Treasure Chest - Rearranging The Stack - Melting Aluminum and Making Coins - The Growing Stack 

Thank you my friend!! 👍

I’ll have to find some diamond molds or make some. That would definitely be a nice to add to the chest 👍

Thanks my friend!!

I forgot to say that I love your treasure chest! It is so colorful inside!

Thank you Tracy, I appreciate that. If you ever want any more info on anything feel free to shoot me an email anytime. I’d be happy to help any way I can. I’m sorry your pool cage blew down, that’s a bummer for sure. Thanks again and I’ll talk to you soon. 🙂👍

Thank you Lisa! It did turn out pretty good, and I’m happy I didn’t set it a blaze 🙂 The coins turned out good after a little polishing, I was definitely happy with them. Good to hear from you as always, and I’ll talk to you soon on the next one 😉👍

Thanks Tim! I took way too much time off, happy to be back and excited for all the next ones. 👍

You're welcome and welcome back

Would borax break the surface tension or otherwise make the metal more “runny”?

@Sean Brown Borax would work as a Flux to allow the metal to flow freely, also separating any impurities in the metal. The biggest issue was that he had too much melted metal to pour such small molds. I found out this problem at Christmas. I was pouring 2oz Christmas tree molds for gifts. The first of the pours over filled the mold, but as I poured more, the pours became more acceptable. I had several different pours and had the issue on the first 2 rounds of pours. I solved it by pouring a small bar mold. Which decreased the width of the stream of metal when it was time to pour the small mold. Making it easier to determine when to end the pour.

Thanks Lisa! There was a lot of coins to fill it up a bunch for sure, and still plenty of room for more 😉 I can’t wait to fill it completely full!

Thank you Jim. Sorry I was gone for so long, it starting wearing on me not melting and making videos! The vacation was nice and all, but I’m definitely happy to get back to it and get back in the swing of things. Glad to hear from you!

@@TheGrowingStack no worries - hobbies have to be fun or they are jobs. People need downtime. I can’t fathom the pressure of ideas, filming, editing, publishing, etc. I watch RU-vid more than TV and the 15 or so active channels I follow that publish either once or twice a week create their own pressures on me to keep up. Question if you don’t mind - how many hours of your time to get us 15 minutes of content? I’d guess 1-3 hours of time for every minute.

@@JimFinlayson I totally hear you on the hobby/job thing for sure, and I do love doing it. For the time of it all(And I never mind you asking- ask me anything) they depend based on the project I start and what I “think” is a good idea at the time and start running with(I can never stop a project once I start it, one of my downfalls I suppose-especially ones that I realize I’m in over my head but have to finish) but generally a normal project like this from start to finish(without distractions) takes me probably 15 hours of solid work time. I guess you could boil it down to an hour/minute of content when all is said and done. Of course life/work/family all intertwine and they take me much longer depending on the week and what is going on. Feel free to ask me anything you want to, and shoot me an email if you have the time: TheGrowingStack@Gmail.com

Thanks brother! I love that idea, now getting them embedded without an adhesive makes me think of how to accomplish that. But I can imagine how it would look for sure. Always good ideas my friend! So glad to hear from you

Thank you my friend!! Good to hear from you!

Thank you 👍 Good to hear from you, I hope you are doing well my friend.

Thanks brother! I’ll try to work on my website with playable audio for all the tracks. My brother does an amazing job at whipping up new music for every video!

Welcome! Thank you my friend. www.etsy.com/shop/MetalAndGraphite If you can, let him know I sent you his way 👍

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I’ll have to see what I can do 🤔 I’ll try experimenting with one when I have time. 👍

@@TheGrowingStack AWSOME ! Thank you for your time.

Thank you, I don’t but I’ve been wanted to get the tools and supplies to start making my own

How much does it cost to get them made?

@@thesilversphincter I haven’t had any custom molds made, just ordered from different sellers and suppliers. The ones I have purchased range anywhere from $35/40-$100 depending if they are double sided or a two part mold 👍

Got it ..thank you

Same here, but I had to do it. I felt your pain 🙂 What I really can’t decide moving forward is whether of not to keep ingots and other projects separate or with the same metal group. The engineer in me says mixing everything together would load balance the shelf vs having all copper on one side and aluminum on the other. But the organizer in me says keep them together. 🤷‍♂️ Either way, it’s going to be fun 😃👍

@@TheGrowingStack I'm sure you'll come up with a good scheme. The coins once in the chest look awesome. If it had been that way from the get go I don't think it would have triggered that part of OCD!

No you weren’t.

Thanks Captain! Good to hear from you as always. There is definitely a ton of room for more stuff now. I still have some more arranging to do, but I figured that can wait till another day. Take it easy my friend and I’ll see you on the next one 👍