Casting an 800lb cog!
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If you go through Switzerland, you should try to reach out to Charles Roulin a master engraver on knifes (blades and handles). The engravings are amazingly detailed depicting mainly nature/animals... ;)
To add to that, Switzerland has still a (relative) lot of specialists that cast cowbells too
@@Dockhead bla-bla-bla 🤦
@@Dockhead you're the bore
Do you think he does commissions?
Very interesting video!
What did you do
How ya going?
Yeah what did you do ?
Next idea for you casting
Haha love ur vids mate
For your roadtrip you might be interested in the city Solingen in Germany, that is also known as the city of blades. It has a rich history in knivemaking and metalworking that goes back to the middle ages, some intersting sights (the german blade museum, a historical drop forge) and it's right on your route, between Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Awesome suggestion, I'll see what Alec thinks!
The annual knife market and exhibition will happen again after covid too. The biggest and best knife makers present their work in a museum that used to be a knife making factory itself.
@@JamiePopple Can definitely recommend stopping by Wüsthof in Solingen.
I agree, he really needs go there during his tour.
The route shown goes right through Solingen. It's maybe a little silly to think they hadn't already planned to stop in one of Europe's most well known blade production locations.
Seeing Alec do the small amount of casting he did inspired me to start my own casting workshop, and my own CZcams channel. I really hope you visit some more casting projects in the future. This was amazing to see.
Very fine example of a cast sprocket. A cog is a single tooth in a primitive cog-wheel as used in medieval windmills usually made of wood.
*ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT* The tour of Europe's workshops is an amazing idea *PLEASE MAKE THE VIDEOS LONGER FOR THIS WORKSHOP PROJECT*
I have been fortunate I my life to have done a small amount of metal casting and seen it done approximately 40 times.
Alex used the term choreographed to describe the actual pour. As I was watching this I was remembering it was like a ballet.
A crew as good as this has no wasted motion and is sure of the moves of everyone else on the pour.
Work like this done at this level is truly a joy to behold.
Thank You Brian' Appreciate your words.
Interestingly, the same thing can be seen at complicated surgeries, no wasted motion, a step- by- step- work approach and sometimes even markings on the ground for better coordination. In both cases, casting and surgery, you've got a delicate operation with a very limited time frame and little room for mistakes.
what kind of resin did you use in the sand? what did they spray on it to keep it from seeping into the sand?
I'm pumped for the traveling series. This is going to be cool!
Used to do this on a massive scale for a company called Bradken. Such a cool experience when you have a 5T or 10T ladle hanging over your head full of molten metal filling 20/30 casts for mining companies. Awesome job showing off the trade Alec.
I also have worked for Bradken foundries. I'm a Patternmaker. I worked for one in Scotland and one in Canada.
@@gordon3152 nice, always love seeing the patterns and watching them be filled with sand. Calming. I worked at Bradken in Western Australia, but it’s since closed down and moved to China I believe.
Got goosebumps watching that big crucible decant into the ladle. So much liquid iron! The heat must be incredible.
i would be incredibly surprised if Alec doesn't get a small induction forge to work with the smaller rounstock and squarestock he works with just for the sheer noise and price savings
Ive been debating making one for that reason. And I don't hardly do any blacksmith work
he’s tried that before…. didn’t go well at all
@@loganhuwe9458 I'm guessing that it is hard not to overheat and melt the metal stock?
@@ChevTecGroup It's essentially a microwave for metal. The interior can be much cooler than the exterior, and you can start to melt the exterior.
@@sigmasquadleader If you use it wrong, you can produce this effect. Induction coils are used in commercial forging, and normal forging all the time. It's not even hard to avoid melting it; the depth of the heating is gradually reduced with depth (With appropriate settings), and the natural conduction of steel will even out the temperature. The center will never be "much cooler" when used correctly, because of the aforementioned natural thermal conduction of steel.
In the video you're mentioning, he very clearly did not use it correctly, or adjust it's output for the application.
