Making a Measuring Cube - EXTREME MEASURES - bronze metal casting at home

Making a Measuring Cube - EXTREME MEASURES - bronze metal casting at home - 3d Printing Lost PLA

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2 жыл бұрын

I will be making a measuring cube out of bronze using the lost PLA method. I started this project by 3d printing a model in a plastic called PLA. Then I coated the model 10 times with a ceramic material called Suspendaslurry. After the ceramic shell was completely dry I placed it in my kiln and melted out the PLA plastic. At 1500 degrees Fahrenheit the ceramic shell becomes vitrified, turning into a ceramic that can withstand the heat of molten bronze. I melted the bronze in my homemade keg foundry furnace and then poured the liquid metal into the ceramic shell mold. This is similar to the lost wax casting process.
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@thebobloblawshow8832 2 жыл бұрын

You should buy a rock tumbler/ polisher. That would work great.

@thewoodweldingfabricator9300 2 жыл бұрын

Very good idea

@Underbottom.Sandydown 2 жыл бұрын

But it takes so long to get polished rocks :(

@maximeduchalet4662 2 жыл бұрын

Or build one!

@thewoodweldingfabricator9300 2 жыл бұрын

@@maximeduchalet4662 ok but I'm expecting him to alloy gear metal forge it, then hob the gears.

@alzathoth 2 жыл бұрын

a brass tumbler/clearer for reloading would probably work well too.

@brooksmiller5597 2 жыл бұрын

I did bronze casting in college - incredibly satisfying, but a lot of work. We used the lost-wax process (cire-perdue). This 3D printing method looks fascinating.

@updownstate Жыл бұрын

I went to college so long ago I think bronze hadn't been invented yet. :)

@GadgetAddict 2 жыл бұрын

"80 thousandths of an inch" sounds so complicated compared to 2 millimeters. It always gets me. Thinking if people can really imagine some tiny thousandths of something. Either way, super cool project. I saw this measuring cup being used by the "as seen on TV" guy. It didn't seem overly practical, at least in the way he used it. But making a bronze version is pretty awesome 👍 and the quality of your casting is superb.

@THESLlCK 2 жыл бұрын

or just 8% of an inch. Do basic conversions escape your capacity? Lol

@JuanCLeal 2 жыл бұрын

@@THESLlCK Or maybe just 2 mm. Do basic units escape your capacity?

@THESLlCK 2 жыл бұрын

@@JuanCLeal complain more

@0000Sierra117 2 жыл бұрын

I suppose thou(sandths of an inch) is a weird unit if you don't hang around US machinists, but there's a few intuits for it: a hair is a few thou, a playing card is about 10 or 12, the wire in a paper clip, something like 40 thou. While no one could feel a difference in width between 40 thou and 41, it's likely that you'd feel a burr 1 thou high on an otherwise smooth surface. Imagine a fine hair on a glass plate. 1 inch is not really long, but its long enough that 1 thousandth of an inch is tiny, but in some contexts, still very much perceptible. Just my 2c. Have a good one.

@emerconghaile4902 2 жыл бұрын

@@THESLlCK I prepared this bucket of ice cold water for you 🪣 That burn has to sting pretty bad.

@bertkraan2817 2 жыл бұрын

Was the measurement still accurate? I worked in a bronze foundry years ago and I would have been send home when wearing those shoes! We wore wooden shoes only as they can be kicked off and offer some seconds before burning through when your cast leaks and liquid metal spills out. Cool shape, thanks for sharing, stay safe.

@Kevin-fj5oe 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of using wooden shoes.

@eddstrr1168 2 жыл бұрын

What was your favorite part of working there? Sounds interesting :)

@edwardssistershands 2 жыл бұрын

Which measurement would it be accurate to? Tablespoon to ml isn't accurate in the first place.

@carpediem5232 2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardssistershands Well one tablespoon is 14.786788602728 ml. I don't know any recipe in the kitchen that would be measured with such a device that is ruined by 0.2132114 ml of something that inaccuracy you have with pretty much any kitchen measure anyways. Especially by volume.

