Did the Wash and Cure Station come with the 3-D Printer or did you have to buy it separately?

I haven't watched since the charcaol days, i 6 even know electric ones existed

Bro had bill cipher

You are funny.🤣 Problem with this printer I found, it is very slow and it has limited settings compared to other printers, like the Elegoo.

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.

Have you ever tried zamak for lost foam casting?

would you like to review our Drones with camera for adults 4k review

Because it's 'mathematics', not 'mathematic'. And, we didn't put the 's' on - you lot took it off! 🤣🙄

Before watching i hope this isn't an april fools video.

Good video

Damn. I want a sink made out of this stuff.

I just ordered $200 of Za12 from RotoMetals to try in sand casting, then powder coating the casting. You got me hooked... thank you!!!!!

Thank you! Sure beats melting beer cans and I will lose weight not making empty beer cans.

stop talking and make something ffs...

Designating printers by the K number is stupid. They should use resolution. The Halot 8k should be the Halot 30um or Just Halot 30.

Can these pottery kilns be used to melt metal once they've been converted?

6:00 fun fact - PLA is stronger than ABS. It's also stiffer. And more brittle.

I've used non-sparking tools before, and they were pretty soft (at least compared to normal steel tools). The features on the tools also weren't quite on center, so maybe we just got crappy tools despite the expense.

Need more detail on the burn out

I'm one of the fools who polishes their hammer frequently... er... Anyhow, I occasionally do this sort of thing with silver for jewellery I make. Any imperfection in the hammer has to be sanded and buffed out later, and I'm lazy. With a polished hammer I can skip most of the sanding/polishing stages. But if you are after texture, a purposefully bumpy hammer is also a great piece of kit.

You have some great ideas and I learn from your mistakes too. Thanks for the hilarious videos !

Best advice I've gotten for painting and has replaced hours of work with a great technique for mass production

I have a question regarding your vacuum casting machine. What is your opinion on the VEVOR z brand vacuum casting machine you are using? Have you done any castings in silver or gold?

Bummer :(

Half way in, haven't heard your conclusions, but that grain in there expanding almost certainly blew it out. Think about how grains work when packed settled, and beyond their natural angle of collapse? Under your driveway is packed gravel. It was solid before the concrete was poured. Bet yiu it was this. Unpausing... :-)

I'm kinda tempted to get one of these for small parts and when it's pouring rain, but don't want to spend the money on the electricity bill...

cool

Aluminium Cans ! Are Great ! Thank you ! Pauls Garage ;

I knew someone would do what I was thinging about doing had to check befor I tried to be 100% sure I should.

Well, it's obvious you are hiding 10mm sockets under the crucibles, that's why they are knocked over. Thanks for sharing Cheers

What about using a stainless steel crucible. After watching your video I used the same kind of furnace. I'm researching the idea of using a stainless steel crucible for brass. I don't think I'll ever cash them bronze. But I think you can. More work needed.

I learnt the hard way to always pre-heat your crucibles (As even moisture from the air can be absorbed), saying this when i had money one time i actually purchased a few through a supplier that a big foundry uses and the quality really showed compared to other brands i had used. I have had weird problems with lower quality ones were my crucible wont melt stuff , yet it will melt it metals outside the crucible. Love the videos

Cast yourself a crucible stand that holds them up vertically by the neck, but off the ground, with enough space to load and unload them with the tongs.

bucket with silica kitty litter

Suggestions. Get yourself a empty wine box from the store, the one with the cardboard divider, and store your crucibles in it.

Hey..................don't do that any more.

You overfilled it lol With the grain been so grainy there's no gaps or space for stuff to expand, I've done this with silver :) Don't overfill with stuff that leaves no room for expansion like grain. Just put in like 1/3-1/2 at most then add in more once its molten, in stages. Addign too much will make it freeze... and break again lol (I've broken mine a LOT learning the fun way!)

I run mine a lot cooler, cause I'm just melting aluminum; but made myself a pretty robust steel crucible to melt in. 11ga walls, and 1/4 thick plate bottom. Feel a lot more comfortable smacking it around to dump the crud out of the bottom too. Have melted about 40# of metal in my little Vevor, and still going strong, though I get it sluffing off a layer of oxide every cycle.

A hobby lathe and spool of Kanthal (nichrome) wire makes for a fun time winding your own replacement elements... just sayin' -a glassblower

PROCAST?? They are crap now.

Dang.

5:50 Couldn't it simply be the moisture in the air? I'm not sure about the climate where you live but 60-70% humidity isn't uncommon around here.

Yep, concrete floors, even with a membrane underneath them, are a potential water wick. Never store bags of cement straight on a concrete floor, they’ll suck up moisture eventually and start going off.

I had a 3 kg graphite crucible break when I added some aluminum to it. The bottome broke out. I weighed it. It weighed 188 g and a new one was around 350 g. I got it pretty thin with silver and aluminum. Now I weigh my crucible and if it is below 200 g I stop using it. So far so good.

Had the same when had an electric one. Didn't season new crucible & doesn't like high temps.....especially copper. Destroyed both crucible & machine. Went over to propane furnace & never looked back

When I start using a new crucible I will melt copper or bronze no more than 7-8 times until I demote the crucible to Brass, do that about 5-8 times depending on the volumes and then demote it to Aluminium, then Zinc, then Pewter, so this way I get a lot of uses out of them, I now have one I only use for pewter but had it for years and still in about half worn down condition. At 250C there is very little degradation. I also noticed difference in crucible quality depending on where I bought them. Apparently there is graphite and graphshite... 😂👍

Always be sure to fire a new crucible empty before you use it. Firing it up to full temp and letting it cool slowly while empty will sinter the crucible. The factory is supposed to do that, but don't trust it.

You can put a stainless steel mesh at the end to keep the flame from going inside the tube but that might limit gas velocity

well crucibles are only good for one or two melts

I'm "that guy" Paul mentions. Lost 2 x Furnaces (so far) with crucible failures (over the years to be fair). I could be moisture (but I store mine on the casting table), I don't think it is metal expansion (as I keep one full of pewter all the time that I melt, let freeze in the crucible, remelt over and over without issue), but I DO think it is due to them being inherently brittle and more susceptible to crack at high temps like 1000c. My best guess is I put a hairline crack from dropping ingots into it (don't do that!), and the second from chipping the edge of the crucible on the thermocouple (what was at a weird angle on that furnace). Anyway. I now load my crucibles GENTLY and try not to knock them over (which is hard given the are tall and skinny).