Making Himalayan Salt Lamp with Hydraulic Press
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2022
- Making Himalayan Salt Lamp with Hydraulic Press by crushing some Himalayan salt into rock with 150 tons of force and then trying it out with 25 000 lumen led flashlight
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The fun part of Himalayan salt is that there are no known salt deposits in the Himalaya. The stuff is mined in India and Pakistan pretty far away from the mountain range.
Thanks, I have always been baffled by salt mine up a mountain!
@@davidlewis1787 You have to remember that the rocks that make up the Himalayas was once the bottom of a shallow ocean that used to exist between India and Asia, but the salt isn't going to form on the parts that were lifted up but in the shallow areas on either side that allow the water to evaporate and erosion is minimal.
@@Bugsey35 exactly, that’s why I always found it jarring whenever Himalayan salt is mentioned 🤣
Pakistan is where the pink salt comes from and the Pakistani government wants to pass legislation for the salt to be trade marked as a product from Pakistan
and the lamps don’t provide any health benefits
Hello,
I'm an Icelandic engineering student who has been watching your videos since you started.
Recently the teacher asked the class how much force is needed to rotate a self locking nut-bolt pair by pressing down on it with different types of lubrication. A trick question, he thought, as according to the physics a self locking bolt will lock up and not rotate at all, no matter what lubrication you put on it. But those physics nerds never tried it with a hydraulic press.
The lack of videos on the internet demonstrating this is startling and concerning, please help engineering students all over the world understand these complex concepts!
Your viewer,
Ari
If you do decide to make the video, I can supply you with non-copyrighted slides and educational material to ensure this video will be shown in universities and trade schools in perpetuity.
Your teacher is right. There's no amount of pressure that could make a bolt rotate because of vectors would be pointing down, while for a bolt to rotate you'll need to point the vectors for the side.
@@vndrlm157 Indeed, that's what the physics say. But they also say peculiar things happen at boundary conditions. Whether or not a rotation would occur, even to the slightest degree, at the point of breaking the nut or the bolt, a video would make a good demonstration of this principle. Especially since no videos of this phenomenon exist online.
Curious to see as well!
I'm not shure what you mean but If you are asking about if it's possible to put a bolt on it's head, put a nut over the thread and exert enough downward force on said nut to make it spinn on the thread, then yes it's possible. All you need is a just very steep thread.
That's basically how a humming top toy works.
Also not shure what you mean by "self locking bolt" but if you are thinking about a regular bolt paired with one of these nylon insert nuts, or similar, then I don't see what difference does it make. All that does it add friction between the bolt and the nut which means you just need an even steeper thread to pull it off.
Try and spray the salt to make it ever so slightly moist. Then let it dry out once its pressed. That might just actually stick it together into a form of sandstone but with salt...
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Dry things seem to stick very littly
I did this a few years ago, and the difference between dry and slightly moist salt are spectacular!
That is a thing. If you cook fish in salt crust you want to add little bit of water in it so it feels slushy.
More than slightly, you want it to be slushy so that some of the salt dissolves into a supersaturated solution and binds the loose crystals together after it dries. And you don't need a hydraulic press for it either, just set a brick or something on the lid and tap it with a mallet every few minutes to force all the air bubbles out. Then remove the lid and let it sit for a couple weeks in a dry environment before pushing the salt brick out. Use a warm wet rag to "polish" the exterior by dissolving and wiping away the rough spots.
I think that if you do this again, use a smaller mold, so you have less bulk. Also use a domed compression tool for the top, and a domed tool for the cavity, so you have equal material surrounded the light.
Also, use a large, hot incandescent lamp on the inside.
The small grain size is one reason why you're getting poor translucency. It's like why snow is much more opaque than a solid ice crystal which is clear. Melting and letting the salt solidify in the shape you're trying to make will result in a clearer crystal that will work better as a lamp. Although I do like the idea of moistening the salt because that might help the small crystals fuse together into larger crystals as they dry and it might make it slightly less opaque. It'd be worth a try I think.
