Casting a solid aluminum bat that leaves a good impression (Success/Fail)
I wanted to cast a aluminum bat since I started thinking about metal casting, and now that I have all the necessary tools and materials I can do exactly that. Because of the big flask I used sodium silicate bonded sand instead of using green sand. I made a huge mistake by making the grooves on the handle recesses, that created a weak spot in the handle and that's where the bat failed. I'll have to fix the pattern.
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Why would ANYONE want to skip the production?!?! That's the best part!
What the hell, That is the coolest way to use a lathe
if you think this is cool you should checkout the giant cnc mill-lathe combination machines i got to use one a few years back and all you have to do it put the metal in the vice and off they go
+DIY Jet Engine Guy you have to have things set correctly or you can crash the machine which is not a cheap fix!!
"all you have to do it put the metal in the vice and off they go" obviously not a machinist
Justin Taylor Agreed!
obviously you have to program them and put the metal in the right place i was just keeping it simple youre correct im not a machinist but im not an idiot either
I couldn't stop laughing when he was acting all cool and shit with his shades on and swings it and the bat breaks 😂😂😂
S class hero metal bylat!
The bat broke because it lacked fighting spirit
attack rate: 210 durability: 15
AlexLun I'd say 180 at the attack part
It's so heavy you have to swing it slow, you could just as easily use a normal hollow bat on things that aren't bricks, and it would hold up just fine
Spineshot25 I will buy one aluminium bat,But i will Leave it how it is,and i will not make it hard as Balls
How to make this easy: 1. Drill a hole into a hollow bat 2. Fill with liquid aluminium 3. profit
😂
2.5 Experience molten aluminum all over your feet. It melts if not tucked around with sand. 3. Burn.
Ya except the molten aluminum pour would melt through the bat....
you could still put it in sand
+xXonlinemanXx true
I like how creative you are and not afraid to show your processes to the world both successes and failures.
You did better than most of us, which has never done it. Keep up the good work and hope to see the improved version soon. SUBSCRIBED!
Great video!! Well done !!
ayyy jimmmy
JIMMY!!!!!!
+M'aiq ayyy lmaooo
JIMMY, ITS ME.. JIMMY
jimmydiresta I Just finished watching one of your vids.
Very nice! Even with the fail! I never saw anyone use an angle grinder on a lathe before. Very cool idea!
alot of wood workers use anglegrinders or similar things that do the same as an angle grinder that way you dont get sircular sanding patterns on your wood or in this case metal.
yeah that looked way hardcore
Quite normal to use grinders like that. Even on parts made for the off-shore oil industry.
7:00 *garou has left the chat* 7:35 *metal bat has left the chat*
is this a motherfucking One Punch Man reference?
@@shiondearies2842 yes
I love this kind of stuff! Idk why it's so interesting, but it's cool
Casted aluminum is about as brittle as aluminum gets, a better approach would be to use a forged piece of aluminum (e.g 50x50mm bar, 6082-T4) and simply turn it in a lathe.
Or do aluminum bronze. :)
Yea my thoughts exactly. It wasn't as much a design flaw but more a material flaw.
Yes. Slightly higher price though but definately worth it for a project like this.
actually all my casting are to damn hard harded than forged aluminium
would the lost foam method still be useable while preheating the mold?
Ohhh I get it, you were melting down the scrap for ingots to use for other projects. *Subscribed*
+NameNotOriginal holy shit, it's you!!
Holy shit I love mount and blade, but I have no idea who you guys are!
I like that he didn't hide his mistakes :)
big baals for showing the fail !!! respect .
the main flaw is that the aluminium is cast instead of formed into shape. in order to make aluminium strong you need to organize the crystals in the material and then CNC / Lathe it into shape.
Exactly !!!
The music is all kinds of fucking terrible. But that bat? And that process? Damn dude that's fucking kick ass!!
sugestion: Should have done a “Slow Motion” video when you were hitting the items with the bat! Would have looked A1🔥🔥🔥 Great video tho I love watching things get built from scratch and your channel provides that!
Once again, a well done video. And your always readiness to admit your mistakes is refreshing. Impressed as well with your grinder/router work. Keep it up, please. I doubt that you know how much you help others trying to do the same things you do.
What planet are you from? Shit-obnoxious noise music, stupidly executed, ill informed use of technique and materials, and a complete fail. Waste of time and material. You people are doomed, and deserve your enslavement.
Cool project, but the obnoxious music and faux tough guy persona really turned me off
I don't he was trying to turn you on perv.
How was he showing a faux tough guy persona? He barely spoke.
ATA420 I don't think it's something I can really explain, but the sunglasses are definitely part of it.
