so for little casts like this its more efficant to melt the solder in bulk and poor. i personaly dump a buch of little bits of soder into a bullet casing(if its been shot its safe) and hold the casing with plyers over a heat giver(propane torch for me)after about a muinut the solder is molten and more can be added if needed. then its time to poor. the good thing about the casing is its already a spout ready to go. after the poor dump the casing in a cup of water to kill the heat. done :)
@TwistedAcrylics Any metal in your body at too high amounts is super bad. For example, you will see that children's chewy fruit snack vitamins, (i.e., gummy vits brand) have NO iron in them, too inviting for the kids to O.D. on candy vitamins. Now, some metals are worse than others. So your lead-free solder is missing lead, which causes some serious nastiness, but still has other metals in it that are harder to poison someone with. Tin makes up most of solder and pewter.
@gryphern Your solder may also have antimony or something else distinctly bad in it that helps it melt at a lower temperature. You can touch it to you skin, but please don't lick or ingest it. Tin can cause poisoning as well, but not so easily that we ban tin roofs, tin metal sheeting, pewter jewelry, or pewter sculpture. Wash your hands so you don't eat tin residue and make shirt pins, amulets, etc, but not lip rings or rings that would be worn day in day out.
I am a racist so what, shoot me! But I also dislike Americans who think they speak 'English' and pronounce/spell words incorrectly that the 'English' derived over 1000's of years!!!
@dustymew ever heard of an English dictionary you American cunt, mum not mom! And I don't live in my 'mums' basement I happen to have my own metal work company in ENGLAND where I live in a house bigger that has a bathroom bigger than your whole entire house. Your mum should have been shot for giving birth to you now get a life you slow talking American spastic!
@drewyisation Spastic doesn't mean anything to the U.S. reader. We use the term "spaz" to refer to someone who has trouble paying attention or gets overly excited without the connection to "spastic" as a reference to disability. For the same cultural connotation you may want to use "tard" or "retard" as in the U.S. insults to mental ability are far more severe than those related to physical ability i.e. comparing to palsy or paralysis. A more gentle, but equally offensive term is "short bus."
@drewyisation The recent "r-word" dot org campaign seeks to put the term "retard" into the same category as racial slurs such as dego, chink, nigger, kike, and other terms that negatively connect ethnicity to personal value. That's how insulting it is in the U.S. toward both those with disability and nuerotypical people. I can only hope this neutral discussion of language lands me a few incredibly confused neo-nazis whose search for racial slurs lands them on a video about melting solder.
one thing i have done is just take a blow torch and then in melts instantly and if you just place large amounts on you mold it will drop down in and i works great. just an idea
It's not rocket science, (are you American by any chance) selling or not selling it is still not very good work unless your selling to the RNIB (look that up on Wikipedia!!!)
@drewyisation I still don't get it. Why would I try to sell this stuff? Like I said in the video this is for making cheap quick trinkets for costumes or stage props when you don't have a larger more outfitted shop.
@drewyisation she never said anything about selling it asshole! I'd like to see you do anything better.. oh wait.. you can't. Your to busy sitting in your mom's basement trolling innocent people on youtube!
@drewyisation A non sequitur is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes. It is a comment that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what it follows, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing. -Wikipedia.
@gryphern That was awesome. This would be awesome for creating stained glass mosaics, any chance of a tutorial? Also, If you heat plaster of paris excessively, it falls apart and turns back into powder, so be careful with that.
What wattage did you use on your soldering iron? As far as wire for jump rings what gauge would you recommend and what kind? Beading wire or more like hardware store type of wire? Still I like this idea might try it for some spikes and skulls for my own kind of dark jewelry.
@BlackheartChimera13 I use a variable wattage rheostat controlled iron, so like 100+ watts. For rings "tinned" copper wire, with a silvery coating, will bond to solder. However, any uncoated wire will work. I like to use 20 guage or thicker wire. Very very fine wire, like used to string tiny seed beads, may melt. Beading wires with a thin plastic or wax coating will burn and melt inside the solder, possibly causing spatters of molten metal. Anodized wire is OK, esp. pre made jump rings.
You may have saved my life. I had looked a little into pewter casting, and once I read plaster works well as a mold, I was going to go along my merry way as I would with latex, which means I wouldn't have baked the plaster.
