Melting salt & glass pt.1

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  • @larissacald
    @larissacald Před 9 lety +20

    I came to youtube to see a pizza recipe now I'm watching this. we never know the way our life is going to lead us to

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety +10

      The real mystery is how did the pizza turn out? - Kae

  • @DieterGribnitz
    @DieterGribnitz Před 9 lety +8

    Always remember to ware safety glasses when throwing experimental super heated materials into experimental molds. I talk out of experience. Some times you get unexpected reactions when your melted substance hits your mold. If I didn't follow these safety protocols, I would be blind right now. Always beware the explosive reaction.

  • @lemonade5245
    @lemonade5245 Před 8 lety +1

    i love how it is crude
    like the sawblade on top of the melter pot, the floor literally made of dirt, everything looks so badass

  • @enceladus32
    @enceladus32 Před 8 lety +2

    Not sure if someone has already said this, but I think the reason the salt is black is because it's cooling so rapidly it has no time to form the pretty crystals, and instead just makes some kind of salt obsidian.

  • @IIGrayfoxII
    @IIGrayfoxII Před 9 lety +29

    I think it is going black because the sodium which is an alkali metal is reacting to the water in the air and it is oxidizing.
    I would also becareful when melting salt since normal table salt is NaCl you are turning the Na(sodium) into a liquid metal but the Cl(Chlorine) might be escaping and i think it is general knowledge that Chlorine is toxic

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety +9

      +IIGrayfoxII We were doing this in a extremely open and ventilated area. However it is good to be careful.

    • @scunts
      @scunts Před 9 lety +4

      +IIGrayfoxII I'm pretty sure you can only separate the two elements via electrolysis on the molten or near molten product.

    • @valentinlance8072
      @valentinlance8072 Před 9 lety +3

      +Devils Advocate That's what I have heard/read as well, that you need an electric current running through the molten salt to separate the sodium from the chlorine.

    • @diskordianer
      @diskordianer Před 9 lety +1

      +Valentin Lance Keypoint is: to get Chlorine (Cl2) from Chloride (Cl-) the Cl- has to get rid of electrons and someone has to take them. This is usually done by electrolysis where you take electrons from the chloride on one electrode to turn it into chlorine, and you pump electrons in the sodium (Na+) to get elemental sodium (Na) at the other electrode.
      You will not get elemental chlorine or elemental sodium by just smelting NaCl.

    • @valentinlance8072
      @valentinlance8072 Před 9 lety

      diskordianer Yes, that is what I was trying to get at, that you need two electrodes, running a current through molten (there is better conductivity that way and the salt becomes less stable), the current would pull electrons out of the salt, and the elements end up separating because the elections are what made them stick together in the first place.

  • @DarthSinistris
    @DarthSinistris Před 9 lety +53

    I honestly did not know salt could melt. It never even crossed my mind.

    • @Anony.Mousse
      @Anony.Mousse Před 9 lety +6

      +Gmd Gentry not wood

    • @MyLonewolf25
      @MyLonewolf25 Před 9 lety +2

      +danick danck it can under special circumstances like in a O2 depreciated environment at extremely high heat but it's almost impossible

    • @zenaidaalejo27
      @zenaidaalejo27 Před 9 lety +1

      What about fire?

    • @lucblanchard3749
      @lucblanchard3749 Před 9 lety +3

      +Zenaida Alejo Fire is just heat.. how can heat melt

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler Před 8 lety +1

      +MyLonewolf25 Wood is not a compount. It's a mixture so it doesn't have a melting point. It turns to carbon and releases various volatiles like water, acetic acid, ammonia, some other nasty organic compounds, etc. Charcoal will then, at way higher temperatures, sublimate into carbon gas. It will not melt at normal atmospheric pressure.

  • @adracamas
    @adracamas Před 9 lety +2

    Melting point of salt is 1,474°F or 801°C depending on your temp measure.
    Glass has a melting point of 2552°F or ~1400°C.

  • @velophilercl
    @velophilercl Před 9 lety +1

    I think people that have hobbies like this are the most content people in life. I'm not exactly looking forward to fighting traffic Monday morning while I go to my job (which I do actually quite enjoy) and timing my departure to the minute to avoid the returning traffic. Since I travel a crazy amount for work, I don't have a steady place to develop of hobby like this. But I'm thinking I really need to take stock of my life.

