Crude Aluminum Casting Experiment (success)

[YUURIEDDIE]

nice



[smitty3919]

I bet you found that old bottle in the woods there.... lol...

[Zalamedas]

Know.. I'd like to have some kind of power to melt stuff at any temp. in a second while it's levitating. Would be cool..

[telosfd]

Don't eat it.

[A1B2C3D4E5F69684]

NO SE SI ENTIENDAS EL ESPANOL PERO QUE ESTUPIDO COMPRATE UN PERRO

[Dynamicee]

Whatr a waste :/

[agumasaki]

Wtf?!? Why a tiny ass 1930's RX bottle..... Get a bucket . Thank you birds! If I had to listen to him running back an forth more I was gonna shoot my self~ run with the camera next time....

[hakachukai]

@agumasaki

Who is more the fool?

The guy the makes a bad video, or the moron that sits through all of it, just to waste more of his life complaining about it after it is over, because he was too stupid to read the info which could have saved him 10 minutes of time?

[iliya1997]

hahaha your torch is suck mine will mine is a hand torch and it start to melt the aluminum after like 20 sec.

[mrdan859]

ok then

[madeofhate777]

im gunna get a whole buncha dimes melt them and then throw a water balloon at it and see if it goes snap crackle pop XP

[henryj123456]

where did you purchase this little piece of aluminum??

[hakachukai]

Just some random shape. I just wanted to see what would happen

[carpetmonk]

so what were you casting?

[nosjet1]

hmmm time to pull out the bunsin burner and see i if i can melt solder...

[117Alfonso]

I love the smell of molten aluminum in the morning :D

[VIP10000000VIP]

Уебан!!

[ThyKraken]

I like the part where the torch made a SSSSSCCCHHHHH sound

[manikase27]

interesting ... the midst of nature, the aluminum melts!? aluminum after the spilling of water, some stupid phials. Ok!

[SantiagoSernaAZ]

i melted a dime til it was liquid and threw cold water at it and it jumped all over me

[hakachukai]

@SantiagoSernaAZ

That's because the water penetrated the liquid metal before it evaporated. When that happens, it evaporates so violently that it closely resembles an explosion. It also throws molten metal everywhere.

[K4ndorek]

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[hakachukai]

@K4ndorek

Could have saved 8 minutes of your life if you would have bothered to read the info on the video.

[marstheforthplanet]

@K4ndorek Ahhhhh! A creeper!

[K4ndorek]

@marstheforthplanet

hahahaha :D a buggy creeper ^^

[bowhunterpetemac]

@K4ndorek yes but cool sssssssssssssssssssssssscccccc­cccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[MohoBiechiz]

@K4ndorek

but will i go deaf?

[shadowgod91]

what the hell was the point to this video i watch the whole thing the birds were nice though

[hakachukai]

@shadowgod91

Read the Description and forever hold your peace!

[shadowgod91]

@hakachukai you didnt cast anything all im saying is the title is miss leading i was hoping for something cool atleast youve got loads of views 

[hakachukai]

@shadowgod91

But I did cast something. The pipes are my mold.

It's really simple I know, but it was the first time I had ever tried anything like it. I'm reasearching steel forging and other casting methods. When I get time I'll build and post a really good set up.

I am thankful for the views, but believe me... when I put this up I didn't even think more than like 100 people would ever watch it. Can't wait to see how well it does when I do a really good job :-)

[shadowgod91]

@hakachukai well thats respectable im studying blacksmithing so i know you have to start small good luck with the the forge/casting

[googledude23]

you know what lights my fire?....FIRE

[olliesanders]

You've got the flame too close.

The hottest part is the tip of the blue flame

[hakachukai]

@olliesanders

Yeah, I know that now, but I didn't back then :-/

Thanks for the useful info :-)

[rroberts383]

if something is wet, u can puck it up. anything that can be wet is less than 212 degree F. unless it is under pressure, but w/e. i do alot of welding and the wet test hasn't burnt me yet haha.

[TheHaalex]

wow if i had birds like that in my yard i'd just sleep outside!

and nice vid too

[callmenort]

maybe a Bic lighter might,,,,,LOL!!

[justinpiu]

like u walk 30 second just to get a little bottle of water hahah

[hakachukai]

@justinpiu

Yeah, I know. Believe me, it was annoying!

[NinjaWilly7]

@hakachukai You could get a freaking cup or anything?

[bakerman4444]

i could go to sleep alsmot with back ground singing birds!

[whiskers171]

finally something less interesting than watching paint dry

[volodymyrm1]

looks like a fked up ball sack haha

[girotube]

whats the point buddy!??

I think recording the birds would have been a better way to kill time.... For us I mean...

did you have to make all those trips to cool down the metal? why the little bottle? etc, etc....

[realjoefriday]

No complaints about the experiment. Big complaints about the video.

If anyone has the good fortune to read the comments before watching the video, watch the first 10 seconds and the last 20 seconds and you'll have seen everything you needed to see.

