Lost Resin Casting Guide - what NOT to do! Tips for better casting
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- čas přidán 14. 03. 2024
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It's been a while since I did any metal casting. I chose correctly with the printer, the Elegoo Mars 4 Ultra, and the resin, Bluecast X One, but my techniques were rusty and I made a lot of mistakes. Here I cover these in the hope that your castings will be more successful.
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Every failed casting is an opportunity to learn 😄 Thanks for sharing this! It was really interesting to see what went wrong this time.
Learning by our mistakes is what it's all about 😁
This sort of video helps because it illustrates why things like the order of ingredients matter. I see this a lot in soap making.
It's often surprising how seemingly small steps can make a massive difference 😁
Great job. We are all too critical of our own work. You see much more flaws in your work than we ever do.
I'm an absolute perfectionist and regularly have to fight the urge to scrap everything 🤪🤪🤪
love the different flavoured videos you bring out voggius , cheers.
Glad you like them!
You learn the most from your mistakes. Thanks for sharing this (even though I probably will never do any casting) as it can be applied to anything we do in life.
Very true. It's rare things go perfectly the first time... and as a rule, we get better with practice 😁😁😁
😂😂😂 I'm sorry for having a laugh at your expense mate! I can only imagine the amount of sailor speak that went on behind the scenes! I bet the family's ears are still red!
But. It's a great video of how even the most experienced people can have their "off days". Plus you demonstrated one of the cool parts of casting. If something goes wrong, you can always chuck it back in the furnace and try again. Cost of investment, time, blood pressure etc notwithstanding. 😁
The final cast piece looks really good. I agree with the other comments, that we (read you 😆) are too critical of our own work.
I'm hoping to have everything unpacked and set up from the move in the next couple of weeks. This video couldn't have come at a better time. A reminder to give appropriate praise to the casting gods, before I attempt my first return to casting. 😄
Great video as usual Geoff.
Thanks Dan. Just remember to unpack the Altar of the Casting Gods 😁😁😁
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Thank you for this very frank exposé of the pitfalls that claimed you on the way to creating this cool pendant.
I have often thought that what you really needed was to gold plate your helmet, but couldn't find the right words, at the right time, to tell you, so I'm glad you've arrived at the same conclusion.
Polishing ones helmet can bring great satisfaction, so it seemed so appropriate 😁😁😁
@@vogman I know mine's gleaming
You did a excellent job, Your errors make you better with experience. Turned out great.
Oh my goodness! Thanks so much for showing that you occasionally run into the same problems as us mortals ;)
Thanks VOGMAN! Once again great content and wonderful data points! So grateful for your deciding to share your talents on CZcams. It’s giving me a really fun hobby which I honestly can say I wouldn’t have were it not for you! Thanks again more videos like this! 🌟🙌
Much appreciated!
VogMan... Love you're videos. I've learned a lot. Just received my Kaya Cast machine and all the supplies I need to start resin to metal casting. Thanks for the inspiration and excellent tutorials, reviews, etc...
Awesome design and another great video!
Many thanks 😁
Nice to see the failures, very educational.
Making mistakes is how we learn 😁
At least you got a refresher of most of the ways things could go wrong on the first go, so you didn't have to split the difference over both castings.
thank you. Even Bluecast support never told me to start with the cylinder button down and rotate it... to be honest I've tried every so called castable resin and it's never 100% like wax.
Still an awesome casting mate. Love all your efforts
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks buddy 😁
Well, as others said in the comments, the most picky criticism usually comes from ourselves to ourselves.
If you consider that 1) people will hardly notice all of your minor mistakes and 2) this pendant is a bit dented by design, then I’m pretty sure you can turn all of your “wrongs” into “improvables” (as you actually proved in the second casting)
BTW, as usual you shared with us so much valuable information and useful tips that any mistake you see in this work sounds irrelevant to me (and surely to many others out there) 😉
As always, greetings from Rome 🇮🇹
Thanks for your very kind words 😁😁😁
good tips.
nice to see the small non perf flasks being cast. Shows they can get decent results.