    • @clydegray9714
      @clydegray9714 Před rokem

      The thing about time is running out!
      You can spend it, but you cant keep it. Once it's gone you can never get it back. Spend it wisely get a hobby and call it your life.

  • @wasd____
    @wasd____ Před 8 lety +3

    The salt acts like flux to strip iron oxide off the cast iron, which makes the salt black when it solidifies. If you had a ceramic crucible and mold, you could probably get it to be clear or white.

  • @bigfoot3475
    @bigfoot3475 Před 8 lety +26

    OKAY you put salt.....you forgot pepper.

  • @kickme8x
    @kickme8x Před 9 lety +12

    In ceramics salt is sometimes fumed in the kiln for a particular effect. The sodium reacts to the silica in the clay making glass and releases toxic chlorine gas. This is done anywhere between 2,381°F and as low as 1,641°F. I thought for sure that what you were doing would release toxic gas and leave you with a highly explosive chunk of sodium, but nothing so glamorous appears to have happened. The more i know the more i know that i know nothing.

    • @michaelnurrenbrock7845
      @michaelnurrenbrock7845 Před 9 lety +3

      the smarter I get, the dumber I feel :P

    • @paullangford8179
      @paullangford8179 Před 8 lety +1

      +Eric Cowan To get the sodium, from a salt melt, you have to pass electric current through it. You get chlorine gas at one electrode and sodium liquid at the other. Neither is something you want to be anywhere near, at any time! Think "unexploded bomb".

    • @JanetWilham
      @JanetWilham Před 8 lety

      +Paul Langford example of this is a car battery.

    • @paullangford8179
      @paullangford8179 Před 8 lety +1

      +Janet Wilham Car battery got water in it. If you overcharge, you get hydrogen gas, which if in a confined space can cause an explosion. Chlorine gas is toxic, burns the lungs and kills you. Sodium metal is extremely reactive; if you drop it on water, you have a big problem with the hydrogen gas generated so quickly, but also if it touches you, it reacts fast enough that the heat melts it, and the effect on your skin is like napalm (guess where the "Na" comes from).

  • @clintsteel446
    @clintsteel446 Před 9 lety +2

    working in a plant where salt cake was run through a smelter, I know for a first hand experience that salt that has reached the melting temperature it is very volatile and (can) explode in a sudden temperature change and, if it should strike you in your eyes, you are blind! SO,, you had better take precautions to protect your eyes

  • @Disinf3ctant
    @Disinf3ctant Před 9 lety +4

    Carbon always cakes on hot surfaces. Its nothing to do with contaminants, you just have to keep the exposed face of the poured block oxygen deprived. Do this by keeping a cool flame on it while it hardens. Thats why people who pour gold bars put the cooling bars under jets of fire while the gold becomes barely solid enough to plonk into water.

    • @whtwolf100
      @whtwolf100 Před 9 lety

      +Abrahm Davis no actually...this isn't sodium, it's still just salt.

  • @katefernoliver
    @katefernoliver Před 8 lety +7

    "I have steady hands Doctor."
    "Wanna bite?"
    I'm subscribing because you're bloody funny

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety

      +Kate Herreid Thanks!

    • @zaydway8025
      @zaydway8025 Před 8 lety

      +What We Made any tips on getting coal started easily? I can get mine lit off but it will slowly go out after a while. thanks!

    • @drnastey
      @drnastey Před 7 lety

      Kate Herreid same 😄

    • @sirpiggerman9596
      @sirpiggerman9596 Před 7 lety

      She's actually a 240lb hairy dude. So yes, yes you can...😞

  • @mccalli3560
    @mccalli3560 Před 7 lety +1

    That looks both fun and interesting at the same time!

  • @realisticthinker3752
    @realisticthinker3752 Před 9 lety +1

    That must be the most badass intro I have ever seen. Keep up the metal working its awesome.

  • @vidznstuff1
    @vidznstuff1 Před 9 lety +3

    Try "kosher" or sea salt and see what happens. They have no iodine in them.

  • @bhod6120
    @bhod6120 Před 9 lety +121

    just a friendly suggestion. wear a face shield when you smelt anything.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety +9

      +Bri Hodson Yah we didn't own one before this vid we do now. -Caleb

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety +2

      mr mi5 in our newest video we got the budget to face shields. - Kae

    • @Jester123ish
      @Jester123ish Před 9 lety +1

      +Bri Hodson
      Not to mention a leather apron....

