what’s up guys it’s grant here and I’m
giving away a galaxy s 9 plus smart
phone to one of you there’s a link down
the description to get your name on the
list to qualify it’s a little subscriber
appreciation for you love you guys
appreciate your support
go get your name on the list to get
qualified and all the best hey guys
today we’re gonna be finishing up the
gear project that we started in a
previous video we managed to make a mold
around a piece of foam using some
drywall texturing paste and then we
stuck that into some sand and we cast
copper down into it we got this great
copper gear but it still looks very
messy so today we’re gonna see what it
takes to clean this up we’ve got a bunch
of sandpaper we’ve got files we’ve got
metal brushes we’ve got polishing wheels
and we’ve got metal polish and we are
just going to hit this thing with
everything we’ve got until we can get it
nice and clean and just shiny like I
want to be able to see my reflection and
then this bad boy will at work I don’t
know this is an experiment and we’re
gonna find out I’ve got a 60 grit belt
on our belt sander here we’re gonna see
how much of this copper we can smooth
down using the belt sander it might be a
little bit tricky because I do have
quite a bit to get through before it’s
nice and smooth but I think that’s gonna
be our best tool for this job if this
doesn’t work we’ll see about moving on
all right that’s just a few seconds on
the belt sander you can already see the
progress we’re making we can also see
that our copper is apparently like Swiss
cheese full of holes not exactly sure
what caused that or how deep those
bubbles go I’m just going to keep on
going we might be able to sand right
through those or maybe one side of our
gears can have a really cool decoration
all over it don’t think of one way to
still getting flattered you still see
those holes does it look like some of
them are pretty shallowing I think we’ve
almost gone all the way through them I
bet some of them are deep enough that
they’ll still show up in our final
service but even just that I really like
how the copper is starting to show up
there it looks pretty cool my wheel is
also getting nice and hot I’m gonna have
to grab some water to cool this off and
after a couple minutes of sanding
because it’s gonna get warm doing this
but I’m liking it it’s working I have
only been doing this for like less than
a minute already and it’s definitely
making progress
so this sandpaper on the belt sander
seems to be the way to go all right and
kind of just like that it is getting too
warm to hold on to so I’m just gonna get
some cold water that I can cool this off
in and dry it off and throw it back on
the belt sander offer does conduct heat
better than most if not all metals it
might not be the very best heat
conducting metal but it’s really high up
there this has spread so much sanded
copper out on the work bench look at
this you can just like making a pile
back to the grind
literally
[Music]
and then we’ve made pretty good progress
on this side we’ve definitely flattened
it all out you can see that the shiny
copper is exposed all the way through a
lot of these bubbles on this side but I
think that’s actually going to be a
pretty cool looking effect we’ll see how
I decide to go about cleaning those up
time to move on to the other side which
is already quite a bit flatter so I
think it’ll go pretty quick and we’ll
see if there’s any bubbles on this side
we’ve got both sides of our gear
partially sanded down and they are
looking good now I want to try getting
into the teeth of this I’m not gonna be
able do that on the belt sander so I’m
gonna move over to our bench vise and
start using some hand files and see if I
can’t clean up those edges a bit
[Music]
we may come back to the files in a
little bit for some more detail work but
for now we’re gonna move on to using the
wire brushes on this rotary tool and
we’ve got something that should fit in
our regular drill chuck so we’ll try and
see if we can clean up some of the edges
this little attachment may not be the
sturdiest built thing ever
I think 60% of the wires have just
poured themselves off polishing that
[Music]
at the end of the drill I now have what
is a wheel made of cotton or maybe
muslin disks and then I’ve got some
polish which I will apply to the cloth
and then I’ll use that to try and really
my goal is to make a copper gear so
shiny that I could see myself how do you
think I did this method of casting
copper is not 100 percent perfect by
pouring it in the way we did we ended up
with a lot of large bubble marks on the
backside and a lot of small ball marks
on the front side but it was still able
to be flattened down smoothed out and
polished and like I could use this thing
as a copper colored mirror it’s a little
small but overall it looks really good
hey what’s up guys is grant here with a
brand new Galaxy S 9 plus smartphone
that I’m giving away to one of you for
subscriber appreciation I’ve got a link
down in the description so you can get
your name on the list and qualify to win [Music]
