Swamp Cooler Motor Meltdown - Melting Copper and Aluminum - The Growing Stack

Today I melted down a large swamp cooler motor. It was an old rust bucket that my buddy gave me. It was a pain to get the copper out due to how dilapidated it was, but I eventually got there. I hope you enjoy a nice simple motor meltdown.

[@caeserjim]

Nice Melt!! I always test my "Aluminum" with a copper sulfate solution (which is made from drain opener crystals and is blue in color) I clean an area on the metal with an angel grinder to expose clean metal. If the metal is zinc, it will turn black. If it is aluminum, it will stay shiny.

[@lisazdankiewicz8846]

I do not have the patiience that you have lol You worked hard for that copper lol I love aluminum melts. It is so shiny even when melted. Very fun melt. Thank you for sharing with us. Keep that stack growing !!

[@KrakenCasting]

It was so satisfying to see the molds start to glow one after the other when you poured the copper. I gotta get my hands on some more...

[@TheGrowingStack]

That was my favorite part also, watching them glow one by one. Thanks Kraken!!

[@inuyasha_115]

Reminds me of when I started watching bigstackd and bought a forge to do this, you got a subscriber

[@JsStack]

Awesome video. Breaking things down to melt can be fun. Then the fun of melting it comes. Always nice to see what is poured afterwards. Great job brother.

[@isvsksvskivdisvsk8656]

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[@daz41262010]

cool motor breakdown bro :) great melts too :)

[@SkullerMetals]

Great looking stack. Cool pieces. Keep up the good content, well done!

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thanks brother!!

[@tonytusk5524]

Awesome video my friend! Those cubes are epic!! THE STACK IS LOOKIN SICK!!

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thank you brother! Not going to lie, that motor kicked my butt! It was so rusted it really gave me a challenge, but we got there!

[@danaedwards5464]

very nice pours they look great on the stack

[@JoeyDadawg]

Trolls are funny how they tell you what to do. I come here for the mistake so I can learn from yours. Keep up the good work

[@jamesway5036]

Very nice 👍

[@lesliek3794]

So, the metal blocks look great. I mean it's copper, which always looks good, but you really need longer gloves. Every time you put more metal into that furnace that was going full blast, I was getting the creeps. You NEED longer gloves. I just want you to be safer. 😁 Anyway, it's still a great video!

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thank you as always Leslie! I will work on that and try to be safer, just for you 😉 You still need to shoot me an email, if you want to of course, [e-mail] I have a question for you 👍

[@jarynloughman3374]

Uh oh he has a question ⁉️

[@TheGrowingStack]

@@jarynloughman3374 That’s my way of getting people who are always awesome and genuinely kind to email me off of KZbin so I can send them some of my treasure… it gives me joy to give back to people who I see always comment on my videos and seem to care and are nice people. I take notes 👍👍👍

[@Etrius_Fysik]

3:50 Seriously, wtf was that?!! :O

[@tracybowling1156]

See this is where you need a friendly neighborhood me. I would love to do all that tearing up hard work. I love to take stuff apart. Anyway, another excellent episode that YT doesn't tell me anything about! ☺️ It's always fun to watch! Oh, and I hope your burn is feeling better!

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thank you Tracy!! It’s crazy that YT isn’t sending you notifications, which is frustrating. My burn is all better! It’s a shame I don’t have a friendly neighborhood you, I could get a lot more things done 😉 Send me an email sometime if you want to…

[@timsmith9645]

Awesome copper and aluminum cubes thanks for sharing

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thank you Tim! Always love seeing your comments. Hope you’re doing well.

[@timsmith9645]

You're welcome buddy doing great here hope all is well with you

[@kylebolinger668]

Love the cubes, I’d play with them all the time lol cheers brother

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thanks brother! It’s good to hear from you!

[@lolczyslaf]

This is much more fun to watch than sandcasting.

[@doriWyo]

Your stack is growing nicely.

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thanks Dori! It’s getting there, slowly but surely!

[@SilverScorpion]

Nice melt!

[@TheGrowingStack]

Thank you Silver Scorpion!!

