what’s up guys we are back in the
workshop today with my miter saw
because for today’s project we’re
playing with wood now in yesterday’s
video we tried making something called
green sand which is basically play sound
that you can use for casting metals and
I went ahead and mixed up a whole bunch
more so now we’ve got about 25 pounds of
green sand just ready to be used so the
good news is we now have some good
quality sound to work with the bad news
is we still need a sandbox to use it
with so that’s what we’re doing here
today with some simple and low-cost
materials we’re building ourselves a set
of metal casting sand boxes
I just ran down to the hardware store
and picked up one of these eight foot
lengths of one by three pine board these
things are extremely cheap extremely
common and the two things you want to
watch for is to get a piece that doesn’t
have too many knots in it and make sure
it’s relatively straight when you look
down the edge now to keep things
relatively simple our first sand box is
going to be on the smaller side we can
get started making it by cutting our
lengths of pine board into eight
sections seven inches long
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so update guys all of our eight pieces
are now cut and all of them are exactly
the same length in fact just to be sure
after they were cut I lined all them up
together and sliced one more time down
the edge just to make sure they lined up
perfectly smooth now since we were
chopping up wood anyway and we had some
leftover I cut these two pieces five
inches long and another piece 20 inches
long and you’ll see what all these are
for in just a minute so here’s the basic
idea we’re gonna take these four pieces
of wood and set them down on the table
so two pieces are parallel to each other
and we’ll use the other two pieces to
cap them from the top of the bottom now
because we’re going to be ramming sand
into our system we want to screw these
together but just for convenience I’m
gonna be using my brad nailer to tack
them together and hold them in place
until we can drill some pilot holes and
set the screws
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
so here we are guys I went ahead and
drilled pilot holes in each of the four
corners and added a screw to bind them
down tightly and now we have two nearly
identical wooden frames that fit
together just about perfectly now the
purpose of the screws in the corners
here is to bind the wooden pieces
together tight because once we start
ramming sand down in there it’s going to
apply a lot of pressure to the inside
walls if it’s just nails holding that in
there it’s going to fall apart
all right cool so we got our two little
box frames finished let’s go ahead and
bring back these 5-inch pieces now and
use them to create some latches
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[Applause]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
now if you look really closely at these
blocks you can see I’ve just cut little
triangles out of them and I did that by
stacking them together so they’re
perfectly symmetrical and using the edge
of another piece of board as a guide to
draw a triangle both of these pieces
went into the jaws of my bench vise to
be held securely in place where I could
then use a jig saw to trace out the
pattern so now we have two little wooden
puzzle pieces whose triangles fit
perfectly inside
let’s go attach them to the box we’re
going to need these wooden frames stack
together as perfectly as possible so for
convenience I’m gonna be using clamps
they’re not necessary but it is going to
make a job a lot easier
take your block of wood and flip it
around so your triangle is pointing
upward and separate the two pieces and
place them on the side of your box we
want to place this on the side of our
box with a triangle on the bottom piece
facing upward it’s very important that
the tip of it is below the centre line
when the spacing looks good you can take
the second piece and lock it into place
on top of the triangle Center everything
up so that it looks good and then go
ahead and screw it into place
[Music]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so check it out guys are little metal
casting sandbox is just about finished
you can see I use two screws to screw
the triangle into place and then two
screws on the top support as well as to
temporary screws on the bottom support
those are designed to come out and when
they do the two halves will separate and
for convenience you can see I’ve added a
few extra markings because once the two
sides separate it’s important to know
which way they go back together on the
two ends I drew two lines and added some
arrowheads so we know exactly where
these are supposed to line up and on the
front side I put an F on the triangle as
well as the top piece and the back side
got the letter B see now the system is
foolproof because if you try and put it
together backwards it won’t fit and it
