it’s the next day and we’re back in our
last video we took the silicon pokeball
molds and melt it down candles and
filled them up with wax I tried a couple
of different methods for melting down
the wax one method was just putting it
in a pot and letting it slowly melt but
I found a much faster way is just to
stick it in the microwave for about
three or four minutes this whole thing
would go completely liquid with
virtually no effort at all and at that
point could just pour it in now I let
these sit overnight and the interesting
thing about wax is as it cools it
actually shrinks so I had to come back
multiple times throughout the evening
and top it up with wax and hopefully we
got a nice solid wax casting now I say
let’s start with the red one I didn’t do
a very good job pouring this I spilled
all over the place I was hoping that
this would just dry off to the point
where we could just peel it up and off
the counter and it looks like that’s
going to be the case now all we need to
do is take our little acrylic sleeve
here and pop that off the mold I’m just
going to push around the edges here to
kind of crack that wax and then we’ll
see if we can just peel it away I’m
really curious to know what this looks
like it’s really amazing how well that
seals back together okay there we have
it there’s our wax pokeball some areas
look absolutely fantastic other areas
look a little bit popped and bubbled it
might be enough to work with though
anyway there’s our red cast let’s see
how the blue one turned out now with a
blue one I actually poured in a little
bit of extra wax on the top because I
was hoping that as it shrunk it would
suck that in but instead I think the top
solidified before the bottom did if you
look down here near the bottom of the
mold you can see it’s really smooth and
really clean but as we get closer to the
top where the air bubbles would have got
trapped it starts to get very
contaminated with pockets from the air
bubbles and you can clearly see how that
translates into the casting as well so
air bubbles are our number one enemy
when it comes to casting the front of
the ball came out looking really good
though and the top of the ball is super
smooth because there weren’t any bubbles
there that would have been on the bottom
of the mold so all the bubbles who have
traveled upward and that came out
looking pretty clean pretty nice I cut
two more pieces of five-inch acrylic
tubing and glued them to the space here
and then I took a couple of wooden
dowels and glued them to the basis of
our pokeballs what I was hoping to do
with these was make some kind of a mold
say out of plaster and then we could
melt the wax out which would leave a
cavity
that we could perhaps turn into aluminum
now I don’t expect it’s going to be
perfect but I think it will be fun so
let’s try that next
oh my ball this came off diggit no once
the plaster is hardened we should be
able to take it out and put it in the
oven to bake out the wax which will
hopefully leave a Pokeball cavity that
we can fill with molten aluminum but in
the meantime we still have some of our
leftover gummy chicken so what if we
tried melting that down and filling up
our molds with that as well oh yeah
there we go good stuff that’s down
pretty quickly doesn’t it
[Music]
it’s been about an hour let’s take a
look at those plaster molds and see if
they’re ready to come out so the wood
dolls did actually stay down because the
wax balls that floated up that’s a
bummer
[Music]
there we go I sure wouldn’t plug it’s
your wax ball still in there very nice
okay we got our plaster of Paris out of
the molds now and they’ve got these
holes here exposing the wax the idea is
if we stick them in the oven upside down
we should be able to melt the wax and
collect it down here this should leave a
cavity of a Pokeball mold inside which
we may be able to fill up with aluminum
who knows we’re about to find out right
so just to recap what happened today we
took wax pokéballs we solidified them
in a mixture of plaster of Paris and
sand and then we put those castings in
the oven to melt the wax and leave a
cavity that we can pour mold aluminum
into with any luck though that’s left
the perfect Pokeball cavity in there I
mean it’s perfect as we can get it the
idea is if we can cook out most of the
gases from the plaster today then if we
pour molten aluminum tomorrow we’ll have
a better chance at getting a good cast
and as for our gummy and chocolate
pokeballs I’m going to leave those in
the fridge overnight and we’ll open
those up and see how they turned out
tomorrow as well the other benefit to
heating these things up in the oven is
it’s going to make these molds warm so
when we pour our aluminum casting it’s
not going to have to warm it up so will
our plaster molds work will our molten
aluminum actually form a solid aluminum
Pokeball you’re gonna have to find out
in the next video so in the meantime
thanks for joining me for this
experiment I’ll be looking for you the
next one doc you then
[Applause]
[Music]