    • @salsisto2467
      @salsisto2467 Před 9 lety +8

      +Bri Hodson also realize that chlorine gas will be emitted from melting salt (NaCl)

    • @PierReVesper
      @PierReVesper Před 9 lety +17

      +Bri Hodson He has his beard for protection...

  • @00soundwave00
    @00soundwave00 Před 7 lety +2

    I like his sense of humor. =)

  • @jeffreyrein1619
    @jeffreyrein1619 Před 9 lety +1

    The blue glass is called cobalt. It requires far more heat than normal glass to melt. If you want to melt glass go with a "flint" your normal everyday clear glass.

  • @Angola6
    @Angola6 Před 9 lety +7

    Maybe the Iodine gave it some color once it burned? Try non iodized, i'd be curious to see that.

  • @markmccormack7206
    @markmccormack7206 Před 8 lety +21

    The words you're looking for are, "furnace," and, "crucible."
    A smelter produces metal from ore.

  • @michaelhuffman1033
    @michaelhuffman1033 Před 8 lety

    The reddish to purple color is due to using iodized salt. The elemental Iodine is
    vaporizing. Pure salt (SaCl) will turn grey when it solidifies after being molten.

  • @breaneainn
    @breaneainn Před 9 lety

    Chefs "season" black steel pans by heating salt in them. It draws any impurities and moisture out of the surface of the metal, so as it cools, you can replace that with oil which then gets trapped in the surface, making them non-stick.

  • @danbodine7754
    @danbodine7754 Před 8 lety +6

    The black color in the salt us probably from the iodine in the salt oxidizing.

  • @addiewylie3813
    @addiewylie3813 Před 8 lety +6

    hook the molten salt up to some electrodes and youll be able to extract pure sodium

  • @sonidoexperiencia
    @sonidoexperiencia Před 6 lety

    This was strangely satisfying to me...

  • @ragavpreethi9179
    @ragavpreethi9179 Před 8 lety +1

    DOUBLE DONE WITH THIS VIDEO

  • @mofo681
    @mofo681 Před 9 lety +42

    that intro is so euphoric

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety +1

      Chef Vortivask We can all agree on that. -Kae

    • @ThinJizzy
      @ThinJizzy Před 9 lety

      What We Made m'lady

    • @scunts
      @scunts Před 9 lety +2

      +Chef Vortivask First video I have watched of this channel. I thought he was going to trigger a massive explosion while just slowly walking away like a bad-ass.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety

      Devils Advocate If we had the budget that would be #1 on the list of things to do. -Kae

    • @sparrowthenerd
      @sparrowthenerd Před 7 lety

      +Devils Advocate i thought so too lol

  • @liflythesergal1707
    @liflythesergal1707 Před 8 lety +16

    try poring molten salt into water it will surpirse you

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety +1

      +SyN Ambros Oh really? czcams.com/video/lreob7RYhpM/video.html ;)

    • @liflythesergal1707
      @liflythesergal1707 Před 8 lety

      Oh Sorry I dident know you allredy did that

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety +1

      No problemo.

    • @liflythesergal1707
      @liflythesergal1707 Před 8 lety +1

      should i delete the message
      or something im honored that you noticed me Thank You

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety +1

      +SyN Ambros No you're fine, maybe someone will see the comment and they will go watch the video, so it's all good :)

  • @rholbrook0587
    @rholbrook0587 Před 9 lety

    I would have never thought to try this but it's awesome that you guys did! I think that darkening might be the potassium Iodate (Iodized salt), it's stabilier, dextrose, or the calcium silicate that is frequently added to prevent caking showing up as a contaminant. The melting point of NaCl is 1474 degrees F. I can't believe you got it that hot!! (At that temperature, it seems to me that the dextrose should have been converted totally to water and carbon dioxide). Iodine is a black solid and purple gas so I am leaning towards the iodine contamination here. Awesome. :)

  • @thegoodwolf4255
    @thegoodwolf4255 Před 9 lety +1

    "it looks like a really red cake"... " wanna bite?" lol

  • @RayMAKES
    @RayMAKES Před 8 lety +3

    very interesting video....now i want to start melting stuff for my channel!! thanks for posting!

  • @SVMTY0725
    @SVMTY0725 Před 9 lety +5

    That iron man reference though

  • @user-md9fg7cz6q
    @user-md9fg7cz6q Před 7 lety

    Nice video as always, always great to see a "youngster" not having his face buried in a video game. Sincerely brother, were safety glasses and a face shield. When you stuck your nose down there at the end of the vid I was hoping that the hardening didn't out run the off gassing. I burnt the crap out of my face once with lead, only 800 degrees, it beyond sucked, learn from my mistake.

