Making Crucible Lifting Tongs for lifting 2000° crucibles of molten metal.

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11 ай бұрын

In this video I will demonstrate how I made a new set of lifting tongs for my Salamander Super A10 Crucibles ( 8" x 6.5" top x 4.5" bottom )
They're easy to make and only require a few pieces of mild steel and a bolt. I used my milling machine a lathe and a TIG welder but you can just use a hacksaw some files and an inexpensive MIG welder to accomplish the same thing.
I used:
2x 1/2" x 3' round bar
2x 3/16" x 3/4" x 3' flat bar
1x 3/16" 1 1/2" x 1' flat bar
1x 3/8 16 - 1" stainless bolt and appropriate washers / nut. ( any bolt will work )
The hinge is made of two 5 1/4" pieces. The bars that reach down to the crucible are 8 1/2" long. The pieces that wrap around the crucible are 8" (top) and 7" (bottom). The handles are 27" long with a bend at 13".
These dimensions are are very flexible and can be adapted to suit your needs.
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@aethertech 11 ай бұрын

I'm a simple man. I see Rust-Oleum, I upvote.

@XYZdude00 11 ай бұрын

Im still mad at Rust-Oleum for disconnecting their Testors brand

@aethertech 11 ай бұрын

@@XYZdude00 Is that why my dad keeps complaining about the quality of the Testors paint he bought recently not being as he remembered it from [decades] ago?

@scorpiathepro 11 ай бұрын

It's insane how much money you can save by making your own tools! Keep it up!

@titusdaniel 6 ай бұрын

As long as you have $15,000 in machining and welding tools already on hand😁

@Charlielizard 11 ай бұрын

Those turned out fantastic. I appreciated the tips and suggestions for folks like me. I don't want to spend a fortune on high dollar specialty tools and jigs, especially with the current economic conditions. Harbor Freight has been labeled extremely substandard; however, I haven't had problems knowing full well what their limitations are. Great video and thank you. Have a great week. 👍🏼

@erinfinn2273 11 ай бұрын

Also, there's a channel called "Project Farm" that compares/tests various products against each other. I use those videos to figure out which tools are budget friendly, while still being "good enough"

@RedwolfEDC 10 ай бұрын

What happened to your etsy and ebay store?

@G.A.N. 11 ай бұрын

those crescend shapes were indeed very nice

@robertlevine2152 11 ай бұрын

Believe it or not when I was a junior or senior in high school (1969-1970) I participated in a two part design competition. The first part was to lift a crucible from a furnace and pour the molten metal into a mold. The contest required that one tool be used and that once lifted the crucible could not be set down. We had to draft the device, with dimensions, on Saturday at a University. All we were given was the size of the crucible and the furnace temperature. The second part was to design a wind driven pump to move water from a reservoir to a water fall which filled the resevoir. After the contest I came to the conclusion that my tong design would not have worked. My pump design was better, but it too would not have worked. I received a trophy, which I kept Your tongs brought back the memory. I can't say my design was anywhere close to yours. Thank you. I enjoy watching you design and build your creations Bob

@syedsayeedurrahmanzaini4221 11 ай бұрын

Appreciate your devotion and passion for your work. Best of luck. Keep creating something useful.

@Donorcyclist 11 ай бұрын

Great job on these tongs!

@CocoTreb 11 ай бұрын

These tongs look awesome!! Especially like the metal color of that spray paint

@lamMeTV 11 ай бұрын

Love your crafty videos and soothing voice!

@lundgrenbronzestudios 11 ай бұрын

Very secure design. I’ve had a lot of requests for a tongs video lately. This will be a good one to direct them too.

@krodkrod8132 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I am making a pair for my number 12 crucible today.

@testingbugs9721 11 ай бұрын

Love your stuff! Nice work as always.