last video we took the silicon pokeball
molds and melt it down candles and
filled them up with wax I tried a couple
of different methods for melting down
the wax one method was just putting it
in a pot and letting it slowly melt but
I found a much faster way is just to
stick it in the microwave for about
three or four minutes this whole thing
would go completely liquid with
virtually no effort at all and at that
point could just pour it in now I let
these sit overnight and the interesting
thing about wax is as it cools it
actually shrinks so I had to come back
multiple times throughout the evening
and top it up with wax and hopefully we
got a nice solid wax casting now I say
let’s start with the red one I didn’t do
a very good job pouring this I spilled
all over the place I was hoping that
this would just dry off to the point
where we could just peel it up and off
the counter and it looks like that’s
going to be the case now all we need to
do is take our little acrylic sleeve
here and pop that off the mold I’m just
going to push around the edges here to
kind of crack that wax and then we’ll
see if we can just peel it away I’m
really curious to know what this looks
like it’s really amazing how well that
seals back together okay there we have
it there’s our wax pokeball some areas
look absolutely fantastic other areas
look a little bit popped and bubbled it
might be enough to work with though
anyway there’s our red cast let’s see
how the blue one turned out now with a
blue one I actually poured in a little
bit of extra wax on the top because I
was hoping that as it shrunk it would
suck that in but instead I think the top
solidified before the bottom did if you
look down here near the bottom of the
mold you can see it’s really smooth and
really clean but as we get closer to the
top where the air bubbles would have got
trapped it starts to get very
contaminated with pockets from the air
bubbles and you can clearly see how that
translates into the casting as well so
air bubbles are our number one enemy
when it comes to casting the front of
the ball came out looking really good
though and the top of the ball is super
smooth because there weren’t any bubbles
there that would have been on the bottom
of the mold so all the bubbles who have
traveled upward and that came out
looking pretty clean pretty nice I cut
two more pieces of five-inch acrylic
tubing and glued them to the space here
and then I took a couple of wooden
dowels and glued them to the basis of
our pokeballs what I was hoping to do
with these was make some kind of a mold
say out of plaster and then we could
melt the wax out which would leave a
cavity
that we could perhaps turn into aluminum
now I don’t expect it’s going to be
perfect but I think it will be fun so
let’s try that next
oh my ball this came off diggit no once
the plaster is hardened we should be
able to take it out and put it in the
oven to bake out the wax which will
hopefully leave a Pokeball cavity that
we can fill with molten aluminum but in
the meantime we still have some of our
leftover gummy chicken so what if we
tried melting that down and filling up
our molds with that as well oh yeah
there we go good stuff that’s down
pretty quickly doesn’t it
[Music]
it’s been about an hour let’s take a
look at those plaster molds and see if
they’re ready to come out so the wood
dolls did actually stay down because the
wax balls that floated up that’s a
bummer
[Music]
there we go I sure wouldn’t plug it’s
your wax ball still in there very nice
okay we got our plaster of Paris out of
the molds now and they’ve got these
holes here exposing the wax the idea is
if we stick them in the oven upside down
we should be able to melt the wax and
collect it down here this should leave a
cavity of a Pokeball mold inside which
we may be able to fill up with aluminum
who knows we’re about to find out right
so just to recap what happened today we
took wax pokéballs we solidified them
in a mixture of plaster of Paris and
sand and then we put those castings in
the oven to melt the wax and leave a
cavity that we can pour mold aluminum
into with any luck though that’s left
the perfect Pokeball cavity in there I
mean it’s perfect as we can get it the
idea is if we can cook out most of the
gases from the plaster today then if we
pour molten aluminum tomorrow we’ll have
a better chance at getting a good cast
and as for our gummy and chocolate
pokeballs I’m going to leave those in
the fridge overnight and we’ll open
those up and see how they turned out
tomorrow as well the other benefit to
heating these things up in the oven is
it’s going to make these molds warm so
when we pour our aluminum casting it’s
not going to have to warm it up so will
our plaster molds work will our molten
aluminum actually form a solid aluminum
Pokeball you’re gonna have to find out
in the next video so in the meantime
thanks for joining me for this
experiment I’ll be looking for you the
next one doc you then
[Applause]
[Music]
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