Brilliant. Genius simplicity and perfect functionality. I love it. Might steal this idea myself. Already have all the parts just a matter of a few cuts and fasteners later and I’ll have one myself. This will sure beat pouring gold/silver/copper from 8 feet high into a bucket full of water and hoping I don’t miss. 😂
Awesome! It makes me happy to know that others can use this idea. The Lava Slide really does work well and the recirculating water stays cool the entire time. It's worth the effort to build one. I'm pretty sure it cost me under $100 to complete it, although I had some of the materials already (pump). Good luck with your project - Send pics to anthonythomas.us - I'd love to see your take on it! God bless.
Hello man, very nice toys you have, furnace, metal cabinet, and that slide is great. As I do not have so much metal, I decided to make wires or sheets on rolling mill instead of shot. May be more elaborate, but I can degate it to my son... 😀 I can also learn how to make nice sheets and wires for jewellery projects... 😀 What is silver zirconium alloy good for? Just for fun or special color or process testing?
I love to hear your working on jewelry making, kind of a passion of mine these days. The zirconium experiments are just that, experiments at this point. Looking for new methods. I have the age old miners story, I was looking for gold and all I found was... jade, spinel, zirconium, titanium, and cobalt etc. I do plan on using Zr and Ti and some of their alloys in jewelry pieces that should be out later this fall. Take care!
Makes me wonder how much of a difference shot size makes and how to control it. First hack idea that comes to my mind is drilling a small hole in a melt dish used as a funnel and seeing if a thinner feed stream into the water pipe improves anything.
I noticed that the rate of pour had the greatest affect on shot size. Pouring faster yielded larger shot and pouring slower yielded smaller shot. Also the distance that you hold the crucible above the mouth while pouring had an affect as well. I do plan on testing some ideas to improve the mouth on the steel pipe. Your idea about drilling a hole in melt dish may be a great one! Thanks for watching and God bless.
Have you tried alloying the zirconium with bismuth with a flux doing an assay and then cupel off the Bismuth oxide to get a zirconium bead or would the zirconium oxidize also? I'm not sure.
Zirconium sparks if heated in the presence of oxygen. One method is to melt it in a vacuum, which I'm saving up for to try the Van Arkyl process - Heat Zr in vacuum of Iodine and ignite a tungston filiment inside of the vacuum. Pure Zr will plate out on the tungston filiment. Probably take me a year...
Brilliant. Genius simplicity and perfect functionality. I love it. Might steal this idea myself. Already have all the parts just a matter of a few cuts and fasteners later and I’ll have one myself. This will sure beat pouring gold/silver/copper from 8 feet high into a bucket full of water and hoping I don’t miss. 😂
Awesome! It makes me happy to know that others can use this idea. The Lava Slide really does work well and the recirculating water stays cool the entire time. It's worth the effort to build one. I'm pretty sure it cost me under $100 to complete it, although I had some of the materials already (pump). Good luck with your project - Send pics to anthonythomas.us - I'd love to see your take on it! God bless.
The Lava Slide! Amazing that the Cu stays molten and red all the way around the spiral. Very clever design!
Thanks Kathy! May all your days be blessed.
Watch molten metal go down a waterslide you say? Yes please.
Thanks for watching! This thing actually works better than I thought it would. More to come...
This is so rad deffenetally going to build one !
Loved this video mate. Very different to what I’ve seen before
Glad you enjoyed
Looks Awesome. TY
Glad you like it!
Hello man, very nice toys you have, furnace, metal cabinet, and that slide is great. As I do not have so much metal, I decided to make wires or sheets on rolling mill instead of shot. May be more elaborate, but I can degate it to my son... 😀 I can also learn how to make nice sheets and wires for jewellery projects... 😀
What is silver zirconium alloy good for? Just for fun or special color or process testing?
I love to hear your working on jewelry making, kind of a passion of mine these days. The zirconium experiments are just that, experiments at this point. Looking for new methods. I have the age old miners story, I was looking for gold and all I found was... jade, spinel, zirconium, titanium, and cobalt etc. I do plan on using Zr and Ti and some of their alloys in jewelry pieces that should be out later this fall.
Take care!
Makes me wonder how much of a difference shot size makes and how to control it. First hack idea that comes to my mind is drilling a small hole in a melt dish used as a funnel and seeing if a thinner feed stream into the water pipe improves anything.
I noticed that the rate of pour had the greatest affect on shot size. Pouring faster yielded larger shot and pouring slower yielded smaller shot. Also the distance that you hold the crucible above the mouth while pouring had an affect as well. I do plan on testing some ideas to improve the mouth on the steel pipe. Your idea about drilling a hole in melt dish may be a great one! Thanks for watching and God bless.
I was wondering what the shapes of the beads would look like if you poured in the same direction as the water.
Good question, I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for watching!
Have you tried alloying the zirconium with bismuth with a flux doing an assay and then cupel off the Bismuth oxide to get a zirconium bead or would the zirconium oxidize also? I'm not sure.
Zirconium sparks if heated in the presence of oxygen. One method is to melt it in a vacuum, which I'm saving up for to try the Van Arkyl process - Heat Zr in vacuum of Iodine and ignite a tungston filiment inside of the vacuum. Pure Zr will plate out on the tungston filiment. Probably take me a year...
@@anthonythomasfmg have you tried an electric Tabletop furnace with add an Inert shield gas like Argon or Nitrogen.