I Tested Pouring Molten Aluminum in Wood

28 Replies to “I Tested Pouring Molten Aluminum in Wood”

1. Good effort but you didn't have near the set up. Overall I think the idea is pretty bad and pouring multiple layers usually never works. If you were to do this over again I would make sure the table is fully secured together with rebar. No structure should come from the poured metal. On the topic of metal forget aluminum you would need way too much equipment to pour something that large. On the other hand you could melt a lot of let's say pewter enough to fill that cavity. Fill as much of that void as you can with filler material like rebar so your pour won't be so big but you should only do one pour. In general have about 15% to ideally 25% more metal than you need with this not accounting for dross.

2. Your fixture table isn't going to be flat anymore!

3. poor boys, they were sooo stoaked about this idea

4. Aluminum doesn’t give off sparks

5. Submerged…. Wood…. In…. Water….

6. Try soaking the wood in water before putting in the aluminum

7. Nope! Turd is accurate I hate it

8. Thanks John and the team for giving me and my dad something to talk and bond with after we both found this channel 😀

9. Aluminium doesn’t spark.

10. 12:42 feels like a reality show.

11. I think it would have worked a lot better if you had a larger foundry and a much bigger crucible to be able to do the pour in one go.

12. I wonder if you drilled several holes along the middle of the river I’m curious if they would act as biscuit joints or a sort of dowel. 8:22

13. arnt you supposed to soak the wood before you pour aluminum on it?

14. try tin instead of aluminum, it has a lower melting point

15. I think it would be possible with a thicker metal slab under it, and the two pieces of wood securely clamped down and bigger aluminum pours like first pour halfway up and the second pour finishes it at most three pours anymore and the aluminum cools too fast also maybe pre heat the metal slab to keep the first pour a little hotter longer as it would help the aluminum stay hot

16. It looks rustic I kinda like it I would definitely take that table for my shop or office

17. Where did Sam and Jordan go?

18. Wonder if a softer metal with a lower melting point would make it any easier.

19. I'd suggest holding the large plate of steel with your forklift and setting up a small sprinkler underneath it to cool from beneath and then lightly wetting the wood before you pour the aluminum. Lastly do several small pours like do 1 of those small ingots at a time because the smaller amount of aluminum should cool more quickly than pouring a large amount at once

20. Good try great video

21. Yep…. Polished turd! The amount of time spent to do this and make it look good would raise the cost exponentially. And that puts a major cap on buyers.

22. I don't hate it either.

23. Try it with a form and sand molding process it would work easier.

24. "Everyone has the propper PPE to our research… Buckets of water" Are you trying to create a catastrophic steam explosion or what? Jesus christ man… Also your Aluminium is hideous and weak because you didn't remove slag when pouring.

25. It’s probably tin or something

26. Pre-burn the pour site with a blow torch

27. Chris looks just like VSAUSE

28. What if you just did epoxy with silver paint mixed in it. Same effect no?

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