MELTING CAST IRON WITH PROPANE AT HOME - 1300°C+ Devil-Forge
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2018
- so today ill melt some cast iron as alot of people wanted me to try it .temp up around 1300°C are required and thats some serious heat. I made a great ingot for my collection.
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MELTING CAST IRON - MID WEEK MELT - 1300°C+ 
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bigstackD Casting can you provide a link for your ingot molds, and crucibles? Thank you
Next time melt stones
Do you not coat your ceramic wool?
Trevon I get all Molds and crucibles from eBay I don’t have a certain supplier I just look for good deals👌🏻
Yes Adam I do coat my ceramic wool it’s just after awhile it does get a bit messy and looks like there is no coating but I can assure you I regularly touch it up to avoid the risk of fibres releasing from the furnace👍🏻
This channel is literaly just the story about a man with no impulse control as he slowly melts everything he owns.
Final video: MELTING MY HOUSE 9001°c+
I am thinking that Mrs D might have something to say about that.
I got a funny feeling that I should hide my metal belongings
Like Ray from trailer park boys ripping out the copper from his walls to buy booze.
@@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite LMAO I remember that that guy is a lawyer in real life him and his fake disability 😂😂
"Honey... where did my pots and pans go?"
"..... Like my new battle axe?"
XD
Hahaha love this comment!
Uh they absolutely cast swords and ace heads for thousands of years in both the iron and bronze ages buddy.
@Wo Jak by modern standards sure but Google any variation of "cast weapon archaeology" and you will see for yourself. I understand the value of concentrating molecules via forging and don't dispute it whatsoever especially combined with modern treating processes. But that was then and this is now.
@Wo Jak in the end caring to keep metallurgy knowledge and skill a living thing is apology enough for me. Keep doing what you do bro.
Seems like no metal in your house is safe when you get the itch to melt and cast.
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@@bigstackD 😂😂
Doesn't seem like he melts high carbon steel tho.
@@lasmgoogleaccount9728 with a propane furnace I don't think it be entirely safe for him to be able to do so.
Almeida
Except the metal already made into bars
BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL MADMAN ON THE LOOSE IS MELTING LITTERALLY EVERYTHING HE CAN FIND
Can he melt steel beams????
@@AMRAMRS They said madman, not jet fuel
@@jackoneill8050 you don't really need jetfuel just a industrial furnace mate but they are insane
@@AMRAMRS if he can melt iron he can definitely melt steel
@@jgilly3362 just heat is all
Also this brings me back to when i first found your channel i told you to make an iron ingot cuz no one else had done it yet and you said you couldn't now look at you your going up bro
TO BIGSTACKD 🥂🍻
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I like how I asked you about steel and iron over a month ago and then suddenly you're producing iron casting videos. Keep up the awesome content!
The music you put in the end like discovering ancient advanced structures and artifacts. A true iron man maker. Glad I typed a search and come across this.
Glad you liked it Ronald👊🏻. I actually will melt some more cast iron in today’s video that will come out in about 3 1/2 hours👍🏻
Just the start, snagging the iron and ffwd run from wife.... 😂😂😂
My life in a nutshell!! You made my day!! Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone!
"Before the wife gets home" 🤣 thats relatable.
Achievement: acquire hardware
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Ah, a man of culture.
Minecraft?
Legit the only good cast iron melting video on RUclips. Nice!
Well hopefully the world agrees with you😉👍🏻🤔
Check out Cast Iron Gypsy.
luckygen1001 has some nice content on iron / steel melting
Ok, next up tungsten.
LoneDeathWolf I'm thinking magnesium would be interesting
LoneDeathWolf If he can get that furnace up to 6,192 degrees Fahrenheit( 3,422 degrees Celsius), he's out of luck.
Ah No. Ever heard of incendiary bombs used for setting cities on fire during WW II?
Next up: Graphite
Tungsten is EXTREMELY hard to melt, thats why its used in TIG welding
When your propane tank has no more propane you should melt it
That tank is made of steel or some othe iron alloy... It won't melt or would be a really pain in the ass.
@@THEKNI8 if he can melt cast iron it wouldnt be much harder to melt even high carbon steal, its only about 300 degrees farenheit away from cas itons melting point
When it gets low and starts to freeze, should use that somehow to keep drinks cold.
A propane tank that is empty is still full of propane.