It's like welding, you cannot just turn on a welding machine and weld any material at any depth reliably. The exact same applies to Induction Forges. The "Skin Effect" is reduceable, which is simply done by adjusting the frequency and power output.
Induction forges are so much better at heating metal, it's not as simple as sticking a piece of stock in and hoping it heats your metal thoroughly. More energy is going into the metal than would ever really go into the metal if you were using a propane forge. This is why it's important to not only buy a GOOD induction heater, but to understand the relationship between frequency, output power, penetration, and heat.
Coil size can limit the maximum potential heat output, power output can do the same, and frequency can limit the depth and level of heat achieved.
A high frequency, high output setting would be best for melting steel, while a lower frequency/ variable power output ratio would be best for forging.
The big point is that it's cheaper, and more efficient in the long run to use this method; while also being faster. Time is money, money is money, and lost energy is money.
You can forge hundreds of items in the time it would normally take you to forge tens, nails and leafs; knives, etc.
It's even possible to forge weld with induction coils.
This is crazy cool! People rarely think about the foundations upon which our society is built, thanks for bringing a portion of that to us!
I was going to comment but you nailed it.
I agree 100%.
Thanks Alec.
Don't you mean 'potion'? ? Because this is just magic!
So much of the modern world is built inside foundries, makes me proud to work in one.
TREMENDOUSLY looking forward to your upcoming tour! Love the "how things are made" videos! Thanks, Alec and Jamie! 💕👍😎
Same!
I ♥️ casting, in my distant youth, worked for my now retired uncle in his bronze casting shop on the weekends. I can just smell the sand and hot metal when watching 😎
when they said that spray was to give it a better finish, they certainly werent kidding, that looks fantastic.
Good on you to get out and promote these still existing small shops in Britain and Europe. We need to support them so they stick around and not get closed and their work/production moved to Asia!
"Tour de Steele" sounds great - looking forward to it!
I love watching sand casting. People who are good at it turn out some amazingly detailed pieces.
Alec Steel just keeps impressing me and I love that he is not only spreading his own craft, but willing to get out there and explore and share other crafts that, without his exposure on his channel, may fall into oblivion. Well done young man. Keep up the good work.
I'm glad I had to learn this in high school shop class. Our assignment was to make a hacksaw from scratch and we had to make our own sand cast and pour our aluminum handle assembly. Even though it was wood shop the teacher also taught us a lot of metal work. I also made my own tool box out of sheet metal and spot weld. Shop class was freakin awesome. I spent all my free time doing projects of my own and required.
Sounds so much fun! I wish I had that during wood shop in school.
it's nice of you this tour idea. Sharing your online audience to showcase others. This is nice. I think you being a nice, decent, passionate human being was one of the things that drew me to your channel in the first place althought i have nothing to do with smithing. Its lovely to see that even if you as much of a business man as you are a blacksmith now, this very humane, sharing, caring side still is what drives this channel :)
Lots of love to you and the Steele family, personal and or professional !
Damn i can't believe it's been 4 years since I subscribed to this channel XD
I have always loved watching metal get poured. I used to pour lead hammers for the machine shop I worked at as a tig welder. Pretty much anything metal and woodworking intrigues me.
Casting videos are super cool to watch! Thank you for that! (Love your passion)
You can tell how much all these folks love their work by all the smiles on their faces as the molten metal is flowing.
Jep there are only 2 kinds of people how do such a job 1. The people how need the money and don't mind hard work 2. The people how have a passion for it
I kann tell to have a team made of th later kind is a incredible working experience
3 Steele Videos in 24 hours!!!!!! Bloody love it! Like Christmas morning, keep them coming Jamie, brilliant work as always
THANKS for a look behind the scenes at what makes modern heavy technology work.
Way to give back. I'm sure many businesses will benefit from your reach and potential exposure. Great work.
Alec, I love all of this. Keep this content coming. If it’s molten steel,house demo, or just simple making/building. Keep doing your thing!!!
