Casting a 1KG PURE SILVER YouTube play button - 100,000 Subscribers celebration -

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2 жыл бұрын

Its been a great year! This channel has gown by nearly 150,000 subscribers. Thank you to everyone who had supported Robinson Foundry. To celebrate I cast a full size KZfaq play button in fine silver. I started by designing a 3d model in Fusion 360. I printed the model on my Elegoo Saturn resin 3d printer. Then I made a simple sand mold using petrobond casting sand. I melted a 1kg fine silver bar in my homemade metal melting foundry and poured it into the mold.
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@StarlordStavanger 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know a single thing about metal casting, but I've been following for about 6 months now and I've always been curious and fascinated by what you've done. Plus you're editing skills are great too. Literally just keep doing what you're doing and I'll keep coming back for more :)

@gloriouslumi 2 жыл бұрын

I'd hope after 6 months you have learned SOMETHING. I know that I have lol

@StarlordStavanger 2 жыл бұрын

@@gloriouslumi I know not to touch hot molten metals unless I've got my salad tongs with me ;)

@skrimper 2 жыл бұрын

@@gloriouslumi yeah that's wild. How do you watch for 6 months and not get a basic understanding of what's happening/being done 😂

@teopalafox Жыл бұрын

@@skrimper bruh it’s a joke lol

@brenthalper4132 2 жыл бұрын

You need to add some boric acid to your silver as soon as you turn your furnace off. .25 grams for every 10 ounces generally works well depending on how good/clean your .999 silver is. You may need to adjust that if you have more impurities floating on the top. Your silver was too hot when you poured. Wait until the rim of your crucible starts to darken. Keep your stream within an inch of the edge of your crucible and keep a slow steady stream. That will help with out gassing and minimize craters in the middle of the mold.

@Elites-asthetic 5 ай бұрын

Any tips on gold with borax per gram and melting in crucible ready to sand cast

@Brick_Science 2 жыл бұрын

i really enjoy watching your videos! congrats on 160K!!

@jamie1311 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, can’t wait for “casting a 5 kg pure diamond play button - 10 million subscribers celebration

@catgynt9148 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of removing the sprites from the top, could you have used a propane torch to heat and melt them back into the mass of silver? Great video. Thanks for sharing. Make today great.

@krisraps Жыл бұрын

Would Not Work, Silver Doesnt Melt Like That In BIG Pieces !

@mouserr Жыл бұрын

generally a degasser agent like borax is used

@Horizontreecare 2 жыл бұрын

would it have been possible to just torch those bits on back and melt them in? totally curious.

@jimsiggy 2 жыл бұрын

Is the circular mark on the front a result of where you poured in the silver? It appears to be in the same spot.

@twitchyeyess Жыл бұрын

We need to get this guy to 1 Million Subscribers so he makes a pure gold play button.

@victoriahey4226 Жыл бұрын

Those 3D printers are something else. Awesome.

@Mistertbones 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the milestone, Seth!

@NP-rh3dt 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Seth. Your videos are phenomenal, they're both educational and entertaining. Keep up the good work.

@HeinrichsMade 2 жыл бұрын

Good for you! It's a tough road. Keep making quality videos!

@lukasbitterli 2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the pure gold play button when you hit 1 million subs!

@durschfalltv7505 2 жыл бұрын

Exited for the Pure Gold one.

@adriennefraschetta5391 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas🎅🎄!!!

@Dave-wv9vc 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great, congrats on the 100k!

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 жыл бұрын

The sprouts are pretty wild.

@CruzMonrreal 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! I'm curious though. Why did it look like there's some sort of circle indentation next to the triangle?

@D__x 2 жыл бұрын

Is it from pouring?

@wesleymorrison9941 2 жыл бұрын

I'd assume it's from the abrasive wheel being pushed in a little too hard.

@skrimper 2 жыл бұрын

@@wesleymorrison9941 lmao that indentation isn't nearly the same same size as the wheel.

@skrimper 2 жыл бұрын

Its from the grabbers. Notice how there's an indentation on each side, they're perfectly opposed

@sebastienc8797 2 жыл бұрын

@@D__x yep, silver is dense and falls from high. To avoid it, he should have done a feeder channel, but it would not have done a final 1kg piece.

@benben9794 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact Cody’s lab was one of if not the first KZfaq channel to make their very own KZfaq play button out of silver… of course he added gold to his too but that’s Cody for you

@thehomicidalduck6867 2 жыл бұрын

I love melting silver it's so pretty

@michaelmuehr8020 2 жыл бұрын

Very awesome. Thank you

@AUMINER1 2 жыл бұрын

excellent! love your attention to detail and truly amazing casting videos! I love love love this channel - keep up the great work! I hope 2022 is great for you!

@ProjectDIYOz 2 жыл бұрын

Great video mate, and a huge congratulations! Loved the play button and how it turned out. 😀

@rg8766 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your brilliant and inspiring videos and projects. May I ask a technical question: I have issues with distortion and warping as flat surfaces from my Elegoo resin printer set. How does adding the lip help to prevent this?

