Cast Bronze Sink pipe

[@jagboy69]

Dont miss the blooper at the end. 🤪

[@kimber1958]

I love your furnace and pouring set up

[@jagboy69]

@@kimber1958 Thanks. It works well for the kind of casting I do. I built the furnace out of an old air compressor tank. And the lifting and pouring tools from metal from the scrap yard. Learning how to weld is really important with this stuff or ya pay through the nose for foundry tools. 😱

[@jimsbasslist]

Can't wait to see it done brother!

[@JasonMichaelKotarski]

Coming along!!! Still haven't built mine forge yet but it's somewhere down there in the list of great ideas I have. Cheers!

[@jagboy69]

Good to see you! When you're ready to try your hand at casting metal, hit me up and I'll help out from afar!

[@jrsemporium5579]

The part still turned out regardless of the defect!! Nice work... Looks like you are getting some new toys!! Maybe it’s time for a shop tour?

[@jagboy69]

Yeah one of these days. The garage is a mess. I didnt show the welding, but I filled in the crater with the tig machine...👍

[@FREDSHED]

Dont forget polished the blocks of brass,🤣 I have seen your reply on my last vid, yes I'm using mill bits in a drill press, no space left in that shed for another piece of equipment 😪, my wife constantly tells me I need a bigger shed,lol. Back to this vid, that bronze is not square😁omg,the shit I could do if I had a lathe! Your piece of bronze turned out awesome!

[@jagboy69]

Thanks Fred. Space is at a premium in my garage too. Check out kzbin.info/door/7Jf7t6BL4e74O53dL6arSw She has a slick little PMC lathe and a bench top mill. Perfect for smaller spaces. You could ditch your drill press and install a mill. Or just get a bigger shed! :-)

[@jagboy69]

Hey Fred... Look what I found for you! www.alibaba.com/product-detail/210-Brushless-bead-machine-lathe_60873899296.html?spm=a2700.wholesale.deiletai6.5.7ef61133ItgeJf

[@ChatterontheWire]

Not sure how I missed this in June, oh wait, yes I am I was busy traveling all over the US at that point! Nothing like melting in the front yard, on the concrete and not killing the grass! Nice setup, not sure I remember seeing your furnace in the past.

[@jagboy69]

no worries.. Its a rock solid design. Kaowool lined with an inch of Mizzou and the cheap kwiky burner. Running free jet fuel, it doesnt get better than this.

[@ChatterontheWire]

@@jagboy69 Free is good! Now after making it through the whole video, I'm thinking $100/foot vs 10 hours of my time to prep, melt, turn down, etc.... I'll just buy that piece myself, but cool use of your tools and hope the sink turned out well!

[@jagboy69]

@@ChatterontheWire Yeah economically it was a loser, but still satisfying. I need to learn this stuff anyways.

[@tobhomott]

I have it on good authority he makes the same little propellor sounds with his mouth when he's flying real airplanes... 😂 Nice save on that part, Jason!

[@jimsbasslist]

He does. He's like a little kid. Lol

[@jagboy69]

@@jimsbasslist Jim is one of the few people I have actually flown with. Back at the Stein on the C130.😜

[@kimber1958]

Very nice

[@jagboy69]

Welcome to the channel! I post videos when I can, but life keeps me pretty busy.🍺

[@RotarySMP]

Looks like you do the same thing as I tend to. Put too little effort into the pattern for a "quick" stock casting, and then spend an hour machining away all the "detail" that didn't need to be there. Imagine how easy it would have been to chuck up the wax and turn it round :)

[@jagboy69]

lol.. Yup! The pattern melted a bit in the garage before I shelled it. Wax is so much easier to work instead of metal. We are slow learners I guess.🥺

[@barrylukebuilds7894]

Very cool project man!

[@jagboy69]

Thanks Barry. My dad was a woodworker in his spare time.... I went the metal route.

[@olfoundryman8418]

Yep, I too gave up waste oil as way too messy many years ago, strictly diesel fuel now. I don't know much about machining buy I would suggest cutting towards the chuck as I have had work pull out machining away from it. Considering how ugly it looked out of the mould it did come out rather well.... Martin

[@jagboy69]

It took 6feet of 3/32" tig filler rod to cover the crater.😳 Burning used motor oil was more of a novelty to be honest. I get jet fuel for free and my melts are short. I'm not missing the black mess at all.

[@RotarySMP]

It goes to 11!

[@jeffreygreenberg3488]

i need help installing a Procom vent less heater. I bought a 3/8" Male Flare to 3/8" Male NPT Propane Adapter installed it but im not getting a pilot light to light. I'm not hearing gas flow at all. I fear I may have damaged the plunger

[@jagboy69]

That's not good. I know when you first hook it up on natural gas, it takes a while for it to fill up with gas. Sorry, I never ran mine on propane.

[@XhristinaMacey]

Thank you WT I knew a guy in Kinver that owned a steam powered motorcycle he used to make all the partshe needed on lathes like you wow what a skill, bronze looks like gold Cheers for using my tune I wrote regarding Meigle Hill in Galashiels you can download the file from my soundcloud page soundcloud.com/djmace-1/project-15 xX Love Texas

[@travispower8097]

That happens when you pour a big solid piece. Pour a real.tube piece and it will turn out.👍

[@jagboy69]

Actually I had almost no shrinkage. The shell had a crack right where the void was. Ceramic shell doesnt usually suffer severe shrinkage like conventional sand casting methods do. How is that you ask? The shell is pre heated to 1700 and the bronze is 2100. Wrapped in kaowool, they cool together very slowly.

[@travispower8097]

@@jagboy69 your pouring a very hot.casting too. We pour about 1950into a shell that is 1200 degrees. I'm a master slurry technician. We use fused silica.

[@jagboy69]

@@travispower8097Could be, but this is the first time I've seen this. There was no reason to be this hot for such a fat part. 1900 should have been plenty as I didnt need to feed through small parts. No worries. Thanks for the recommendation. 😉

[@travispower8097]

@@jagboy69 we call it porosity or shrink. It happens when we pour a cup and the wax pattern was thick in a spot. The thick doesn't cool quiet as fast a the thinner spot and it draws from the thin spot to make shrink. Your welcome. love what you do and Good luck.