  • @FfejTball
    @FfejTball Před 8 lety +7

    You should google "molten salt reactor". Different materials, but a very good idea nonetheless.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety +2

      Thanks!

    • @darkstatehk
      @darkstatehk Před 8 lety

      +What We Made +FfejTball Was thinking the same thing. There's a super interesting documentary on that reactor from the 60's plus that guy from the TED talks.

  • @ScottVeirsinVA
    @ScottVeirsinVA Před 9 lety +5

    glass will melt at about 2100-2400 degrees - for that kind of glass.

    • @RobJ1929
      @RobJ1929 Před 9 lety +3

      +Scott Veirs
      I used to work in a glass factory and you are correct 2400 F but they add some sort of lyme for breaking down the recycle glass. I used to work for King Seely Thermos some people did not know that there thermos bottles were made of glass. The thing I get is 'what? Have no clue to what it was'

    • @frechjo
      @frechjo Před 4 lety

      @James Parker
      2400 Farenheit, not Celsius . That's around 1315 C°.
      Also, glass becomes increasingly soft with temperature. What's considered melting temperature is higher than what's needed for it to become softer and malleable, so a bottle could flatten down cooler than that. (Flowing glass vs just malleable glass).

  • @Ham549
    @Ham549 Před 8 lety

    Thank you always wondered what molten salt look like.

  • @kurisutofa1
    @kurisutofa1 Před 8 lety +1

    4:54 "i have steady hands doctor"
    that was funny to me for some reason :/

  • @RhetteLawe
    @RhetteLawe Před 9 lety +4

    When you say 'salt' I assume you mean sodium chloride....
    Generally speaking, sodium chloride is acidic. This is due to the nature of the chloride ion, and it becomes more pronounced the higher the energy of the overall system. Molten sodium chloride is probably pretty acidic.
    Silicon Dioxide forms a variety of complexes, but it does so under basic conditions. In fact, acidic conditions are noted for increasing the melting temperature, depending on the silicate that forms, so it's not too surprising that the glass failed to dissolve in the molten salt, despite it being hot enough purely by comparing melting temperatures.
    You can actually get glass to dissolve into regular temperature water, but you have to use strong bases to do it. Sodium and Potassium silicate are relatively easy to get a hold of and are the product of dissolving glass into a strong hydroxide solution of potassium or sodium respectively. Sodium silicate is referred to as "Water Glass" and it's usefulness is hard to understate. Potassium silicate might actually be more useful, since glasses containing potassium are noted for their strength, but it's use isn't as well documented.
    Molten salt is useful in it's own way though. Actually there's some interesting stuff you can do with salt and polycarbonate. Polycarbonate is considered more transparent then glass, allowing a wider range of light to pass through it unimpeded; if you combine this with a transparent salt, you can make lenses and optics that can see in different spectrums and stuff.

    • @joshuaschneider9145
      @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety +1

      RhetteLawe
      you're pretty much right on about the silicate chemistry. pure silica is also "water glass" as its totally water soluble as well. typical glass formulations are fluxed with sodium bicarbonate and limestone, to lower their melt point and increase their solubility resistance

    • @joshuaschneider9145
      @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety

      RhetteLawe
      though i do have to say there are quite a few formulae of clear glasses that produce far superior refractivity characteristics than polycarb , english leaded crystal and borosilicates such as old pyrex (new pyrex post sale of the brand is just dual tempered window glass no boric oxide in it at all) being two examples you might be familiar with.

    • @RhetteLawe
      @RhetteLawe Před 9 lety

      The usefulness of polycarb as an optic lies in it's extreme transmission range. lead crystal glass, although they don't have physical flaws, don't transmit all wavelengths of light. Specifically, there are some infrared wavelengths that polycarbonate is good at transmitting, and specifically glass is bad at transmitting. This is why you have to use a salt and plastic cover like polycarbonate to make focusing lenses.
      Infrared lasers are cheap atm, so having the ability to make opts for them might be something useful.

    • @joshuaschneider9145
      @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety

      true i was referring purely to the lack of those physical flaws, you are of course right in terms of transmitted wavelengths. are you familiar with methods of making things like synthetic opals? theres a ton of neat stuff that can be done artistically.

