Hi everyone in this video I’ll be melting down some copper for a friend well a lot of copper Hope you enjoy the video If you did enjoy the video please check out my other videos link below / @meltingipswich Don’t forget to subscribe
That was soooo satisfying to watch. And that’s a great stack of bars, I’m jealous haha. The way the pours just flow like glowing water is so good to watch and see. Loved it!
A stack of copper is good. A Bigstack is really good. The great copper wall of Ipswich is outstanding. The super copper house is a phenomenal project. Love the video and the copper wall is wow, great work.
That felt good to watch. Love Copper when it's clean. Just Amazing how much work really goes into this kind of project. Thank you for sharing this. Makes me want to fire up the Kiln and get to it again. Just wish it was warmer...lol
That was a nice melt, nothing better than melting and pouring Copper. I was hoping that you would get that brick turned to be able to pour them all in a row like that. Can't wait to see all the bins melted and lined up. You should also build a small house outta the bars lol
Nice pouring sir, I love melting copper like you and stacking it. I have 67 kgs atm, it’s not much but every now and then I trade 35-40 kgs for 10 Oz of Silver😉 I get mine from street scrapping mainly but also market place, it’s a good way to get free or small cost copper and it’s very satisfying pouring your own bars😉 Well done.👍
If you flatten five or six inch segments and stand them vertical in your crucible your volumetric efficiency will increase and your fuel bills will decrease.
I have manufacture company and i melt copper average 300.000 but problem is in the process....the melting process is about 25 years back the finish product is sheet and circle and its outcome is worst full of dust in the sheet and circle and chemical to remove the dust of the sheet and circle....
Damn what a stack! Very jelous since all my copper and brass is still in buckets in its scrap form, soon I'll get my devil forge aswell and I'll have around 300kg to go through, that's goint to make for some very interesting weekends and one happy wife (at this point he is screaming to see those buckets GONE lol). Btw if you are planning on more melts thise size you should get a few more of those molds, being able to almost completely exhaust the copper in the crucible in one go would really speed up the whole process. You probably will want a little left over to speed up the subsequent melts tho.
Yeah you should always keep a little bit in the crucible if you are continuing melting as it speed up the process rather than starting Fred’s every time. But yes I agree I do need to get some more.
@@meltingipswich Those moulds are 1kg ones or are they rated for more than that? I know they usually consider gold weight for the mould rating and since I am gonna get me some when I get the forge I'd love to know, I kinda fancy those small ingots compared to bigger ones 🙂
I throughly enjoy the copper melts you show. I too have a foundry and have been melting a lot of aluminum. I also have quite a bit of copper to melt but after 10 - 15 minutes or so at 1.2 pressure it starts dropping and I loose the heat enough to melt the copper. How do you melt so much copper like this. My tank might be getting too cold. What’s your advice? Thanks so much. Keep the videos rolling!
First of all thank you for watching. When the heat starts to dip I put the gas bottle in a bucket of water it brings the pressure back up. I use the big blue buckets in my video then if it dips again it either mean that there’s not enough gas in the bottom to give you the pressure you need or change the water again ( don’t use hot water ) Thank you
@@meltingipswich I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while. Just love them. Thanks for the tip. I’ll give that a try. So just use room temp water or warm water? Does it matter? Thanks again for responding. Have a great day!
This may have been asked before, but how much copper can be mted per tank of fuel and what is the offset cost (assuming what anyone does is considered average knowing there are different methods and thickness and on and on).
Hi there as I don’t pay for my gas I’ve never really paid attention to that but I’m sure I could keep a record of it when I start a new bottle. Thank you for watching 👍
@Chris Kempf It's not really anything more than a couple of questions. For the sake of curiosity and because my OCD is screaming the need to know. Besides, seeing it in its liquefied state of the deep glowing red is pretty entrancing. You can see where parts are cooling faster than other parts of the molten metal, which gives it an unnaturally eerie yet calming sensation. Like most people feel about staring into a fire.
@@meltingipswich I wish I had access to free gas, Then I would melt the like 900 US pounds I have here.. It just cost too much. I'm thinking a lot of solar panels and melt them with electricity.
My yard will take mine they have taken a couple and tested them for purity as I wanted a price and it come back at 98% pure and they will only pay normal scrap rates so I still haven’t actually sold them any yet
@@meltingipswich yeah I did wonder, I watch another channel and he has almost 1000kg worth of various metals and I think it’s worth nothing if no one wants it 🙉
@@GaryNewsom1 yah maybe! but it don’t cost me anything so anything I get is a bonus I am actually going to list all of my stack on eBay after Christmas and start fresh that way if any of my subscribers wanted any of them then they are accessible to them 👍
