Copper Bar Making, First Pour Was Shaky

Copper Ingots are simple to make but you need to be quick & precise to get a good pour.
My copper bars this time turned out rough but I needed this pour to refresh my skills so when I start making a batch of copper bars next week i'll be much better at it :)
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[@Justinbeehoney]

yayy you did a melt. good work.

[@km8434]

It grate to know now that you all good I stared to get worried as I had not seen any videos lately thanks for letting us know :)

[@michaelzuniga8280]

Glad you are ok!

[@DavidGallowayTrains]

You should invite bigstackD over for a copper melting collaboration. In his video history he shows how to make a set of tongs that grabs the crucible lower down instead of at the top edge. He uses the same furnace you do. Here's hoping for a great scrapping year for you Ben!

[@wilson5846]

for real that's what I was about to say lmao

[@samuelh1766]

The problem is that Victoria and Perth are so far away

[@Aasn9]

Samuel H I think border is still closed too...

[@jeffemiller1470]

Great trick BEN thanks

[@RafalScrapper]

cool vid Ben you know after brushing your ingots you can keep that shine just by spray it with transparent lack, and one more thing as your using your file if you pulling the file towards you it does almost nothing to file off some material you need to push it away from you that is the way all metals file are made you need to push away then file will do the job, small hint but try that and you will see different happy scrapping my friend 👍😀👍

[@sheldonlatimer2531]

Good job 👍 Ben ,

[@send2georgie_S2G]

Your garage looks immaculate!

[@adalmartinez2340]

So happy you are ok

[@gregfridholm2136]

Yay! Been waiting for this. You were the first KZbinr I found when looking for copper melting. Thank you, Ben, you're rocking my world and I love your narratives. Anyway, I have a furnace forge (still in the box) and +/- 400lbs of Cu waiting for the heat. Thanks for teaching the art of TV retrieval. Like @David Galloway says, a collaboration with BigstackD would be a great video. You talk, he drinks beer, eh?

[@999fine5]

Hey Ben, you should consider streaming some scrap out sessions on Twitch or KZbin (Id go twitch, you make more $) if you can. It would be another way to earn some extra cash doing what you love. You already have a dedicated fan base. A video or two letting subscribers know you're gonna give it a shot and i bet you make partner inside a week or two. Plus it gives you a great opportunity to interact with the most dedicated of your subscribers and even network with other scrapers! Let me know if you like the Idea, Thanks Ben.

[@alexbest2695]

Hey Ben love your vids and i hope that you are all OK and I hope that ever love ones are ok and out of danger from the fires if there,s anything that I can do for you, all you have to do is ask so God speed and I will be praying for you and all of Australia

[@carolmoore3706]

Loved watching this beautiful turn out

[@stuartburkhill6764]

Do more of this kind of video excellent keep on scrapping wait until the next video watching from the UK 👍👍🇬🇧

[@davidranew919]

GREAT VIDEO BEN CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR OTHERS MELTING VIDEOS, I WATCH ALL YOUR VIDEOS OVER AND OVER KEEP BRINGING THE VIDEOS DUDE 👍👍

[@davidranew919]

@@geoffupton DUDE GROW UP

[@sharkscrapper]

Looking at my eWaste Ben poured copper Australia while watching this vid...awesome!

[@eaterofcrabs4683]

Bars look good mate the only reason behind those "layer" lines on the bottom of the bars was due to lack of heat because the copper grains didn't have sufficient heat to meld together before cooling. But that's not a biggie because you said yourself you were mucking about with the pour and its only cosmetic.

[@jamesbarrettdubois8341]

awsome video ben ,, i pray for australia ,,i'm supr glad your safe ,,BEN . bless you ,

[@cyclingbulgarian-london8643]

Good to see your doing alright, keep it up old boy, cheers from London.

[@tylerrenollet4052]

Really interesting seeing the process that’s for sharing. Would love to see how much you get with a big melting day.

[@Metalstacker]

Oh and I really love the bars, no worries there mate! Good job on them 😍 as it was 1 year ago not bad. Keep them coming 👍👍👍

[@recyclespecialist4890]

Hi Ben, Recycle Specialist again, I wou like to recommend you watch BigstackD Casting and sreetips, it might help you a bit.

[@369studioBG]

Hheey... We miss the street scrapping videos.. :)

[@Rob-cc8uz]

These are my favorite videos of yours

[@jameshennings8090]

Love the copper melt

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Hey Ben! I would love to see you do a brass bar, just to see how it looks in comparison to pure copper bar, if you don't mind the effort.

[@xurx2838]

When you say bronze, do you actually mean brass? I don't think he finds any bronze out in the field. I know I don't. Either way I agree it would be a fun vid. Cheers from AZ, USA :)

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@xurx2838 Yeah, brass. My bad.