@edwardssistershands 2 жыл бұрын

@@carpediem5232 Compounding errors :)

@Ivan.Wright 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I've never seen someone use a slurry like that. Definitely going to look into it when I get back into casting. I'm already stocking up on old radiators and such

@TheRisskee 2 жыл бұрын

While I don't think it would have worked with this project, I really like what BigstackD does with Petrobond. If you haven't seen his channel, check it out. It's awesome to me that for a channel where no one says a word, the dude is freaking hilarious! If you haven't seen the channel, check it out!😎🤙

@skeetsmcgrew3282 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRisskee he doesnt seem to like doing lost castings, Im not sure why. He does the odd styrofoam lost casting I guess. The petrabond seems really finicky and I feel like his castings never turn out quite this perfect. My theory being that the molds are inherently forced to be cold, so the metal doesnt cool evenly. Love that Aussie tho

@HairyTheCandyMan 2 жыл бұрын

Suspendaslurry is AMAZING. But it is expensive. I just bought some but I had to hide it and the price from my wife. Shipping was about $300.

@LunaBianca1805 2 жыл бұрын

Whoa, this looks sooo cool 🥰 I got a 3D - printer for architecture model printing and that model itself had been on my list for a while as well . I didn't even know one could use it along with ceramic slurry to make metal castings, that's so cool to see!

@mwhawley 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in to another installment of, “words I didn’t know before!”: 1. Sprue: A channel or funnel through which metal or plastic is poured into a mold. 2. Vitrify: To convert (something) into glass or a glasslike substance, typically by exposure to heat. 3. Lost PLA Method: The model is placed in a plaster mold and the mold is heated until the wax liquefies and flows out of a hole in the bottom (hence the “lost-wax” part of lost-wax casting). Liquid metal is then poured into the mold, which flows into the imprint of the design left in the baked plaster. Tune in next week to find out precisely where my vocabulary was lacking (or REMEDIAL for the kids following along at home!)!

@fzr850 2 жыл бұрын

Nice I also never know this word

@ragnose1 2 жыл бұрын

youll learn a lot more if you stay in these spaces.

@kindlin 2 жыл бұрын

I did know vitrify, not sure why, but the other 2 were new to me, as well.

@JohnPaulBuce 2 жыл бұрын

@JakHart 2 жыл бұрын

As a cook, I love this so much. It's definitely functional art. I would definitely use this cube.

@paudiaz4660 2 жыл бұрын

It measures well but is too easy to spill liquid.

@Been.Here.Since.2007 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about how impractical and bulky this would be in the kitchen. Stacking measuring cups are far more practical but this looks really cool.

@jurekmc 2 жыл бұрын

@@Been.Here.Since.2007 why do you need multiples of a measuring jar or cup? one is not enough?

@Been.Here.Since.2007 2 жыл бұрын

@@jurekmc There's 2 types of measuring cup. Dry and wet.

@jurekmc 2 жыл бұрын

@@Been.Here.Since.2007 with plates, a scale and a measuring jar(idk how to call it, sorry for bad english) its more than enough for me but i get where you are coming from.

@YavorBrick3D 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. The fact that it caught even the printed lines is amazing

@rachelg552353 2 жыл бұрын

The detail you capture in your castings is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

@hanzmartin4284 2 жыл бұрын

You have created something that your descendants can still marvel at, with your name on it and a small inscription, they can still remember you many years later.

@renatoazevedozoppei 2 жыл бұрын

I just loved this casting method! Thank you for sharing!!!

@KrakenCasting 2 жыл бұрын

Ha, that camera magic with the gloves was great! Nice casting, too. I love functional projects.

@Derfel_cadarn81 2 жыл бұрын

I love the pour the detail is so perfect you could see the over spill of glue where you joined the 2 parts

@sjcodan 2 жыл бұрын

The detail preserved by the casting is nuts! If you had told me that was bronze color filament, I'd have believed it.

@OddJobEntertainment 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, huge improvement to the typical lost pla castings I've seen.

@blackmarketyardsale 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy that you talk through every step. I watch other similar channels, but they're always just gestures at most. This reminds me of this old tony, but with metal! (and less jawbreaker references)

@cytherina 2 жыл бұрын

looks great, i printed and used some of these myself. for the finish, i really liked how smooth you got the bottom with the large disc sander. i would do the same with each of the sides. with their rims all the same smooth, shiny metal, it would contrast quite nicely to the rest. and you could even get a more elegant look if you sand the rims until the edges are pointy

@user-zd8oy5ku4g 2 жыл бұрын

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@bigoldgrizzly 10 ай бұрын

Also be an interesting contrast if the insides were highly polished, [vibratory medium polisher, perhaps ?] and the base and outer corners were left matt finish. That would be perhaps a little easier to clean if used for actual cooking measurements

@yellowmuginc Жыл бұрын

Another beautiful casting well done! Thank you for clearly explaining the process

@oddjobbob8742 2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful final product. I was worried, too about the thinness of the walls. Bronze is so heavy and that spruce weighed a ton, I bet. I was happy for you when it came out so nice. I think the finish of the casting might have been improved by polishing the PLA. But when you focused on the texture from the model I thought it was really nice, too. Thank you for sharing your skills.

