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Transformer Arc welder: $25 The increase in your power bill: $25 The decrease in your heating bill: $25 DIY Ruby: Priceless

I'd like to see one of the rubies faceted by a gem cutter.

Here I thought my birthstone was a precious gem and you're cranking them out in your workshop!

"24v AC... At some ridiculous current." The amount of overkill doesn't matter, as long as you acknowledge it

3:24 now, that's what I call safety squints

I love the constant channel references always dropping an ave bomb or a Cody’s lab shoutout today it’s KOR it’s all the shit I watch 😂

The laugh is definitely a combination of hey we could get killed doing this, and whatever happens, GET it ON TAPE. Good stuff.

If you sub the chromium out for vanadium, you should be able to make sapphires that can be confused with alexandrite instead. (purple/violet) Iron and titanium together can be used to try and make blue sapphires. You can also try and use the two mixes piled together (but not mixed [think two piles, pushed together]) to try and make a color shifting sapphire. Just using iron can make green to yellow sapphire, and using iron and chromium together should make orange sapphire. Also, using just the aluminium oxide on its own should make colorless corundum, which is apparently a popular alternative for diamonds in jewelry. (for marketing reasons, they'll typically call it "colorless sapphire" instead of "corundum" :P)

Great deal on the welder! Nice find! Dude, buy a $35 Harbor Freight welding helmet, don't fry your eyes. They're adjustable, too.

Damn. Those carbon rods are “Currently Unavailable” on Amazon. The seller is probably wondering how they just sold all of their inventory. Awesome work though.

I have a synthetic sapphire, a cherished ten cent reminder from a former job. They get cut into wafers and electronic circuits are built on them. Rubies are and emeralds are chemically nearly the same, except rubies have a trace of chrome, and sapphires have a bit of iron (or titanium). Awesome video. I want to see you make some diamonds. You already have the carbon...

That is so cool! I remember my uncle telling me when I was young that some lady figured out how to make rubies and that it was some secret...now I've come full circle and seen them being made with my own eyes. Thanks for sharing this

I'm freaking impressed. I wonder how it would do if you used an inert atmosphere like a sealed argon filled air tight box or something

When you turned on the welder, I could hear your meter spinning

This is actually one of the coolest things I've seen. I'm really wondering if these stones would cut well or not.

Your video was recommended to me as an amateur chemist. Your results are impressive especially considering this was your first attempt. I’d love to see one of those rubies in person. Please stay safe so you can post more videos!

Honestly, I love the constant attempts to make bigger and bigger rubies lol

Yeah just when you think hydrogen burns hot, and start playing with that zappy energy stuff that comes out the wall! :0

Holy crap that was a beautiful sight to see. As a gemstone lover since I was a kid (especially ruby) I don’t even care if I was too late for the contest or whatever, just watching solid ruby form in real-time made my day!

I worked in a foundry that had an Arc Furnace, the electrodes were about the size of your legs. When they fired her up, the lights on the block would dim. She sounded so awesome firing.

YES! I have been so excited for this! God damn thats a lot of heat. I'd love to see alternate ratios of powder mixed to see what happens or possibly add in other chemicals. I really hope to win one of these rubies.

I love how that thing is so powerful you welded rubies to a crucible

They are so nice! This was a really interesting watch, the prospect of making your own rubies is fascinating

Hey, I remember stumbling across your HHO video a while back. Glad you see you're still not burning down your shop! Those carbon rods are crazy hot on a big welder like that.

What about using a conical graphite crucible as one of the electrodes with the stick one close to it surrounded by the mixture? Maybe that way you can melt all it into one bead?

Well, that was easy. Might give it a shot myself. I wonder what it would take to get to gem quality. Maybe just a longer heating period and slow cool down.

This is very educational. I can now make rubies, but definitely I cannot afford to buy the materials and the equipment necessary to make these synthetic rubies. Thank you so much for this post. I really love rubies, especially when they are already cut and polished.

As much as I love classic whiteboard-style chemistry channels nothing compares to the empirical, elbows deep, backyard experiments. Looking forward to future projects. I heard rubies are used in water jet cutters.