    • @RhetteLawe
      @RhetteLawe Před 9 lety +1

      Josh S
      I have not specifically messed with trying to make synthetic opal, but I am aware of several methods.
      It depends largely on what aspect of the real opal you're trying to go with. Emulating the natural product is tedious, purely through the components given in the natural product, but there's things out there that can work. Dichroic glass mostly.

  • @roflcopterkklol
    @roflcopterkklol Před 9 lety +7

    Look up liquid salt nuclear reactors, Liquid salt is quite remarkable.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 9 lety

      +roflcopterkklol I think it is actually the sodium-component of the salt that is liquid. Not the full compound salt.

    • @roflcopterkklol
      @roflcopterkklol Před 9 lety +2

      carultch Nope the salt itself melts, Salt has a melting boiling temp of around 370C, the reason it would be great for nuclear reactors is if there was ever a breach in the system the salts will plug the breach, Because they need to be heated to over 300 degree to be liquid when the salts come back into contact with the air they solidify, if we were using liquid salt reactors the Japan melt down never would have happened.

    • @RebelTheRealRebel
      @RebelTheRealRebel Před 9 lety +1

      +roflcopterkklol nuclear criticalities are self heating. meltdowns happen when things jam up and the nuclear rods can't be cooled be the water. come up with instant permanent ice, and you got yourself a billion dollar product to sell to governments around the world

    • @shomest2239
      @shomest2239 Před 9 lety +2

      +Yvette Zarate the point of liquid salt reactors is that the salts are much better at conducting the heat away from the fuel. Meltdowns happen not when things jam up, but when there is nothing taking heat away from the core, like cooling water.

    • @TriangularFilms
      @TriangularFilms Před 9 lety

      +Kyle Cornwell Well Said.

  • @bendriscoll6631
    @bendriscoll6631 Před 8 lety +1

    It looks delicious in that metal cup, like papaya juice or something like that.

  • @Metal_Master_YT
    @Metal_Master_YT Před 2 lety

    its black/brown because of iron/rust that got into the salt. it will also turn black if it touches charcoal/carbon. it absorbs impurities really well, makes it hard to keep clean.
    I had this same idea though, I wanted to mix glass and salt, to make a salty cup or something xD imagine salty glass?

  • @JohnDoe-ht1de
    @JohnDoe-ht1de Před 9 lety +6

    It's called a crucible.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 9 lety

      +John Doe Oh, so that's what a crucible is. What does that have to do with the Puritan story about the Salem Witch Trials?

    • @JohnDoe-ht1de
      @JohnDoe-ht1de Před 9 lety +1

      +carultch I don't know what does it have to to with the Salem Witch Trials? I was referring to the contraption that they are using to melt the glass and sodium.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 9 lety

      John Doe
      There's a story about the Salem Witch Trials called The Crucible. And I've always wondered #1 what a crucible is, and #2, what it has to do with the story.

    • @JohnDoe-ht1de
      @JohnDoe-ht1de Před 9 lety +1

      carultch The Crucible is a 1953 play that was a fictitious dramatization partly based on the a Salem Witch Trials but a 'crucible' is also a noun describing a metal or ceramic pot used to melt glass and metals.

    • @redblade43
      @redblade43 Před 9 lety

      +John Doe But he is using a ladle

  • @foreverofthestars4718
    @foreverofthestars4718 Před 8 lety +6

    It's not English it's the scientifically proper term. Aluminium

  • @Mastapoole
    @Mastapoole Před 8 lety +1

    Great video guys. very interesting seeing what happens when you melt salt for sure. keep up the great work.

  • @MisterMitchMM
    @MisterMitchMM Před 9 lety

    Great video. I love experimenting in my shop and plan to watch more of your videos.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety

      +mr10man69 Yah these type of videos are a lot of fun to do every now and then. Kinda breaks up the normal shop routine. -Caleb

  • @TheProCactus
    @TheProCactus Před 9 lety +79

    American or not, Its Aluminium.

    • @rhodi112
      @rhodi112 Před 9 lety +6

      Aluminium not aloomeenoom aluminium

    • @elevatesounds7000
      @elevatesounds7000 Před 9 lety +13

      its aluminum dumbass

    • @ExtremeBoyheat
      @ExtremeBoyheat Před 9 lety +12

      +Elevate sounds +TheProCactus Both are correct.

    • @elevatesounds7000
      @elevatesounds7000 Před 9 lety +3

      L4v31d3m pro isnt correct, hes calling it aluminium. Its called aluminum, not with an "I" between the "n" and "u".

