antimony is added to solder and other alloys to increase the hardness of the metal and alloys, it's also added to lead to make wheel weights to increase it's toughness and hardness so it doesnt just bend and fly off when your driving down the road. Thats why the bronze you made is so hard, normally it isnt that hard. I usually use the 99.3% tin, 0.6 copper solder when Im alloying stuff, or use the stuff with lead in it because lead will actually add alot to bronze's lubricating ability, expecially when oil is added. Usually you want a thicker ingot mold if your doing bronzes and copper alloys, so may want to make an ingot mold out of some 1/8" thick angle iron or something, lol. Glad to see the furnace up and running and that your back into the swing of things.
Just to add , bronze is work hardened , so if you are making a bronze knife and you whack the edge a bunch of times with a hammer , the edge will be stiffer and will go dull much slower.
Fun thing about antimony since you mentioned it; it was one of the first things alloyed to copper to make bronze, way before tin was. The original bronze discovered by man was an alloy of copper and arsenic, AKA arsenical copper or arsenical bronze. That happened because copper ores were often mixed with arsenic ores and in the smelting process arsenic ended up mixed in the copper and gave bronze. The metal that resulted was much better mechanically than pure copper, so the theory is that those paleo-metallurgists started actively experimented with things that when added to copper ores will result in better alloys. The next one up, and appearing about the same time as arsenical bronze, was antimonial bronze for which similarly ores of antimony were added to the smelt. And then tin was found which gave an even better bronze. As opposed to arsenic and antimony, tin ores are almost never found in close association with copper ores so that one took some time. I have actually made antimonial bronze in my home furnace by melting copper and adding antimony. Now antimony is less soluble in copper than tin is, so you can get away with maybe 6% of it max. Even less for arsenic at 3% (which I haven't tried). The antimony bronze is somewhat different from tin bronze, it's closer in color to pure copper, a nice pink with silvery sheen. It's also quite hard even at lower alloying element content, and it's very sticky to other metals. I poured it in a muffin pan as I would other metals, and it stuck to it so hard that I had to destroy the muffin pan to get it out of there. A lot of swearing ensued as I had to pull strips of the pan material with pliers off the bronze puck. (edit) for casting tin bronze and antimony bronse I recommend a mold of mild steel, similar to the one swdweeb made. That's what I use. Doesn't stick as much.
The way the oxide forms determines if it protects or destroys the underlying metal. Iron oxide (rust) expands when formed and flakes away. Other oxides adhere and remain attached sealing out the oxygen. Thus preventing further oxidation.
Good point, that must be why steel (mostly iron) rusts through while cast iron (super high carbon and silicon) content doesnt, the iron rust and flakes away leaving just the carbon and silicon as a coating
I think it's to do with electrical potential. A water droplet between two oxidatiin states of iron forms a circuit that drives the reaction, and i guess the expansion exposes fresh metal too..
Great one, lad. Combining brass, aluminum, tin and copper together makes realistic Fools Gold. Creating this kind of combination is a great one to do in bar ingots.
cupcake pans don't work too well for anything but aluminum. I found that out with copper, had to destroy mine too. A mini cast iron loaf pan works really well, and you can find them cheap at tj max, marshalls or if you're lucky very cheap at the goodwill stores.
Paul, These could be sold at every body shop, restoration shop, metal Fab or machine garage that welds on thin steel sheet metal as it provides a type of plug so a MIG welder could fill in! There is a hundred reasons for that from a tear in a fender where hit, rust patch welded but burned thru, filling emblem holes on a Coronet fender to create a Charger or deleting side trim on a door, quarter panel or hood when changing to a new type of scoop. It is almost perfect to hold with the tapered back sides while wearing welding gloves from the back. I would buy one! I used to own a brass punch with 3/8" - 1/2" nose and about six inches long. Just an idea as I have never seen one for sale, even welding supplies. Buy yours before midnight tonight and we will include a denim pocket with snap. But hurry, due to high demand and materials shortage, production will stop and will no longer be manufactured. Support your local copper thieves.😢 Just a limit of 30 per order for 4 easy payment of $15.00 dollars each. Have your name stamped into the side or laser engrave the company log! (Note: Name stamps and laser engraver not included). DK, ASE master Retired.
