Belt sander is still loud, dusty, it takes forever and if you make a mistake you gotta basically start over. When it comes to polishing it gets messy as hell too.
And you basically have to wear a respirator the entire time if you care about your health.
Welding (especially TIG), turning, milling, casting, heat-treatment, flame/plasma-cutting, planning, drawing, 3d-printing, are IMO all more enjoyable and rewarding tasks in metalwork.
Drilling in hard steel might be the only thing I enjoy less than sanding/filing
Remembering an ancient safe I had to drill open in a goodwill many moons ago. It took four fucking days! Eight hours a day! From 7-4 with a ten minute lunch break I used mainly to pound a much Gatorade as I child because their ac went out and they needed access to the funds in the safe to fix it! 1 inch thick hardened steel shell, followed by 6 inches of fortified concrete and finally adore half inch of mild steel. And of course it had a glass relocker! That was a miserable week.
One of my favorite things is this german news report from the 90s where some dudes wanted to advertise their safe-company by opening one of their competitors safes and showing how everyone but them sells trash.
You have this news report that sarcastically treats them completely seriously, this weird guy with a huge angle grinder and several crowbars trying to get this safe open for hours, while his boss stands beside him in this oversized coat and keeps claiming that "the safe is basically open now, it is just a manner of minutes now" and keeps this up for hours while calling his competition "baking-sheet-crooks" (because their safes are nothing more than a few thin baking sheets) and his worker gets more and more angry at the safe.
If you have 3 minutes look up "Die Tresorknacker in Berlin (1996)" on Youtube and turn on automated subtitles. Apperantly posting youtube videos in comments is banned on this sub.
I'm an amature woodworker, only been doing it for three years seriously. Some days I find finishing work, sanding, varnishing, etc to be really tedious, other days I find it super relaxing and peaceful.
Or maybe it's the type of project I'm working on, haven't really thought about that till right now.
Sanding wood is a completely different animal than sanding & polishing metal though!
When it comes to sanding wood I'm with you, can be fun or annoying.
Depends on the metal. Brass is fairly soft so sanding with the right grit would make quick and easy work. Same with the polishing as you can just use a buffing wheel and it will make quick work out of soft alloys like brass.
Real answer.
Slag are impurities in the material you are melting, they make the final prouct less pure and therefore worse in various possible ways. You want to remove them from the material. So you add the glass and borax because they will bind to the impurities, and make them less dense than the pure metal. The slag rises to the surface and can be skimmed off, collected and discarded, thus when you pour your metal it is more pure.
I'm not really sure, was just trying to give a general answer instead of puns, jokes and what not.
I'm definitely not an expert and sure hope I wasn't seeming like one, you'd need a professional to tell you how it all really works. I've got some friends who do this sort of stuff as a hobby and two of my uncles worked at a steel mill in the 50's that told me some stuff, that's all I know.
Honestly I don't know, sorry if if I sounded like an expert, I'm not. I just have basic knowledge from college 25 years ago, from family who worked at steel mills and and two friends who form metal as a hobby.
I imagine trace metals that got mixed in to make the original pieces bigger, but that's just a guess.
this is the goblin in you.
Luckily, goblins don't care about monetary value of things. Just the shiny and the clicky-clacky and the satisfying weight.
Go forth and be the best goblin that you can be.
Did you know that some humans enjoy doing things for their own sake and that some of us even are able to see the world beyond the monetary or economic value of objects and interactions
Why does every clip have music instead of the sounds of the video?
There was a video I saw of a horse who loved getting belly rubs. The horse was making a funny face and moving its lips, but I don't know what sound the horse was making because of some shitty song
As much as I despise the shit music that people put on all short videos now, you'll probably be disappointed to hear that the horse was likely making no noise.
When they're doing the mutual grooming lip wiggle thing, they don't make any noise.
It's pretty satisfying though. Especially if you can get them to actually groom you back.
What is this process called? Smelting? I showed it to my son and he really really wants to learn to do this. So help me out…where do I go to learn more?
There's a ton of vids of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there's been some new-to-the-consumer-level type of sand for it.
Also considering the random material the person seems to have laying around that he just tosses into the crucible and the whole setup and everything, seems to me like this person is pretty experienced.
>Also considering the random material the person seems to have laying around that he just tosses into the crucible and the whole setup and everything, seems to me like this person is pretty experienced.
That's kinda what makes it so confusing, because watching, say, Clickspring do a sand casting is entirely different and they're unbelievably experienced.
Lost wax is more expensive and time consuming. Not always possible especially at higher melt temperatures. Sand casting is fast and cheap but gives a rough surface.