@@StephenGillie a refrigerator?
i made a little forge out of a coffee can lined with sand/waterglass/plaster mix lining. First time i tried melting some copper to make aluminum bronze with it i used a cast iron crucible like i'd done before. I know copper and cast iron have pretty close melting points and a ceramic crucible would have been much better. but i didn't have one at the time. I guess I underestimated the heat of the little thing because when i went to pour i got bronze and a little lump of cast iron that poured out. I had started to melt my crucible. Now my retired cast iron crucible has a shiny golden bronze bottom lol
Impressive Bigstack. I’ve been planning to try cast iron at some point but I don’t think my setup is up to the challenge. Nice furnace you have there. Well done.
I hadn't thought of that surfing game for about 30 years. Great imagination!
Fascinating how Iron reacts with oxygen to instantly make Fe2O3 with the sparks from actual iron particles in the air. Our bodies use a lot of iron in our hemeglobin to transport oxygen around our bodies in this way. I love this vid.
OMFG that was the transformation of a lifetime... Amazing bar and not at all what I expected, I didn't expect it to shine up like that... Beautiful...
I got me a furnace and started melting things down I sucked at it to begin with because I didn’t have much experience but now I’m getting better and better and better I even got my hands on about 10 kg of German silver that I’ve been melting down I haven’t melted it all yet but I produce some pretty cool bars. Also I do a lot of aluminum copper and brass zinc and lead. Somebody even paid me to cast about 1 pound or around half a kilogram of gold jewelry that they have found over the years metal detecting. But I’m glad I found your channel because you have introduced me to a very fun hobby
Great vid dude! Never seen anyone melt cast iron and cast it into an ingot
BTW sry for late comments I've been busy but anyways keep up the good work and Surprise me!
Wow cast iron! I'm impressed! That stuff isnt easy!
Yeah it’s some serious damn heat that’s for sure bro 😖. But I’m very glad I atleast tried it 😁👍🏻
And yet we can find videos of dudes in bare feet and shorts casting the stuff in India.
I won't comment on the OH&S or the quality of the castings made
@@bigstackD , now your next step will be stainless steel ;-)
@@markfryer9880 the welding videos crack me up, barefoot, shorts and fingers as a mask :)
Man. Watching bigstackD work is like one of those old school Foster's commercials. This guy just did something, without even the use of a heat fan, that all of my peers have been warning me not to try. No matter what you do for fun where you're from, stuff like this convinces me it's WAY more hardcore in Australia!
Well that answered my question about keeping your Devil Forge so clean! Great work.
WHAAT!!! Mid week Melt! And Cast Iron too!
WOOOHOOO!!!!
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I know right hahaha
I love your videos mate! Cast iron? Sick! Shelf is looking phenomenal.
Wife: ''Whatever happened to [various items around the house]?''
D: ''Gone. Reduced to atoms''
So awesome man the soothing fire makes everything better 😎🔥
Mid week melts are a great idea you should definitely do more of them
If I get time matey I would love to every now and then but we will see 😉👍🏻
I was surprised the cast iron didn't crack due to thermal shock when placed on the ice.
Its iron dumass iron dont crack cus ice is just frozen water
@@youremybiggestfan i hope what you said was a joke
@@youremybiggestfan Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
That quote never gets old man.
If it was Iron and not steel it wouldn't crack because of the lack of carbon particles. Carbon is present in steel and is what makes it harder and more brittle. Iron as an element is much softer.
@@Relatablename from who is that quote come from?
I had to come back and re-watch your cast iron melt, I didn't remember the fireworks show last time I watched it till you mentioned it. I need to shine up the little cast iron ingots that I had leftover, I bet they will shine up good. Thanks for the inspirational videos. Can't wait to try cast iron again, and re-do my last project.
Cool no worries buddy . Yeah that cast iron one I shined up is still sitting on my shelf and hasn’t tarnished or rusted at all surprisingly , although it is sitting in a moisture free environment and inside my theatre room on the shelf so that definitely helps👍🏻
Learn something new every day I didn't know cast could shine like that? Thanks for sharing have a great day Brother.
Melting cast iron is not an easy feat and you managed to melt that poor sucker of a rusted cast iron bbq plate.
I'm impressed! You deserve a Sub from me as i LOVE watching Metal geting melted and poured
Well then welcome aboard my friend. Be sure to check my other vids I’m sure there’s some there you will love😉👍🏻😆
No grill is safe from the SMELTING MAN...watch as he reduces all metals into submissive matter! Watch as mere metal shake in terror and become puddles before your eyes! The amazing SMELTING man!