@user-zd8oy5ku4g 2 жыл бұрын

drive.google.com/file/d/1_DNK01kUjizxYDQe_xFU9l_cgUkali9b/view

@tracybowling97 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you tried too bc it's a pretty cool measuring device.

@Mama.phimama 2 жыл бұрын

...as a Kitchen gadget groupie, I am thunderstruck!!! Thank you for this

@Charlielizard 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and loved the idea of using that slurry. Cube turned out pretty cool. In fact, am ordering one from Amazon to get rid of my crappy collection of measuring spoons and 1 cup to 1/4 cup measurements. Keeping my Pyrex 2, 4 and 8 cup sizes. Thank you.

@weekendstuff Жыл бұрын

Cool device and idea. Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

@Alamri_ty 2 жыл бұрын

Literally great work .

@blubbb4143 2 жыл бұрын

that imperfect surface finish to me makes it look better

@kennys.not_dead 2 жыл бұрын

That was absolutely totally awesome!

@ajtaleri 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great. Makes me miss metal pouring and metal works I did in college.

@AlfredoEstuar 2 жыл бұрын

Love it! i guess lost pla could be done. but this is the first time I watch it being done.

@John-pm5qi 2 жыл бұрын

That really came out freakin awesome

@jeremyccarter 2 жыл бұрын

Super cool design! Way to go!!!

@thisischris5351 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is amazing!

@55ATA3 2 жыл бұрын

Don't be so hard on your self, you did a great job on this. I have not seen anyone do it better so I think that is a great way of scaling how well you did. Thanks for the video, always fun to see what your going to work on next.

@HuslWusl 2 жыл бұрын

Once metal 3D printing becomes more publicly available people are gonna go crazy with their inventions and projects

@Thewulf56 2 жыл бұрын

Great Job! It looks fantastic.

@fall22123 2 жыл бұрын

Cool idea!

@jasonhovey815 2 жыл бұрын

What a great idea

@jonahtangonzalez1655 2 жыл бұрын

Vato, eres un artista, uno bueno

@assassinlexx1993 2 жыл бұрын

That Sir is piece of art. Any top baker would be proud to have that working piece of art in their kitchen.

@jamesfreeman8247 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic job!!!

@MDanny31 2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible to see how you made those. Somehow this kind of videos are very calming.

@alisontibbens2155 2 жыл бұрын

They are, aren't they.

@rodrigovalerio9548 Жыл бұрын

A very professional finish!

@bellybutthole 2 жыл бұрын

Your Suspendaslurry got me thinking it could be used for DIY home ceramic coating exhaust pipes on performance engines to mitigate heat. May of course not take the heat cycles as a pro-coat and so forth, but just an idea I had to throw out there as I have no shop at the moment -wretch! Just got here and seems like a subscription one:-)

@jaysonsimmerman Жыл бұрын

That is bad ass! Would love one of them.

@hootinouts 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent job.

@donaldasayers 2 жыл бұрын

What a lovely object.

@CC-wq8yz 2 жыл бұрын

A great skillset!

@benjaminharris7091 Жыл бұрын

THAT was way cool!!

@wealthyblackman2655 2 жыл бұрын

Wow!! That is an amazing device!!

@Flederratte 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding the conversion of temperature in °C as text once. I would appreciate it for the burnout and melt-temperature of the PLA as well.

@angrydragonslayer 2 жыл бұрын

He shows celsius on the thermometer in the other cases

@Flederratte 2 жыл бұрын

@@angrydragonslayer I did not see it when I watched the video. Could be more obvious but yes it is there.

@angrydragonslayer 2 жыл бұрын

@@Flederratte yeah.... pretty easily missed but that's life when looking at someone else doing something on a sidenote, trying to learn smithing from an old-fashioned smith sucks for this very reason.

@SilverScorpion 2 жыл бұрын

Great job on that!

@andreipendle1778 2 жыл бұрын

As a cook, you get 2 thumbs up form me! Also, your lost PLA & Suspendaslurry videos are most awesome!

@BrianHurry 2 жыл бұрын

There's just something about you that's so cool. I bet you're a really neat person

@rossm412 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. You're a Master craftsman. Keep up the good work!

@Goalsplus 2 жыл бұрын

Great job.