Antimony is added to (or used to be added) to lead for bullet making. Lead is just a little too soft to be a reliable projectile without a little antimony to harden it.
Cast my very first brass bell 5 inches wide other day. I fire my furnace with coal and charcoal left from last casting. When I clean out my furnace over a period of time I have heaps of coke-charcoal. My bell is mounted on post rail by the steps
It took a while, but after I got over your idiosyncrasies, I kind of like watching your videos. You do provide both information and back it up, most of the time anyway, with results. Thumbs Up!
It appears from the archeological records that the the very first bronzes were alloyed with arsenic. I’m sure that’s not OSHA approved but then we didn’t exactly need big government then.
The arsenic is likely a contaminate naturally found with the ore, probably not in large enough amounts to cause problems. People weren't eating the stuff anyway.
You can't forge bronze as easily as copper or steel, but it can technically be forged. Bronze moves a bit slower, and it does work harden thanks to the tin, so you have to keep annealing it.
That is an early alloy of aluminum called duralumin, it made aluminum hard enough to make stuff like planes. Pure aluminum is too soft/malleable. These days they use other alloys though. Fun fact, the hindenburg was made of duralumin
you might be able to find tin ingots in a hobby store (to make tin soldiers) , i think they also use it to gas solder metal (tin / copper ) raingutters in old or luxury buildings using thicker sticks of tin or lead in america there might not be a lot of buildings that are made like that anymore (over here (haarlem the netherlands ) we got a lot of buildings out of the middle ages that are or have been restored ) so you migt need to special order those tin sticks as for casting it intoo a bell ..... maibe you can have one ingot rollered / cast into a plate and hammerforge it intoo a small table sized gong czcams.com/video/T5ARSxTwTWc/video.html good thing about that is that you dont need a mould bad thing is that it probably work hardens and need to be heated and quenched a few times
Your tin bronze looks rosy. I think that's the antimony in it, since antimony and copper can react to form a type of phosphor bronze. As far as aluminum bronze and chloride wasting, it's much more resistant to chloride wasting.
The solder with Antimony should be saved for reloading/making lead bullets as it hardens the lead. Just use old copper pipe fittings as they have the tin already on the ends and vuwala, you have tin bronze!
tin is common in daily life here in Cornwall, or at least, was for thousands of years until it wasn't financially viable to mine it compared to out in the new world, in fact copper and lead/silver mines were pretty common too, so it's quite likely that "someone a long time ago" you mentioned was from here. and ROMAN TIMES? those long-nosed imperial busybodies were far too busy pissing about with marble pillars and creating a cohesive written language to get a good bronze alloy, they had to trade with us for that.
The fastest way to accidentally get tin-bronze is to melt copper pipe fittings that have been soldered. I was going to make Aluminum Bronze but it tested as Copper and Tin.
A cheap way to get tin is goto the goodwill stores and look for pewter items, they are at least 85% tin, and I've found pieces stamped 90% tin. the rest is antimony and copper. Shouldn't matter for what you do though, it'll be close enough, and the antimony might be beneficial to the alloy. Its soo cheap, I found a plate stamped 90% that weighed about 25 ounces and was only $3
As for forging aluminum bronze, I understand it can be done, but only where the aluminum content is less than 8%. Otherwise it is too hard to be cold worked at all.
Those molds are really cool! Rip cake pan. Also: this channel is turning into “Paul’s Asmr Garage.” For me. Copper makes an amazing toink sound (toink is the scientific term for the sound it makes, right?)