@toomdog Ай бұрын

Man, I've been wanting to get into casting for a few years now. Watching other folks, it feels like I'm never going to have the space or the drive to do it, but watching your stuff makes it look within reach. It just seems like it would be so handy to be able to pour a piece of stock material for a machining project rather than go out and find stock close to the right size.

@homemadetools 11 ай бұрын

Nice work on these tongs. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

@geekgee 11 ай бұрын

It must be so satisfying to fabricate one's own tools. 👍👍

@MASI_forging 11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the works of art that you make.👍👍

11 ай бұрын

great video, I just need to make myself a crucible tongs and your model is perfect and well explained. Thank you 👍

@Serbianguy432 11 ай бұрын

What an excellent tutorial on how to make a specialized tool. It's always a pleasure to see you use your intellect, manufacturing savvy, and shop equipment to create objects of either great beauty or utility! As always, Keep up the good work!

@BentusiProgenitors 11 ай бұрын

Brave man showing those MIG welds then flaunting that TIGger.

@hoseinmondeali7989 6 ай бұрын

Hello, I have seen your program from Iran. You are a great teacher. I enjoyed it very much

@timhvac6869 11 ай бұрын

Awesome job as always

@TKTrooper 11 ай бұрын

So pleased you finally got round to making this video. It one thing I’ve really wanted to know. I personally think your whole set up, tools and equipment are as interesting to learn about and see, as much as the great pieces the help enable you to create. I hope you will cover other bits now and then

@my1956effie 11 ай бұрын

They look great and the project was a good one to hone ones welding skills. 👍👍

@jdmccorful 11 ай бұрын

Nice work! Enjoyed.

@jeffreyhallam5517 11 ай бұрын

I quite welcome the inclusion of projects that are not casting. Don’t get me wrong. I very much enjoy your casting projects. I simply don’t have a good space to do it in so I have to default to welding and machining. My neighbors are too close to run the angle grinder at anytime but a narrow window of the day and generally I wait for them to go on a trip before getting heavy into a project. The mill and the lathe are quiet enough to run even at night if I close the shop door. So I was very happy when you bought the mill. Just as I would love to see Ron Covell tackle the live steam boiler Quinn from blonde hacks just built I would love to see you tackle other projects with your skill set. Different knowledge bases solve problems differently and I love to see different skill sets applied to projects.

@andrejohnson6731 11 ай бұрын

This was fun! I know nothing of welding but those welds looked very decent to me. Please continue including some side projects like this one 👍🏻

@kentieber7309 9 ай бұрын

nice project. i need to make these as im getting ready to start casting soon

@Green0Destroyer 11 ай бұрын

Love your videos dude, keep up the great work.

@SeniorfritoOfficial 11 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see the pouring shank. The number one thing holding me back from getting into metal melting has been safe tools. And there just aren't any decent options available to buy. So thanks for this.

@thunderbasilisk1352 11 ай бұрын

Very nice and very informative. Thank you.

@kentieber7309 11 ай бұрын

this was very helpful as at some point i need to make myself a pair

@alanribeiro4504 11 ай бұрын

Really nice job.

@zerabp1130 11 ай бұрын

Love your vids, makes me wish I had the patience to do what you do.

@KimballPrecisionRifles 11 ай бұрын

Those are really nice. Only thing I’d change is the hinge pin. I’d machine a solid pin and thread the pin on one end and still use a welded nut like you did. I just imagine after awhile those threads will wear into the body of the tongs, or the other way around, causing excess slop.

@larrybud 11 ай бұрын

Agreed, he has all the stuff to do it. Easy to change right now too.

@tobhomott 11 ай бұрын

Nice, tongs look good

@alextilton2677 11 ай бұрын

fantastic video

@nlo114 11 ай бұрын

Nice. Looks better than a store-bought one! 😁

@Yannic1996 11 ай бұрын

I'm an International Welding Speciallist. Welds are very good for a beginner 👌 Every weld that holds and serves it purpose, is good enough

@hunterrobinson3243 11 ай бұрын

dang looking good

@andyf1235 11 ай бұрын

I like your tong design. I have just used Big Stack D design for my smaller tongs but since I brought I bigger furnace I need some bigger ones. Think Ill make a pair of these.