This man will flood the black market with these fake rubys and become a war lord of greenland Edit: By fake i mean man made, didnt think i needed to explain that

Love your vids Just wondering if AvE is your brother lol You should do a vid with him would be a total crack up

I honestly just found your channel...And I'm very happy for it! Thank you for taking on these dangerous endeavors so that we can all share in the experiences~

I came over from Night Hawk’s channel and he used a carbon crucible that he drilled out to form his rubies. I’m going to try this out myself one of these days. Great videos from both of you.

I nearly peed myself laughing at the fact that you turned the welder on with both clamps clamped to the welder body!! 🤣 Seriously awesome video man!!

My daughter would love one for her periodic collection.

I think if you're zoomed in, you're actually less likely to burn the camera's sensor. It's the same amount of light (given by the area of the camera lens), but distributed over a larger part of the sensor.

Super cool video! I'm amazed at how easy it is to make synthetic ruby. I'm getting into lapidary as a new hobby, so I'd love to make one of those and try cutting it into something. I'll have to keep an eye out for one of those $25 arc welders!

I really enjoy these videos, they really help with inspiration when the doldrums of life beat me down.

Wow, I cant believe it is that simple! I definitely have to try this. Just need to buy some oxides, big carbon electrodes and maybe one electrode holder.

Love to try something like this, seems like a good way to make some pretty unique projects

Whether they're gem quality or not it would be cool to see how the look cut. This is awesome man

Great looking rubies you got there, Bob!

That there - That's a Tombstone welder. All over CraigsList too!

Awesome! Back in the day there was a holder for two carbon rods to make a carbon arc torch with your arc welder.

Nighthawkenlight did this with your permission of course, and that is how I found you! So glad I did! Those rubies are unbelievable to me! I would take one to a jeweler and see if they think it is up to par for cutting a d polishing! How cool would it be to tell people that you made the ruby in the piece of jewelry they are admiring! 👍👍😁

That was awesome. Put some electrical tape on the ears of the welder for a Quick Chep fix.

I live near the legendary Cleveland, Ohio, USA Perfect pronunciation, by the way!

Have to agree, can't wait to see one polished & faceted!

That's absolutely mental! Well done!

I’d like to see how these rubies compair to the ones my grandfather made, I was passed down a small bag full of synthetic rubies made by him, (largest one is about an 1/.5/.5 inches in size) i’d love to cut one of these myself or see how Cody’sLab &/or send it to nilered or AVE

This is so cool, im going to have to look into actually doing this myself, i hope i get one to study up close to see what i could end up with

I absolutely love this guy, have yet to get bored watching these videos. Good job "EM" keep up the good work!

Finally! I'm a little curious if you can get them down into .452' and test it's ballistic qualities

"the stinger" that's what the ladies call my... no, actually I wont lie, they don't call it that....

keep eye out for more welders like that!! those old ones are so esay to fix!! the brands on the outside may not be the same but the parts inside unbolt and others bolt in!! i have one that was made in the 60s!! 1960s and still works!!

Completely awesome. I would have my nieces and nephews watch it but I'd have to wash their ears out and explain way too much 🤣 so great for my entertainment. Keep up the good work. Welder is a huge improvement in everyway.

I'm really curious how these would look cut

God I love the sound of that electrical arc

I had no idea a ruby could be made in that fashion. Cool stuff!

I love those old tombstone welders. I actually learned how to weld with one

NightHawkInLight bring me here. You are awesome!

I swear this guy sounds like AVE :P

OMG that is so awesome, you took me back in time to the way I felt when I watch the original videos from The King of random (rip). Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it so very much, keep up the good work!

Super cool! I love normal dudes doing cool shit in their shops. Definitely an underrated channel!

Holy Shit Counter: Off the scale

Bummer deal dude I was all excited and getting ready to jump into this and then you put up a disclaimer looks like it's off limits for me thank you for the great video

I've been following this project since the first one, I was wondering when you were going to try arc fusing these!

Looks awesome! Been on board since your hotplate/magnetic stirrer videos. Cheers from Australia!

The king of random lives on inside us all🥺

If I watched this after the pub, I would swear it was AVE.

Your reactions are absolutely classic.

Very cool! Much better than your other attempts.