I been missing the Entertainment no time for videos maybe I can catch up soon. I was watching your hand and was thinking of the Addams family/ the hand lol You had like a1k subs now over 13k I knew you would one day not that quick lol Keep doing what your doing and the tank full!. Enjoyed as always
I brought bronze to watchmaking. It stains, it develops patina. I am curious, if 4% germanium would be added to CuSn8 tin bronze (), would that make it staniless? Would you try to smelt this mix of alloy? Maybe you are goint to be the first one to discover stainless bronze! Stainless Steel (chromium oxide protective layer), and Stainless Silver (Argentium 935 and 965, germanium oxide protective layer) already exists...
that sounds pretty awesome but germanium looks a bit pricey! I think yellow brass or naval brass is already pretty "stainless", but a bronze with germanium might look a different color. It's probably worth a try if germanium was a little cheaper
@@PaulsGarage The price of Germanium is 2358 dollar for 1 kg. For a 100 gram germanium 3%, tin 8%, copper 89% bar you would have to pay 7 dollars for the Germanium.
@@PaulsGarage from the size , i'd say it runs too deep to weld , better to cap the whole thing with a piece of dozer cutting edge , added bonus is the cutting edge has carriage bolt holes that are already square for a hardy hole if you place it right , bad part is , cutting edge blades are hardened steel so get some extra cutoff wheels , luck ………...btw , you can find worn blades at junkyards and excavating companies , very cheap or free
I did some research into this a few weeks ago as I was looking into different bronze alloys I could make with the materials on hand and considered adding aluminum because I have a good amount of it. However, apparently this alloy is very brittle and not useful outside of super specific industrial equipment manufacturing applications.
Saw someone's video where they mixed gallium with aluminum. Very bad alloy. Suspect it would contaminate everything it would be mixed with later. Including dirty crucibles.
Is it click bait if you talk about something but don't actually do it? ;-D I know I know, this is simply a precursor to a coin. Reminds me of the mess I had when I poured copper ingots into a brand new muffin tin. Spent hours trying to extract the copper from the steel stuff. Glad to see someone keeping up with the Friday stuff :-) Also glad you made the tin bronze, nice to see what it actually looks like. I was told that something like 20%-25% tin makes the best sounding bell.
In the Army we polished turds all the time.... I mean we made our Lieutenants look good all the time, unless they were $#!tbags then the E-4 mafia was employed to be chronically unemployable. Anyway I much prefer the look of AL BR, I love the golden hue of it and I can't wait to make axes, knives, and all sorts of stuff with it.I wonder if maybe a 90% CU 5% Tin 5% Al alloy would pour and mold better? Any thoughts?
The commercial flux has other agents in it including borax. It is generally in a puck that is pushed to the bottom of the charge. Stinks! But makes for a nearly dross free pour
From medieval times until the present, bell founders have stirred the molten bronze with a green willow pole which acts as a natural degasser. The salicylic acid in the willow drives off excessive hydrogen and oxygen. As someone has already suggested, if you try casting a bell, the proportions are 77% copper to 23% tin so it could work out quite expensive. I don't know how much lead free solder is where you are but in the UK it as around £20 (27 USD) per pound.
Paul, dont be a cheap ass and buy yourself some quality bronze. Budget casting sells it. Most people, including myself are incapable of properly alloying metal at home. Bronze comes in about 500 different flavors. Want to see the newest bronze? Watch me melt cat shit and copper and we can call it Cocoabronze. Everdure contains a handful of ingredients, none of which you could accurately measure to produce repeatable results in a home setting. I've learned after you spend countless hours on patterns and $$$ on investment, the last thing you want the finished product made out of is some hokie joe bullshit homemade metal. It's just not worth it.
antimony is added to solder and other alloys to increase the hardness of the metal and alloys, it's also added to lead to make wheel weights to increase it's toughness and hardness so it doesnt just bend and fly off when your driving down the road. Thats why the bronze you made is so hard, normally it isnt that hard.
I usually use the 99.3% tin, 0.6 copper solder when Im alloying stuff, or use the stuff with lead in it because lead will actually add alot to bronze's lubricating ability, expecially when oil is added.
Usually you want a thicker ingot mold if your doing bronzes and copper alloys, so may want to make an ingot mold out of some 1/8" thick angle iron or something, lol. Glad to see the furnace up and running and that your back into the swing of things.