@AJediSurvivor 4 ай бұрын

Turned out really well mate. Those TIG welds are pretty decent for a first try.

@tattooedredheadx 11 ай бұрын

For a self proclaimed novice at TIG welding, your welds are REALLY clean.

@igor_levik 11 ай бұрын

Ты классный парень, у тебя хорошие видео и ты делаешь надежные и качественные инструменты. Приятно смотреть. Спасибо.

@thatdragon4988 11 ай бұрын

A recommendation for shell casting. A fluidized sand bed, it would make coating parts far simpler and Mark Rober has a vid i recommend checking out. And yea i thought about this a bit. Not going down the rabbit hole but my prime concern would be dripping off the coated material into the sand.

@KrakenCasting 11 ай бұрын

My daughter said "He made that?! THAT'S SO COOL!" Hard to argue with her on that. 😂

@ThisIsNotADrell 11 ай бұрын

Nice to see other stuff for a change as well. The tongs turned out pretty well!

@VidelicetMoi 11 ай бұрын

Ecellent!! [Misspell intentional]

@Smallathe 10 ай бұрын

Very nice!!!

@bobcansee 11 ай бұрын

nice job!!

@Chris-ox7qx 11 ай бұрын

Great vid! Try leaving your torch over the weld for a couple of seconds of post flow.

@taftancastingchannel 11 ай бұрын

Very very nice 🙂

@Chris-bg8mk 11 ай бұрын

Brian Oltrogge has a channel Grunblau. His tongs are an amazing design!

@minecraftmaster2609 11 ай бұрын

That’s awesome

@johnvonmartin7501 11 ай бұрын

Imo Cutting disc is the legit tool for cutting as trad welder. That hydraulic is really sick for fine cutting

@mathewritchie 11 ай бұрын

Unless you are doing fancy decorative pieces the solid beats perfect.

@rachelg552353 11 ай бұрын

Nice! 👍🏻

@mattyal9347 11 ай бұрын

You are certainly not lacking welding skills now!

@boltonky 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for upload nice looking tongs :) I add an extra support so i could use mine to pour with as well (mine are crude compared to yours lol) If people look around there are DC arc welders that can tig also rather than going full blow AC/DC tig or multi, and when doing a form heat is a good way to get tighter tolerances but it can come with weakening the metal too.

@atmm89 5 ай бұрын

good one

@aserta 11 ай бұрын

One thing i would've changed is the length of the "arms" that grab the crucible. Would've kept a little step where the pivot part of the arms is, so that it still engages with the crucible, locking it in place, but moved everything up another 3 cm. That way, in case of an emergency, you can use this at all times. As is, if you have to pull the crucible out and it's not all molten inside (which has happened to me a few times), you'll have interference between the hinge and the stuff in there. Other than that, 10/10. This is a great improvement over the OG one.

@Mike-yl6hs 11 ай бұрын

nice!!

@LivingLifeGilligan 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this information the IRS stands no chance 👍

@1123pawel 11 ай бұрын

I get it. If I had a milling machine, I would be using it too. Angle grinder works fine though.

@zumbazumba1 11 ай бұрын

Disc sander is a poor mans milling machine ,does wonders to square up things after grinder.

@1123pawel 11 ай бұрын

@@zumbazumba1 I mill aerospace parts and they always need orbital sanding, for example removing tags and sanding them smooth while maintaining flatness, squareness etc.

@unperrier5998 11 ай бұрын

very nice why did not you round the parts that end up inside the crucible when using the tongs?

@RowanBird779 11 ай бұрын

idk why you covered it in spray paint, the colour changing from the heat still looks pretty cool

@GelbePower 11 ай бұрын

Nice. You could sell that realy well I think.

