welcome back guys today is an excellent
day because the sun is shining you’re
here and we’re melting to the metal now
in yesterday’s video I showed you how to
make this thing this is our trashcan
metal foundry that’s just lined with Kol
and as you might remember it gets very
very hot so today we’re going to put it
to good use now I still have quite a few
the brass ingots left from our brass
knuckles project but what I am short on
right now is aluminium you can see from
my mini master swords and my failed
Pokeball attempts all of my aluminium is
used up in failed castings now I
personally love the different looks of
these metals but it does make me wonder
what kind of result they would form if
we mix the two together so the first
step is to remelt this aluminium and
cast new mini metal biscuits
[Music]
can’t see the flames out here but it’s
definitely getting hot infrared
technology
[Music]
that’s way cool I like that it’s cozy
[Music]
that’s big crucible it takes a while to
bring it up to temperature
oh yeah turnabout
our aluminum has melted so let’s skim
the slag off the top and pour it in our
muffin tray oh wow that’s gorgeous
there’s a lot of flag on the doctor it’s
no good to us anymore
it’s all aluminum oxide
[Music]
and everything underneath that really
good might be super hot
one successful transfer room war
[Music]
[Music]
hahaha
what happens if we take molten aluminum
and pour it into a crucible that’s cool
we’ll crack
go
[Music]
all right cool transfer blade
poured a little bit later
[Music]
Hot Stuff these aluminum Muppets are
extremely hot right now so I got a
little bit of water to cool them down
you
[Music]
is it possible to liquefy aluminum and
liquefy brass and mix the two liquids
together to form a new type of metal I’m
no metallurgist but I am interested to
see what happens so let’s fire these
things up put them to the test
I just finished warming up our small
crucible and we’ve got our new aluminum
muffins ready to go so let’s go ahead
and mix them with the brass our first
test is one aluminum muffin and one
equivalent sized brass muffin how will
these look once they’re meshed together
let’s go find out
our brass is just melted you can tell
that because the zinc is starting to
oxidize and burn off that’s what the
yellow is and that’s what all these
vapors are coming out so probably means
it’s melted and ready for pouring wow
you think is burning gun fire
yikes it’s actually glowing okay so our
liquid is actually burning let’s go
ahead and take that out
[Music]
surprisingly we almost got two biscuits
back out of it amazing so quick update
guys you might remember that brass is
actually a mixture of zinc and copper
and zinc has a relatively low boiling
point so this stuff got so hot the zinc
started boiling out of the mixture it
actually gets hot enough that it can
burn and combines with the oxygen in the
air to form zinc oxide which is the long
string stuff and it leaves behind this
yellow residue that’s why in previous
projects I’ve used a flux like Anton
Roche peeler because that suppresses the
oxygen and keeps the zinc in the
material in any case we got this stuff
poured and we did come out with nearly
two full muffins which should be a near
50/50 ratio of aluminum and brass okay
let’s knock these things out and give
them a bath
[Music]
I was a little bit hotter than the rock
[Music]
that got so hot I’ve just cracked the
glass and the water would that’s
interesting laters big split on the
bottom as well okay well after all the
abuse we put this through and this is
good this is kind of interesting I
accidentally dropped one of these 5050
mixes on the concrete and it shattered
into about 70 different pieces those
stuff is extremely shiny it’s got a
really cool metallic tins to it but
apparently the stuffs really brutal as
well really great for looks not great
for durability oh wow it’s scattered
everywhere better not drop the other one
well that’s pretty though not gonna lie
that’s gorgeous Wow
[Music]
50/50 aluminum and brass gorgeous
that’s do four cool a super shiny nice
broken that’s beautiful
experiment number two three parts
aluminum one part brass let’s go
[Music]
[Music]
whoops toasty hasn’t burst into flames
yet that’s a good sign
oh haha I spoke too soon
Wow
[Music]
like spit out half our mix all over the
place
[Music]
that’s all we’re going to get we put in
four we only got out two and that’s
because when I took the lid off the air
got to it it exploded and splattered
metal everywhere so things to watch out
for when you’re casting with brass
[Music]
the waterside hey for our third and
final experiment we’ve got three parts
brass one part of them
[Music]
and demo
whoa all right is it going to explode in
my face hopefully not cool we’re halfway
there
[Music]
for when in three and a half came out
not too bad
interesting how to change different
colors up there it’s got that like
purple magenta tinges on top we’re
knocking them out so let’s start right
out couldn’t be easier
one of those things they’re kind of
pretty oh wow look at the bottom we got
teal blue we got all different colors of
the rainbow here we got blues greens a
little bit of yellow some purple magenta
rainbow biscuits that’s true
[Music]
that’s probably why the glass crack spit
crack from the bottom what happens if I
drip a little water
[Music]
now I’m going to see if we can buff
these things about that
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so guys our castings are complete we got
some really cool different metallic
colors of the rainbow
unfortunately I dropped the 50/50 mix on
the concrete and it shattered into a
bazillion pieces showing that this
composition is a little bit brittle but
if you look really close at the
crystalline structure on the inside it’s
very very shiny very pretty
actually it’s absolutely gorgeous what