Just to add , bronze is work hardened , so if you are making a bronze knife and you whack the edge a bunch of times with a hammer , the edge will be stiffer and will go dull much slower.
I tried to make impregnated bronze once. My wife caught me now I'm not allowed in the shed.
I do NOT want to know what kind of safety equipment is needed for that
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Fun thing about antimony since you mentioned it; it was one of the first things alloyed to copper to make bronze, way before tin was. The original bronze discovered by man was an alloy of copper and arsenic, AKA arsenical copper or arsenical bronze. That happened because copper ores were often mixed with arsenic ores and in the smelting process arsenic ended up mixed in the copper and gave bronze. The metal that resulted was much better mechanically than pure copper, so the theory is that those paleo-metallurgists started actively experimented with things that when added to copper ores will result in better alloys. The next one up, and appearing about the same time as arsenical bronze, was antimonial bronze for which similarly ores of antimony were added to the smelt. And then tin was found which gave an even better bronze. As opposed to arsenic and antimony, tin ores are almost never found in close association with copper ores so that one took some time.
I have actually made antimonial bronze in my home furnace by melting copper and adding antimony. Now antimony is less soluble in copper than tin is, so you can get away with maybe 6% of it max. Even less for arsenic at 3% (which I haven't tried). The antimony bronze is somewhat different from tin bronze, it's closer in color to pure copper, a nice pink with silvery sheen. It's also quite hard even at lower alloying element content, and it's very sticky to other metals. I poured it in a muffin pan as I would other metals, and it stuck to it so hard that I had to destroy the muffin pan to get it out of there. A lot of swearing ensued as I had to pull strips of the pan material with pliers off the bronze puck.
(edit) for casting tin bronze and antimony bronse I recommend a mold of mild steel, similar to the one swdweeb made. That's what I use. Doesn't stick as much.
The way the oxide forms determines if it protects or destroys the underlying metal. Iron oxide (rust) expands when formed and flakes away. Other oxides adhere and remain attached sealing out the oxygen. Thus preventing further oxidation.
Good point, that must be why steel (mostly iron) rusts through while cast iron (super high carbon and silicon) content doesnt, the iron rust and flakes away leaving just the carbon and silicon as a coating
I think it's to do with electrical potential. A water droplet between two oxidatiin states of iron forms a circuit that drives the reaction, and i guess the expansion exposes fresh metal too..
Al Bronze won’t take a patina without serious deep etching. You basically have to get the Al out. Fun stuff. Thx.
I found that out the hard way. I left some of it in a bag of chlorine and it just turned black and powdery
The bronze rabbit hole is bottomless
Great one, lad. Combining brass, aluminum, tin and copper together makes realistic Fools Gold. Creating this kind of combination is a great one to do in bar ingots.
i was just thinking about that. what percentages ?
Bullet casters will add antimony to lead to make the lead harder also and they will add a little tin to help the flow of the lead in the molded.
Wonder if that's why theres antimony in the lead free solder? Makes sense I suppose
cupcake pans don't work too well for anything but aluminum. I found that out with copper, had to destroy mine too. A mini cast iron loaf pan works really well, and you can find them cheap at tj max, marshalls or if you're lucky very cheap at the goodwill stores.
Yay! Great to see you melting stuff again, Paul. You'd already inspired me to try melting aluminium and copper.
Paul, These could be sold at every body shop, restoration shop, metal Fab or machine garage that welds on thin steel sheet metal as it provides a type of plug so a MIG welder could fill in! There is a hundred reasons for that from a tear in a fender where hit, rust patch welded but burned thru, filling emblem holes on a Coronet fender to create a Charger or deleting side trim on a door, quarter panel or hood when changing to a new type of scoop. It is almost perfect to hold with the tapered back sides while wearing welding gloves from the back. I would buy one! I used to own a brass punch with 3/8" - 1/2" nose and about six inches long.
