As much fun as a pile of boards on the floor can be, it's time to take this vertical. watch this project continue it's slow creep upwards as we make it free standing (and not much else) today. Also I address the great wood size v. name debate. If any of you have been holding your breath to hear the raging debate and stunning conclusion to this discussion, what's wrong with you? it's just lumber. Mailing Address: 1818 Milton Ave STE 100 # 1973 Janesville, WI 53545-9998 We have a community Discord server. To join, send me an email at vloggarage@gmail.com, or click here: https://discord.gg/TQWeGJU Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/VlogGarage Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/pauls.garage Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/paulsgarage Music: "Quirky Dog" by Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbjn_-qotW4

Today I try to combine my metal foundry activities with my 3D printing activities. You can probably tell from "first try" that things don't go super well. I 3D printed a mug in Prusa PLA using my Original Prusa i3 MK2S. That part of the process went fine. I then combined it with some wax and foam for the sprue, that part went fine. I then put the 3d print into a plaster of paris mold. That was a bit less "fine" but it seems to work. in this video, i do the burn out of the plaster mold, melt the scrap aluminum into ingots, and also pour into the burned out lost PLA mold. It was... quite an adventure for me. The best adventures involve metal melting, and lots of fire from a janky propane burner. Here is the mug that i printed: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/coffee-cup-12442 This furnace is loosely based on the "mini metal foundry" design by Grant Thomson but with a different refractory lining, the burner is based on the "Oliver Upwind" burner design by Lionel Oliver. I made it in this video: https://youtu.be/qyVPtvbExXs Mailing Address: 1818 Milton Ave STE 100 #1973 Janesville, WI 53545-9998 We have a community Discord server. To join, send me an email at vloggarage@gmail.com, or click here: https://discord.gg/TQWeGJU Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/VlogGarage Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/pauls.garage Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/paulsgarage Music: "Quirky Dog" by Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.com/ #3dprinting #metalcasting #foundry ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBkdT2lnE14

Time to add the insulation i talked about earlier and then never did. I'm using a sheet of ceramic wool, sometimes called inswool or kaowool (if you call it kale-wool you misheard it, that wouldn't work, but it sounds edible which is nice). This is a lower temperature insulation than the fire brick, though higher temp versions are available. Mailing Address: 1818 Milton Ave STE 100 #1973Janesville, WI 53545-9998 We have a community Discord server. To join, send me an email at vloggarage@gmail.com, or click here: https://discord.gg/TQWeGJU Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/VlogGarage Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/pauls.garage Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/paulsgarage Music: "Quirky Dog" by Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32FBIzni_o

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