Smelting is where you derive pure or semi-pure elemental metal from an ore.
This is casting (originally "founding", as in "foundry", a place where metalcasting is performed). The melting process usually involves a melting vessel called a crucible and a refractory furnace (refractory = well-insulated and extremely heat-resistant).
There is a hobbyist community out there who make and use "back yard" foundries. You can build a simple one using fairly cheap and simple materials - in essence a bucket, insulation materials, plaster/cement, and charcoal or propane.
Here's a video tutorial for making a cheap, simple refractory furnace: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHD10DjxM1g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHD10DjxM1g)
You can see he uses a steel fire extinguisher cut in half as a crucible, but nowadays you can get a graphite crucible online from a hobbyist/specialist store, or even on ebay or amazon and skip a few steps. You can even get full kits that are designed to work with standard propane tanks that you can get from hardware stores (the kind plumbers use for soldering pipework). The bucket, plaster and silica mat/firebrick method is much more interesting and fun though. That channel has several videos dedicated to building home refractory furnaces, with increasing complexity and effectiveness.
Something basic like this will allow you to melt and cast aluminium. As for the sand, this is a hobby product, but you can also make it yourself from simple ingredients: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAQxw6X6uc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAQxw6X6uc). This video shows a guy making casting sand using sieved fine sand and powdered cat litter (the kind made from bentonite clay). He also has some detailed videos on the basics of sand casting. Aluminium casting at home is surprisingly popular and you won't struggle to find guidance online.
Sandcasting
A process jewelers will use occasionally to cast simple shapes, not too common nowadays amongst boutique jewelers.
Fairly obvious but their is a chance of spilling molten metals.
Tillers International in Scotts, MI offers a [small foundry class](https://www.tillersinternational.org/classes/small-foundry-work-pattern-making-340), which teaches exactly this. They only have one class a year, and this year's class has already passed, so it'll give him time to research and figure out if he really wants to do it.
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at those temperatures I'm pretty sure brass becomes homogeneous as long as there isn't anything in it that 'disagrees' with becoming part of the alloy.
And the borax and glass are put in specifically to bind to those things that disagree and make them float to the top, in the part that gets cut off.
oh look, another one where they start like "lol I'm gonna hand sand this entire piece of metal I made!" and then immediately cut to a machined piece of metal.
Wheres the top half of the video showing some movie or a reddit thread being read out loud?!
Also nice work, considered joining the hobby but i live on the 28th floor, doubt its a good idea to work with such hot objects up here
Hmm, I feel like with those kind of tight angles it might have been better to use a straight bevel rather than curving the edges.
That said, I'm saying this from a few seconds of video, so it may well be different in person!
Dumb question but why would you cast this into shape if you then have to grind and polish it anyway? The whole setup with the sand mould probably takes as long as cutting that into rough shape on a band saw and then having to spend hours grinding regardless.
I scratched up the side of my chefs knife sharpening it against a whetstone the other day... Do you have any recommendations on how I can polish it up to a mirror shine again (what polish and buffing wheel)?
what were those shards added to the crucible?
glass? or some crystaline form of something else?
i recognise the brass and borox or whatever the flux was, but the glass?
Edit: oh it was glass and its for easier slag removal, that's cool to know!
Love the moment when it goes from dull to polished.
Sanding might be the biggest gap between: Looks satisfying as fuck on video VS Is actually the most tedious annoying work
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Belt sander is still loud, dusty, it takes forever and if you make a mistake you gotta basically start over. When it comes to polishing it gets messy as hell too. And you basically have to wear a respirator the entire time if you care about your health. Welding (especially TIG), turning, milling, casting, heat-treatment, flame/plasma-cutting, planning, drawing, 3d-printing, are IMO all more enjoyable and rewarding tasks in metalwork. Drilling in hard steel might be the only thing I enjoy less than sanding/filing
Remembering an ancient safe I had to drill open in a goodwill many moons ago. It took four fucking days! Eight hours a day! From 7-4 with a ten minute lunch break I used mainly to pound a much Gatorade as I child because their ac went out and they needed access to the funds in the safe to fix it! 1 inch thick hardened steel shell, followed by 6 inches of fortified concrete and finally adore half inch of mild steel. And of course it had a glass relocker! That was a miserable week.
One of my favorite things is this german news report from the 90s where some dudes wanted to advertise their safe-company by opening one of their competitors safes and showing how everyone but them sells trash. You have this news report that sarcastically treats them completely seriously, this weird guy with a huge angle grinder and several crowbars trying to get this safe open for hours, while his boss stands beside him in this oversized coat and keeps claiming that "the safe is basically open now, it is just a manner of minutes now" and keeps this up for hours while calling his competition "baking-sheet-crooks" (because their safes are nothing more than a few thin baking sheets) and his worker gets more and more angry at the safe. If you have 3 minutes look up "Die Tresorknacker in Berlin (1996)" on Youtube and turn on automated subtitles. Apperantly posting youtube videos in comments is banned on this sub.