Just an idea as I have never seen one for sale, even welding supplies. Buy yours before midnight tonight and we will include a denim pocket with snap. But hurry, due to high demand and materials shortage, production will stop and will no longer be manufactured. Support your local copper thieves.😢
Just a limit of 30 per order for 4 easy payment of $15.00 dollars each. Have your name stamped into the side or laser engrave the company log! (Note: Name stamps and laser engraver not included).
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Antimony is that which destroys money. No wonder solder is so expensive!
I that that was alimony
Sounds true to me!
You can do what called cold forging bronze. This is normally done to cutting edges of those kitchen tools or historical spade based weapons.
Antimony is added to (or used to be added) to lead for bullet making. Lead is just a little too soft to be a reliable projectile without a little antimony to harden it.
Used to add scrap radiator solder to wheel weights when casting bullets (many years ago.)
Fridays are always better with Paul! Entertaining as usual. Now make more videos! Lol
I'm working on it! 🔥
Paul's Garage I know you live to entertain us, you have nothing better to do I am sure...
I got an idea. You could make a couple of simple swords with various alloys.
And test them on each other to find the strongest.
my bet is on the wolframcarbide sword xD
Cast my very first brass bell 5 inches wide other day. I fire my furnace with coal and charcoal left from last casting. When I clean out my furnace over a period of time I have heaps of coke-charcoal. My bell is mounted on post rail by the steps
Scratch testing is a very easy and reliable test for hardness
It took a while, but after I got over your idiosyncrasies, I kind of like watching your videos. You do provide both information and back it up, most of the time anyway, with results. Thumbs Up!
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man, your subtitles don't do you justice.
i gave this video its 1000th thumbs up. that was fun to see "999" change to "1k."
5:10 *mental smile*
It appears from the archeological records that the the very first bronzes were alloyed with arsenic. I’m sure that’s not OSHA approved but then we didn’t exactly need big government then.
The arsenic is likely a contaminate naturally found with the ore, probably not in large enough amounts to cause problems. People weren't eating the stuff anyway.
Been waiting for this for a long time...
Me too!
I like your anvil.
very interesting audiobook you've made. reading a wikipedia XD
lol...
Amazing
Yay! Another metal melting video!
Let the melting begin!
@@PaulsGarage Keep up the great work
I definitely want to see every single time you fire up that furnace
Sounds fun
You should be in the movies as an evil bunny..
Nice walk through of gerneral bronze info.
You can't forge bronze as easily as copper or steel, but it can technically be forged. Bronze moves a bit slower, and it does work harden thanks to the tin, so you have to keep annealing it.
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This will prevent some unnecessary percentage testing in the future.
Glad to help! Definitely dont want too much aluminum
@@PaulsGarage Another one of your videos suggested 5% copper to aluminum. Was that for hardness?
That is an early alloy of aluminum called duralumin, it made aluminum hard enough to make stuff like planes. Pure aluminum is too soft/malleable. These days they use other alloys though. Fun fact, the hindenburg was made of duralumin
you might be able to find tin ingots in a hobby store (to make tin soldiers) , i think they also use it to gas solder metal (tin / copper ) raingutters in old or luxury buildings using thicker sticks of tin or lead
in america there might not be a lot of buildings that are made like that anymore (over here (haarlem the netherlands ) we got a lot of buildings out of the middle ages that are or have been restored ) so you migt need to special order those tin sticks
as for casting it intoo a bell ..... maibe you can have one ingot rollered / cast into a plate and hammerforge it intoo a small table sized gong
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good thing about that is that you dont need a mould bad thing is that it probably work hardens and need to be heated and quenched a few times
Your tin bronze looks rosy. I think that's the antimony in it, since antimony and copper can react to form a type of phosphor bronze.
As far as aluminum bronze and chloride wasting, it's much more resistant to chloride wasting.
Iron ore is actually a lot more widely available than both tin and copper, but it wasn't used until later due to the much higher melting point.
Antimone makes tin and lead harder and increases melting point
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I get a bunch of cheap Tin by looking for Pewter at second hand stores.
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The solder with Antimony should be saved for reloading/making lead bullets as it hardens the lead.