    • @GraveUypo
      @GraveUypo Před 9 lety +40

      +Elevate sounds
      Spanish: aluminio
      Portuguese: alumínio
      Brit English: aluminium
      Dutch: aluminium
      Turkish: alüminyum
      Italian: alluminio
      French: aluminium
      German: aluminium
      Swedish: aluminium
      see the trend?
      then came an american and say: Nooo i can't say that, it's too hard. aluminum is bettah!

  • @joem1309
    @joem1309 Před 8 lety +4

    why so many dislikes?

    • @arunkandel5138
      @arunkandel5138 Před 8 lety

      you are disliking others video and you are dislike king

  • @HMDickson
    @HMDickson Před 8 lety +2

    You boys will be up for a "Darwin Award" before you know it!

  • @Laughing_Dragon
    @Laughing_Dragon Před 8 lety +1

    "...and then you will never taste anything again"
    your wrong...
    he will taste pain...MWAHAHA...MWAHAHHAHAHAHA...
    MEAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA!!!
    XD

  • @bendriscoll6631
    @bendriscoll6631 Před 8 lety +3

    Wear something better than jeans for this. A hot welding rod will burn through work pants and flesh in a fraction of a second, I can't even imagine the horrors a drop of molten salt or aluminium would cause if it landed on you.

  • @emilyswanson6129
    @emilyswanson6129 Před 6 lety

    I agree with the previous suggestion and also advise you to wear safety footwear and keep clear of the timber when pouring molten liquid into it.

  • @joshuaschneider9145
    @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety

    hey boys, look up the murphy firebucket, its purpose built for melting glass but i use it sometimes as a mini forge also. keep it melty!!!

  • @DaFlyingMusubi808
    @DaFlyingMusubi808 Před 8 lety +1

    I just think that intro is pretty amazing

  • @dougiequick1
    @dougiequick1 Před 8 lety

    I used to work at an aero space company that kept a large "salt bath" going 24/7 which was molten salt. Used for heat treating certain things I believe. Now the reason I mention this is because they were always highly worried that the salt would get too hot and go exothermic and EXPLODE...They paid to have an electrician and plumber on duty 24/7 365 days a year due to the extreme danger involved with that and some other stuff...anyway I know diddly about such things but thought that maybe it is something that someone might want to look into befor melting much salt??

  • @dreamyrhodes
    @dreamyrhodes Před 9 lety

    You could pull a single crystal out of the salt. You need a small salt crytal and dip it into the molten salt and then pull it up slowly it should form a clean crystal without fractions.

  • @sideswipe147
    @sideswipe147 Před 9 lety +1

    you guys just effed up your anvil by letting that salt cool on the work surface.

  • @jesusgutierrez7672
    @jesusgutierrez7672 Před 9 lety

    pfft a beanie in 80 degree weather. this Guy!

  • @Lahirukevin
    @Lahirukevin Před 8 lety

    if you put two electrodes in the molten salt you can separate Sodium from the salt. its a metal that catches fire/ blow up when you through it in water.

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance Před 9 lety

    Hand grinders and blowers are precious. guard it with your life.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety

      +Larkinchance Yah I really love my rivet forge. -Caleb

  • @peachyannie9351
    @peachyannie9351 Před 7 lety +2

    I have steady hands my love!😂✋🏻😭💖😉

  • @vmelkon
    @vmelkon Před 8 lety

    If you don't want to contaminate your salt, poor a pile and use a propane torch. Heat it from the top. You will have a clean melted salt, which look likes water except it glows red.
    I have done it with salt (NaCl mp 801 °C) and I have done it with Na2CO3 (mp = ~850 °C)

  • @Fireball_Roberts
    @Fireball_Roberts Před 9 lety +1

    Great video! I'm thinking about getting into beard culture(forging, blacksmithing, homebrew beers) If either of you gentlesirs have any tips please let me know.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety

      +Reddit Gold User Well I can't help you with beers. I can however encourage you in blacksmithing. It is an enjoyable art and can be fairly simple to get started in. There are plenty of youtube vids about simple forges and whatnot. Depending on where you live city, suburb, small town or country it can be a bit more difficult to set up something to work with. Nonetheless I would encourage you to give it a shot. -Caleb

  • @MsToobz
    @MsToobz Před 7 lety

    Cool. If you melted pure salt (not iodized) it should come out white. Molten salt is very reactive. Tiny impurities (like copper ions) can make it change color.