Nice! How does it look on the inside? Can you break one? (The ruby, I mean, not the welder...)

can you facet one into a lathe finishing tool and "ruby finish" some aluminium?

dude, This is too cool, I enjoy watching your videos so much and I too love building, experimenting, and doing awesome stuff like this!

You've made it! I always new this channel was a "diamond" in the rough.

I've got an order for a pair of slippers from a certain "Dorothy"?

Dude, I love you for not editing out that short circuit power up goof.

I'd love to see a video comparing the properties of these to natural rubies. Also a video on how this ruby creating method actually works. And a video one what some potential uses for these would be.

Well damn, missed the cutoff. Glad to see your channel growing man. You put out quality work man, keep it up brotha.

My father had this exact arc welder in his basement workshop, from which he build his own drill rig. While I was impressed by the brightness of the arc everytime he told me not to look at it (and I did, by all rights I should be blind) I had no idea it could have been used to make friggin' RUBIES!!! I have to ask him now if he still has the bloody thing or got rid of it.

Very nice. I saw one called Gadolinium Aluminum Gallium Garnet with a very bright yellow glow. It is used as a scintillator, a crystal grown for its insanely strong fluorescence.

This might be one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen! Thank you for being amazing 😉

This is a fascinating process to watch; very informative!

Love this guys style, half scientist, half comedian.

Im already digging that we essentially have the same interests. So i have tried this exact method as well and also got kinda grayish coloration on the outside. Also assumed it was from the carbon rods. (I pulled my carbon rods from old big 6v batteries). One problem i had though was mostly ending up with a ruby shell where the inside didnt fully heat up. Ive since experimented with using my tig welder for the arc to remove the carbon aspect, and i stopped seeing the dark gray discoloration. As for the big rubies ending up only forming a shell, i made a jig out of stainless steel. Basically two 1" rods as a tester with bowls cut in either end where i could put the AlO and CrO mix inside and pack it into a ball. Heat the mixture up with the arc and once it was glowing super hot put a weight on top of the other rod to add pressure and keep heating the rods to help cool the mix more slowly. This did produce more fully dense larger rubies but far from what id call jewelry worthy stones. I havent polished any of them yet to really see how theyd turn out. Id like to revisit the setup and try and find a better way to induce the heat into the dies while keeping pressure on them at all times. Kinda like how they form PCD.

Impressive! The rubies keep getting bigger :) Good work!

Awesome video, found this channel through a different one a few days ago and am loving the content, keep up the great work!

hope im not too late for the draw. and this is fantastic. that arc was way better than the torch. i'd love to see one of these gem cut.

Commercial synthetic ruby is made by dissolving aluminum oxide in lead oxide and lowering temp until ruby starts to crystalize. Can get big single crystals by "pulling" slowly. Thought you'd want to know how its really done.

Hell yeah! I'd love to polish one of those rubies and see how that goes.

1:00 Holy shit! That takes me back. Reminds me of when I was a kid running around my dad's shed looking for something neat to break. He had one of those in there. Wow, I just had a flood of memories looking at that thing.

Ruby, or the elements that make up ruby, vaporizes, ( change of state from liquid to gas), at average of 4000°F. Hydrogen burns a flame at around that temperature. Back off your flame. The flame will have to burn for about 20 minutes to properly congeal and burn out the impurities. Hydrogen fluoride is what is used to clean rubies up.

You inspired me to try that out man. Thanks for the ideas

Good idea for a graphite rod source. I bought mine as unclad rods but they were way more expensive per foot.

Would pointing the rods make a difference.? Thanks for all the great videos you give us for our education and entertainment.

this is the awesomest ruby video yet!!! love that welder.

Exited to see the rig you mentioned in your last ruby video come to fruition, don't give up on that one man.

Thats incredible!! New project when i get home!

Hi ElementalMaker, I have a suggestion for possibly creating better ruby. if you make a graphite mold with a hole in the hexadiagonal shape and make a fitting lid which can be pushed into it which is also graphite in the center but an isolated edge at the sides then you can connect them to the different terminals of the welder and while activated use a press or an isolated Vise to apply pressure. the first benefit is the shape, the second is that you won't have to hold the terminals which reduces the risk at injury(of course make sure that the setup is not shorted). and as a last one it might make them clearer due to the speculative possibility that the increased pressure enhances the crystals structure which might make it clearer.