Useful tutorial, glad to see another video from you.
@Zanorfgor If you leave it on the counter for a couple days it's usually fine, but if it's super humid out, you use your mold right after pouring it, or you rinse your mold the spatter is freakkin' awesome. I tried it with a face shield on and it was kind of like popcorn, except molten metal.
we would work with soder in metal work class in school, and every time we needed soder, everyone would run towads the soders cause it was so much fun!
@SuperDoctor16 My flippin' laptop got stolen 6 months ago, so I had three awesome, long, how tos on it (it involved large sculpted dragon feet and also puppets) as well as a prosthetic workshop I'd run. So I'm trying to do some small demos, useful, but small, to start posting again.
I made tin rings from a wedding band using solder. The mold was made by pressing the original ring between the halves of a split cuttlefish bone. I liquefied the metal in a small iron skillet using a mapp torch. This method has also worked to replicate small, hard objects.
@LastTaboo The traditional cuttlebone method, I raise my glass to you! (clink.) For someone who has never touched metal before, I suggest starting with very small volumes. I started at BIG pours, and the first time I saw 20 pounds of molten iron spill out the side of a mold, bounce into the air like rubber, catch the other molds' wooden frames on fire, then land on a guy's leather work suit it was like "Wow, I really underestimated how dangerous molten metal can be." Cuz burns are a big deal.
@BarneySaysHi Pyrex makes an entire line of tempered glass baking dishes and casserole dishes that can go from oven to counter top or table yes Pyrex can take heat. Also what do you think your beakers and test tubes and pipettes in Chemistry class were made out of?
@nursefuzzywuzzy Well, my chemistry classes were 18 years ago so I can't quite remember. What I do know is that it took a big hammer to break a testtube at the end of the year.
And I guess I should have known about its strength, as heating iron powder and sulfur makes for a redhot raction. I just didn't know it was also from Pyrex.
Lol, getting plastered. I was actually expecting you to cast molten tin into the mold, not using a soldering iron. The idea is cool though. I like your handywork.
so for little casts like this its more efficant to melt the solder in bulk and poor. i personaly dump a buch of little bits of soder into a bullet casing(if its been shot its safe) and hold the casing with plyers over a heat giver(propane torch for me)after about a muinut the solder is molten and more can be added if needed. then its time to poor. the good thing about the casing is its already a spout ready to go. after the poor dump the casing in a cup of water to kill the heat. done :)
blanbproductionshd 1 day ago
Thanks for the tutorial. What do you use to make the pewter more black like the butterflies at the end?
Millrider 1 month ago
.....you could forge quarters and get free stuff from vending machines?? What? Who said that? XD
Lukerativestopaction 1 month ago
@Lukerativestopaction The machines go by weight, so you're better off grinding down washers I MEAN uhhhh I like toast.
gryphern 1 month ago
love the ending. ahahahhaha
LittleMonsterRawrs 2 months ago in playlist More videos from gryphern
My led free solder, has a warning on it. Saying u should wash your hands after handling it, is there something dangerous in led free solder?
TwistedAcrylics 2 months ago
@TwistedAcrylics Any metal in your body at too high amounts is super bad. For example, you will see that children's chewy fruit snack vitamins, (i.e., gummy vits brand) have NO iron in them, too inviting for the kids to O.D. on candy vitamins. Now, some metals are worse than others. So your lead-free solder is missing lead, which causes some serious nastiness, but still has other metals in it that are harder to poison someone with. Tin makes up most of solder and pewter.
gryphern 2 months ago
@gryphern Your solder may also have antimony or something else distinctly bad in it that helps it melt at a lower temperature. You can touch it to you skin, but please don't lick or ingest it. Tin can cause poisoning as well, but not so easily that we ban tin roofs, tin metal sheeting, pewter jewelry, or pewter sculpture. Wash your hands so you don't eat tin residue and make shirt pins, amulets, etc, but not lip rings or rings that would be worn day in day out.
gryphern 2 months ago
I am a racist so what, shoot me! But I also dislike Americans who think they speak 'English' and pronounce/spell words incorrectly that the 'English' derived over 1000's of years!!!