It depends what I'm casting. As I was casting such a small item, it's much more cost effective to use a small dental flask. It uses are 1/3 of the plaster that my smallest perforated flask uses. 😁
Wow! The trouble you went to just to show people how not to do things. Above and beyond for sure.🤣
Oooh! I can't wait to see the gold plating video. Cheers!
Coming soon!
Another great video! It's nice to know that even experienced 'hobbyists' still make mistakes.
Were you ever on Scrapheap Challenge? I imagine you're the kind of guy that would love to bodge things together.
That was one of my favourite shows!!!
Thanks for sharing 👍 Now that you got that out of your system 👍
I hope so 😁😁😁
Great vid vogman! Super useful for us rookie casters. Definitely interested to learn about how to prevent the pitting. That’s something I’ve been struggling with. Would also love a video on how to calculate ring sizing taking all various stages of expansion and contraction into account! I seem to be losing about one ring size in the process but it’s not exact. Any tips?
I guess it depends on the resin you use. Typically that's where we really see the shrinkage. Some shrink a good 10%. If we know this in advance, it's easy to oversize at the printing stage 😁
The "pitting" you are getting is caused by investment breakdown. There could be 2 causes of this. Improper curing or improper burnout. I have strayed from the traditional burnout cycle most people use because it doesn't work well for me. The traditional cycle was based on wax, not for resin. I soak at 300F for 2 hours, then jump straight up to 1350F as fast as my oven will go and hold for 2 hours. Then I come back down to 900F for casting.
As for curing, the sun works great! Leave your model in a glass container with half glycerin and half water for a few hour in the sun.
Give it a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.😀
Great video, thanks for sharing your bad day!
Thanks for watching!
Vog!
is it possible to cast a 150x120x25 mm piece? What equpiment would needs to be changed to achive that?
Its very nice. I do have a question tho. Why do you think you get the porosity inside the bail? I keep having that issue when casting sterling silver.
I think it was poorly positioned and possibly underfed 😁
Thank you again for this new video 👍. One question however : after dewaxing, why turn the mold over with the opening facing up while the plaster is cooking? Isn't there a risk that dust will get inside the mold and therefore cause defects on the casting part ?
As I understand it, there's still the possibility of trapped gases. By flipping the flask, these escape. Plus the flask is now in a ideal position for the pour 😁
Where do you order your high temp. gaskets from?
Hello, congratulations on the channel.
I want a recommendation, I have a Mars 3 that I use to print jewelry and I want to purchase a printer with more quality in details, could you help me with your opinion?
Hi. For me the Mars 4 Ultra is the best available right now czcams.com/video/ehG9sHZ29uc/video.html
This pendant was printed using that printer and it's a perfect print... incredible detail and no lines.
We all have days where we're off and everything goes wrong. On the bright side you're not working the pieces by hand. When you've been on a piece for days and have a day like this sometimes you just have to call it quits. I've had a few rings that like this that just got melted back into an ingot.
Some days it's just best to go back to bed 😁😁😁
Hello author, I’ve been following you for a long time, high-quality video... Tell me, what program do you use to make 3D models?... Thank you...
I used ZBrush for this pendant czcams.com/video/89XNpLHgmoE/video.html 😁
Vog we all get those days mate Where we act like rookies. As to the cold plating is it the plating pen or are you using the old tried and tested version (the hard way with load of masking tape a scalpel and a lot of dipping?)
Well, I have both... but I'll probably do things the hard way... I always seem to 😁
@@vogman The hard way can be the best way and it does work well
I don't understand how the air is sucked in or the plaster cast has no holes in the lower part which is attached to the vacuum pump
The plaster is porous 😁
Gods from Bitmap Brothers vibe
What metal did you use?
This was sterling silver 😁
Speaking of rookie mistakes. I managed to kill my new printer yesterday. I had a failed print. Took it off the plate and didn't bother cleaning the vat. My printer is now full of resin. Bloody shame
Please make a ring of Namira from skyrim!
Not really a character I'm very familiar with 😁
Pro tip: Do it right second time. 😬
I'm grateful if it goes right the third time 🤪
in other words everything came out correctly wrong...lol