Just use old copper pipe fittings as they have the tin already on the ends and vuwala, you have tin bronze!
i love your videos dude. educational and funny
Very entertaining and informative
Don't worry man, dirty face gives you street cred lol
tin is common in daily life here in Cornwall, or at least, was for thousands of years until it wasn't financially viable to mine it compared to out in the new world, in fact copper and lead/silver mines were pretty common too, so it's quite likely that "someone a long time ago" you mentioned was from here. and ROMAN TIMES? those long-nosed imperial busybodies were far too busy pissing about with marble pillars and creating a cohesive written language to get a good bronze alloy, they had to trade with us for that.
mustard and ammonia are good for getting different patinas.
Great video thanks for sharing your knowledge
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Hehe,that is the bronze i need to make roman/sarmatian pendants and fibulas, so this weekend i need to build the foundry
That would be your furnace. The furnace goes in the foundry. Visit www.alloyavenue.com
The fastest way to accidentally get tin-bronze is to melt copper pipe fittings that have been soldered.
I was going to make Aluminum Bronze but it tested as Copper and Tin.
A cheap way to get tin is goto the goodwill stores and look for pewter items, they are at least 85% tin, and I've found pieces stamped 90% tin. the rest is antimony and copper. Shouldn't matter for what you do though, it'll be close enough, and the antimony might be beneficial to the alloy. Its soo cheap, I found a plate stamped 90% that weighed about 25 ounces and was only $3
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As for forging aluminum bronze, I understand it can be done, but only where the aluminum content is less than 8%. Otherwise it is too hard to be cold worked at all.
That was entertaining to watch! :)
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Cymbals are made from 8 to 20% tin with traces of silver
Those molds are really cool! Rip cake pan. Also: this channel is turning into “Paul’s Asmr Garage.” For me. Copper makes an amazing toink sound (toink is the scientific term for the sound it makes, right?)
Toink sounds pretty scientific to me
If you had have quenched in oil it would be a lot harder.
How many times can you bang your crucible against that muffin pan before it cracks or chips?
Now you need to buy a bona-fide ingot mold. 😉
I been missing the Entertainment no time for videos maybe I can catch up soon. I was watching your hand and was thinking of the Addams family/ the hand lol You had like a1k subs now over 13k I knew you would one day not that quick lol Keep doing what your doing and the tank full!. Enjoyed as always
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Why not quench them in oil?
I brought bronze to watchmaking. It stains, it develops patina. I am curious, if 4% germanium would be added to CuSn8 tin bronze (), would that make it staniless? Would you try to smelt this mix of alloy? Maybe you are goint to be the first one to discover stainless bronze! Stainless Steel (chromium oxide protective layer), and Stainless Silver (Argentium 935 and 965, germanium oxide protective layer) already exists...
that sounds pretty awesome but germanium looks a bit pricey! I think yellow brass or naval brass is already pretty "stainless", but a bronze with germanium might look a different color. It's probably worth a try if germanium was a little cheaper
@@PaulsGarage The price of Germanium is 2358 dollar for 1 kg.
For a 100 gram germanium 3%, tin 8%, copper 89% bar you would have to pay 7 dollars for the Germanium.
@@PaulsGarage for a 100 gram cast bar, 2% germanium would be 7 bucks
Tin bronze can be forged I’m not sure about aluminum bronze
what tin alloy do you get with 70% tin and 30% copper?
Someone has to say it. Lead free solder sucks.
Lead is magical for many reasons
keep an eye on that crack in your train track anvil , when that busts off its gonna hurt like hell on your shin lol
Think I should weld that up or something?
@@PaulsGarage from the size , i'd say it runs too deep to weld , better to cap the whole thing with a piece of dozer cutting edge , added bonus is the cutting edge has carriage bolt holes that are already square for a hardy hole if you place it right , bad part is , cutting edge blades are hardened steel so get some extra cutoff wheels , luck ………...btw , you can find worn blades at junkyards and excavating companies , very cheap or free
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Would a brass pewter combo work for art wire?
