Pouring copper into water

[Kaelusk]

Can you please explain your setup? I tried something similar but couldn't get the copper hot enough for a long enough time. Any help is hugely appreciated!

[compuwise2]

what material was that on top of the furnace? you just reached up there and grabbed it off the flame with your bare hands!

[T3hJones]

Wont the nice pinkish copper oxidate and turn greenish after a while? :)

[JEFFBRERETON]

for fuks sake,,,so exciting  not

[freakin1random]

lolol the fiberglass melts onto it...



[dexter12322222222222]

haha you burned your hand

[trapperbt]

Have you calculated the cost of fuel is used to melt the pennies?

[austin777136]

@trapperbt There's very, very little copper in pennies. It's almost all zinc covered by a very thin copper layer.

[The88camaro]

@austin777136 before 1982, pennies were 95% copper and only 5% zinc :P

[mikelikefatcat]

how did you make your furnace

[techtwinz]

And that, boys and girls, is how you make soda.

[SKATER91000]

drink it

[dogwafter]

i i did that i would so burn my self XD

[EMOSSUCKABIGCOCK]

Useless copper. Useless copper everywhere.

[shinywatch]

@EMOSSUCKABIGCOCK nah its a good money maker. in the uk it is currently at $4500 per ton and its easy to get a ton of copper

[adam8om8]

@shinywatch no its not

[greencheapsk8]

@adam8om8 I think the price is around that, but the ease of finding 1 ton of copper varies.

[Metalfreak845]

what the hell is that thing

[killuminati63]

15 minuets WTF sad

[619booyaka619mysteri]

dude man that sounds like hell lol

[ab48726]

Great job! That's a very nice little furnace, I'm impressed at how hot you got it in only 15 minutes. Are you using propane fuel, and is it natural draft or compressed air?

[DjinnJuggler]

Where do you get your insulation bricks?

[pyro57sapiens]

what was the wool made of?

[dazz7400]

Wool?

[pyro57sapiens]

from sheeps?

[dazz7400]

Most likely, lol

[DJelectfire]

@dazz7400 ceramic wool... different properties.... LOL

[Wildopushups4change]

looked like fiberglass to me...

[pow0006]

This much copper he is melting would only harm him if he did this for many, many years unprotected.

[bestSVMS]

thats a tiny crucible

[pow0006]

what a nice little foundry, how did you make it?

[Rilxoy]

I have two questions:

What is that little cup made out of?

and two,

When you melt metal in the open, when it turns to a liquid, I see little tings floating on the top and spinning REALLY fast. How do I get rid of them because they show up on the finished metal?

[jonnyfernandz]

asbestos i guess....

[metal0artist0kyle]

no hahah the cup is made of silicon carbide or something like that...just google "crucible" and then the stuff floating is slag...simple part of every process...if you are really interested in forging you need to do some research on it before you start asking questions...because you would have learned all of this in a simple forging guide on the internet....

[jonnyfernandz]

thats why i said i gues....

[grandtitles]

Nice funace.

[sonicfreak04]

I wonder I you start a gold plating process to the copper then pour into the water would you get gold nuggets?

[jglee1236]

the melting of the copper would destroy any plating you put on the copper. you'd end up with nuggets that are 99.999999% copper and .000001% gold (exaggerating)

[2694wr]

what do you use for a crucible?

[marcosxag]

looks like they are in greece with the papadopoulos snack jar.

[LEBANON707]

Pure copper though (bracelets for instance) is known to have a medicinal value

[Dmajorproductions]

i always wondered about that, why? placebo affect?

or something about magnets or something?

[LEBANON707]

Copper has a scientifically proven fungicidal action. As for its analgesic effect (to alleviate joint pain for instance)

I have no scientific explanation. Perhaps someone somewhere will discover why one day.

[bestSVMS]

alot of metal in your body is never good

[UltimateGCX]

unless ur a terminator lol

[pyropakman]

But be careful. Excess copper in the body, Wilson's Disease, will destroy your liver, induce psychosis, and pretty much make life suck.

[LEBANON707]

You can enhance the application field of your high quality copper by allowing with zinc to get a golden colour. I guess copper or brass beads would be easily marketable.

[AcidRain4]

i love that mini crucible :)

[dandiSPAS]

wow it is safe to pour copper into wather?

it will not explode?

[thingy86]

is it safe to spell water, wather?

[robertg222]

The small amount of copper dropped into the large about of water won't explode. Not enough heat energy in the copper to make a lot of steam. It's when you put a large about of molten metal on a small amount of water that you can get a steam explosion. Like a drop of water in a crucible will turn to steam as soon as the molten metal hits it. That's when you get a face full of metal.

[peterlol21]

@robertg222 why do you people thumbs up this bull shit, he could have just pulled this out of his ass and you people thumbs up it?F

[greencheapsk8]

@peterlol21 Its because he posted something intellegent ,that many people may have been wondering.

As opposed to your angry, pointless rant.

[Ilovelazers]

@robertg222 yh like when i was on a scout campout. we just pourd 5 gallons of water one a fire at once

[mog5858]

air burner no secon line  like one that plumer ues.

[ivanov3000mltk]

Hi! Explain, please, has your propane burner pure oxygen support, or it is air burner?