TBH. Better he wears sunglasses then to be squinting at the camera...
+ATA420 Ever seen Vincent from Pulp Fiction? When he didn't talk while doing business, he looked tough. Add sunglasses and boom, there you go.
molten metal is fuckin crazy...
melt molten metal?
***** Good on you.
I wish to one day reach this level of manliness. Straight up just building my own stuff.
Awesome video's I like watching from the beginning to the end. Keep up the awesome video thank you
Try running a steel rod up the centre for added strength.
Thanks for labeling the music I'll be sure to never listen to it again!
I think this track is pretty cool. To each his own!
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Jake I think I agree and it was a funny comment.
The music is uncopywrited , my little brother watches dantdm and i think its his intro
I love a good process, great work mate !
Amazing work dude!
You need a good aluminum alloy like aircraft 51, pure aluminum is little use in high mechanical streght applications.
Yes and no. Aircraft aluminium is so strong because it's a special alloy and because it is specially treated. Also some aluminium alloys are hard to cast because of high viscosity, to fill the mould details you would need to spin everything so centrifugal force would force the molten aluminium inside.
You guys are both right but the reason why the bat broke is probably not really related to the specific aluminum alloy chosen. As MP Dragon said himself, the mistake was creating those grooves in the handle: they acted as notches and intensified the local stress which became higher than the fracture strength of the alloy employed.
if you melt and pour/cast aircraft aluminium, it will lose its strength. You would have to reharden it through precipitation hardening to get it strong again.
The alloy would make a difference but the way very high strength aluminium is created is by heating to certain positions on the liquidus/solidus diagram and quenching to maintain the microstructure that has been developed there. It's not just the alloying metals that increase the strength. The microstructure is the most important. But yes just removing the grooves is much easier
Maybe some feedback? Do you want more or less of pattern making, mold making, casting and finishing the casting?
Sorry about the flaw in the handle. That's too bad. I enjoyed the pattern and mold making and also the finishing process. More of the finishing would be good.
everything was interesting from beginning to start, awesome video
Really enjoy all your videos man, I'm proud to say I have been here since day one. I really don't mind, I always enjoy watching you making the moods and melting the aluminium. I would very much like to see more intros on all your videos, very happy with the one you did. Love all your work, when you get over 1 million subs, remember I am one of your biggest supporters
MP, you have very nice projects! I think that your bat´s failure didn´t happen due bad design but I believe the lack of heat treatment after the solidification. I don´t know neither the alloy used nor if you have done any heat treating process on it. I have some experience with Al-Si-Mg alloy designed for engine cylinder heads and cast wheels (356 alloy). For this alloy I would suggest heating the cast up to 530°C and leaving it there for 4 hours, quenching on hot water (80°C) and then heating it up to 200°C for 2 hours.
yes, this was awesome
Dang, that is a work of art. Nicely done! Wouldn't want to be on the wrong side if that.
Your tool collection is impressive.
I think you would be better off getting a solid block of aluminium, and just shaping it on a lathe. It's gonna be so much stronger. And i think it could be done without any fancy tools, since aluminium is so soft.
Yep. I used to make yawaras and koppo sticks out of aluminium, and I just used wood files and wood rasps for the overall shaping. It was so soft, it was hardly any slower than working hardwood.
My grandfather once turned a functional trailer ball hitch out of ironwood. He literally had to use a metalworking lathe because woodworking tools wouldn't scratch it.
that is a good idea but more expensive then forging your own like he does
*casting
Why will it be so much stronger?
Dude you did amazing and don't listen to the haters because I play baseball and thats an awesome bat
Great Vid! Something about melting ingots make my leaf go wood! And at the end when you swing at bricks make my wood drip syrup! LOL
Excellent video. That bat is beautiful
7:37 the worst weapon you can get in dying light
When it first came out of the mold I thought it was an accidental sledge hammer!😂
😂😂
This channel is fantastic I'm subscribing
I really like that you added a skip button for the video, I don't skip the making process but it is nice to see you give people the option.
the damn music is too loud, otherwise great video
I'd really hate to get glenned with that thing..
Postal Patriot556 don't we all
Postal Patriot556 really man? you going to drop the glenn bomb ?