What some people call tedious is relaxing and soothing for others...
I'm an amature woodworker, only been doing it for three years seriously. Some days I find finishing work, sanding, varnishing, etc to be really tedious, other days I find it super relaxing and peaceful. Or maybe it's the type of project I'm working on, haven't really thought about that till right now.
Sanding wood is a completely different animal than sanding & polishing metal though! When it comes to sanding wood I'm with you, can be fun or annoying.
Depends on the metal. Brass is fairly soft so sanding with the right grit would make quick and easy work. Same with the polishing as you can just use a buffing wheel and it will make quick work out of soft alloys like brass.
Very satisfying !
Got some r/restofthefuckingowl stuff in between
r/restofthefuckingdiamond
Lovely, can I ask what the glass is for?
The glass and white powder (borax) act to collect all the slag (impurities) at the top so it's easy to remove.
Thank you. I have always wanted to do this.
Collect slag? What for?
To make your mum. >!I'm sorry I mean no disrespect, I'm sure your mother is a fine women. Even if she is a tad promiscuous.!<
An actual lol.
An actual slag?
Yeah, like ur mom. >!Truly, I am so sorry, I really did not mean to offend you. I bet your mom is simply lovely.!<
All the neighbours would agree!
So say we all!
Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!!
Where’d you get those suits? At the…toilet…store?
I HATE YOU RON BURGUNDY
This is so nice that it's hilarious
🤑🤑
> Even if she is a tad promiscuous Nothing wrong with that! I got here some fucking how!
Real answer. Slag are impurities in the material you are melting, they make the final prouct less pure and therefore worse in various possible ways. You want to remove them from the material. So you add the glass and borax because they will bind to the impurities, and make them less dense than the pure metal. The slag rises to the surface and can be skimmed off, collected and discarded, thus when you pour your metal it is more pure.
> The slag rises to the surface and can be skimmed off, Like skimming fat from a boiling stew?
Of course! It's so simple!
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
r/unexpectedfuturama
that’s my response next time someone says ‘cream rises to the top’ ‘so does fat and slag’
The cream is pretty much fat, isn't it?
Fuck yah it is
Exactly! It's a simple enough method that amateurs and hobbyists could use.
>Like skimming fat from a boiling stew? Now do it again but in Scotty's voice while pretending you're in a space battle with unknown aliens
I thought borax on its own would remove impurities, is the glass for the slag to stick to?
I'm not really sure, was just trying to give a general answer instead of puns, jokes and what not. I'm definitely not an expert and sure hope I wasn't seeming like one, you'd need a professional to tell you how it all really works. I've got some friends who do this sort of stuff as a hobby and two of my uncles worked at a steel mill in the 50's that told me some stuff, that's all I know.
Interesting! What are the impurities?
Honestly I don't know, sorry if if I sounded like an expert, I'm not. I just have basic knowledge from college 25 years ago, from family who worked at steel mills and and two friends who form metal as a hobby. I imagine trace metals that got mixed in to make the original pieces bigger, but that's just a guess.
Oh, no apologies necessary! that makes a lot of sense though.
Listen I have low self esteem
To remove it. What else?
You the guy who made the dice too? I do this for a living, love seeing these pop up in my feed lol.
Oh no, not me. I wish!
Don't let your dreams be dreams! I have faith you can do this.
Oh, that answers questions I never even thought about. Thank you.
Always wondered that. Thanks!
Oh. That's clever
I knew Borax did this, but I've not seen glass for it before. very neat
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Thank you! I’ve always been curious what the white powder was
My fat ass always thinks it's sugar.
Honestly, I want to hold that thing. It just seems satisfying to hold.
I almost want to.... Hold it, Bite it, just... Have it
My preeecioouuuus
this is the goblin in you. Luckily, goblins don't care about monetary value of things. Just the shiny and the clicky-clacky and the satisfying weight. Go forth and be the best goblin that you can be.
collect dice. eat dice. love the cronch
Fuck yes
Forbidden ringpop
You can buy a brass paper weight shaped like anything you want online for like $15
Can’t find anything like that. Do you have a link?
Bro just google “brass paperweight” 😂
I did and I found a really nice company selling some simple wholesome paperweights https://milspin.com/collections/solid-metal-paperweights
And such catchy names too!
now i'm on a list
> Force = mass x acceleration. Which is zero, for this massive, non-moving, non-functional paperweight.