[Astilen]

You have to watch this backwards :D

[hakachukai]

@Astilen

That would probably be a half way decent Chemical Brothers music video :-P

[RazedByWolvs]

I think you should try and use a diy Pulse jet engine to try and melt it :)

[TheNejiMule]

Dude i am a begginer,i dont even have any metal or anything,but what are you trying to make?

[hakachukai]

@TheNejiMule

Just read down a few comments. already explained there.

[zerosix1786]

lol i like your nice natural background sound... makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

[hakachukai]

@zerosix1786

Hey man... if you going to do mad science, you have to do it in a peaceful place!

[poopsysdude1]

I'm unsure what you are trying to accomplish, I'm not critical of it , just confused.

[hakachukai]

@poopsysdude1

No worries.

It was just a super simple casting experiment.

The 2 pipes because the world's simplest cast.

Then I put the MAPP gas tourch on it to see if I could realistically melt it, and cause it to form to the shape of the 2 pipes.

it worked, and it wasn't very difficuilt :-)

[MrAbreuticomeu]

Good... very nice! try again... and again, and again and one day u success!

[Procrastinatathor]

Nice experiment. I do exactly that kind of stuff on my free time, too. My conclusions so far: if you want to melt some alu, dont start with aluminium cans (drinks). It will just _not_ work. Use any chunk of aluminium (like yours), and then once it's liquid, add the cans (crushed, I guess) to the already molten pool. I haven't tried the latter yet, so an an experimenter too, I'm hypothetizing... Good luck!

[hakachukai]

Yeah, the reason why it doesn't work is because the aluminum oxidizes with the atomophere at that tempurature. Since the layer of aluminum is so thing, it just disintigrates.

however, I have thought about making a vaccume sealed melting rig. If you suck all of the air out of it, or inject an inert gas like Argon (possibly C02), you should be able to melt cans just fine. I hope to test that out some day soon.

[Procrastinatathor]

@hakachukai Good luck. On a side project I also started to work on a vaccum sealed case but I'm far from integrating it with a foundry. Or I might just use a continous flow of an inert gas which should shield the hot aluminium from oxidizing gases. I belive it's more feasible that way.

[Hyshinara]

@Procrastinatathor I always thought soda cans were made of aluminium, but apparently, they are made of rolled steel...

[HTDEAO]

You should make some realy liquid aluminium and then porr drop of wather in it its so funy wath hapens LOL

[yammo12]

what's to point in this video

[alehug]

Pointless

[happygameshow]

Neat i wouldnt think it would be that quick to melt it with only a torch

[HTDEAO]

If you use an Oxigen + Acetilene torch you will melt an aluminium rod with 5 centimetres in diameter in about a minute or so;)

[hakachukai]

yeah, I know. Next time I'll make a much better video

[starshock01]

just because you can, doesnt always mean you should...

[hakachukai]

Image how little technology we would have today if all of the inventors of the past followed that train of thought. If someone wasn't crazy enough to play with an electron gun, we wouldn't have had Television.

They say that "Curiosity killed the cat", but the cat had nine lives.

I don't know about you, but I don't see very many dead cats, nor many dead scientists.

Just because I can doesn't mean that I should... but just because you don't think that I shouldn't doesn't mean that I shouldn't

[hakachukai]

Not meant to be offensive BTW, I'm just saying... stop and think about it.

[starshock01]

*always* its a key word...

[SDWild]

Stupid shit, let me melt something duuuuh

[highrollacustoms]

ok you melted it, now build your self a small foundry

[hakachukai]

I plan to. I'll post videos when I do it

[scrantonsux]

BOORRIINNNGG !

[GHOSTTOYS]

i use to work in a galvanisation plan and they use a mix of zinc and aluminium well they use 1 tone zinc block and tone of aluminium pelet and the mixture is liquid at 800.00 degres but is making on top a layer of burn metal as he over heat .. anyways just to say loll hehe and if you want more aluminium get to a galvanisation plan they use a lots and they might give you some loll if they are in a goog mood hehe so nice casting sir

[hakachukai]

Thanks for the info! I might look into that :-)

[knightinwhite19]

Well, how come we call it Casting..... isn't it just simple Melting???

I would have called it casting if the man would have Melted the metal in some Crucible, prepared a Sand Mold( could be a permanent Mold too) and poured it to get the desired Shape.

Nonetheless, it was a good attempt but dangerous too, don't pour Water on semi frozen aluminum, it can really sent the metal Flying all over.

Take Care

[killacop69]

that was very interesting and now i wanna do it in my metal working class lol and ya not quite metal casting but still every one likes to melt shit right? lol but still good video

[hakachukai]

It's not very hard to do, but it works a lot better if you can insulate the aluminum by placing it in some kind of container that can take the heat.

I used little $2 flower pots from WalMart. They hold about a pint or so. They work pretty good, but they do crack pretty easily.

[nubeldorf]

I wouldn't call this casting. That is where you melt the metal and pour it into a mold. You would have better luck with the AL in a crucible or some other container. That would help trap some of the heat. Don't worry about some of the comments about water on AL causing an explosion, not going to happen. However if you were casting and poured molten AL into a mold that had some water in it (even a little) you could get a steam explosion which would send molten AL everywhere. Be careful, enjoy.