TheOnlyKinan no he's dropping glenn
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you have some mad skills wow you earned my sub
just watched this in an auto queue & you look like the smartest guy in that queue...full face shield & dust mask...thanks
Your design is flawed not because of the recesses or grooves in the handle, but because of the technology used to make bat the. Instead of using cast aluminum, you should've used cold formed aluminum (but this is waay advanced technology, and by default too expensive), or cold rolled aluminum bar and cut it out on the lathe. Many people think that cast metal is stronger than some other forms of creating metal object. NOT TRUE!. Almost everything made of cast metal is very brittle. It can handle pressure, but not dynamical forces, such as hitting brick wall with cast aluminum bat. This is because metal makes rather big crystals while it cools (think of it as glass) and these are divided by something called crystal boundaries which on microscopic level create this effect that you think grooves on handle are responsible off. Weak points from within. So, when you (hot or cold, and for aluminum its better cold) deform material, you get to deform those crystal bodies, bonding them, not into bigger crystals, but rather bonding their boundaries, intertwining them, twisting...and so on. This is what gives it strength. So, when you buy quality tools, for example, and you see label on them: made from cast steel. This is not just taken out of the cast. It undergoes process of, usually, hot forming by the means of negatives-forms of the shape you want to make. This is why those tools are much more expensive. It is very tedious process, with quite a few steps in technology. Cold rolled bars of aluminum, underwent this process, and are much stronger from within material. So... just use a lathe, and cut it out. Much simpler, much cheaper, and any machine shop would do it for you real cheap if you supply an aluminum bar for them. This is much better for you also, because you get to choose quality of the bar yourself. Cast things are much better at absorbing vibrations, that why quality power tools as circular saws are great if they have cast construction. Peace!
Excellent. Thank you.
well, not so much. cast aliminum is brittle. it would add a bit of durability, but not for long. hitting anything harder than a baseball would result in shattering of Al around steel bolt at the impact point.
Does quenching help or no?
technically every industrial metal is cast
Lol nerd
it is pretty cool but why didn't you just take the one that you smashed the brick with and fill it with aluminum
... Did you think about that before asking it? Evidently not. What happens if you pour boiling hot water into a hollowed out ice cube? The ice cube melts. What do you think would happen to the aluminium bat when molten aluminium is poured into it?
looks awesome mate
how good does it feel to say "i made that"? good job mane👍
4:25 farcry 5 What I see: 4:25 What you see:1 silver bar
wish I could do this stuff. I can't even get my lawnmower to work
straight to the point, I like it
i learned some interesting techniques from this video..
Those bricks looked like Glenns head after you were done with them
Lost foam casting would have been a shitton easier.
Kinda hard to shape foam on a lathe though huh?
Not really. You can get hard foam that burns up just as easily
+ScienceFoundation yes but then every time he would wanna make a bat it would never be the same as the first and he would have to keep making the foam shape
+Jacob Young do lfc first then use the metal bat to make a mold if you want to copy it. less cleanup than with wood.
lost foam has a lot higher % for form failure though it is a ton easier and cheaper
iam impressed, wow , I can't believe you went to that extent
Cool stuff bro!
Glen how did it feel?
Could you have done a vertical pour instead of lying the bat on its side ?
what would be the reason for that? and that would be tricky.
I thought it would be easier, but I must be wrong... Just curious is all.
It would have been much easier to do lost foam casting here in a vertical pour, as you say. Instead of wood, make a bat out of high density insulation foam in the same way. Bury the foam in greensand with only a sprue off the top or bottom protruding above the sand. Use a metal pipe to form a head above the sprue, pour molten aluminum, and foam will vapourize. Cool and remove bat. Polish to remove rough surface texture.
+Sean yeah so thing like that is what I was talking about, sorry for any confusion.
Yeah, a vertical would have probably been easier.
Well before the TV stiffed it, it was a beautiful bat. nice job m8
That bat looks smashing.
I'm not 100 percent sure, but I do think you also should have given the bat a heat treatment before use. I'm no expert,but if it were steel or cast iron I'd definitly go with a normalization process.
Heat treatment is generally used for ferrous materials due to the crystallization of the grain structure at any given point. I dont believe aluminium has any of these properties so it its heat treatment wouldnt do anything to it other than thermal stressing the part if done poorly.
I believe you are correct especially since heat cycling aluminum reduces its flexibility and causes it to become brittle.
My aluminum mountain bike is annealed to a 6061T6 heat treatment. its also an alloy of aluminum and magnesium. Aluminum is brittle right after is cast and needs to be annealed.
Curtis Lund Your comment got me interested in heat treating aluminum alloys. From what I gather it's very different from say steel and it's more of an "aging process." It's a process that is done before casting. They also call it precipitation hardening and it's like you're cooking the alloy to change the properties.
+Sigma Projects Yeah, with a bike frame the manufacture will treat it after they have welded the frame together. It is usually a multi step process with the frame being kept at certain temps for hours at a time. Al also has a self healing quality to it if it is heated after it is treated. Though it takes months to get the strength and flexibility back. That's why it's poor idea to powder coat a bike frame along with a whole bunch of car wheels. The bike will loose its annealing and will break with out warning when weight is put on it.