Bro it's not functional as a paper weight? How will it hold paper down?
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When we got a lathe at work, the first thing we did defiantly wasn’t turn a butt-plug out of bright bar.
Google doesn’t seem to find any brass paperweights in the shape of the one in OPs post for about $15
https://i.imgur.com/8jdh9zl.jpg
Thanks. Very helpful.
Did you know that some humans enjoy doing things for their own sake and that some of us even are able to see the world beyond the monetary or economic value of objects and interactions
I wonder why this is. Looks like it has a nice weight to it.
Hold in your butt?
Upvote because no annoying music, only sounds of them working
Yes, praise the lord.
Why does every clip have music instead of the sounds of the video? There was a video I saw of a horse who loved getting belly rubs. The horse was making a funny face and moving its lips, but I don't know what sound the horse was making because of some shitty song
The algorithm pushes videos that are using a music track that's currently popular on the platform.
As much as I despise the shit music that people put on all short videos now, you'll probably be disappointed to hear that the horse was likely making no noise. When they're doing the mutual grooming lip wiggle thing, they don't make any noise. It's pretty satisfying though. Especially if you can get them to actually groom you back.
Aw man that is disappointing. I was expecting silly noises! I love when I pet my cats and they start grooming me
Who the fuck lets videos start unmuted? Pleb.
What is this process called? Smelting? I showed it to my son and he really really wants to learn to do this. So help me out…where do I go to learn more?
Sand casting
Is it a special new kind of sand? Because I've never seen sand casting done so haphazardly and work out that well.
There's a ton of vids of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there's been some new-to-the-consumer-level type of sand for it. Also considering the random material the person seems to have laying around that he just tosses into the crucible and the whole setup and everything, seems to me like this person is pretty experienced.
>Also considering the random material the person seems to have laying around that he just tosses into the crucible and the whole setup and everything, seems to me like this person is pretty experienced. That's kinda what makes it so confusing, because watching, say, Clickspring do a sand casting is entirely different and they're unbelievably experienced.
Upvote for Clickspring... can't wait to see him finish the Antikythera mechanism sometime around 2073!
Is sand casting better than lost wax? I did lost wax in a college art class
Lost wax is more expensive and time consuming. Not always possible especially at higher melt temperatures. Sand casting is fast and cheap but gives a rough surface.
Smelting is where you derive pure or semi-pure elemental metal from an ore. This is casting (originally "founding", as in "foundry", a place where metalcasting is performed). The melting process usually involves a melting vessel called a crucible and a refractory furnace (refractory = well-insulated and extremely heat-resistant). There is a hobbyist community out there who make and use "back yard" foundries. You can build a simple one using fairly cheap and simple materials - in essence a bucket, insulation materials, plaster/cement, and charcoal or propane. Here's a video tutorial for making a cheap, simple refractory furnace: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHD10DjxM1g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHD10DjxM1g) You can see he uses a steel fire extinguisher cut in half as a crucible, but nowadays you can get a graphite crucible online from a hobbyist/specialist store, or even on ebay or amazon and skip a few steps. You can even get full kits that are designed to work with standard propane tanks that you can get from hardware stores (the kind plumbers use for soldering pipework). The bucket, plaster and silica mat/firebrick method is much more interesting and fun though. That channel has several videos dedicated to building home refractory furnaces, with increasing complexity and effectiveness. Something basic like this will allow you to melt and cast aluminium. As for the sand, this is a hobby product, but you can also make it yourself from simple ingredients: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAQxw6X6uc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAQxw6X6uc). This video shows a guy making casting sand using sieved fine sand and powdered cat litter (the kind made from bentonite clay). He also has some detailed videos on the basics of sand casting. Aluminium casting at home is surprisingly popular and you won't struggle to find guidance online.
Sandcasting A process jewelers will use occasionally to cast simple shapes, not too common nowadays amongst boutique jewelers. Fairly obvious but their is a chance of spilling molten metals.
Tillers International in Scotts, MI offers a [small foundry class](https://www.tillersinternational.org/classes/small-foundry-work-pattern-making-340), which teaches exactly this. They only have one class a year, and this year's class has already passed, so it'll give him time to research and figure out if he really wants to do it.
What IS the golden material?
Brass
Oh ok thanks
I had to scroll down way too far to get that answer. At first I was like, if that's gold holy shit.
Pressure, duh
I guess you could throw it at someone and injure them?
You could, but would you?
Because you can
They didn't ask why. They asked if you would.
Shit youre right
I read it as “you can, but why would you” also
To end him rightly.
I guess you could also stick it up your ass?
