Exploding castiron

This is what happens when artists play with molten metal.
The flasks are sitting on canvas and wooden wall hangings. The first of the 3 pours has wet wood chips in the bottom of the flask. The artist is trying to capture the wooden texture of the chips in the iron and canvas along with some steam explosions to fix it all up. The second pour has black powder and wood chips in the bottom and the last one has even more of both. We couldn't find the flask after the last explosion. Speaking as a metal worker if I had been aware of the black powder I would not have been anywhere the pours. Although I would have missed this cool experiment.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• smelt
• iron
• pour
• bladesmith
• batson
• macabee
• fire
• sparks
• exploding
• art

[itsgr82bl8]

Somebody might want to tell the idiot with the hose to back off he only makes matters worse and they also might want to tell the meat head artist he is lucky nobody got seriously injured or killed and to do some research before he starts playing with things beyond his intellect.

[light4darkness]

somebody tell the artist that he needs to play with lead or tin to capture wood and canvas texture, not iron.

[Mylitla]

If you don't have 1:33 to watch the whole video then please - JUST SHUT THE HELL UP !!!

[swomplode]

I don't have time to watch this whole video right now, but I can tell from what I've seen so far that what you have there is a situation where water has gotten into your molten metal. This water has turned into steam and violently bubbled to the surface, resulting in a small explosion. You're going to suffer some third degree burns when that metal hits your skin. You need to get some ice on those wounds immediately and get some iodine on there as soon as possible before the infection sets in.

[Icehut]

Please, I beg you... do not breed.

Don't pass the stupid gene along!

[ThorsgaardFoundry]

wow. kinda like the IronGuild's stuff, but kinda crazier