@lundgrenbronzestudios 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on such a successful channel! It’s great to see!

@thehyperscientist1961 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Congrats on your 160k subscriber milestone

@RyanThomasGame 2 жыл бұрын

you deserve everything. There's almost nobody that does casting as well as you and teaching.

@-RAYZ- Жыл бұрын

Nobody does casting as well as him?.....C'mon now man you are going a little to far.

@subliminalvibes 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Happy Holidays from Australia! 👍😎🇦🇺 I love ALL your projects. Thanks so much for quality casting fun. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

@Rouverius 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100K! Hey, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Lord bless you all in the coming year.

@jonpierce8342 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I love poured silver!!! Keep it up! 🤗✌️✌️

@andyf1235 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats your channel is awesome!

@IngotJoe 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers it is well deserved. 👏🏻👏🏻

@patcaza6166 2 жыл бұрын

yeah man, bravo and thank you for sharing your passion

@BloodierCorpse 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!

@Silvertoburn 2 жыл бұрын

Good times right there! Sux to get the warts eh! Yup oxygen escaping! Happens alot when using Petro bond. Not so much when using graphite molds!

@spencer2113 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats!

@Scorpiove 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your narration. Very satisfying. Of course I love the over all content as well. :)

@lsanders28 2 жыл бұрын

I love your creations my guy. Plz keep making more content

@CynthiaPrice79 2 жыл бұрын

There’s an evident circular ring depression on the front. Do you know what it’s from?

@zacharypeterson5540 2 жыл бұрын

Very high quality videos with high quality casts, what not to love about your channel!

@clutchkikn. 2 жыл бұрын

Looks just like the original love it

@KOG005 2 жыл бұрын

thanks

@jeffjefferson2676 2 жыл бұрын

If you use flux, you probably wont have the bubbles. Also if you use vacuum casting in plaster, you can have much more details in your casting. And maybe you can use the 20 grams of silver to do just that. :) You need some good burn out resin. I saw "VOG jewelry" do a lot of that. Greetings, Jeff

@charitybrown4274 2 жыл бұрын

Great Work!!👍

@seanfoltz7645 2 жыл бұрын

Gratz! Scanned around and while other folks have done pure silver play buttons, they've all been tiny ones in the quarter pound range.

@kimbeach7185 2 жыл бұрын

YT should give out these to smaller channels and gold ones to bigger ones and diamond to the top 3 😎

@agentfifteen 2 жыл бұрын

It would be fantastic if you could make a video in which you 3d print a mold, pour wax into it, and then dip the wax model in Suspendaslurry to determine whether the wax evaporates faster or slower than PLA and also if the final product quality suffers or improves. The mold may be printed with 0% infill to save time and material, and it can be reused to create several wax models, reducing print time even more. Also, make sure the mold is made of a heat-resistant material like PETG, as PLA may distort when pouring hot wax. Love your videos, keep it up!

@Emulation_Inflation 2 жыл бұрын

Whow iv never seen that "sprouts" before.

@qwagmyre 2 жыл бұрын

You are so lucky I'm not your neighbor, I would drive you nuts by coming over all the time to watch you work.

@Y1trus 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is literally my favorite KZfaqr

@Thewulf56 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome work on the play button and on breaking the 100k mark. Congrats

@skister82 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are so relaxing and satisfying to watch that I lose myself in them. Keep up the excellent work.

@SpacedHawk 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a junior in high school and I think your videos are very intriguing. Keep it up! 👍

@jimcatanzaro7808 2 ай бұрын

If you use map gas while you pour it will reduce the silver from bubbling

@dankster990 2 жыл бұрын

You should make more videos caise you are my fav metal man

@williammackay-murphy1905 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the old design for KZfaq play buttons, used to feel like more of a trophy than a plaque

@rickeyburke2596 2 жыл бұрын

White rouge or jewelers rouge works really well on silver.

@rick9811 2 жыл бұрын

Your voice is hauntingly similar to another great KZfaq creator, the late Grant Thompson.

@ashgreninja1913 2 жыл бұрын

I also noticed that

@wyattsucee6893 2 жыл бұрын

Look super cool 😎 But I was wondering if u could make a deer antler I think the would be a cool to see how it would turn out.

@captainsceptic3559 2 жыл бұрын

was there no way to target melt those dendrites back? Silver melting is 1000 C, and propane torch is over 2000 C.