You should try using slightly damp salt, so that when it is compressed it might fuse together better.
Also, layering or alternating the pink and white salt might give a nice effect.
Water can’t compress
@@NatVirgo it can , not jnder these conditions but it can. For this it would be a binder and get pushed out
@@pmtoam water can’t compress.
@@pmtoam also nice, like your own comments
@@NatVirgo To explain it fully to the ignorant - the water would not compress, no. It would be there to dissolve the surface molecules of the salt, so that when the *salt* is compressed, it sticks together more easily. Basic enough for you?
I like the ideas of dampening the salt with water and layering white and pink salts. You might also try using cylinders about half the diameter of the one you used to make the lamp cavity. Just space them closer to the edge of the salt disk.
I'd like to see what happens if you wet the salt before compression. Maybe a layer of salt, then spray with a bit of water, then more salt, etc. Once it is done, you may have to dry it in a dehydrator. Hopefully the water will let the crystalline structure align with the neighboring salt chunks so the light has fewer walls to pass through.
Very interesting, always enjoy your videos but miss the “extra content” endings. Keep up the good work!
Excited to see round two with thinner walls. Loved this!
Great video! I love the Amon Amarth shirt too.
Came here to say the same thing!
Wai wait wait…. All the other videos were not useful? Now I have to question everything in my life…. They were useful to me!!
Good point the videos have been quite useful for me also since I can avoid real work thanks to these :D But maybe the findings on the videos have been not very useful :D
@@HydraulicPressChannel Can you repeat this but adding a bit of water to the salt? I think that the resulting crystallization in the pressed salt with water, can favor its translucency to achieve a more functional salt lamp. Although it may need some drying time.
There is someone who wanted to clean an Himalayan salt lamp. To do that, he put it in the dishwasher, then, got REALLY upset because the lamp was no longer there at the end of the wash... And went back to the store to get a full refund, that was denied.
That may be some of the most solid block made by compression that you ever made from particulates.
"hippy salt" :D this is now what I'm gonna call Himalayan salt from now on
Love the shirt! 🤘 thanks for posting yet another interesting video!
sand and polish it after you press it, so it would look nice and smooth. Also try using powerful laser, might look really amazing. Make the "rock" about 3x higher (more like a tube) and then use powerful laser. Would like to see that effect. I have 2w blue laser that is insanely bright (yes it light stuff on fire).
The regular salt looks like it would be great on big pretzels.
I'd think two concentric sphere tool design (a bowl and a ball + rim) could work pretty nice to get consistent thickness AND consistent compression AND consistent gradient of the compression, which /could/ work quite well with light sources
The problem is that no matter how much you press the salt you can't turn it into one crystal. It's always going to have a multi crystalline structure that refracts much more light than a typical salt lamp that may be only a few large crystals. Supercool video as always though!
Nice Amon Amarth shirt, bro!
do you have equipment to melt salt?
so what is holding the salt together was of wet, or something?
could you do the same thing making the salt damp, and basically making a sand castle out of it, and just letting, dampness dry out, or would still just be table salt dust?
“Hudraulic” press channel?! Great stuff. Always fun to watch.
Many languages pronounce the y like a ü.
I've heard that if you compress concrete that's not super moist it'll harden instantly... That would be kind of interesting to see compress different types of water-based hardening things like plaster, clay or concrete or something like that and see if they harden instantly? Maybe?
I'd watch that
That does sound cool! Although I suspect it would just shoot goo everywhere, and leave a mushy sediment behind. Concrete takes several weeks to get to full strength, something to do with a chemical reaction and water leaving the substrate. I have no idea what would happen!
The process of concrete hardening is called hydration, which takes several weeks and produces heat. Without water, the cement has nothing to react with and won't harden.
If you press out the water then the concrete might become "hard" and dry very fast, but it will not actually cure and have no strength.
Concrete NEEDS water - it is a chemical reaction that makes it bind and get hard. (Also - adding more water does NOT give you more working time either, it just makes it more watery and reduces its strength in the end).