drewyisation 2 months ago
Lol
drewyisation 2 months ago
@dustymew ever heard of an English dictionary you American cunt, mum not mom! And I don't live in my 'mums' basement I happen to have my own metal work company in ENGLAND where I live in a house bigger that has a bathroom bigger than your whole entire house. Your mum should have been shot for giving birth to you now get a life you slow talking American spastic!
drewyisation 2 months ago
@drewyisation Spastic doesn't mean anything to the U.S. reader. We use the term "spaz" to refer to someone who has trouble paying attention or gets overly excited without the connection to "spastic" as a reference to disability. For the same cultural connotation you may want to use "tard" or "retard" as in the U.S. insults to mental ability are far more severe than those related to physical ability i.e. comparing to palsy or paralysis. A more gentle, but equally offensive term is "short bus."
gryphern 2 months ago
@drewyisation The recent "r-word" dot org campaign seeks to put the term "retard" into the same category as racial slurs such as dego, chink, nigger, kike, and other terms that negatively connect ethnicity to personal value. That's how insulting it is in the U.S. toward both those with disability and nuerotypical people. I can only hope this neutral discussion of language lands me a few incredibly confused neo-nazis whose search for racial slurs lands them on a video about melting solder.
gryphern 2 months ago
why all the hate, it's a great idea!!! even for model car restorations!
Bluesbreaker2010 2 months ago
one thing i have done is just take a blow torch and then in melts instantly and if you just place large amounts on you mold it will drop down in and i works great. just an idea
TheAppleXbox 3 months ago
where can you get that plaster?
Freemoney1000 3 months ago
lol nice vid very entertaining also
Freemoney1000 3 months ago
ROFLAMO! your husband is such a dork!
DarkDyami 3 months ago
i love your choice of words!
kat95a 4 months ago in playlist More videos from gryphern
What clay do you use?
sprigletstudios 4 months ago
Would one be able to rings? Can the finished product be shined?
midnightvampire49321 6 months ago
@drewyisation. You are a dick. Seriously find something better to do than pestering awesome YouTube channels
jeffreyadamo 6 months ago
It's not rocket science, (are you American by any chance) selling or not selling it is still not very good work unless your selling to the RNIB (look that up on Wikipedia!!!)
drewyisation 6 months ago
You obviously cannot accept criticism so stop wining like a child and grow up for fuck sake
drewyisation 6 months ago
@drewyisation I still don't get it. Why would I try to sell this stuff? Like I said in the video this is for making cheap quick trinkets for costumes or stage props when you don't have a larger more outfitted shop.
gryphern 6 months ago 6
Sorry but you obviously cannot take criticism!! I am just saying what I think....accept it for fuck sake and stop wining like a child.
drewyisation 6 months ago
You have way too much time on your hands. I'd spend it wisely, for example learning to make decent stuff!!! You cannot possibly sell that crap.
drewyisation 6 months ago
@drewyisation Why on earth would I sell melted solder?
gryphern 6 months ago 6
@drewyisation she never said anything about selling it asshole! I'd like to see you do anything better.. oh wait.. you can't. Your to busy sitting in your mom's basement trolling innocent people on youtube!
dustymew 2 months ago in playlist More videos from gryphern
I would not put that on my dog! What a load of crap. We buy that rubbish in pound shops.
drewyisation 6 months ago
@drewyisation A non sequitur is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes. It is a comment that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what it follows, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing. -Wikipedia.
gryphern 6 months ago 7
@gryphern That was awesome. This would be awesome for creating stained glass mosaics, any chance of a tutorial? Also, If you heat plaster of paris excessively, it falls apart and turns back into powder, so be careful with that.
farflungfloyd 6 months ago
NOOOOOOOO!!! why did the video end I wanted to hear more about the Q-tip :(
foursouls1 6 months ago
Ben at the end was great. And I love the plastered joke. This was a pretty cool tutorial and I'm glad to see you making videos again.
FrozenGuineaPig 7 months ago 2
you have a really good voice
ItMightBeAChicken 7 months ago 2
Love the plastered joke. This was a great tutorial. I love watching your channel for ideas like this! And great parody of "Hamlet".
anthrocrane 7 months ago 3
your back
xXOtakuNinjaGirlXx 7 months ago
VERY COOL!