@David_11111 11 ай бұрын

yay very nice.... I keep wanting a tig... what did you buy ?

@sportsman1824 11 ай бұрын

Like it

@bobreese8831 11 ай бұрын

Nice work! What size crucible is that?

@thebogsofmordor7356 11 ай бұрын

Make a crucible next!

@davidcahan 11 ай бұрын

U definitely do like using ur new mill. But I would 2 😅

@Catholicmanart 3 ай бұрын

How do you keep your shop so clean? That's the question id pay money to get an answer to.

@HAL_NOVEMILA 11 ай бұрын

The machinery you have in your workshop is produced by what manufacturer?

@xlerb2286 Ай бұрын

My buddy and I tried a different approach with the handles on the tongs so we could use it for pouring directly instead of a pouring ring. It takes two people to use it but it does let you streamline the pouring process. I can't say I'd ever do that again though, you've got to be careful that the tongs doesn't open as you tilt the crucible closer to horizontal. Not worth it.

@kweep1 11 ай бұрын

Very cool face reveal

@tallguy2722 11 ай бұрын

Looking for a hobby mill and lathe. What are yours? How do you like them?

@joell439 11 ай бұрын

well done 👍👍😎👍👍

@devondeutsch5668 11 ай бұрын

Hey dude I’m a young fulla from nz, love your videos and have been watching them for awhile! I subscribed to your patreon and was hoping to get your download 3d file for sledge hammer head but it wasn’t on there! Anyway i made a furnace and have about 25 kgs of copper to make coustom hammer heads! Made my own design but am still wanting to try make yours. Any help on getting the 3d print file? Cheers

@sdspivey 11 ай бұрын

They poke into the crucible when open, so you may get molten metal on them or you may dislodge material into the furnace.

@HawkWorley 11 ай бұрын

So... what are you doing with your old ones?

@MattOckendon 11 ай бұрын

These are great - nice build. Thoroughly agree that any welder is valuable tool - I've had great use out of a cheap TIG welder and learning to weld is fun. If those are your first welds then you should apply for a job in the nuclear power industry they look amazing.

@atmm89 5 ай бұрын

waiting for the poring tongs

@alanpreston3111 11 ай бұрын

Great job , 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😎🇬🇧

@brandt-heiss 11 ай бұрын

Mhmm its looking very safe. Think i copy that.

@oliverungehojer1963 11 ай бұрын

He should make a stamp with his channel logo, too stamp onto his creations

@sleepib 11 ай бұрын

A very small tig tack will hold the nut in place, but will still allow you to break it free easily if you need to take it apart later for whatever reason. not much advantage here to welding it all around.

@calibur1128 11 ай бұрын

cool

@ieatdirtwasntavailable 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that you didn't cast them in aluminum bronze, i guess they would melt if they touch a crucible though

@orange010 11 ай бұрын

💖💖💖

@MiyamotoMusashi144 11 ай бұрын

Sos, !!!! can u make Wraiths kunai from Apex legends????? Plsss

@ryanryan3473 11 ай бұрын

The answer is “VERY CAREFULLY”!!!

@littlehills739 11 ай бұрын

full sleeve shirts to weld mate - itss uv light skin cancer

@1015KillAtron 11 ай бұрын

make a biger one lolz

@AverageReviewsYT 11 ай бұрын

A real man grabs the crucible with his hands

@J.C... 11 ай бұрын

In!

@andymanaus1077 11 ай бұрын

Be very careful of cheap welders. They lack penetration and are rarely anywhere near the claimed amperage stated on the dial. Some cheap 200 amp welders deliver no more than 110 amps at maximum. The real problem is penetration. If you can't get a weld to penetrate, it can look great but have no strength. The first time you find this out could be a catastrophic failure. You can do tests by butt welding two pieces of steel then cutting through the middle of the weld to inspect the penetration. A decent welder should be able to penetrate at least 3mm into the join.