[@zazz69ed]

look like that blister is healed up nicely.. the heat shield seemed to work good in this pour so now no worries about that issue again. the blocks are always cool even just brushed.. is nice to see the lines from the pour and the cooling in them.. i was going to offer up an idea for more of a challenge .. we already talked about a band logo cast.. but have you thought about trying to make a 2 piece gothic type door knocker??? could keep the mounted end with a hook instead of an enclosed circle so you could just set or rest the actual knocker part in it to swing freely. just thought id throw another idea your way.. also ever thought of doing like a three metal pour in layers? something like a pyramid design or obelisk but instead of layered horizontally do it vertically.. just lay the mold down sideways and pour it.. think that would be awesome to see with the pour lines running up an item instead of across. well glad to see ya doing good and stay safe my friend.. ill catch ya on the next video!!! and keep that music coming !!!! metal for the metal \m/

[@justinbanks2380]

So very therapeutic to watch. Something about it is just zen. Have no idea why, but who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth? lol Definitely gotta just get a foundry set up. Have the crucible and tongs, built a burner, but keep changing ideas and design of foundry itself. Think it's time to just bite the bullet and buy one. I normally do diy when I can as I enjoy knowing how everything was made and why, but at a certain point (think I'm way past it, lol) you spend more time/money/energy than it would've been to just buy a nice ready to go one, lol

[@TheRojo387]

You should start making machining tools and even machines from your metal stack, à la Sean Beardon.

[@vincedibona4687]

I like the cubes.

[@JimFinlayson]

I’m glad this is your hobby. Way too much work for $40 of AL and CU. I guess you know your cube molds hold around 1.25lb of copper. I really like the cubes. Any idea how big/heavy of a copper cube you could safely melt and cast in a sand mold? I would love to see a large, not dangerous, cube cast in a future video.

[@TheGrowingStack]

I could probably do a big 15-20lb cube. Maybe I’ll give that a try this weekend for next weeks video. 👍 Thanks Jim!

[@SilverScorpion]

The center pice is called the stator. Some look like the one you pulled out and some have windings on them to.

[@virtuousvarmint1548]

what do you do with all the scrap steel you end up with? i know the temp needed is way too high but i wish you could do a vid melting it all down lol

[@shermantripp5246]

i love copper pours

[@SHOINOFF]

It looks like it was cold there that day. Also try origonal monster energy drink mixed with origonal nos energy drink. It tastes great.

[@petervaneverdink448]

Going to have to fire your secretary lol

[@TheGrowingStack]

I just fired her! And I just fixed it. Thank you my friend!!!

[@Gnomenutz]

Nice amount of copper from the motor there. Have you done an ant hill melt yet?

[@TheGrowingStack]

I haven’t, but I’ve been wanting to. Even a small one would be cool just to try. Thanks Eric 👍

[@mewmewdesigns895]

You seem to have missed some aluminum. Those fin things on the center rotor of the motor are aluminum. They come right off with a chisel.

[@kluafoz]

2:16 that's what she said

[@mariamsayed3878]

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[@brianlee5221]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the biggest motor you've melted down so far

[@TheGrowingStack]

You’re 100% correct Brian. 👍

[@kayakMike1000]

No flux?

[@yoancordier859]

hello, can you tell me where you buy your crucible? or give me a link

[@TheGrowingStack]

I get mine from PMCsupplies. You can buy direct from their website or through Amazon.

[@yoancordier859]

@@TheGrowingStack thanks , can we talk on youtube ? via messenger if possible I have a lot of questions to ask you

[@TheGrowingStack]

@@yoancordier859 email is probably the easiest. [e-mail] 👍

[@yoancordier859]

@@TheGrowingStack I'll send you an email. Have you seen it?

[@strongsick2866]

do you sell any of this or just collect it

[@TheGrowingStack]

So far I’ve just been stacking it up. I’ve thought about selling items for a long time now, but haven’t put anything into action yet.

[@strongsick2866]

@@TheGrowingStack I can see people paying for this is why I asked .

[@David-fv7zg]

5:00 Try making a small campfire and burning it, easy way to remove all the paper and plastic. It’s not hot enough to melt the metal.

[@normajeancaballero7959]

Cube Squared 😁😁😁😁😁👍😎👍😎👍😎👍

[@TheGrowingStack]

👍👍👍

[@kluafoz]

3:55 wtf?

[@hesshelwalkin2977]

that shelf is breaking someday

[@TheGrowingStack]

While I hope it doesn’t, I’m kind of hoping it does 👍

[@shirleypaucara6357]

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[@dancingdroid]

Why not just burn away all the trash that's stuck in there? Would be so much faster.

[@darrenclark7941]

What’s the largest thing you’ve broken down and melted? I’d love to see more stuff like this 👍