I worked in foundry 15 years here in Finland, and its always exciting to see other foundry workers and they methods.
Thanks for the field trip. I enjoy the variety of this channel.
Nice to see another foundry. We use three of those Tinker Omega mixing arms at our foundry in Tooele Utah.
Absolutely love seeing you scale in real time. Watching the evolution over the years has been both amazing, and inspiring
I don't know if it is new or not, but I really enjoy the less over the top presentation style. This Alex and the one that was in the Tom Scott video were fun to watch. Keep it up.
When i was in high school I did work experience at an engineering place that did this but for huge ship propellers. It's really incredible stuff to see first hand
Awesome stuff. It's exciting watching these guys doing old school casting. This is practically forgotten these days.
Nice to see videos on how to make castings. I'm a Patternmaker and have worked in foundries for 35 years. Keep up the good work.
Awesome video of his factory. Looking forward to your tour around europe!
this was awesome, looking forward to the tour.
My grampa was a foundryman in Glasgow and when he retired he was working for a company developing casting of polymers back during the 80's
Yes please more workshops. I really enjoyed the last 2 episodes!
Love seeing foundry work on CZcams, I work in a foundry in western Canada and we have the same problem, need young people to be interested in metal working 💪
I'm very excited about your tour idea! Please say that Joey van der Steeg will be a part of your plans, as it has been too long since we have seen the both of you work together, and you are both such great personalities. Cheers!
If you are reading this Joey van der Steeg, I hope you are doing okay, since your channel has been running silent for some time now.
I used to run a hobby foundry. I had that same thing happen, when I pulled up the crucible from the furnace, I wouldn't speak, and I had this focus and complete tranquility. Ironically this is the most dangerous part of the whole casting process.
The German side of my family moved to England in late 1800's. They were art metal workers, part of the Arts and Crafts movement, good to see some in UK are still working in this field, not everybody is in service industry.
Isn't making art for no function just another service
@@pjbth Arts and crafts was about making things of beauty with function. It was a response to mass production. If you check out the metal work in the Victoria and Albert Museum, you will see what I mean.
Thanks for another peak into that great workshop! 👍👍 Hi from Australia 🇦🇺
The size of those gears is almost comical. Amazing work Alex and incredible work ECC!
Thank You Jack
i work for a company just me and the boss we are the only people in the uk who repair church bells through heating and welding its an amazing job and in newmarket so not far from norwich where you used to have a workshop :)
I love visiting different shops too. I find myself constantly looking at different industries and the way they utilize lean principles.
Found you via Tom Scott's recent video. I am super thrilled about your tour of Europe content! Subscribed!!! Love your content and good vibes.
So far, you do very well with the mini documentaries on workshops!! Keep them coming!
England created the Industrial Revolution. Seeing the foundry at work reminds me there were hundreds of similar shops across England that turned iron into steam and into the world today. Impressive.
Very cool, I hope we get to see this tour of different workshops. Keep up the amazing videos.
I remember when I worked in a foundry they would cut groves in the sand they would use to sling the mould. It was crazy to see a couple of hundred kg of sand being held that way.
So happy there was a follow up so soon!!
Very cool idea. I can't wait to watch all the workshops you find!!
The tour is a cracking idea Alec, looking forward to that.
You should do another casting video Alec! metal casting of course
Alex, is have to thank you for building my interest in metal working and forging in particular. I look forward to your post every time. If you every make it back to the US and Vermont in particular, I hope I can get foreknowledge so I can learn from you directly. Please keep exploring new areas or metal work that you do to inspire the rest of us.
That cast was so nice, and they made it look simple, but that's just pure experience.
Loving this series and excited you'll be doing more visits of foundries and similar! Hope this incredible craft continues to thrive. Looking forward to the tour next year.
I am very impressed with this huge, heavy, hard cog.