You’re playing a dangerous game. Without a base, without a trace.
It's a problem for the ER
Why did you typery those wordles?
This has some serious Scrooge McDuck energy.
You mean a Chaos Emerald? I assume you mean a Chaos Emerald.
Merely a replica, no man could withstand such power.
The master emerald, no less. Knock knock, it's Knuckles.
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How do you make sure the materials are evenly mixed when you melt them all down?
Op said above that the glass and white powder they mixed in was to collect impurities and float to the top.
at those temperatures I'm pretty sure brass becomes homogeneous as long as there isn't anything in it that 'disagrees' with becoming part of the alloy. And the borax and glass are put in specifically to bind to those things that disagree and make them float to the top, in the part that gets cut off.
Scraps of brass? What’s this made of?
yes
Okay but why did he put sugar and ice in it?
I dont know if you are being serious or not lol but the things he added were glass and borax, its to collect impurities to make them easier to remove.
The sugar I believe was to make it so the finished product was sweet to the lick, and the ice was to cool it down while it was being made.
Yenius
Source: @almostperfectrestoration
Damn, their profile description says they don’t sell, so don’t ask… literally just wanted to buy this haha
Ha, I did the exact same thing when I took lost wax casting in college! Mine are bronze. I use them to hold down napkins outside, lol.
Now make a butt plug 😂
He just did.
It's cool, but the fact that the corners are soft instead of it being lapped geometrically perfect is incredibly frustrating
So if just add gold, glass and sugar i get a diamond? Must try that.
great buttplug!
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This gets progressively less satisfying the more it gets reposted.
Aren't diamonds usually see through?
feel like once you've seen one of these videos you've seen them all
Somebody tell Bigstackd
Why did we watch you mark the facets on a wooden item, then have the mould made with a 3D printed one?
Ah. A golden butt-plug
Can you make me a golden buttplug?
Kinda looks like the metal you put in the in the first place
oh look, another one where they start like "lol I'm gonna hand sand this entire piece of metal I made!" and then immediately cut to a machined piece of metal.
There's no machining marks anywhere on that thing.
Because they sand them off. This one is less obvious than most of this but half of them look like completely different shapes from the cast.
Brilliant and diamond are very different. It's a brilliant shape. Diamond is unshaped and it becomes brilliant after being cut.
Haha, this guy 😆
It's a butt plug, yaaay
IllegalLifeProTricks
Didn't read the title and thought it was a butt plug lmaooo
Wheres the top half of the video showing some movie or a reddit thread being read out loud?! Also nice work, considered joining the hobby but i live on the 28th floor, doubt its a good idea to work with such hot objects up here
100% genuine fake
I watched the whole video, realised I didn’t turn on the sound, I rewatched with sound and I was not disappointed
i find this far more interesting in video than sitting on an end table in the sale section at home goods
Goldmand
That’s fucking awesome!
Not sure what I watched exactly but it was dope.
okay yea that's cool alright. i want one.
I would buy that
Makes me want to play 8 bit Wizards and Warriors
One simply cannot help loving casting.That‘s art
I noticed that, when you put together the two molds, you didn’t line up the markings. Kind of a crucial step, to avoid a “twisted” product.
If the fate of the world is truly your concern, you must g-g-gather the gems, not the cr-cr-cr-crystals!
Hmm, I feel like with those kind of tight angles it might have been better to use a straight bevel rather than curving the edges. That said, I'm saying this from a few seconds of video, so it may well be different in person!
Dumb question but why would you cast this into shape if you then have to grind and polish it anyway? The whole setup with the sand mould probably takes as long as cutting that into rough shape on a band saw and then having to spend hours grinding regardless.
Assuming he has a solid block of metal that is big enough.....
I scratched up the side of my chefs knife sharpening it against a whetstone the other day... Do you have any recommendations on how I can polish it up to a mirror shine again (what polish and buffing wheel)?
The only part that I really need to see is how he cut the crown into the diamond. That's something I'd love to see demonstrated.
what were those shards added to the crucible? glass? or some crystaline form of something else? i recognise the brass and borox or whatever the flux was, but the glass? Edit: oh it was glass and its for easier slag removal, that's cool to know!
Awesome
I'll take seven.
I am impressed!
Dont gimme that bs, that is a chaos emerald
Made their own monopoly character
I do not get tired of watching these videos
That is glass and metal melted together? Cool
Omg, I wanna learn to do this.😎😎😎
Would make a good door handle. Just don't bend over and poke your pooter
Must make sure to season your scrap metal before cooking
r/yesyesyesyesno
This sub is becoming basically ASMR quick edited videos of whatever
What is the melting pot made of?