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Uploaded by on May 11, 2010

Video describing melting aluminum for our first time in our home made coal powered foundry.

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  • good feedback @ drfrankensteam and fjoeforty

  • @EPICBAIL10 Very good feedback from them. Thanks for the reply.

  • SImple yet effective setup. Thats how I started. But you may want to be careful pouring that aluminum in wet dirt. Or at least it looked when you poured those crosses which turned out cool. You run the risk of a steam explosion.

  • @DrFrankensteam We had a mini steam explosion. Thanks for the warning.

  • For the small amount you melted here, add a pinch of table salt (Sodium Chloride) and stir the Aluminum. This will degas it, and drive any Hydrogen coming off of it, to the top. Then add a pinch of Sodium Carbonate( Baking soda that has been baked at 400 F) Regular Arm and Hammer out of the box is still Bicarbonate and won't react quick. Soda separates slag. That crap you scooped out in the beginning was called Dross. Once the slag has been pulled out, the aluminum flows like water while hot.

  • @FJoeForty Thanks for the info. We will try this next time.

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  • omg yall are so smart shit I'm so doing this

  • I destroyed that same chisel- doing the same thing! Its for WOOD NOT SLAG REMOVAL hehe :)

  • i felt embarressed for the guy that doesnt know how to pour things

  • Hi there. I was wondering how long the coal fire lasts for before it self extinguishes.

    Thanks

  • Man...you put that cross on ebay, list it as virgin mary appears in flaming cross, post your video, and cut and paste some scripture onto the page. Offer to donate 50% of proceeds to a local youth organization or African bible thumping team. See if you can get a local news channel to run a piece on it. Could be the next $28,000 "cornflake". Won't catch me buying it...but then again, I'm not religious.

  • Thanks for the video !

    Now let's all go smoke a blunt

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