I can’t believe your tour would not include Sheffield. The Steel City! The invention birthplace of crucible steel and stainless steel and home to the Bessemer converter.
Forgemasters would be an epic site to see in a video. They are making some of the biggest castings in history up to 320t.
Amazing casting workshop! Thanks a lot for the tour!
You should have that foundry cast some anvils out of Chrome-molly tool steel. It would be a interesting series milling and tempering the anvils. Then sell them on your channel.
This was awesome!! Would definitely love to see some glassblowing on your traveling series
That was pretty kool to see how they do some of the casting and all that stuff
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing with us Alec, and East Coast Casting! 😁
You should see if you can get a visit to Sheffield Forgemasters, melting, casting, forging and machining at unbelievable scale. Up to about 600 tonnes in one casting, its really quite something to see
One thing that came to mind, it's outside of your route but if you ever get the chance to go to Spain, you should definitely hit Toledo, it has an ancient swordmaking tradition and you can still find a few blacksmiths there that specialize on traditional swordmaking. I imagine you'd love it!
Love the evolution of the brand and channel!!
You can tell that's hard work, there's not a gut on any of those guys!
excellent walk around east coast foundry also great idea for the new series looking forward to watching it thanks for posting Alec :)
These last two episodes were awesome. This coming tour is going to be amazing to behold!
Watching the machining process for really large gears is fascinating.
From your route depicted i speculate that you are planning on visiting the historic Völklingen ironworks.
Good choice. Lots of steel & history there :)
Good on you for show casing this fundamental industrial process that has been behind much of modern life. These guys have got it down to a fine art.
Thank You Peter
Because of your normal method of gluing together snippets of your own work, we entirely miss seeing your abilities as a presenter. You really shine presenting, from your clarity in explanation to the excitement you raise in a topic. Thank you Alec for teaching the world these topics.
I know it isn't along the trip route you are plannig, but it would be amaizing if you went and talked to Albert Collins, who is the first Master Armourer in Sweden since 1781.
I've had the privilige to visit his shop and it's amazing!
Interesting how the cogs all work together to create such things.
Alec awesome idea to tour shops! Real interesting love this !Thanks! 👍👍👍
Awesome video showcasing foundry production... you don't see many well shot and decently explained here on the CZcamss
That crucible is magnificent.
For a time I worked at Kennedy Valve in Elmira NY. They have huge induction foundries, big enough to stand in and not be able to climb out. They make everything from little fireplugs to giant cast valves for commercial fire suppression systems.
Never seen you so happy. Amazing the love you have for all this fabrication of stuff. Keep doing this great videos, you are great!
Awesome you went back! So cool.
That's 2 videos today that CZcams has recommended for me that are at East Coast Casting, the other was a casting of a ranalah english wheel
That’s good 💪🏼🔥
Thanks for showing their work.. really incredible
Been loving these casting videos!!! Thank you forvthe education 💖💖💖
Great idea on the workshop tour Alec! Looking forward to it!
Seeing Alec Steel defeated by a Scimitar is like seeing a Dalek defeated by a set of stairs
If you are going through the Netherlands on your road trip i would advice visiting the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry in the village of Asten. They actually cast the biggest bell currently hanging in the Notre Dame.
Awesome tour idea Alec. Can't wait to see it!
Would have been nice to see that sprocket being machined to final specs.
We might be able to sort that' Keep following us
@3:51 dang Rich with that intense music looks like a super villain or something with his facial expression hahaha
Love the 'field trips'
Ahh man for a second when I saw this I thought, oh Alec is trying new things? lets see what he does with it
Excited for your road trip plans
Next tour, came visit the workshop on the cost of Bretagne, we have some pretty talented smith too.
I myself live in a small village which made iron work since the iron age, it's pretty awesome.
Hey, Alec, great video! I sugest you to visit Ramon Recuero, in Toledo, Spain. He is a great artist blacksmith, and I believe you will really enjoy his talent work! Grettings from Brazil!
Very excited for the workshop tour series