  • @19cosmo91
    @19cosmo91 Před 9 lety

    Cool video! I was hoping you weren't going to burn yourself @4:16 and theeeen, plumber's crack lol.

  • @dout9929
    @dout9929 Před 8 lety

    Had you passed an electric current through the salt it would have broken the molecules down into base elements NA & CL. The sodium is fun to play with but the chlorine gas will kill so make sure to use some sort of powered ventilation system to keep it well away from people. Also the the sodium Will react violently with the moisture in the air so it should be keepers in oil.

  • @macadamiablk5671
    @macadamiablk5671 Před 8 lety

    I enjoyed that skit

  • @CasunGaming
    @CasunGaming Před 7 lety +2

    so was that a salty burn then?

  • @Reklaw476
    @Reklaw476 Před 9 lety +1

    Literally just finished watching Iron Man! You already got a like for being interesting but if I could do it again I would just for that quote! XD

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 9 lety

      Blue .Falcon Thanks for the like! I couldn't have asked for a better moment for the quote though. - Caleb

  • @World_Theory
    @World_Theory Před 8 lety

    Where that wood was smoking so heavily, it actually would have caught fire, if it was given a spark. It's not actually the solid wood that burns; it's the vapors (other than water) coming off of the wood when heated enough, that are fueling the flame.
    I'd also suggest that you find a material with a sufficiently high melting point (above the temperature of your furnace), that also will reflect/insulate heat better, and use that as lining for the burn chamber of your furnace. There's something called "refractory" that is designed for this purpose, but some really lightweight clay might work better than metal, if you can't get any refractory. I'm still researching ways to fire clay, but so far it seems tricky, so do the research beforehand, if you want to fire your own clay. I wonder if mixing the lighter-weight ashes with clay would produce a more insulating clay. Anyway, most important tip for firing clay: make absolutely sure it's completely super dry, before firing.

    • @World_Theory
      @World_Theory Před 8 lety

      And now that I think of it, you probably wouldn't need whole, undamaged clay for lining your furnace with. Just some broken bits held together with some cement or something, forming a wall. (Use gloves when handling cement though. I think I've heard that it has a component that can eat away at skin. Lime, or Lye, or something.) Sorry if I'm just volunteering a bunch of knowledge you don't care about, by the way. I just kinda get excited about building things like this.

    • @jrblood4807
      @jrblood4807 Před 7 lety

      World Theory )

  • @cloudnaeris2672
    @cloudnaeris2672 Před 9 lety

    i wonder how solid it is maybe next time you guys should try to crack it open to see the inside :o

  • @ogretowman8695
    @ogretowman8695 Před 7 lety

    That would be called a hand crank forge. Way cool!

  • @danwitherow9708
    @danwitherow9708 Před 8 lety +1

    For future reference I don't know what type of salt you used, but if it is table salt the chemical composition is NaCl. If you were to separate the Chlorine from this you would get a chlorine gas, which is highly toxic and dangerous. Next time I would recommend wearing some sort of breathing apparatus. Just a suggestion, for your health, that stuff is really nasty. Cool vid though.

  • @Orc-icide
    @Orc-icide Před 9 lety

    Salt + Cast Iron + time = rust
    Molten Salt + Cast Iron = rust in liquid form. It turns black because it has cast iron in it.
    Did you pour your aluminum before or after taking out impurities? It pours smooth when pure.

  • @sk8rgirl675
    @sk8rgirl675 Před 8 lety

    Could you please smelt salt and sand together and show me what it looks like when pouring and after its cooled?

  • @ballchang8286
    @ballchang8286 Před 9 lety

    This guy is boring enough, but I love it.

  • @Oracle428
    @Oracle428 Před 9 lety

    I love how you all did this just because you were curious about what would happen. =]

  • @beviwaphillips3328
    @beviwaphillips3328 Před 8 lety

    English with a southern accent is the best. 👌👌

  • @lisakingscott7729
    @lisakingscott7729 Před rokem +1

    If Americans call Aluminium Aluminum, do they also call Sodium Sodum, Potassium Potassum, Calcium Calcum, etc??? 😁

  • @stevegehm9489
    @stevegehm9489 Před 7 lety +1

    i built a kiln in order to make obsolete parts for a fame implement.,,,made the parts fine....then, hot forge and curiousity....a beer can did nothin'....but it could slump a bottle in 15 seconds... men and their toys. lol

  • @lordchickenhawk
    @lordchickenhawk Před 9 lety

    Cool experiment :) Perhaps if you melted the glass and salt in seperate ladels you could see if the liquid forms are miscable. Pity the glass didn't play the game...