[fai1saf3]

this video shows the death of pacman

[hakachukai]

LOL!

Now every time I remember this video, I'm forever going to have that old Atari PacMan death sound stuck in my head!

BLEW LEW LEW LEW LEW LEW LEW SCRAW RAWRAW RAW!

Am I the only person who ever though that the painful sound's that came out of an Atari were actually psycological punishment for dieing or loosing the game?

[fhaddad3]

actually this is not casting this is called fu!@##$king around......

[fai1saf3]

give teh guy a break hes experimenting

[hakachukai]

Thank you!

Seriously, some people have nothing better to do then base their existance off putting other people down.

[uberfresco]

fuck man all hes doin is experimenting leve him alone

[jazcreations]

WARNING liquid aluminum and water can cause an large explosion !!!!

[DjinnJuggler]

"an large explosion" XD

[RealPhilosopher]

oh and will a blow torch be able to melt aluminum cans

[killacop69]

yes but when u burn or melt a can in a fire or w/e you might use it just turns to ash because its too thin

[RealPhilosopher]

hey did you get this torch from home depot and if it is. is the one that takes the blue gas cantaner

[curioz29]

the tip of the blue flame is the hottest part of the flame ,you were possibly holding the torch too close and not getting the full heat transfered ,not trying to be a smart ass

[hakachukai]

I appreciate all constuctive feed back, no offense taken.

Yes, you are right. I was holding the torch too close. Live and learn.

[imah8ter07]

"editing"  look it up!

[hakachukai]

oh yeah... why didn't I think of that?

You buy me the software, I'll edit the video

[Chrischavez93]

there is free software you can get

[erik61801]

awesome duder! now start hammering it into a sheet and built a bugati lol

[hakachukai]

:-P

When I get some time I'm planning on making a fully functional aluminum casting rig, so I might melt it into sheets... but pounding it would take a while.

[tippo747]

where do you live ..jail

[intheshitter]

Id love to live in a place where birds chirp n shit

[7thGraal]

Masz stary nasrane we łbie. :)

[LizzyAston]

you too? meet up?

[samgiacchino7]

totaly

[DarkMusicalWolf]

HA Nice

[Shanyob]

:-(

[blazing1hound]

loooks fun lol i wana do that :D

[rioross]

dare you to touch it. :)

ha, not really.

[parrayd]

son mis 9:38 minutos de mi vida peor perdidos

[8noctus8]

cierto... pero kien nos manda a verlo...

[Bri4r3os]

...

[drzoidberg223]

wow, useless! waisted 9 minutes of my life!

[hakachukai]

only because you were too stupid to read the info.

[silver760]

You hold that torch way too close,in the cold part of the flame.

[hakachukai]

Thanks for the info, I'll take that into account next time.

[killacop69]

dude when a flame is blue that means its the hottest part dipshit

[silver760]

I should fucking know I have brazed/silver soldered for 16 years or more,the hottest part of the flame in just in front of the blue portion of the flame,the blue you see is the produced by the combustion of the gas and air,and is NOT the hottest part of the flame.thankyou.

[timgebhart]

GOING TO BED NOW THANKS

[sinephase]

so pointless, LOL

[longkeith]

You're right, that is crude!! Why not put it in a pre-heated oven to get the aly up to a decent temperature before trying to melt it (trying being the operative word), to save wasting $20 of gas torch!

[hakachukai]

The reason why is simple. The person whom I rent from would FREAK out. If it were totally up to me, I'd just build a decent camp fire and melt it for free.

[tetnum]

thats really dangerous do not ever put water in any state on molten or hot aluminum it will often explode from a hrdrogen and oxygen explosion and molten alum almoast vaporises flesh be safe and let it cool by it self

[hakachukai]

Thanks for the info, I'll look into that.

[RobbindaNegus]

should have used an oxy-acetylene torch! Did you run out of gas? why not just onto the rock? woulda looked cooler and yeah I think you should have pack a little more water lol

[razorflown2]

and the purpose of this was.....?

[drulli6]

and what is the use?

[izzyimi1]

that was actually worse than watching paint dry, and i even skipped forward, that wasn't an experiment(succesfull,) that was a waste.

[realpikoz]

man u got no bigger bottle?

[newcomer9747]

what about slag and hydrogen removal?

[cptkirk2007]

Man What The Fuk

[kemarch001]

Hmmm. I'm now I'm suspicious of this video. Your reply to adamthebad2 indicates that it was a controlled and benign experiment, yet on the other hand you purport to be "doing mad science". A curious juxtaposition of intentions! I'll be watching for sequels to this video ;-)

[kemarch001]

The sound of birds chirping in the background adds a relaxing, pastoral setting.

[hakachukai]

One of the benefits of doing mad science in your back yard :-P

[adamthebad2]

i don't get it, what were you trying to do?

[hakachukai]

Simple. I wanted to find out what it would take to begin the cast aluminum. So, I made an extremely simple mold using the two pipes pressed together, and I tried melting it with a torch. The groove between the pipes was my test mold.

[ehls977]

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