@Elites-asthetic 5 ай бұрын

Great job What is the bit called you used to polish the silver please

@frikkiesmit327 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos

@SilverScorpion 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet

@jbprospector3638 2 жыл бұрын

Came out great 👍. I always learn something when I watch your channel 👍🤠

@jmpiv4 2 жыл бұрын

You could 3d print a jig to hold the stamps inline

@philkipnis740 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool.err..hot. I did a lot of jewelry casting in my youth. My mentor taught me about casting shrinkage.so to get the exact weight, you add a little more to account for the vaporization. But you did a fantastic job. Congratz on the award

@gizzymeows5847 2 жыл бұрын

It's awesome to see the transition, new subbie and 👏 congrats

@tuhinayeasmin5784 2 жыл бұрын

I swear this guy deserves 1m sub😀

@just_eirik 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to see you make the gold one soon :P

@StreetMachine18 2 жыл бұрын

i would of prolly tossed in an extra one ounce bar during the melt. ive seen people do stuff like this before and always complain its under weight after they clean it up. nice work!

@0to100Art 2 жыл бұрын

great as always . I watched your creation to the end and enjoyed 😍😍😍👏

@riceicles64 2 жыл бұрын

@codyslab made a gold play button which was pretty cool!

@itssaoirse1239 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I’ve been following your channel for a month or so and I’d like you to know, you taught me more than my foundry professor ever did! Thank you for these videos!

@tylervanorman492 2 жыл бұрын

I sure got my $0.0075 worth. Thanks for the great videos

@madmike8325 2 жыл бұрын

Its def worth more than the fake silver one they send you... Plus it will appreciate value over time. 😂 great job!

@criss4000 2 жыл бұрын

You can place it, like a soap ornament, in the bathroom.

@dont.ripfuller6587 Жыл бұрын

make your casting to allow for removal of metal to reduce down to desired weight,if weight is critical.

@xdc1586 2 жыл бұрын

Damn you look... you look normal... completly different than I thought judging by the voice. Congrtats!

@brunopmcosta 2 жыл бұрын

Next time you may want to do this I suggest you pour the metal under a propane torch. This will help release the oxygen and probably will mitigate the silver sprouting in the back of the project

@KrakenCasting 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the milestone! You definitely deserve it. Glad to be part of the journey, and here's to a hundred thousand more! What could you use to de-gas the silver? Would borax work? If memory serves, borax works on copper, which is in the same metal group.

@AA-zv6yo Жыл бұрын

Reduction atmosphere or maybe melt in an inert gas.

@travpots6318 2 жыл бұрын

Good job

@baylinkdashyt Жыл бұрын

Two questions: 1) Why did you print the mold up at a 45 degree angle like that if you were just going to peel off all the supports anyway? Is that some side effect of the resin printing process? 2) How much work do you have to put into cleaning the crucible before you melt stuff in it?

@FyreFiend Жыл бұрын

I can’t speak to 2 but when resin printing you want to angle the print somewhere between 30-45° as it gives you cleaner details on the print

@bluegizmo1983 Жыл бұрын

What's that circular defect on the face of the button? I didn't see that in the mold...

@TimBielawa 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@stevendilnott4399 Жыл бұрын

nice job mate

@brodiehoechst3168 2 жыл бұрын

love the vids

@MilesProwerTailsFox 2 жыл бұрын

sick

@Ohio_etsu-masu Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile after 7 mounths : 241k subs already

@KrumpelSVK 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, i am casting newbie. How it is called that thing (it looks like a can with lever) at 2:14 what softens the petrobond?

@TreasureIslandCasting Жыл бұрын

I love to see silver freezing. Kind regards from Treasure Island

@josienxd5542 2 жыл бұрын

I wat to thank you for making this content. I really loved the sea shell 🐚 castings. Someone does own a full silver play button (that I know of) that is Cody's lab

@granoculus7430 2 жыл бұрын

Bigstack D did an Aluminum one for his channel. He prefers Aluminum over Silver.

@wolf-vh1np 2 жыл бұрын

Also you should make your own bar of silver

@walli6388 2 жыл бұрын

Let's get to 1 million and get him broke^^

@MrGibbie2210 8 ай бұрын

If you want to avoid the sprouts appearing on the back of your pour, use a gas burner as its freezing .... this burns them off and adds them back to your pour. they use this method in fine metal refineries to stop this exact same thing happening

@skrimper 2 жыл бұрын

Nice rock

@mysilverjourney 11 ай бұрын

This was cool to watch. I just recently started learning about pouring silver and after watching this video, I think when I reach 1000 subscribers, I want to pour myself a play button. I'm thinking 5oz !! Thanks for the inspiration !! I dropped you a sub !!

@chenxuwen086 Жыл бұрын

Looking at your nice work, I all of sudden think of a huge challange people had succeeded before and did not document how. I am not asking you to try it because it is very hard, but I wonder if you could describe how it can be done. The problem is: Cast 1KG cylinder with mirror finish using metal material of choice such that the mass error is less than 0.05ppm and the yearly error is less than 0.5ppm.

@PBRJOHN684 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on reaching 163k Subscribers 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ When melting Silver you will always lose a couple of grams It will just burn away, and also I will bet you, You'll find tiny beads of sliver in the Crucible.