Been watching you for months and now I know why you send all your steel to a friend, great video!
The sparks that flamed out when you poured the molten iron are almost like fireworks in your video, I love it!
To us it's Wednesday morning, and to you it's 4:38 pm! LMAO
An early vid is always welcome! :D
That plate shattered really nice!
The shards melted really nice!
The iron poured really nice!
The bar polished up really nice!
That's a really nice ingot!
But to get it, you paid a heavy price: crucible destruction!
Time for a nice graphite one?
Thanx for and awesome video D! :D
Shiiiid, you're living my childhood dream. Love pretty shiny metals no matter what kind. Also meltigg stuff is fun and cool, if one is safe about it. 👍
This was a cool video, I guess I have never even thought about melting down cast iron. it sure cleaned up nice. thanks for video
Love the videos dude. Keep it up!
Yahooooooooooooo looks great
Me: no way that's cast iron
*sees it break like glass with a hammer*
Me: ok, fair enough
FINALLY! I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS! Thanks so much for the video mate.
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Ace video, loved that.
This is the first video I've watched from the channel, looking forward to watching more, peace brother xx
I have never seen cast iron shine like that before. That's interesting.
Well my friend I’m glad you liked that. Trust me I had absolutely no idea cast-iron would Shine like that either. I had to use a different piece before I melted and sand it down and buff it to make sure it was gonna be worth my while,
I wasn’t gonna destroy the iron ingot that I poured so that’s why it didn’t get stamped . Please do stick around I’m sure I have other stuff you will like👍🏻
That little forge is amazing. The pour went great my friend ! Bummer on the crucible. What a mess eh.I often wonder why you balance the crucible on the edge of that brick. Easy to tip ?
It looks like it’s dangerously close to tipping on this brick but it’s actually quite safe and as the crucible with its contents weigh normally quite a few kilos it would take a descent knock to tip over 👍🏻
Just a dude playing with fire. Love it
Going way back with this one man i am still so impressed with everyone of your videos. I am loving playing a playlost andbseeing them
Nice bro! Those fireworks coming from the pour was great and the surfing 🏄♀️ ingot cleanup 👍🏻 to bad you only got one use out of that crucible. Did you temper it first 🧐 I’m sure you did but gotta ask anyways haha. It’s good to know that the foundry will get hot enough to melt the cast iron. Great work as always 🍺🍺🍺
Cheers bro. Yeah I normally get the crucibles nice and dry and red hot then let them cool overnight so it should’ve been fine although I’m thinking I could maybe still use it with aluminium as the hole might be full of cast-iron and I won’t be going anywhere near those temperatures again I’ll try it in my old furnace if I do. I got your email that sword looks pretty awesome is that this Fridays video?
bigstackD Casting oh yeah that’s a good idea! Didn’t even think of that haha. Yeah hopefully I’ll have this video ready by Friday. Gonna finish filming tomorrrow so I can edit it all day tomorrow. It’s been a struggle but it should be up 👍🏻 just gotta smash something stupid with it if I can pick it up 🤷🏻♂️🍺🍺talk soon my friend
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bigstackD Casting go enjoy your family and tell the wife I stole the grill 🤪 I’ll take the blame 👍🏻 🍺🍺
Loved the video. Btw what time did you post this . Cause i. Half way across the world rn and it's 2:30 am. It says the video was posted an hour ago
Why did it spark like that mate?kool melt once again.👍👍
Honestly I have no idea but my friend told me they use this type of stuff in sparklers mixed with some other stuff which kind of looks about right🤷🏻♂️.
The sparks were likely carbon burning out of the metal.
Iron and by extension, steel makes sparks when it's heated (either from being melted or from the friction of an impact or abrasion) because some iron on the surface spontaneously oxidises and gives off heat. There are lots of factors at play, like for example iron is the only commonly known metal that has an oxide compound with a lower melting point than the metal itself. (FeO melting point is 1,377 °C, pure iron melting point is 1,538 °C). It's also simply due to the chemistry of iron oxide. Iron oxide isn't very chemically stable when compared to another metal oxide like say, Aluminium oxide. Aluminium never burns in air. You can get it down to an even finer particle size and higher surface area than iron or steel and it still won't burn. Steel wool will burn when ignited, aluminium powder or atomised aluminium won't burn.