Great video mate. Can you please tell me what brand flashlight you have and maybe a link where to purchase it. Thanks heaps, Dazza from Australia
Love it! Making stuff with the press is fun!
Wow, I love when the press actually succeeds in turning stuff into rock
That is super cool. I’d love to see one made about a cm thick all around. Hopefully would stay together.
I was wondering how well the finished product would hold up to being carved in order to shape it/make it thinner. Would ensure that it comes out of the mold, but could then send more light from the sides. Maybe mount those small lights at an angle instead of straight up as well?
brilliant video , so interesting , thank you .
The picture for the video makes it look like you made molten salt so I thought you were going to melt it or that the pressure would have made it super hot, I'm glad that didn't happen cause it would have been way more dangerous XD
Very good, nice lamp and the band on the shirt is very good too!!!🤘
Greatings from Germany
I love your videos I always love to see something new
Wouldn't it be usefull to wet or heat to ~500°C the salt ?
Awesome shirt Lauri!
got a salt lamp as a Xmas gift. Sat on a shelf and started soaking up any moisture in the air of our damp house (Scotland) it started melting and leaving salty water marks along the shelf and down the wall.
Do you think it would be possible to make irregular shapes with the press and some multi part moulds?
Slightly damp is a good idea, but how about a time element? The longer crystals are held under pressure, wouldn't they tend to reform a stronger lattice structure?
The lattice structure of any one grain is almost guaranteed to be out of line with that of any grain it touches. The more or less amorphous boundaries where they fuse will always be weaker than either lattice.
Still, I think you're on to something. Leaving the salt under pressure longer should help make the boundaries larger by squeezing out more air. Eventually it will hit equilibrium but it shouldn't take long.
It would be interesting to use an IR gun to see if there's a measurable temperature change after squeezing it. If so he should wait for it to come back to room temperature before releasing pressure to be more sure it's found a stable squished-lattice equilibrium.
Pretty Good 👌🏼
Cool video and awesome shirt you are wearing! Was lucky enough to see Amon Amarth live at Mayhem festival in Indiana 2013 they kick ass
Love the Amon Amarth shirt!
Can you melt the surface to make it nicer ?
can you try it with slightly demp salt??
At 7:04, instead of wiping the excess salt away with your hand, you might card it off level with a steel ruler or other straight edge to get a more uniform surface for even compression of the salt. I like the idea of dampening the salt too. Excellent content as usual!
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The hydraulic press channel always does things that are useful. It is always important to know how much play-doh goes squidge.
Very cool project.
What would happen if you pressed that to full pressure then left it under pressure over night?
I'm fairly certain you didn't do nothing more than blow the seals out of the press!!
besides The learning experience which myself as a mechanic learn from you,,you are funny dude I love it 🥰
I was wondering, what if we heat it while it's pressed ? It should yield a nice brick
Really great idea, congratulations 👍
That was really cool!
Just a bigger core piece and a thicker top plate and I think you will get it dialed perfectly! I do wonder if water is used when making salt lamps. Like a water and salt mix in a form and then let it dry. I have a perfectly round salt lamp and I don't see how you could press it like this.
Hi there I was thinking about you guys and some kind of new ideas, what about things that has some kind of reactions when you put high pressure on it...like some kind of minerals. regards bye
Aside from making the sides thinner, maybe let the mold stay under pressure overnight, to evaporate any moisture still in the salt. It might get much more dense...
Would it be less fragile and maybe let more light through if it were sintered after it was pressed?
Next time you make one of these use a binder, an additive that makes the salt stick together. You can get some that are fast curing and you can likely cure it under pressure for a hard as rock result that doesnt come apart.
Can you crush steel wool into a solid piece?
Nice!
I just have one question...
What kind of flashlight is that that you used in the last part, and where can I get one? I didn't even know that there was flashlights that are that bright!
Something like olight x9r.
There are many of those, even much more powerful.
I don't see any practical use for such flashlights.
Any bright light that is powered by button cells will gobble up batteries. Better to run it off of a common 5-volt wall-wart, letting you have "guilt-free" 24/7 operation.