it is absolutely gorgeous now if you
look closely at the different
compositions of the metals we’ve just
casted you see a wide array in the color
change as we go from the top to the
bottom starting at the top we’ve got
100% brass then 75% brass 25% aluminium
our 50/50 mix looks pretty cool but it’s
in a bazillion pieces down here we’ve
got 75% aluminum with 25 brass and on
the bottom 100% aluminum if you were
aware of this already there’s a huge
weight difference between aluminum and
brass the brass is about three times
heavier than the aluminum and if I
compare the aluminum biscuit with the
one that’s only got 25% brass I can
already feel a noticeable weight
difference
rose gold of course 75% brass is even
heavier but what I love about this is if
you look at the coloration
it’s almost got kind of a rose gold
tinge to it it’s not the bright shiny
yellow color we’re used to seeing in
brass it’s more of a rose gold color
instead it’s got more of a pinkish
purple few to it it’s very cool and very
pretty and this is probably one of my
favorites now as far as durability is
concerned we already know that the 50/50
mix is very very fragile but I went
ahead and smashed tested the other ones
and got some surprising results
[Music]
I went through each of these alloys with
a hammer and smashed them with a good
amount of power and all of them stayed
intact except for the Rose Bowl I had a
little bit of chipping and one of them
actually did break in half but other
than that they all held together so it’s
kind of interesting to see that a
hundred percent brass is very very
resilient but once you start mixing an
aluminum it becomes very brittle so cool
experiments guys let’s quickly recap
what we just learned here today we took
nuggets of aluminum and brass and we
melted them down and mix them in a 50/50
ratio that made a new metallic
composition that was extremely brittle
but very very pretty and we were able to
smash it down into a powder next we
tried mixing 75% aluminum and 25% copper
and we got a nugget that was very very
similar to the aluminum itself just a
little darker in color and a little bit
heavier and finally we tried 75% copper
and 25% aluminum which gave us a really
cool rose gold looking nugget these are
some my favorites because they look
really cool but they’re still a little
brittle and I was able to smash one in
half we also saw that hot molten brass
is extremely sensitive the air making it
burst into flames and sometimes explode
making a mess all over your sidewalk so
what happens when you try mixing brass
with aluminum you get a wide array of
new metallic compositions each with
their own personality thanks for joining
me for this video guys I’ll be looking
for the next one
talk to you then oh I guess he concrete
and this thing is still intact sweet hit
it again
wow that is hard this one didn’t really
do that
[Music]
you
you
[Music]
day because the sun is shining you’re
here and we’re melting to the metal now
in yesterday’s video I showed you how to
make this thing this is our trashcan
metal foundry that’s just lined with Kol
and as you might remember it gets very
very hot so today we’re going to put it
to good use now I still have quite a few
the brass ingots left from our brass
knuckles project but what I am short on
right now is aluminium you can see from
my mini master swords and my failed
Pokeball attempts all of my aluminium is
used up in failed castings now I
personally love the different looks of
these metals but it does make me wonder
what kind of result they would form if
we mix the two together so the first
step is to remelt this aluminium and
cast new mini metal biscuits
[Music]
can’t see the flames out here but it’s
definitely getting hot infrared
technology
[Music]
that’s way cool I like that it’s cozy
[Music]
that’s big crucible it takes a while to
bring it up to temperature
oh yeah turnabout
our aluminum has melted so let’s skim
the slag off the top and pour it in our
muffin tray oh wow that’s gorgeous
there’s a lot of flag on the doctor it’s
no good to us anymore
it’s all aluminum oxide
[Music]
and everything underneath that really
good might be super hot
one successful transfer room war
[Music]
[Music]
hahaha
what happens if we take molten aluminum
and pour it into a crucible that’s cool
we’ll crack
go
[Music]
all right cool transfer blade
poured a little bit later
[Music]
Hot Stuff these aluminum Muppets are
extremely hot right now so I got a
little bit of water to cool them down
you
[Music]
is it possible to liquefy aluminum and
liquefy brass and mix the two liquids
together to form a new type of metal I’m
no metallurgist but I am interested to
see what happens so let’s fire these
things up put them to the test
I just finished warming up our small
crucible and we’ve got our new aluminum
muffins ready to go so let’s go ahead
and mix them with the brass our first
test is one aluminum muffin and one
equivalent sized brass muffin how will
these look once they’re meshed together
let’s go find out
our brass is just melted you can tell
that because the zinc is starting to
oxidize and burn off that’s what the
yellow is and that’s what all these
vapors are coming out so probably means
it’s melted and ready for pouring wow
you think is burning gun fire
yikes it’s actually glowing okay so our
liquid is actually burning let’s go
ahead and take that out
[Music]
surprisingly we almost got two biscuits
back out of it amazing so quick update
guys you might remember that brass is
actually a mixture of zinc and copper
and zinc has a relatively low boiling
point so this stuff got so hot the zinc
started boiling out of the mixture it
actually gets hot enough that it can
burn and combines with the oxygen in the
air to form zinc oxide which is the long
string stuff and it leaves behind this