will tell you why flip it around and it
goes together like a glove so there we
have it guys our little wooden sandbox
is finished and ready for metal casting
and just for fun I put together a couple
more so we have a couple of different
options for casting different size items
they’re made exactly the same the only
difference is this box is 10 by 10
whereas this is 7 by 7 and you can see
what a dramatic difference that extra
three inches makes to the volume inside
alright cool so our sound boxes are made
but there are a couple more tools we’re
going to need before we jump into our
metal casting projects so let’s make
those next
[Music]
so quick update guys I just took a few
minutes and put together a whole array
of new tools let me show you what we got
first of all I use some half-inch MDF to
make some molding boards you can see on
the back they’ve got base rails these
are designed to sit on top of our boxes
and hold the sand in place as we flip
them over we also have a scrap piece of
1 by 3 and this is gonna be used as a
straight edge to help level off the sand
next up we’ve got a couple of ramming
tools these are simply 8-inch lengths of
2×2 and are used for pounding the sand
into place I also cut a couple of eighth
inch lengths of these one and a quarter
inch dowels to act as sprues and I threw
one of them on the belt sander for a few
minutes to give it this tapered edge
which should help it pop out a little
bit cleaner if we need our sprues to be
a little thinner in diameter I cut some
3/4 inch PVC that should serve the same
purpose and I cut out a piece of 12
gauge home electrical wire that we can
use to poke vent holes this
funny-looking piece of metal here is a
strip that I cut from the bottom of an
Altoids tin and it’s a tool we can use
to carve out some channels or gates
leading to the castings we’re going to
make it almost sounds like I know what
I’m talking about but I don’t this is
actually my first experience my first
attempt with any of this and the purpose
of these videos is to share my
experiences with you as I do we’ve got
our sand we’ve got our tools so the next
thing to try is green sand casting
thanks for join me for this project guys
hope you learned something new I’ll see
you the next video got you then
cool-looking box actually I don’t even
know what they’re called metal casting
sand boxes service hey guys quick
reminder that limited time king of
random t-shirts are now on sale click
the link at the top of the description
or visit random gear com see you there
[Music]
workshop today with my miter saw
because for today’s project we’re
playing with wood now in yesterday’s
video we tried making something called
green sand which is basically play sound
that you can use for casting metals and
I went ahead and mixed up a whole bunch
more so now we’ve got about 25 pounds of
green sand just ready to be used so the
good news is we now have some good
quality sound to work with the bad news
is we still need a sandbox to use it
with so that’s what we’re doing here
today with some simple and low-cost
materials we’re building ourselves a set
of metal casting sand boxes
I just ran down to the hardware store
and picked up one of these eight foot
lengths of one by three pine board these
things are extremely cheap extremely
common and the two things you want to
watch for is to get a piece that doesn’t
have too many knots in it and make sure
it’s relatively straight when you look
down the edge now to keep things
relatively simple our first sand box is
going to be on the smaller side we can
get started making it by cutting our
lengths of pine board into eight
sections seven inches long
[Music]
[Music]
so update guys all of our eight pieces
are now cut and all of them are exactly
the same length in fact just to be sure
after they were cut I lined all them up
together and sliced one more time down
the edge just to make sure they lined up
perfectly smooth now since we were
chopping up wood anyway and we had some
leftover I cut these two pieces five
inches long and another piece 20 inches
long and you’ll see what all these are
for in just a minute so here’s the basic
idea we’re gonna take these four pieces
of wood and set them down on the table
so two pieces are parallel to each other
and we’ll use the other two pieces to
cap them from the top of the bottom now
because we’re going to be ramming sand
into our system we want to screw these
together but just for convenience I’m
gonna be using my brad nailer to tack
them together and hold them in place
until we can drill some pilot holes and
set the screws
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
so here we are guys I went ahead and
drilled pilot holes in each of the four
corners and added a screw to bind them
down tightly and now we have two nearly
identical wooden frames that fit
together just about perfectly now the
purpose of the screws in the corners
here is to bind the wooden pieces
together tight because once we start