giving away a galaxy s 9 plus smart
phone to one of you there’s a link down
the description to get your name on the
list to qualify it’s a little subscriber
appreciation for you love you guys
appreciate your support
go get your name on the list to get
qualified and all the best hey guys
today we’re gonna be finishing up the
gear project that we started in a
previous video we managed to make a mold
around a piece of foam using some
drywall texturing paste and then we
stuck that into some sand and we cast
copper down into it we got this great
copper gear but it still looks very
messy so today we’re gonna see what it
takes to clean this up we’ve got a bunch
of sandpaper we’ve got files we’ve got
metal brushes we’ve got polishing wheels
and we’ve got metal polish and we are
just going to hit this thing with
everything we’ve got until we can get it
nice and clean and just shiny like I
want to be able to see my reflection and
then this bad boy will at work I don’t
know this is an experiment and we’re
gonna find out I’ve got a 60 grit belt
on our belt sander here we’re gonna see
how much of this copper we can smooth
down using the belt sander it might be a
little bit tricky because I do have
quite a bit to get through before it’s
nice and smooth but I think that’s gonna
be our best tool for this job if this
doesn’t work we’ll see about moving on
all right that’s just a few seconds on
the belt sander you can already see the
progress we’re making we can also see
that our copper is apparently like Swiss
cheese full of holes not exactly sure
what caused that or how deep those
bubbles go I’m just going to keep on
going we might be able to sand right
through those or maybe one side of our
gears can have a really cool decoration
all over it don’t think of one way to
still getting flattered you still see
those holes does it look like some of
them are pretty shallowing I think we’ve
almost gone all the way through them I
bet some of them are deep enough that
they’ll still show up in our final
service but even just that I really like
how the copper is starting to show up
there it looks pretty cool my wheel is
also getting nice and hot I’m gonna have
to grab some water to cool this off and
after a couple minutes of sanding
because it’s gonna get warm doing this
but I’m liking it it’s working I have
only been doing this for like less than
a minute already and it’s definitely
making progress
so this sandpaper on the belt sander
seems to be the way to go all right and
kind of just like that it is getting too
warm to hold on to so I’m just gonna get
some cold water that I can cool this off
in and dry it off and throw it back on
the belt sander offer does conduct heat
better than most if not all metals it
might not be the very best heat
conducting metal but it’s really high up
there this has spread so much sanded
copper out on the work bench look at
this you can just like making a pile
back to the grind
literally
[Music]
and then we’ve made pretty good progress
on this side we’ve definitely flattened
it all out you can see that the shiny
copper is exposed all the way through a
lot of these bubbles on this side but I
think that’s actually going to be a
pretty cool looking effect we’ll see how
I decide to go about cleaning those up
time to move on to the other side which
is already quite a bit flatter so I
think it’ll go pretty quick and we’ll
see if there’s any bubbles on this side
we’ve got both sides of our gear
partially sanded down and they are
looking good now I want to try getting
into the teeth of this I’m not gonna be
able do that on the belt sander so I’m
gonna move over to our bench vise and
start using some hand files and see if I
can’t clean up those edges a bit
[Music]
we may come back to the files in a
little bit for some more detail work but
for now we’re gonna move on to using the
wire brushes on this rotary tool and
we’ve got something that should fit in
our regular drill chuck so we’ll try and
see if we can clean up some of the edges
this little attachment may not be the
sturdiest built thing ever
I think 60% of the wires have just
poured themselves off polishing that
[Music]
at the end of the drill I now have what
is a wheel made of cotton or maybe
muslin disks and then I’ve got some
polish which I will apply to the cloth
and then I’ll use that to try and really
my goal is to make a copper gear so
shiny that I could see myself how do you
think I did this method of casting
copper is not 100 percent perfect by
pouring it in the way we did we ended up
with a lot of large bubble marks on the
backside and a lot of small ball marks
on the front side but it was still able
to be flattened down smoothed out and
polished and like I could use this thing
as a copper colored mirror it’s a little
small but overall it looks really good
hey what’s up guys is grant here with a
brand new Galaxy S 9 plus smartphone
that I’m giving away to one of you for
subscriber appreciation I’ve got a link
down in the description so you can get
your name on the list and qualify to win [Music]
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