yellow residue that’s why in previous
projects I’ve used a flux like Anton
Roche peeler because that suppresses the
oxygen and keeps the zinc in the
material in any case we got this stuff
poured and we did come out with nearly
two full muffins which should be a near
50/50 ratio of aluminum and brass okay
let’s knock these things out and give
them a bath
[Music]
I was a little bit hotter than the rock
[Music]
that got so hot I’ve just cracked the
glass and the water would that’s
interesting laters big split on the
bottom as well okay well after all the
abuse we put this through and this is
good this is kind of interesting I
accidentally dropped one of these 5050
mixes on the concrete and it shattered
into about 70 different pieces those
stuff is extremely shiny it’s got a
really cool metallic tins to it but
apparently the stuffs really brutal as
well really great for looks not great
for durability oh wow it’s scattered
everywhere better not drop the other one
well that’s pretty though not gonna lie
that’s gorgeous Wow
[Music]
50/50 aluminum and brass gorgeous
that’s do four cool a super shiny nice
broken that’s beautiful
experiment number two three parts
aluminum one part brass let’s go
[Music]
[Music]
whoops toasty hasn’t burst into flames
yet that’s a good sign
oh haha I spoke too soon
Wow
[Music]
like spit out half our mix all over the
place
[Music]
that’s all we’re going to get we put in
four we only got out two and that’s
because when I took the lid off the air
got to it it exploded and splattered
metal everywhere so things to watch out
for when you’re casting with brass
[Music]
the waterside hey for our third and
final experiment we’ve got three parts
brass one part of them
[Music]
and demo
whoa all right is it going to explode in
my face hopefully not cool we’re halfway
there
[Music]
for when in three and a half came out
not too bad
interesting how to change different
colors up there it’s got that like
purple magenta tinges on top we’re
knocking them out so let’s start right
out couldn’t be easier
one of those things they’re kind of
pretty oh wow look at the bottom we got
teal blue we got all different colors of
the rainbow here we got blues greens a
little bit of yellow some purple magenta
rainbow biscuits that’s true
[Music]
that’s probably why the glass crack spit
crack from the bottom what happens if I
drip a little water
[Music]
now I’m going to see if we can buff
these things about that
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so guys our castings are complete we got
some really cool different metallic
colors of the rainbow
unfortunately I dropped the 50/50 mix on
the concrete and it shattered into a
bazillion pieces showing that this
composition is a little bit brittle but
if you look really close at the
crystalline structure on the inside it’s
very very shiny very pretty
actually it’s absolutely gorgeous what
it is absolutely gorgeous now if you
look closely at the different
compositions of the metals we’ve just
casted you see a wide array in the color
change as we go from the top to the
bottom starting at the top we’ve got
100% brass then 75% brass 25% aluminium
our 50/50 mix looks pretty cool but it’s
in a bazillion pieces down here we’ve
got 75% aluminum with 25 brass and on
the bottom 100% aluminum if you were
aware of this already there’s a huge
weight difference between aluminum and
brass the brass is about three times
heavier than the aluminum and if I
compare the aluminum biscuit with the
one that’s only got 25% brass I can
already feel a noticeable weight
difference
rose gold of course 75% brass is even
heavier but what I love about this is if
you look at the coloration
it’s almost got kind of a rose gold
tinge to it it’s not the bright shiny
yellow color we’re used to seeing in
brass it’s more of a rose gold color
instead it’s got more of a pinkish
purple few to it it’s very cool and very
pretty and this is probably one of my
favorites now as far as durability is
concerned we already know that the 50/50
mix is very very fragile but I went
ahead and smashed tested the other ones
and got some surprising results
[Music]
I went through each of these alloys with
a hammer and smashed them with a good
amount of power and all of them stayed
intact except for the Rose Bowl I had a
little bit of chipping and one of them
actually did break in half but other
than that they all held together so it’s
kind of interesting to see that a
hundred percent brass is very very
resilient but once you start mixing an
aluminum it becomes very brittle so cool
experiments guys let’s quickly recap
what we just learned here today we took
nuggets of aluminum and brass and we
melted them down and mix them in a 50/50
ratio that made a new metallic
composition that was extremely brittle
but very very pretty and we were able to
smash it down into a powder next we
tried mixing 75% aluminum and 25% copper
and we got a nugget that was very very
similar to the aluminum itself just a
little darker in color and a little bit
heavier and finally we tried 75% copper
and 25% aluminum which gave us a really
cool rose gold looking nugget these are
some my favorites because they look
really cool but they’re still a little
brittle and I was able to smash one in
half we also saw that hot molten brass
is extremely sensitive the air making it
burst into flames and sometimes explode
making a mess all over your sidewalk so
what happens when you try mixing brass
with aluminum you get a wide array of
new metallic compositions each with
their own personality thanks for joining
me for this video guys I’ll be looking
for the next one
talk to you then oh I guess he concrete
and this thing is still intact sweet hit
it again
wow that is hard this one didn’t really
do that
[Music]
you
you
[Music]
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