Collaboration with Luke in Malta to start making a tool.
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00:00 – Intro
00:31 – Pattern making
02:56 – Americas cup 2024
03:21 – Making a sand flask
07:26 – Mail time
07:51 – Austrian aviation museum
08:28 – Molding up the patterns
12:40 – 1st casting attempt
15:57 – 2nd casting attempt
18:44 – The result
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Music
Southside Aces – Whole Tony
Stefano Mastronardi – Smokey Tables
Avner Kelmer – Lunch Time
Avner Kelmer – Supper West Side
Bonjour Bonjour – Flambee
Yuvi Gerstein – Good Night
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cant wait to see part 2 🙂
Fucking finally! Someone casting actual materials at home, not just some junk(Alu)… Next – white bronze(CuAlu)… Thanks m87! It`s a pleasure seeing this title, and i dare assume that the video will be equally as pleasant, as your works always are!
I`ll have to get to making a bloody smelter… Tho, i might just make it today, as i have all that i need(i`d like a bigger barrel, that`s why i wait) for a nice medium sized smelter, and i am currently covered in fugenfuller und mortel dust and runaway globs from mixing… I just have to switch to chamotte and quartz sand(fuck, ran out of that, and it`s sunday…)… I guess i`ll go check the scrapyard for a larger barrel and go get some quartz sand and inox chips for reinforcement… I`d also like to get some of that cera-wool and maybe satanite, but we`ll see about satanite for the actual first rebuild rather than the initial build…
Best regards!
Steuss
Oh yes please Luke, some images or video of whatever they are! Don't think I have seen any casting with those Bob fellows, they sure do seem to help. Not sure I have noticed spitzensparkles from the cast iron as it is poured. Very well done and thank you Mark!!
Enjoyed that! Always fancied a bit of cast iron pouring, but I doubt my workshop problem neighbour would approve! I have done copper and aluminium in an electric furnace, indoors of course! I notice you do not use a riser or pierce any gas holes, riser gives good indication of when the mould is full, and also allows fast gas escape, can make a big difference. I was of the lucky generation that did sand casting of aluminium at school, and runner and riser were the order of the day! Cracking video, and good castings!
Phil
I love watching the backyard casting process, especially for iron. That is truly an impressive result that you acheived, especially the fine details on the logos!
That was great, thank you. I really fancy a go at casting. Question: is there a story behind the telly-fish logo? – Heather
You need some good corner clamps 😅
Probably would be better to cast these in a vertical mold to allow gravity to assist in filling out the mold. No 90° bends to flow around to get to the part.
Good on you for your persistence; those came out very nicely.
Little tip to see if the iron is hot enough to poor, I experienced that if the iron throws sparks it’s good to cast most of the times if the iron doesn’t “spark “ means that it got some chunks and ist good for pouring (it helps a lot to put the propan in a bucket of warm water to keep it from freezing up )
Keep up the work
Greetings from Germany
While I do non ferrous castings, I can easily do that in my electric heat treat oven which is 12” by 10” by 10” inside. But it just goes to 2,200 F. The idea of having a gas furnace like yours is too much for me. These of you who do this, other than professional forgers, such as Windy Hill Foundry here in the USA which a lot of YouTubers use, are to be admired for your willingness to attempt it, and be successful.
Awesome video! It's exceedingly rare to see iron casting videos on YouTube. For the machine parts, it's a much better material than the typical aluminum used. With today's CAD software and 3D printing, the idea of building a lathe or mill isn't out of reach for the home shop anymore. I would attempt it, but I have a ton of half completed projects all over the place.
you had a literal mulligan (mull again) on that one. 😀
Neat! Thanks Mark and Luke, I'm learning a lot with you guys, and I'm having great fun at the same time. Always good to share your mistakes, really helps us to understand the challenges and the process – and it's a great lesson in resilience as well. Nothing's perfect and you would be foolish to think this stuff is easy.
Let me guess – precision frame spirit level?
can you make a video of how you made the burner and furnace i would like to melt cast iron as well but no clue how to
Has Luke in Malta made a video ? Does he have a channel?
Glad that helicopter wasn’t spying with infrared camera. Yours was probably the hottest spot in town that day!
Cheers, enjoyed the casting vid
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing both the failures and success. Hopefully, there will be a machining video of them in the future.
Super kudos for iron casting in the back yard.those second ones turned out great. Excellent work Mark, thanks for the video.
please tell me you watched the bloke from mozzy sails on the actual AC40. talk about a dream come true. (i'd probably crash it on the first tack/gybe)
so awesome, what an opportunity. what? me jealous ? nahhh this greenish skin tone is my natural one.
Oh wow you cast iron too. Cool stuff! I've poured some aluminum just into tin cans and made stuff from those but that's about it.
Thanks for always showing your mistakes. I want to try casting soon, and I think I’ve learned as much from seeing your fails and your explanation of what went wrong as I have from all the other videos where people only show their successes.
What sort of material do you melt down for cast iron? Are break drums or discs any good?
I want to try melting cast iron someday!
They turned out great! Evidently, you have to be able to cast iron before you're considered a real man! I'm still on the "coward's metals"😅
You make it look easy and I know it’s not.
Looking forward to them being machined.
Precision squares I presume?
holy fucking shit
Excellent video as always. Did you make your own muller? Any chance you did a video if you did, if not maybe a detailed walkthrough of it? Thank you!
I have been wanting to move from aluminum to iron for a long time. Would you be able to go over your burner, crucible, and procedures?
Very nicely done 🙂 thanks for the video
Xlnt!!!
Nice job. Iron isnt nice and easy like aluminum to melt. Might try the PLA for casting in the future. The stuff that burns out like foam cores do. Not a clue what it is though.
Did you know, Metric users can switch to imperial numbers by doubling just like we can switch from imperial to metric by halving. For example: 10kg is 20lb and 20lb is 10kg.
That's why 12 hours is 24 hours in Europe. They use smaller hours there. So instead of 60 minutes in an hour, they have 30 minutes. It works the same way with bananas.
Your trap door in the moulding table is genius!
I think a channel rename is really needed. "Mark Fails Forward" has a nice ring to it.
seems to me beautiful blanks for square machinist precision levels ;^)