer, but also dangerous. Aluminium can explode as well though. Just be careful with water or anything that water can condensate onto. Never do it under anything that can catch steam and drip down into your crucible or casting mold. Always make sure you have at least welding gloves, since they extend over your forearms, have eye protection, preferable goggles, a welders apron and/or jacket and some respiratory protection that way you will be as save as you possible can be in a home environment. There are plenty of good tutorials on youtube about casting, and when you cast try to use an oil based casting shape, like mp used in this video, that way you have the least chance of things exploding in your face.
Brass has a relatively high melting point which makes it prone to react faster when it is forced to be cooled down, e.g. a drop of water or residue of water or anything colder then the temp. of itself when in a molten state. This has to do with the chemical make-up of brass, as it contains sulfur, which in turn acts like a catalyst making it explode. I mean seriously, don't be the first person to post it to youtube, because I am about a 100% serious you will not survive it or at the very least be seriously injured. Brass explodes into a hailstorm of of the smallest particles of brass, which will burn literally to the bone, I've witnessed an accident where it burned a colleague, through his thermal suit, through his under-padding, through his under garments all the way through his arm. He had an array of holes in his arm I'm telling you he was lucky. Just be save and use common sense. Be save.
Safety first Lalaland so true, i am also very careful when casting for my videos...
Lalaland
Good advice. I've only melted a handful of times but recently learned if it looks like rain, don't melt. I had no choice but to run away. Not easy for me. The rain even cooled the bricks on my temp furnace so fast most all of them broke. Aluminum blops everywhere. Sounded like silenced machine gun fire at one point. Glad I moved my truck. Never again.
Very helpful. Thanks for the knowledge
I don't know why watching metal metal is so hypnotic.
Metal metal? Do you mean metal re-crystallise?
I'd just hazard a guess that its a typo for the word melt
I thought that at first but seeing as you don't really see the melting process but you do see the solidification and re-crystallisation of the metal I gambled on the latter.
420smokyblunts in baghdad recollections triggered and poetic license lol
I think it has something to do with fire and the fact that a solid becomes liquid. Of course we have to be careful an not touch it just because its solid it could still be hot enough to hurt us.
Cool I want one. Like to hear Accents from other people and the lands they come from. Great video keep on melting man
Great looking shop with so much space! You must be very happy to have all that room
Amazing video. You even wrote the weights of the rods in such a satisfying way, I really enjoyed your video, really appreciate the great work you have done! Again, nice work!
Excellent video.
Those are great bars thank you for the video. :)
Great demo, thanks!
VERY NICE VIDEO ... I LIKE YOUR EASY MADE MOLD ...!
Good work bro
I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure this man is the terminator
Brenden Clark lmao me two
Great video man
wonderful video
I say that furnace works very welland thank you for posting your video in English sometimes that's hard to do you did a good job 👍
Nice video well done good job
Furnace is great!😀
I follow you from Iraq and love your channel very much I hope you reach a million subscribers
nice vídeo man!
finally!! im so happy 😆, nice video. like 👍
I love your videos you a new RUclipsr but I still like your RUclips videos
You would think cooper melts faster than brass. Don't know how I saw your video. But now I'm hooked and want to make one myself. I have lots of money and time. So I guess it's time to melt metal. New hobby.
man i really enjoy watching your video , u are like hephaestus xD , best wishes for u
I wish i had a furnace like that, or any furnace at all.
Spencer LeBrun if i had one i would melt all my 1 and 2 cents coins to make ingots of whatever metals they are made.
Spencer LeBrun if you watch Grant Thompson "King of Random" 's video on a furnace you can make one yourself
Zinc. Hold your breath, it's very toxic when burning.
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Interesting video thanks
An now that you have more space you can make bigger projects with melted metals. Thank You Loader.
Bro you're awesome
excellent
Interesting stuff.MP Dragon
Awesomeness!!
man I would still like a video on your big metal ingot mold rack and how to build one
Nice.
GREAT VIDEO IY`V OFTEN WONDERED IF COPPER COULD BE MELTED BY PROPANE APARENTLY IT CAN
Great video! do you sell your ingots or do you only use them for casing projects? what do you do with your dross/ Slag? thanks.
Way cool vidz man... make em longer and hotter lol
What did you make your forge out of?
Looks like it heats up well!
MP Dragon what country are you in? we really like your set up, did you make it all your self or did you find it on the net? either way very cool!!
you didn't mention what is the crucible made from ... what are the handles of the crubible are made from and which type of cruicble is needed to melt iron ? Also have you tried mixing types of metals together ? .. I'm interested to see this. thank you.
Nice video! What is the material used to make the mold for the ingots?
i find this channel very intresting, been a subscriber for quite some time now, but this is a 1st i'm commenting
What do you keep taking out constantly? Impurities?
sorry sir. how long does it take for each of these metals to be warmed / smelted and how much is the temperature? sorry for English if something goes wrong. @I am from Indonesia
Is it just me or does watching a metal cool down look like movie effects from a really old movie?
Can you show the burner in detail please, i just can't get enough heat, thanks my friend,
Do you have a video where u give more detail about the co2 rig that you use and how to use it properly?
209chevymon Co2 tank with a regulator set to minimum and a quick disconnect male to female connectors. The only thing left is a pneumatic blow gun
MP Dragon,good video
can you melt iron ?
Grande frate
could you melt steel in it if you added a small bit of oxygen into that propane line ?
is it possible to melt steel like aluminum on a small scale like this ?
Curious why did you switch to gas over waste oil for your burner?