I wonder what the alloy would look like if it was an amalgamation of 70% copper, 15% tin, and 15% aluminum by volume?
I did some research into this a few weeks ago as I was looking into different bronze alloys I could make with the materials on hand and considered adding aluminum because I have a good amount of it. However, apparently this alloy is very brittle and not useful outside of super specific industrial equipment manufacturing applications.
That would be brass
verrry interesting , what % of said metals to make a nice golden color ? thanx, woody.
Make a bronze bell
Out of curiosity, I wonder how gallium would affect aluminum bronze? Future experiment maybe? 🤷♂️
Saw someone's video where they mixed gallium with aluminum. Very bad alloy.
Suspect it would contaminate everything it would be mixed with later. Including dirty crucibles.
but you need smeltry for this
My kiln is 5 times that size
Is it click bait if you talk about something but don't actually do it? ;-D I know I know, this is simply a precursor to a coin.
Reminds me of the mess I had when I poured copper ingots into a brand new muffin tin. Spent hours trying to extract the copper from the steel stuff.
Glad to see someone keeping up with the Friday stuff :-) Also glad you made the tin bronze, nice to see what it actually looks like. I was told that something like 20%-25% tin makes the best sounding bell.
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What happens if you switch the ratio when making aluminum bronze to 88% aluminum and 12% copper?
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In the Army we polished turds all the time.... I mean we made our Lieutenants look good all the time, unless they were $#!tbags then the E-4 mafia was employed to be chronically unemployable. Anyway I much prefer the look of AL BR, I love the golden hue of it and I can't wait to make axes, knives, and all sorts of stuff with it.I wonder if maybe a 90% CU 5% Tin 5% Al alloy would pour and mold better? Any thoughts?
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I've been thinking about alloying copper and mercury... 'cus it could cause so many arguments.... Is it copper-amalgam or is it mercury-bronze?!?!?
aluminum bronze looks better i think.
What is 'sodda' i've never heard of it ?
Soda? Like the drink?
I make my ingots in sand. I just make prints in the sand and pour into the sand ingot molds
But you get a layer of sand fused to the metal?
When you polish a turd, you end up with a shiny turd........but its still a turd
Why are you in a button up and dress coat? Do you not own actual work clothes?
Make yourself a knife man
Use potassium chloride to flux and degas your melt
I think luckygen1001 has a video testing that, might be worth watching
The commercial flux has other agents in it including borax. It is generally in a puck that is pushed to the bottom of the charge. Stinks! But makes for a nearly dross free pour
From medieval times until the present, bell founders have stirred the molten bronze with a green willow pole which acts as a natural degasser. The salicylic acid in the willow drives off excessive hydrogen and oxygen. As someone has already suggested, if you try casting a bell, the proportions are 77% copper to 23% tin so it could work out quite expensive. I don't know how much lead free solder is where you are but in the UK it as around £20 (27 USD) per pound.
What he just say
So why are tin cans called tin cans when they're made out of steel? Eh, eh, eh.
Reverend Rodinal Because first they used tin coated steel to make tin cans, soldered together with tin to seal them off
Did we really need the card that your wife found it? Pretty much a given.
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Paul, dont be a cheap ass and buy yourself some quality bronze. Budget casting sells it. Most people, including myself are incapable of properly alloying metal at home. Bronze comes in about 500 different flavors. Want to see the newest bronze? Watch me melt cat shit and copper and we can call it Cocoabronze. Everdure contains a handful of ingredients, none of which you could accurately measure to produce repeatable results in a home setting. I've learned after you spend countless hours on patterns and $$$ on investment, the last thing you want the finished product made out of is some hokie joe bullshit homemade metal. It's just not worth it.
Blah blah blah... Lol I still watch.
Keep watching, I'll keep blah-ing
@@PaulsGarage and i will. Your videos are great. And more fire!
Your cliche attempts of sarcasm made me feel uncomfortable. But that was cool thank you
Most of your video was chatter.
Why are you talking in such a manner?