[@MrPaterson51]

Go look at BIGSTACKD all metals without jibber

[@Metalstacker]

I don't mind the smoke, but I can understand from your point of view 😂 Was a while ago I watched a video from you. You were the one that hooked me on scrapping, and thus collecting free copper 😁 you are still awesome!! But please be safe with melting. You wear an apron while pouring that is great! But I would advice to wear gloves when putting in metal in the hot crucible. Also getting a no 10 crucible with like 4 kgs of molten copper out of the furnace with some hinge tongs made me shiver! I would advice to use a proper lifter tong for that as I seen my crucible crack with a hinge tong. Furthermore why don't you put the ingot molds next to the furnace? Seems much more efficiënt 😁 What a nice stack of copper 😍😍😍 thanks for the video 👍👍👍

[@larryharris6998]

Ben have you ever scrapped out a macintosh 512 or 128

[@harryverboom4032]

Here is a diffrent video also fun to watch i understand what u say its art every ingot is unique next time u can maybe melt my granulated copper just to see how that turns out

[@andersd656]

I would like to see you made some brass bars

[@mark64tanner]

Got a jeweler mate that can advise Ben. Not sure if green sand pours would work but could be worth a try. maybe. Close melting point to cast Iron which uses sand casting as a default. Aluminium you can definitely cast in sand and needs 1/2 the temp. Take care mate. got to catch up soon.

[@joemammy3814]

Great job on the melt Ben! Very interesting watching the pour master at work! LOL

[@Mr-Mojo92]

Aw another copper video thank God I've been waiting for another copper bar video absolutely love this video alsome video 👍😀😎✌️

[@rogerw5299]

Also a nice radial pattern on the bottom of the large ingot

[@georgehollis4133]

Great bars Ben If u spray your copper bars with clear coat lacquer they will stay shiny And you could try making a green sand mould for your Australia ingot Would b great if you made more melting videos 👍

[@ChatterontheWire]

Good to see you melting again!

[@mrdando]

That a clear garage have any more video of you doing it

[@geoffupton]

Mike Dando i think he's hiding those vids til hes 101% done and well pleased with the results!)

[@LazieJane]

Nice . Been looking forward to this. Garage is looking good too.

[@jeremyrecasa5524]

Hi mate just started watching your video and was wondering how do know when people are putting out the scarp outside?

[@imunique7469]

Nice vid Ben, how about brass. Keep the vids coming.

[@jmarie5397]

Keep the copper videos coming

[@greekgods3399]

put your molds beside the melter so it wont cool as much

[@greekgods3399]

your the best u doing more vids like this i love it

[@RoeMantic]

Great video keep it up!! New year new videos heck ya! I'll take the small one lol its beautiful!

[@Alrik.]

Thank you for this great video! :D

[@donnierobertson3088]

Nice job

[@roymcdonald543]

Just curious where you buy your molds?

[@NateTheFantabulous]

Where are you in relation to all the fires?

[@desinfector]

26:50 what about an oily coating? spray-Oil like WD40? this should prevent the oxidation

[@RafalScrapper]

btw one tiny bar is on the way to you sir tiny 100 grammer hope it will be there soon 👍😀👍

[@paul-bp3no]

Glad you are ok Ben the fires not by you i take it .

[@thelasvegaskid]

How do you cut off the access pieces of copper, when you over pour?

[@davidranew919]

HEY BEN YOU GOT A BAG POWER COPPER IN MAIL 11 MONTHS AGO THAT WILL BE A GOOD VIDEO TO MAKE IN YOUR ELECTRIC MELTER. 👍👍

[@danielfinely8746]

Nice melt down vid

[@robertsimpson1584]

I’ve just made two identical to yours .thay turned out not bad .just bought the devil forge .awsome bit of kit .good inspiration you are to me Ben and I’m bang on it here in the U.K.

[@goldrifle1069]

Aye graphite molds are crazy priced for designs. You could try delft clay/petrobond casting is how I got round it. Get some silicone cake molds with designs and cast with wax or epoxy then use it for the delft clay 👍

[@MrChipp69]

How how long does it take your furnace to heat up?

[@nickpower9165]

You’re selling the bars right? Don’t matter what it looks like

[@GrumpyBugger.]

Does it oxidise afterwards.. how about buying a food saver vacuum from amazon here in UK as cheap as £30 and cover in the plastic and suck the air from it. Could protect it.. maybe pointless. Just a thought.

[@Reftravun]

Instead of moulding a whole bar in the shape of Australia, how about using a small cnc router to cut out the outline of Australia into the top of the bar?