In soviet Russia you don't break bat Bat break you
Lol ...
Batman: Knightfall feels
Lucky Games classic.
Very cool build!
awesome bro,nice bat,i love it.
good video, but the music is waaaay to dominant
Maybe run a steel rob up the center
Steel and aluminium shouldn't mix. Maybe if the rod had a coat on it that would allow for the heat of the aluminium. Otherwise, corrosion galore.
Steel and aluminum mix every day in thousands of applications. Firearms, boats, cars, bikes, airplanes, fishing reels. The biggest concern is galling or seizing, and that would not be an issue here as there are no threads or moving parts. In FACT, Gerber's very famous Mark II combat dagger is manufactured by spraying molten aluminum onto a steel tang to form their famous cat's tongue grip. There IS no corrosion issue, many originals from the Vietnam War Era still exist.
+willrichtor I figured that point was obvious enough that it didn't need making lol, but thank you. I'd recommend a mild or cold-rolled rod, and maybe have it threaded, too increase the surface area in contact.
+blkcandywarez thanks, man, good info.
Nice!very Nice!!Youre a Craftsman!!!
The suspense is a killer.
Wait u can break 3 bricks no problem but u hit a tv and it snaps in half😂
It got weaker overtime.
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looks amazing!!
this guy is talented
Where to I find your foundry?
In Europe. If you mean the location?
Oh, no I mean can I buy it? Or did you build it?
Will Rossi everything is DIY
Do you have a video on how you made it?
Will Rossi good English /grammar
come on negan Lucille is fine
Great job brother. I'm starting my own shop up I'll make you something awesome.
looks really good
And sir is there anything that you saw on the crook that might be easily identifiable? Well, i hit my logo into him.
what if I don't have Co2? will the silicate sand harden on its own?
Yes but it takes very long to cure frome the CO2 that's in the air
okay, thank you 😀
+MP Dragon very well done did a great job of it
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yes?
Negan needs one of these.
I love that bat, even with the Fail.
could just fill an old bat with concrete
Add tungsten ice cleats from a snowmobile and we have a nasty death club
Or, fill the original bat with aluminum...
it would melt
fill it with lead
Extracting the *casings* from the chamber.
it looked great. personally i didnt think the logo sticking out of the bat looked good but its your bat not mine
I think that I will try to put my logo on all of my castings, makes casting more challenging.
+MP Dragon well I love the addition of the logo keep it up!
would have looked better as a recessed logo and not raised out of the bat
+Oneofdazzz agreed
+Oneofdazzz well if you do have a raised logo, whoever you smack with it that tries to harm you or whatever is going to have a deep bruised reminder not to mess with people lol
I've the sense like some people have that I always enjoy when someone smashing a tv or something like that... 😎
Looks heavy but still cool! Nice emblem on there
Algum Br por aqui
É nois
Fala ae
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Euuuuuuuu
Noix
Cool stuff... But the soundtrack is killing me with cancer :D
nice work brother
AWESOME, WELL DONE.
how much did all of that alumimum set you back?
I had it from when I used to gather and sell scrap metal.
how much do you think it's all worth?
around $2 lol
fizz per pound. Almost 3 per pound last i looked.
Jormungand13324 around 80 cents per pound, also why did you ask if you knew how much aluminum was worth
Metal bat from one punch man would be proud!
cool......now that can cause some serious damage..... nice work
You can put a Steel rod inside to avoid breaks, like reinforced concrete . good job and great video man!
that's a lot of work that's a 300 dollar bat
Boi
Barely 50$ for the emblem
bruh it weighs seven pounds most bats don’t go over two pounds. this is like a 50 dollar bat.
what would you charge me to make 10 with a custom emblem
for now I am not selling my castings, but I will sell them later
wh...wh...what are you going to use em' for if i might ask....?
Go go Team Skullbusters!!!
people who complain about the music are the lamest basic bros ever... sorry you all hate your life so bad that you need to complain about some decent music. go complain about rock if you insist on complaining
If you did I would buy off you
I honestly don't really care what happened in the end, I give you MAD PROPS for going the extra length of doing what you did!! Your AWESOME in my book!! 💀
That was so satisfying
how's that solid aluminum feel on impact? shake your teeth out? or more comfortable? just wondering.
Actually you cant feel anything. I was surprised about that to.
MP Dragon that's pretty awesome! Good clean metal work.
As one gentleman pointed out cast metals absorb vibration better than others but it broke because what makes it absorb vibrations also makes it brittle as glass. The only drawback about turning from a solid rod is it would be difficult to include the company logo as a raised piece which makes your bats stand out
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wow so very nice beautiful stick
nice ...i like it how he put the fail too