ramming sand down in there it’s going to
apply a lot of pressure to the inside
walls if it’s just nails holding that in
there it’s going to fall apart
all right cool so we got our two little
box frames finished let’s go ahead and
bring back these 5-inch pieces now and
use them to create some latches
[Music]
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
now if you look really closely at these
blocks you can see I’ve just cut little
triangles out of them and I did that by
stacking them together so they’re
perfectly symmetrical and using the edge
of another piece of board as a guide to
draw a triangle both of these pieces
went into the jaws of my bench vise to
be held securely in place where I could
then use a jig saw to trace out the
pattern so now we have two little wooden
puzzle pieces whose triangles fit
perfectly inside
let’s go attach them to the box we’re
going to need these wooden frames stack
together as perfectly as possible so for
convenience I’m gonna be using clamps
they’re not necessary but it is going to
make a job a lot easier
take your block of wood and flip it
around so your triangle is pointing
upward and separate the two pieces and
place them on the side of your box we
want to place this on the side of our
box with a triangle on the bottom piece
facing upward it’s very important that
the tip of it is below the centre line
when the spacing looks good you can take
the second piece and lock it into place
on top of the triangle Center everything
up so that it looks good and then go
ahead and screw it into place
[Music]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so check it out guys are little metal
casting sandbox is just about finished
you can see I use two screws to screw
the triangle into place and then two
screws on the top support as well as to
temporary screws on the bottom support
those are designed to come out and when
they do the two halves will separate and
for convenience you can see I’ve added a
few extra markings because once the two
sides separate it’s important to know
which way they go back together on the
two ends I drew two lines and added some
arrowheads so we know exactly where
these are supposed to line up and on the
front side I put an F on the triangle as
well as the top piece and the back side
got the letter B see now the system is
foolproof because if you try and put it
together backwards it won’t fit and it
will tell you why flip it around and it
goes together like a glove so there we
have it guys our little wooden sandbox
is finished and ready for metal casting
and just for fun I put together a couple
more so we have a couple of different
options for casting different size items
they’re made exactly the same the only
difference is this box is 10 by 10
whereas this is 7 by 7 and you can see
what a dramatic difference that extra
three inches makes to the volume inside
alright cool so our sound boxes are made
but there are a couple more tools we’re
going to need before we jump into our
metal casting projects so let’s make
those next
[Music]
so quick update guys I just took a few
minutes and put together a whole array
of new tools let me show you what we got
first of all I use some half-inch MDF to
make some molding boards you can see on
the back they’ve got base rails these
are designed to sit on top of our boxes
and hold the sand in place as we flip
them over we also have a scrap piece of
1 by 3 and this is gonna be used as a
straight edge to help level off the sand
next up we’ve got a couple of ramming
tools these are simply 8-inch lengths of
2×2 and are used for pounding the sand
into place I also cut a couple of eighth
inch lengths of these one and a quarter
inch dowels to act as sprues and I threw
one of them on the belt sander for a few
minutes to give it this tapered edge
which should help it pop out a little
bit cleaner if we need our sprues to be
a little thinner in diameter I cut some
3/4 inch PVC that should serve the same
purpose and I cut out a piece of 12
gauge home electrical wire that we can
use to poke vent holes this
funny-looking piece of metal here is a
strip that I cut from the bottom of an
Altoids tin and it’s a tool we can use
to carve out some channels or gates
leading to the castings we’re going to
make it almost sounds like I know what
I’m talking about but I don’t this is
actually my first experience my first
attempt with any of this and the purpose
of these videos is to share my
experiences with you as I do we’ve got
our sand we’ve got our tools so the next
thing to try is green sand casting
thanks for join me for this project guys
hope you learned something new I’ll see
you the next video got you then
cool-looking box actually I don’t even
know what they’re called metal casting
sand boxes service hey guys quick
reminder that limited time king of
random t-shirts are now on sale click
the link at the top of the description
or visit random gear com see you there
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