Simply put, heating the metal increases the likelihood of oxidation because the atoms on the surface have higher energy. When it does oxidise, this oxidation releases more heat and oxidises other nearby atoms in a chain reaction. It turns out that iron oxide isn't a very insulating or chemically strong material, so it doesn't prevent further oxidation like aluminium oxide does. When this oxidation chain reaction happens, eventually a whole clump of atoms is flung off the surface and continues to burn in the air until it's reduced to nothing but fine iron oxide powder. This is the spark.
I don't have an explanation for what mechanism actually causes the iron to fly off of the ingot. Perhaps it's due to opposing magnetic forces as the iron(ii) oxide further oxidises into another oxide compound such as hematite or magnetite? Though, I can't find any source to say that this happens.
bigstackD Casting its actually the iron3+ combining with the oxygen in the air and burning to produce iron4+. When you do iron next you need to sand blast the rust off first (which is why your ingot is full of pits), and put a bunch of flux in the crucible so it protects the metal from oxidation and the silica in the flux will also make its own ferrosilicon which will make the cast iron more ductile. Anyways good job getting hot enough to melt iron, but I can’t imagine what it cost in propane. I’m still working on a waste oil drip feed for mine, I went and saw my buddy that owns a autoshop the other day but it got super cold and we spent more time drinking to stay warm than working on my project.
@Guodlca Very good point, I hadn't considered their Curie temps and I was betting on there being some amount of Fe3O4, though I'm pretty sure that can't form just from the oxidation of iron in air.
I always leave a like brother, Your vids and top-shelf!! Catching some a bit late on. but they are awesome. Thank you
Waiting for that big silver pour! Great vid friend.
Lucky gen 1001 talks about crucible burns in some of his vids. He is now showing his adding nickel to his cast. Nickel is not cheap, good source is US 5 cent ( nickle) 75% nickel, 25% copper. I have been waiting for this to see how you handled the high temps. Good show and the wife won't believe the dingo story after what you did to her jewelry. Lmao. Word of caution, after working in a foundry I remember seeing concrete burn from molten steel.
There is something fascinating about your channel. Obviously the work you put into your videos makes them as good as they are but there's something else which I can't quite put my finger on. I think maybe it has something to do with metal being one of the only materials that you can take the finished product and quite easily (Compared to other materials) just reset it back to its basic state. Whatever it is I really look forward to your videos coming out! Keep it up :D
Cheers matey I appreciate this comment 👍🏻. If only all comments were this nice😉. If you keep watching I’ll keep posting my friend😀
You may regret saying that in 500 years after they've invented a way to live forever and I keep bugging you for new videos 😆
That’s a risk I’m willing to take 😉👍🏻
Going to be a very crowded Earth by then.
Might be my new favorite video from you. Thanks!
Reminds me of my cast iron pour. Melted furnace, ruined crucible, lots of propane and all I got from it was cast iron that was in a different shape from before I melted it. ;-) I suppose we all have to try it. Good to hear from you mid-week matey.
“bigstackD Casting Casts Cast Iron” should have been the title of the vid.
wut
Before the wife gets home, like she'd stop you?
When you‘re taking minecraft too serious 😂😂
Woot! Mid-week pour!
Cast iron, too! Very cool!
Cheers bro. Yeah I thought I should chuck out a different vid on a different day for my loyal viewers 👍🏻. I’ll still release something every Friday but every now and then when I catch up I’ll do a mid week melt🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Absolutely loved the sparking when you poured it... can really tell it's super-high in carbon, both from the sparks & that messy black grit that results when you try machining the stuff.
Sucks that the crucible failed first time... no warranty???
Cheers mate . no warranty on this it was just an eBay purchase not to worry Live and learn
If it is super high in carbon wouldn't it be steel ?
@@jamesburriss1086 super late reply, so maybe you've looked it up by now. Wrought iron has a very low carbon content. Steel is like .1% to 2% or something. What we call cast iron has a high carbon content, above steel.
June 2020 - the stash shelves looks so empty from here.
Beautiful mid week melt mate love the process great vid big fan 👍👍
Cheers Mark 👍🏻😁
Okay
This pretty much answers my question for melting ferrous metals
Iron is just awesome
I like you Videos
I like you comment
Did you preheat the crucible? Btw congrats on you 50k sub
Yeah mate I got it red-hot and let it cool overnight so was quite surprised that I got a hole🤷🏻♂️.
bigstackD Casting what was that cruiciple made of
Clay graphite
I think PMC Supplies LLC is the best graphite clay crucible manufacturer. I got one months ago and it's still doing good. (I don't melt everyday)
A mate of mine had a crack in a clay graphite crucible and after it was heated again it healed itself.