@ianroberts8158 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible work well done

@alecsgarden3901 2 жыл бұрын

That's an impressive turnout, from what I hear and have seen it is hard to get any metal to look as good as that

@andrewhazlewood4569 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work

@patrickschoenpflug 2 жыл бұрын

Truly exceptional work your PLA casting is becoming more exquisite every video you know what they say practice makes perfect 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊😊

@phillyspecial1393 2 жыл бұрын

I work in a huge foundry making jet engine parts more specifically I work in wax with huge presses! I love your stuff tho :)

@jasongrinnell1986 2 жыл бұрын

That is a superb piece.

@johnyoungquist6540 2 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary job. A vibe finisher might be the answer to polishing it. I have one where we use little triangular stones in it about 1/4 inch in size. These were chosen to have sharp points and corners to get into inside corners. We use it for all sorts of polishing and deburring. All operations take a few hours. If you want to send me a sample I would be glad to try it for you no charge of course. I don't do casting but enjoy your excellent videos. JY

@user-hm7dt8kn2l 2 жыл бұрын

Well done.

@andresilva8444 2 жыл бұрын

Turned out great. good job

@JonnyLOFI 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@maximilianosterholt6385 Жыл бұрын

Always had a fascination for casting

@technoraptor7778 2 жыл бұрын

Whaaaaaaat...I need one of these!!!

@jrbird1983 2 жыл бұрын

You ever thought about an acid bath, it'll clean it up and may help get rid of some lay lines and tool marks before you polish the pieces up. I love these craftsmanship channels. Keep up the good work

@AlphaChimpEnergy 2 жыл бұрын

I love it broh! It’s something that I didn’t know that I needed.

@frikkiesmit327 2 жыл бұрын

Nice as always

@MadScientist267 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool

@rustyhurdis847 11 ай бұрын

Loved it

@jonathonmorris9388 10 ай бұрын

This was a very satisfying video to watch, and I really like how the cube came out at the end. Kudos to you Mr. Robinson.

@tettazwo9865 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@ExpressoMechanicTV 2 жыл бұрын

Great piece of work.

@timandgobbles 2 жыл бұрын

You know you have to get this thing up on Ebay and make another one since it needed to be 2-3% bigger. Let me know when the auction starts! Cool project.

@j0hnf_uk 2 жыл бұрын

Having the ceramic shell helps a lot. Not only in allowing the original PLA template to melt out and leave a perfect negative void, but also with the pouring of the cast as it's perfectly able to withstand the heat/pressure of the molten alloy at the temperature required for it to remain liquid long enough to fill every space. The results speak for themselves.

@justiceblackwolf369 Жыл бұрын

love it !!!

@jasonbell6670 2 жыл бұрын

best chef paperweight ever!!

@huyhucah 2 жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful thing you did, regardless of the fact that for the task of measuring, the printed cube was already perfect as is.

@HaralHeisto 2 жыл бұрын

No, there's definite improved utility from having it cast in bronze. PLA isn't food safe, so you shouldn't use it for utensils like this, and his bronze measuring cube can go in the dishwasher! Plus of course it looks way more stylish

@huyhucah 2 жыл бұрын

i have no idea how safe PLA is, but i suppose there are other printable materials which are food safe. but you are absolutely right to love it. it's awesome. @@HaralHeisto

@joelleino4507 2 жыл бұрын

That's so perfect cast.👍👍👍

@jesseciscar9781 Жыл бұрын

I would purchase this and many more of your other projects awesome job

@sportsman1824 2 жыл бұрын

I am impressed. Great channel and content.

@jamie_23 2 жыл бұрын

Really awesome man, great job

@johngabriele6532 2 жыл бұрын

That’s wild

@SirHeinzbond 2 жыл бұрын

what a great work....

@W4ABN 2 жыл бұрын

I really like this pattern.

@luckysword0455 2 жыл бұрын

Ngl that transition of putting on the gloves was really smooth

@39FORTYWATER 2 жыл бұрын

👍 like it. You have the skills, foundry and a place to do that.

@stuartharris4062 2 жыл бұрын

Cool product

@buddyguy4723 2 жыл бұрын

you are no joke, the cast master

@ayo4646 2 жыл бұрын

the ceramic stuff when liquid seems delicious ngl

@grrinc 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and well presented. Cheers man.

@Teklectic 2 жыл бұрын

You have a sandblaster so maybe give walnut shell a try for polishing. My understanding is that it's aggressive enough to polish, but not so aggressive as to damage the part. It's something I've been looking into for my own sandblaster.