Easy Metal Casting - Making Pewter Soft Jaws for my bench vise 

with extra sharpened teeth.... i think tungsten has a really high melting point tho lol

Tungsten is brittle? 😂

​@@simonfox_8559yep, the highest of all metals

@@simonfox_8559 going to make this man get diamond tooling just to machine those xD

😂

Yeah I was surprised he didn't mill the faces to make them true

I think the whole point of the video was to show how a beginner without all the fancy tools like a milling machine could make some jaws. He could’ve milled them at the end to make his own jaws perfect, but he probably wanted to show that the jaws can work perfectly fine without needing to make them perfect.

The point of the video was to be accessible to basically everyone. Not everyone has a milling machine, so milling them flat would be unrealistic.

The big issue with lead is that you just really don't want it inside you. So, if you are generating lead dust from filing, or lead fumes from melting, then yes, you want to make sure the fumes and dust stay outside your body. That can mean proper ventilation, appropriate dust mask, hand washing etc. Also you can go with "lead free" pewter. That can still have other hazardous heavy metals in it though like antimony. And, at the end of the day, I don't think any lead free pewter is truly lead free.

The point was to do it with common tools

@@dickard8275 yeah but the mill was used to drill the holes

​@@FlyXenonRCTo take the place of a drill press... or a hand drill. Not exactly difficult to drill a square hole.

@@FlyXenonRC Knew someone would say this… he literally said any old drill will work while using the mill for this reason 🤦🏼‍♂️

The idea was to show a method for someone with few tools. You could drill them by hand, but a mill is a very specialised piece.

@@insertphrasehere15 would have been a solid argument if he hadn’t used the mill to also drill the holes, the video was on metal casting, fairly specialized. With all of that, it makes way more sense to machine the faces then to use all that specialized tooling then to just do a mediocre job filing the faces.

@@nerddub my point is that drilling is obviously not necessary to do on a mill. A drill press or a hand drill can make those holes and everybody knows that. Showing how to do the faces flat by hand is essential for the hobbyist without those tools. The fact that he used the mill to drill is like “you can drill this a million different ways, I just used this way”. You can’t say the same about milling the faces flat. Imagine: “here in this beginner friendly video I’m now going recommend that you use your three axis CNC to machine the pieces to shape.”

@@nerddub the metal casting isn’t specialised. This is pewter, you can melt it in a soup can on the stove. You can cast it in anything, even silicone or beach sand. Hell I’m surprised he bothered sand casting. You could just make the wood box the size of the casting that you want and just cast directly in the wood (that’s what I’d do for a rectangular casting in pewter).

I know some people dissolve it in acetone and use it as glue for 3D prints.

What tool was that one?

@@karl_alan i think is called circular saw table, sorry english it's not my first languaje. appears at 0:49

@@DeepMoondark if you have a workshop without a table saw you just have a big toolbox and a room.

​@@14tauschernewsflash, "most people" don't have a workshop.

@@RamoArt yep, but most people who make stuff do. Lots of people live in apartments and can't do anything involving tools, but for those with the space, ability, and free time to work on these sorts of things, "most people" could fit a cheap saw in their workspace. It's a problem of how he was speaking in a makers sense and not a viewers sense.

But he started the video saying he was trying to make this one accessible & show how to do it with simple tools for people that don't have the expensive equipment

@@karl_alan he still used a mill!

​@@Boosted98gsxAs a stand in for a drill press.... because he doesn't have one..

@@Boosted98gsx true, at which point he said he could have used a hand drill instead.