If you could make bronze or aluminum bronze that would add some good strength to what you make
Nice clutter free shop.
I like this heavy metal shit :-D
Can i melt a brass with only a lpg tank and a gas stove??
Same with copper??
what do you add to sand to make the mold?
make a double edged dagger for next casting
Could you please tell me where you bought the Co2 sprayer attachment?
that is a simple and cheap air compressor nozzle
ah ok thanks!
Hi MP... Fantastic videos! And your furnace looks awesome! I really liked the video on how you made it. Can you please make a video on burning waste oil? I have seen a million videos on furnaces and using propane to melt metals, but you are the only one that I have seen talk about burning oil. (???) Also... where are you in the world?
I need to buy a air compressor then I will try to run the furnace on waste oil. there will be a country reveal video probably in June
Look up the Kwiky burner. It's a simple venturi burner designed to run waste motor oil with common off the shelf plumbing parts.. A blower is a must and so is an air compressor. I've been running one for years, it has a slight learning curve, but once setup, costs literally nothing to run.
I know that design, but I want to try an even simpler design
When you say, "run waste motor oil..." it is really possible to burn old motor oil as the fuel source for a foundry furnace? And it is possible without clouds and clouds of acrid smoke?
Absolutely! I start mine with diesel, after about 10mins, it's up to temp and I back off the diesel and switch to used motor oil. With enough forced air, it burns without any visible smoke. I use motor oil from the cars, but you could use filtered waste veggie oil too. Your place might smell like french fries too! My furnace is an old air compressor tank, lined with kaowool and then a 1inch thick layer of mizzou refractory cement. That stuff tolerates up to 3100degrees. Don't go cheap on your furnace, you want it to last. It's not rocket science thats for sure. Go visit www.alloyavenue.com and look around. Lot's of good help there from the guys. ;-) Stop in and say hi!
You should make bells.
would you want to create a mixture with all those metals?
Brass is deadly, you can develop metal shock. You have to have specialized equipment to handle anything with lead or zinc in it, except by themselves.
MP dragon co to była za substancja którą dolewałeś do piasku
what casting sand do you use
Be careful of the zinc oxide fumes from the brass.
I have a couple of questions about your sand:
1. What is the "injector" you are using for the CO2 to harden the sodium silicate?
2. Is the sand reusable after hardening or is it considered consumable?
Yes the CO2 gas hardens the sodium silicate, and the sand is reusable you just have to crush it sift it and then it can be used again
MP Dragon couldnt you remove the item without "damaging" the sand? of course not dipping it in the water^^
i love this... what about tin actual tin cans(not alumnium tin cans) or steel/iron, can it melt that... you should make another video about this topic.
Badhon Ebrahim Bro you can melt tin on your stove. Even a candle is enough to melt small amouts of tin.
So you use a furnace can i melt a copper with only a LPG and 1 gas stove?
Do the furnace's walls get hot during use?
Make a gladius type sword with aluminum bronze!
try making bronze dagger next
What is the fuel source you are using this time?
Oh man, it scares me to think about the hell fire
how can i make mine hotter i can melt copper but i only did once it gets orange but it never melts i can melt steel if i hold it in the coals without a crucible its a charcoal forge with clay on the walls
What are the things he used for molding metal?
Since you can melt copper you should try your hand at bronze casting.
Can you make a video like the easiest way to melt aluminum(without special furance)
what was the blower you used
Awesome! Do bronze!
What is the usage of this ingots?
Do u think it could get hot enough to melt iron at 2800 f or 1538 c or steel at 2500 f or 1370 c
I do want to try melt iron
What type of sand do you use and what is added to the sand ?
10223220 he uses salt
I use oil base sand for my casting videos works great... :)
what happens if you melt those metals at the same time like in one container together
Hmmm Yes good question... :)
Christian Ortiz you'd get an alloy of the metals.
Kegan Kendall lol we cant get a alloy cause they all have not equal density!😂😂
The container in which he put all three metals what was it?because they all molt but container didnt
Very cool. What next after copper?
iron
MP Dragon kinda hard. I think you need an oxygen bottle.
That's a pretty huge temp gap xD like 500°C
Black Beard Projects hi
Bronze than Pig Iron.
try ferro titanium, i am curious.
Are you a gen 3 synth?
TKS for the video 👌🏻... Where are you located?
Tools & More DIY I was thinking the same thing
Which furnace is this?
Brass knuckle time!
Why these containers not melted as the metal inside them
God, i would have bet large amounts of money that the copper would melt faster than the brass... i need to brush up on my metals!
What kind of liquid do you put in the sand to make it moist
sodium silicate it hardens when I ad CO2 gas
MP Dragon thanks
What happens when you mix different metals?
You get an alloy
please give Mike, shout out on one of your videos thank you
Where are you from?
what about titanium have you tried that.
you can gold gold bricks also just not easily, though you can go to dumpsters for old computers, things like phones, tablets, you would have to basically unscrew them for their motherboards and the chips, the drivers, and you'd find out just how to retrieve the gold from them, you could as well go look for video game consoles, games, and get the gold taken off those things motherboards also, just note this though: if you wanted an entire new gold brick from scraps of gold from what I listed, you'd have probably a few months of collecting this stuff from dumpsters, though you would be very amazed to know just how much money you could potentially own from an entire gold brick, I think you'd be holding in your care a few millions of dollars worth if its gold bricks.
Lol, after 9 month's :D. But computer part's dont have that much of gold in it. It is thin like gold plating.