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Excellent video and thank you for asking Rotometals for smaller ZA-12 ingots!

Ordered my box of ZA12 and in the order comments I put "I came by way of the KZfaq Channel Paul's Garage." Thanks so much for the RotoMetal tip :)

As someone who started their journey with aluminum cans and a very diy setup I'd actually argue that it might be better for someone getting into the hobby from a matter of feeling the power of metal casting and getting the passion to continue with it. Starting them off with super simple patterns that you can still make from cans and then after they've had their fun with the cans they move up to the actual good stuff. Taking this approach myself its given me lots of perspective on just how good this metal is and made me feel super passionate about the craft in the early stages. It also just kinda feels like the "Hello World" of the metal casting community haha. Obviously results are going to be worse due to worse metal, but seeing that they can melt an everyday object and reform it just lights a fire I love seeing in peoples eyes.

I 100% will be castimg from alloy cans at some point. No matter what you or anyone else says. Simply has to be done, even though it's shit. :-) I'll also be using sliced up clean alloy wheel metal, too. This IS the right metal for casting as you yourself hqve stated right here a few times :-)

It's always important to use the proper alloys for casting, as you've pointed out.

Love your vids so much! Finally have enough for the remaining supplies, will be building a propane furnace for sand casting, have a thousand ideas and already a good amount of metal, good metal

Note that in an AC circuit, resistance is only one form of impedance at play. A coil of wire also has inductive reactance that further restricts the amount of current. The only way to really check wattage is to measure current flow through the system. As an example, do your math on an old incandescent light bulb.

Holy shit the smaller ingots are so helpful

Nothing wrong with making castings from extruded aluminum. That's what i use most of the time. Window and door frames are 6061-t6. I turn them into ingots for storage and before casting. All the aluminum, brass and bronze i got was free. I just put the word out i wanted any scrap, now i have about 300lbs of those alloys. Probably more than I'll ever use. All metals are cast at some point in their manufacturing process. Just use an alloy that suits your needs. The electric furnace sounds good. But it's a little hard to use offgrid.

One of your videos is featured on the mini-ingots store page heh :D Big cheers to Rotometals for being cool cats

Chill out! 🎉😂 Nice Paul! I’m excited Rotometals is being so supportive!

Inspiring vid man, nice going! Looking to get in to metal casting, specifically jewelry.

vertical elements are critical. If it works on the limit, over time the element "flows like noodles", and settles to the bottom, causing electrical damage. Helicoidal channel is more durable

I would almost be into the new one if it handled a bigger crucible. Banging my scrap into small enough strips that it fits in the Vevor is getting to be painful. If only they made a 10KW 240V furnace.

Nice job getting the smaller ingots from the company. I have a feeling they will be selling a ton of those now.

Have you replaced the leads on that Multimeter? The leads are a common failure point that cause bad readings.

Awesome video! A couple questions, would you recommend these electric furnaces over your homemade propane furnace? I ask because my outdoor area for melting metal does not have access to an electrical outlet. Also, what do you do with the blackened or burnt sand after casting? does the sand degrade over time? Thanks!

You NEED a Simpson analog meter (found at a garage sale because the new ones are painfully expensive). Also, thank you for asking for hobby-sized ingots!

Can I melt zamac in a crusible? I use just little bits of metal for my artwork?

Will it get hot enough for aluminum bronze? Melts around 1900F but needs to be hotter to successfully cast

WOW!

The thing blocking me is space. I live in a large apartment complex, I don't have anywhere to safely cast.

i feel like i never had the i dont know where to start, i was always able to do things even insane things like a tesla coil ;-; for a grade 9 project, made it from an old tv and some pc psu and other scraps :)

Vevor don't sell the electric furnaces in Australia yet. Only the gas ones.

so instead of 5.50/Lb and needing a bandsaw, it's 10/lb... alright then, I was thinking of going electric but now I'm glad I have my gas unit, can fit my head in it

Would there be any additional strength benefits using this Za-12 for an Aluminum Bronze casting? I appears there might be to much zink in these ingots for the making of bronze but I am definitely not a scientist?

ah...30 seconds to a minute is enough for silica bronze to cool down enough to remove from a mold. However i cant say anything bout this stuff as i have never used it.

just heard your story from northen. i have felt the pain also

But Paul....what about the Zinc fumes? 🥴

zinc poisoning (or zinc fever) is by the way completely harmless, sure, uncomfortable, but you wont die and it wont damage anything in the long run. also you would need to weld like a LOT of galvanized steel in a day for you to get sick. (goes faster when melting brass but still, if you do it outside, its fine anyways)

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Let's say some one was... not so observant... and missed that you released this video mentioning the smaller ingots before they ordered some of those 4lb Za-12 ingots... How would you cut those down to fit in that crucible with as little metal loss as possible?

Stupid red arrow is a must these days?