Love your vids so fun looking please dont stop
Another great video! This was a really great addition to your stack! Every time you show up I can’t help but look in the bottom left corner and think about the door that came from lol 😂
Love it brother keep it up!
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A brand new crucible needs to be heated empty 1st time to "season it"
It looks like he had done that. The problem is you need to be gentle with them. Don't fill it with chunks of broken iron then tap it on the the ground in an attempt to settle the chunks into the crucible. Which is exactly what he did. And exactly why it cracked. You could see the crack before he even put it in the fire.
I like to think that he is using the money he makes from his channel to buy him and his wife new things and just melting the old ones.
Nah nah nah he's going to use it to slowly but surely conquer the world.
That collection is wicked!
OMG!! I use cast iron every everyday at work ..you giving me great for smelting lol ...I love all of your videos BTW
Scrap value ?
As sad as it sounds this Ingot is probably worth 20 cents at the scrap yard 🤷🏻♂️
Iron is the most common metal we have on Earth (though Aluminium is more common in the crust, it's harder to find and refine), the planet is literally made of the stuff and all of our buildings are constructed with a framework of steel. It's not worth a lot because it's so common.
In Kentucky iron is 5 cents a pound at the scrap yard. 😣
We prefer Reinforced Concrete buildings here in Australia.
@@markfryer9880 What is the concrete reinforced with? Steel rebar...
Just says that the emu raid your house
Very well done. I wanted to melt steel for a 75 cylindrical pipe as a template to round galvanised iron around a downpipe as they no longer make it anymore.
I like the California games music when sanding. Nice retro reference for us oldies.
Yeah I grew up with that game 😉👍🏻
From bronze age to iron age. Love it. ❤️👍🏻
I'm completely intrigued by your hobby. I believe I may start taking some small steps 2 doing some of this myself. I live in rural Mississippi and when I tell you this enough junk in the woods out here to build New York City, I am not joking. Though I am Joe King
That is an awesome piece of cast iron there Meneer BigstackD! I love cast iron to cook with! Gonna hoard some in bullion just in case the Apocalyse comes about!
Excelente video, gracias por compartir pregunta: ¿que numero es el quemador que estas usando y a que presion de gas lo usas..? vi el sitio de Devil-forge, pero creo debo pedir por el tamaño del quemador.. saludos y gracias por el video
Well well well... That was awesome mate, great work, an great ingot...... I wanted to see something like this.... Congratulations
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I love your videos! I'll be doing more melting in a few weeks!
ما شاء الله اول مرة ارى حديد يذوب انت حقا شخص مبدع
“Melt it quick before wife gets home” Bahahahaha love it melt away good sir 👌💯🔥
Thanks for sharing! Is it possible that since you had those cast iron shards wedged in The Crucible in such a way that when they heated, they expanded and applied enough pressure to the walls of The Crucible that caused it to crack? In other words, if your Crucible have been bigger, do you think it still would have cracked?
My first reaction.
“Oh cool he’s an Aussie.”
Then.
“Oh my effing god.yeees!
California Games! “
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This is so exciting. Love cast iron. Bummer about that Crucible
Great video mate!! 1) would have loved to have seen the temperature of the tank before, the bucket of water before submerging it, and the temperature of the water after you were finished to see how cold it got
Thanks for reply just want to say u r legend
Which metals r most valuable?thanks
Dude, your channel is the shiznit! I'll kick it with you anyday of the week and just melt sh!t. Make that money brother. I'm gonna be around for the long haul. I can't wait to binge watch. Yee
Man! You make my day! Great video, is amazing!
Keep melting 🇲🇽! 🍻🍻
Best channel ever 👌👌
congrats on graduating to iron 👏👏
The wall is epic man
NICE! I didn't know cast iron clean up like that!
Love your vids! You’re such a clean freak. Your wife must be so proud.
I am a big fan of you now - Keep posting :)
Ok I will 😁👍🏻
Pretty cool. Turned out a lot nicer than what I thought it would. Sorry about that crucible, consumables, lol.
Mano...vc conseguiu fundir ferro nesse forno? Parabéns 👏👏👏
Great video. Smart to preheat the mold and tools. Any idea how to prevent the holes in the final product ?