[@elar-fy4jt]

Andrew Burton nah the ausi bar is cooler

[@carolmoore3706]

Kilo bars sounds great

[@laidbackleny]

Nice, How about making Aluminium Bronze (gold coins)

[@greekgods3399]

use tongs to feed it

[@wurstwasser6567]

Coppa :)

[@nickhouck4309]

I believe what you are referring to is called pyrolysis, the plastic film turns to a gas

[@Metalfusioncowboy]

Buy some refractory cement or investment plaster and make your own mold

[@FB-tq5ln]

Very good idea. use inset baking tin for mold

[@lowraider68]

Invite bigstackd over he has an amazing channel for melts

[@Justinbeehoney]

Y do we have wait 2 months for a scrap marathon! Are you kidding me. The scrap I see outside piled up at everyones house you can fill you van 20 times a week and do everything scrap metal and then some sorting

[@mikeyhack5196]

Please make a scrapping session video

[@prettygal6263]

Sorry, but I had to say something been watching your channel for a while melting copper. This time you are very inefficient in doing this. You heat up the tools and molds and they cool off You take so long. You can do this faster also why do you put the molds so far way for the Crucible?

[@slesaroperator]

Как там у вас с пожарами все ли хорошо и лайк!!!

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Он сказал, что полная жопа и один город даже уже два раза горел. У них там самое жаркое и засушливое время в истории Австралии с тех пор как они стали вести записи.

[@slesaroperator]

@@toomaskotkas4467 нихера себе!!!

[@sneakyvee]

Add tin and make Bronze bars. You'll increase the value.

[@CuSTACKS]

Hey Ben what's your ebay name I want to buy that same one you don't want to sell in this video perfect size 1.580kilos the 3lbs one let me know let's make a deal.

[@Horns-knowledge]

Anyway i still have my australia copper map from you huge thank you ...........do not make any others cause i am gonna make a high price for it as long as it s one of 11 only in the world hhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@RoeMantic]

I think you should make about 20 small bars for give away! That would be fun to watch! Make it like big stackd or art by adric!

[@Avalanche2]

Way too cold, not ready to pour.

[@davecooper8465]

Get rid of the tongs all you will end up doing is take a big chunk out of your melting crucible and end up dropping it you need the proper type that rap around your crucible

[@Justinbeehoney]

Ben do you have a Facebook? What is it?

[@BManTyler]

You collected enough heatsinks to cure Global Warming.

[@michaelbrumfitt]

Copper pyramids?

[@ZoonCrypticon]

Hi Ben, thank you very much for your scrapping and especially smelting and marathon videos! My question, is it possible to make ingots without the bubble forming which makes the rough surfaces ? Maybe by ultrasound vibration of the molds ? By the way as you mentioned the wildfires in your last video, there is a very informative youtube video of another Australian (The Crowhouse) on this matter, who sees the reason for the continuous draughts lying in the more than 43.000 fracking sites in the North-Western Territories, as they use up huge amounts of water for the process of fracking. For me as a European this is really shocking ! His videos on youtube * kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnPWd4mkYtB-jJo * (Australian Fire Series Part 1: Australia - Wake Up Or Die!) What is your opinion on this ? Greetings.

[@dallasuhlmann5233]

Man you can woffel on. You make a 5 min vid take half an hour it's an art, you end up skipping more than you watch.

[@TheHotEndChannel]

your lack of knowledge and safety handling molten metals makes me cringe.

[@jackwarneckii4406]

Leave the copper on the sun, it'll get to temp on its own!

[@silacka3114]

How do you get the copper on the sun?

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@silacka3114 You ask NASA and they will fly it in for you.

[@kensmith8281]

My recycle buyer won't buy bars

[@razvanmuscalu6541]

You talk to much mate!!!

[@enesyemin6762]

Very beautiful video. Hopefully we'll see some more copper bars from you, greetings Turkey,

[@brianchester4218]

Ben have you watched Big Stackd Casting brilliant you tuber

[@samuelh1766]

Glad to hear you’re safe from the fires!

[@samuelh1766]

Thought this was bigstackd until you started talking haha

[@kdscrapping4452]

NICE!!!

[@pavlovssheep5548]

you could add 10% pewter to the molten copper, to make a bronze, which would cast smoother and you could make more detailed castings. plus it would increase the scrap value of the copper

[@marcuslarge7626]

If i was to pour, I would be so proud of this pour, and like you say, we will allways make mistakes, that's the learning curve, great video great pour, I really hope the people and animals in Australia are as safe as can be, my thoughts are with them, as always keep them coming 👍 👍 👍

[@saintjimmy2244]

Still good after so long.

[@horacepinker6578]

When street scrapping and you see a BBQ check the gas bottle. I haven't bought gas in years and I BBQ 2 or 3 times a week

[@horacepinker6578]

hairspray will preserve the shiny copper colour. and then you can wash it off with water if need be

[@999DusanGoldrecovery]

Nice job brother, i still work on my furnace. Good look bars.

[@dianewaterman8805]

Happy new year from Queensland

[@whonowsus]

Kitted out like Ned Kelly ...lolol awesome video thanks Ben

[@FlippinOz]

Mate the shed looks great concrete floor and a clean work bench Well Done & Happy New Year.