  • @paperwork1125
    @paperwork1125 Před 6 lety

    Here on youtube, in Spanish, there are videos showing people making outdoor clay ovens (think wood fired pizza ovens) that incorporate lots of broken glass and salt underneath the floor. I'm wondering if the molten salt and glass are an insulator to keep the floor of the oven cooler or hotter. Also if that were inside a homemade thermos would it keep the contents hotter longer? What are your thoughts?

  • @simonharris3709
    @simonharris3709 Před 8 lety

    I have steady hands doctor; how do you think it is that you're still alive? Lol

  • @israelmaxi.2369
    @israelmaxi.2369 Před 6 lety +1

    What temperature are you working?

  • @karyncody3647
    @karyncody3647 Před 7 lety

    melted salt is used for heat treating and blackoxsiside finishing..

  • @wayne-brock7515
    @wayne-brock7515 Před 6 lety

    How cool was that. I loved it very much. That fire was sure hot but isn't blue fire suppose to be the HOTTEST more than Orange like fire?.......anyway, I enjoyed your video. I like to get a chance to know how it feels to work with you in your shop. Thanks

  • @EnergeticWaves
    @EnergeticWaves Před 8 lety

    make some clean wet salt and dip the edge of a glass in it and see if it makes a nice clear ring around the top of a glass, then put beer in the glass and hand it to somebody.

  • @davinpilling540
    @davinpilling540 Před 8 lety

    Create a 1000 year old earth battery. zinc in cup then salt in a cup like you did then copper in cup take out of the cups then smelter weld them tall , volts come when soaked battery in any water liquid from.

  • @zachanderson9366
    @zachanderson9366 Před 8 lety

    I'm fairly certain they didn't melt the salt. They most likely have
    molten sodium metal with some dissolved chloride ions. The darkening is
    because it's mostly metal. Also sodium metal on a fresh surface reacts
    rapidly with oxygen. One last thing. I think the rust was dissolving
    into the sodium metal, reducing purity.

    • @WhatWeMadeTeam
      @WhatWeMadeTeam  Před 8 lety

      Oh we melted real salt!

    • @zachanderson9366
      @zachanderson9366 Před 8 lety

      Sweet :D, I just wasn't sure, I think I'm going to give it a shot with my foundry at home. Once I make it that is.

  • @ulor5939
    @ulor5939 Před 8 lety

    I was watching "Gojira - Liquid Fire" and I was brought here, video checks out, Liquid Fire!

  • @violeman
    @violeman Před 9 lety

    Did you use just straight salt and nothing else?
    Thanks 4 Sharing Guys !!!

  • @jalaljrar4013
    @jalaljrar4013 Před 8 lety

    this is really cool what are you spinning though

    • @MidnightMarrow
      @MidnightMarrow Před 8 lety

      +jalal jrar Looks like a Turbo re-purposed to be a hand cranked blower.

    • @MaxRay16
      @MaxRay16 Před 8 lety

      It an old forge blower. If you look on Wranglerstars channel he has an old one that he restored

  • @jakeevans7075
    @jakeevans7075 Před 9 lety

    what happened with the ladle is the chlorine in the ale might of absorbed the iron

  • @PsyMongazoid
    @PsyMongazoid Před 9 lety

    Wow. An American, of his own volition, saying 'aluminium'. Music to my ears. :-)

  • @anonanon3066
    @anonanon3066 Před 9 lety

    I meltet and castet Salt once. In the end it was perfect white

  • @adamj1168
    @adamj1168 Před 8 lety

    Is that ladle cast iron? I guess I'll be needing to see what the melting temps for salt and sand and find a metal with a higher melting point.

  • @PaddyDogg
    @PaddyDogg Před 8 lety

    The vessel that holds the molten metal is called a crucible

  • @joshuaschneider9145
    @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety

    oh also, most likely, the salt took the random molecular structure silicate glass has, and gave it structure. this is called devitrification, the act of taking the vitreous nature of its molecules away. and it will always always pour way smoother than any metal by virtue of its vitreousness.

    • @joshuaschneider9145
      @joshuaschneider9145 Před 9 lety

      Josh S
      you will also have to anneal the glass or it will crumble.

  • @doginstine
    @doginstine Před 9 lety

    There is also some iodine in the salt too if it's iodize salt.