@@campkohler9131 Haha, yeah, but that super bright flashlight that he used at the end, (the one he said was like 25,000 lumens or whatever), was definitely NOT running off of button cells, it was way too BIG of a flashlight for that! It looked like it's about the size of a "Mag-Lite" flashlight or similar, probably running on either "D" cell batteries OR maybe an internal rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack.
where did you get the flashlight at?
That Amon Amarth shirt 🤘🤘
Press the salt and then kiln the whole thing tool and all to melt the salt into a very solid block?
Hell yeah, nice Amon Amarth t-shirt!
Can't you use a bit of water to make it cristallize? Or at least dissolve so it glues itself together once you press the water out
I'm a little surprised how opaque the blocks were but not very. All the misaligned crystal lattices of the fused grains would be expected to diffuse and absorb the light rapidly. As I understand it the commercially available lamps re carved from blocks of naturally fused crystals but the original crystals that are fused together naturally are larger than the ones you used. You'd need to grow big pieces of rock salt from solution a cm or two across at least, I think, and then pressure-fuse them to get a better approximation to the natural ones.
(I was hoping you'd lay the little flashlights in sideways... not sure that would help at all.)
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Nice shirt
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What if you try to add a little water like maybe 1 or 2 Oz, just to help hold it together
LOL the upside down ram.. oh man that gave me a chuckle.
I wonder if this is actually sintering at all or just sticking together with friction
What if you slightly wet the salt in layers with a spray bottle?
It's great though!
wooooo. goodmorning from the states 😄
Which state
Good afternoon from The Netherlands
@@AKTHAR838 solid
Good night from alternate parallel universe
@@GOAT_GOATERSON what
ok, your Amon Amarth t-shirt made me an even bigger fan!
Can someone explain whats the point of this light?
Since you have shown compressing metals that you can hit their melting temp via pressure, wonder if you could compress the salt to its melting point
Amon Amarth. I have seen them live. They were wicked awesome. They played with Slayer. Cool shirt.
Fun idea..... Needs a bigger insert for a better glow effect, I'd also hit the salt with a spray bottle full of water before and after to help dissolve the surface and hopefully allow it to stay together a little better. Or even spread it with clear coat or something afterwards.
That last lamp looks like a piece of cooling, hot metal.
It would make a nice prop.
Sweet shirt! I knew you liked presses, I didn’t know you liked the Swedish chainsaw!
What flashlight is that?
Nice shirt! Amon Amarth is a great group
could you please try wet salt.
I’d like to see more of these creating videos.
Love the channel and content! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace
You could try putting it in a kiln for a while after pressing, maybe it will sinter slightly?
This doesn't work as well as mined solid crystals of salt because the interface between air and the salt crystals you're using here adds additional refraction for every individual crystal the light must pass to reach the other side of the lamp. You'd likely have to press this together far more strongly in order to see a similar quality of light transference as in a solid crystal lamp.
Pretty cool you can make the salt rock!
Cool shirt, Amon Amarth 🤘🤘
Hippie salt 🧂
Love it.
Can I buy these?
Love the T-shirt! \m/
'hippy lamp thing' love it! haha
The accent alone makes this a great channel.
Amon Amarth! Nice!!
I respect the man who makes a 22000 lumen Himalayan salt lamp.
Hyvä video
Love the shirt! GET DOWN AND ROW!! \m/
I have a store-bought lamp and it doesn't take much for a piece to break off, requiring it to be glued back together. Of course when you make it out of small crystals you don't get that big single-crystal look, which is the whole idea of its appeal.
If you wanna give it another shot some day get different salts in one go in layers etc. There is also black salt for example. Could make real cool patterns
Could extra time and then suddenly more pressure, with perhaps applied heat for a time, could produce a better result? Kind of resembling nature who takes time sometimes for better results? Just a thought. Love your show!
Very cool!
What a great DIY project idea for Mother's Day!
...FYI: the "fan shop" link gives a 404 error. ;)