-eTHAN
RedHandedRejects 7 months ago
Welcome back to Youtube. You were missed. I look forward to learning fun and friendly techniques for creating fun and interesting things.
merrymonday 7 months ago
What wattage did you use on your soldering iron? As far as wire for jump rings what gauge would you recommend and what kind? Beading wire or more like hardware store type of wire? Still I like this idea might try it for some spikes and skulls for my own kind of dark jewelry.
BlackheartChimera13 7 months ago
@BlackheartChimera13 I use a variable wattage rheostat controlled iron, so like 100+ watts. For rings "tinned" copper wire, with a silvery coating, will bond to solder. However, any uncoated wire will work. I like to use 20 guage or thicker wire. Very very fine wire, like used to string tiny seed beads, may melt. Beading wires with a thin plastic or wax coating will burn and melt inside the solder, possibly causing spatters of molten metal. Anodized wire is OK, esp. pre made jump rings.
gryphern 7 months ago
You may have saved my life. I had looked a little into pewter casting, and once I read plaster works well as a mold, I was going to go along my merry way as I would with latex, which means I wouldn't have baked the plaster.
Useful tutorial, glad to see another video from you.
Zanorfgor 7 months ago
@Zanorfgor If you leave it on the counter for a couple days it's usually fine, but if it's super humid out, you use your mold right after pouring it, or you rinse your mold the spatter is freakkin' awesome. I tried it with a face shield on and it was kind of like popcorn, except molten metal.
gryphern 7 months ago
Haha your boyfriend is a riot
Embriel8 7 months ago
we would work with soder in metal work class in school, and every time we needed soder, everyone would run towads the soders cause it was so much fun!
dustymew 7 months ago
@SuperDoctor16 My flippin' laptop got stolen 6 months ago, so I had three awesome, long, how tos on it (it involved large sculpted dragon feet and also puppets) as well as a prosthetic workshop I'd run. So I'm trying to do some small demos, useful, but small, to start posting again.
gryphern 7 months ago 5
I made tin rings from a wedding band using solder. The mold was made by pressing the original ring between the halves of a split cuttlefish bone. I liquefied the metal in a small iron skillet using a mapp torch. This method has also worked to replicate small, hard objects.
LastTaboo 7 months ago
@LastTaboo The traditional cuttlebone method, I raise my glass to you! (clink.) For someone who has never touched metal before, I suggest starting with very small volumes. I started at BIG pours, and the first time I saw 20 pounds of molten iron spill out the side of a mold, bounce into the air like rubber, catch the other molds' wooden frames on fire, then land on a guy's leather work suit it was like "Wow, I really underestimated how dangerous molten metal can be." Cuz burns are a big deal.
gryphern 7 months ago
nice touch at the end
johnny1bucket 7 months ago
@gryphern Have you thought about melting the solder in a pyrex beaker or measuring cup on a hot plate? you could then do larger molds and pieces.
nursefuzzywuzzy 7 months ago
@nursefuzzywuzzy I think a small stainless steel pot would be better actually. Then you can use a small burner as well.
BarneySaysHi 7 months ago
@BarneySaysHi Pyrex would work. It's what Chemists use it takes heat very well and would not add impurities to the Solder the way a metal pot would.
nursefuzzywuzzy 7 months ago
@nursefuzzywuzzy Good point. I didn't know Pyrex could take that heat.
BarneySaysHi 7 months ago
@BarneySaysHi Pyrex makes an entire line of tempered glass baking dishes and casserole dishes that can go from oven to counter top or table yes Pyrex can take heat. Also what do you think your beakers and test tubes and pipettes in Chemistry class were made out of?
nursefuzzywuzzy 7 months ago
@nursefuzzywuzzy Well, my chemistry classes were 18 years ago so I can't quite remember. What I do know is that it took a big hammer to break a testtube at the end of the year.
And I guess I should have known about its strength, as heating iron powder and sulfur makes for a redhot raction. I just didn't know it was also from Pyrex.
BarneySaysHi 7 months ago
Lol not pouring it down the sink, I learned that the hard way making Christmas ornaments. The plumber was expensive to fix it.
nursefuzzywuzzy 7 months ago
Lol, getting plastered. I was actually expecting you to cast molten tin into the mold, not using a soldering iron. The idea is cool though. I like your handywork.
BarneySaysHi 7 months ago