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556Raven
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Приєднався 20 лют 2010
I dabble in home foundry work with aluminum. Mostly lost foam casting and occasionally an ant hill will meet its demise Pompeii style. Yes I do take requests for more info and am willing to custom cast things. As for the name its the caliber of my favorite big boy toy and an old company slogan that I hold dear to my heart. Enjoy the videos and keep the comments and suggestions coming!
Aluminum Skull cane foot
Back at Lost Foam aluminum casting! This time were making an aluminum skull to be a foot for a CVMA sisters walking cane. Great fun and an honor to make it for her.
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Twisting - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
MUSIC:
Twisting - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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2017 Road King stage one
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This time around I'm going to put a full stage one upgrade on my 2017 Harley Road King with a Milwaukee 8 motor. Ill give a good sound comparison with a before and after for sure! The upgrade included a 4" Dual Slash muffler set, a pair of Dresser Duals that are true dual, a Harley Screaming Eagle High Flow air cleaner and a Vance and Hines Fuel Pack 3 tuner. Lots of fun, now if someone would m...
Aluminum Cast Skull guidon top and stand
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Today were making a guidon topper and a stand to hold it up. Both of them lost foam cast aluminum skulls. Music: Bummin on Tremelo Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Cast Aluminum Daggers
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Were finally getting back to aluminum castings today! Here i start with 3D printed daggers and use petrobond sand to cast them in aluminum in my driveway! Its a fun process and i really enjoyed getting back to the furnace with some coke cans. More aluminum is on the way so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out! Musc: "Whiskey on the Mississippi" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed und...
LED Lounge Light Upgrade
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Today I'm going to take an old lighted sign and upgrade it to Multi color LED for my garage. I got this "Lounge Light" from a military bar in Honduras that i frequented when I was stationed down there. If you have ever been to Soto Cano Honduras as active Duty Military you have hear of the Lizard Lounge. This used to be on the front porch... Now its in my garage! Music: Industrious Ferret Kevin...
Sand Rammer plus Cope and Drag Flask
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Here i attempt to make a cope and drag type flask for green sand casting. Also my first petrobond sand casting attempt at a sand rammer to make this process simpler in the future. The first try at the flask didn't go so well. After i acquired the proper wood working tool it was much easier and quite successful. Music: Cold Sober Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: B...
Anet A8 3D printer review and build
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I got a 3d Printer! In this video ill give my initial impressions of the Anet a8 3d printer from gear best.com as well as a time lapse of the actual assembly! Venus Box by Prot0typ1cal Published on May 12, 2016 www.thingiverse.com/thing:1559232 Creative Commons - Attribution
DIY Motorcycle Dolly
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So way up north in Alaska its rather important to get your car in the garage. This hasn't happened for my family yet this year because my motorcycle. It's not that the bike is to big but that I don't have to room to get it against the back wall. I decided to make a dolly to park on allowing me to spin the bike 360° without pulling an Austin Powers parking move. LOL! Music: Jarvic 8 Kevin MacLeo...
DIY Bismuth Crystals FAIL
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Up here in Alaska it's a little too cold for me to stand outside with the foundry for hours on end, so I've been looking for indoor metal melting projects. Several other people on UA-cam have videos showing awesome crystals being formed from slowly cooling molten bismuth. This is right up my alley! Unfortunately I lack the correct bismuth to pull it off this time. Never fear! I will get some of...
Ant Hill Bases and Aluminum Skull
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This time around I'm cleaning out the garage before the big move to Alaska. Ill make another CVMA aluminum skull as well as some stands for my aluminum fire ant mounds. The larger ant hill casting can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/XNnMkTX9lqA/v-deo.html The smaller ant hill is here: ua-cam.com/video/JWFk32nhCWA/v-deo.html and a more detailed skull video is here: ua-cam.com/video/AX7x59Jt0NY/v...
Triple Fire Ant Aluminum Casting
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Back at it again! Out to the New Brockton Armory for more aluminum fire ant hill goodness. This time around Denise and I had two visitors, Denises's daughter Amber and a buddy Matt. Matt is in the process of building his own foundry to continue on the lower Alabama ant killing spree as i will be moving out of the area soon. More to follow on the move in the not to distant future. Intro and outr...
Making Ingots
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As many of my fans have brought up, its much easier to cast things such as ant hills and lost foam using ingots instead of soda cans. So in the interest of saving time and not making as much dross in the field I'm going to melt down all the cans i have and make fish ingots. Not fish for any special reason other than this is the only cast iron mold i have ;-) Intro and outro template from RavenP...
Double Fire Ant Mound Aluminum Casting
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One more time! Were headed back out to the City of New Brockton to cast fire ant hills from the front yard of the city armory. With permission from Mayor Kathy Holley, we arrived in the field pleasantly surprised by eight new fire ant mounds.Due to a lack of aluminum, as well as a lack of daylight, we were only able to cast two of the fire ant hills. Never fear!! After presenting Mayor Holley w...
Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Casting
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Finally found another fire ant colony that needed a history lesson about Pompeii. Got permission from the neighboring city mayor to attempt casting anthills on government land. Loaded up in the truck and gave it a shot. The homemade foundry and molten soda cans proved to create a beautiful fire ant colony aluminum casting. The addition of the Phantom 3 Advanced aerial photography is a nice touc...
Squirrel!!!
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I decided to spend a Sunday out on the bike with my lady.... Everything went well until I had a suicidal squirrel try to get himself run over. Not really a big deal as I would have just splattered him all over the road and cleaned up later but still!!! That little bastard almost got us! Intro and outro template from RavenProDesign @ www.ravenprodesign.com/ Music: incompetech.com/music/royalty-f...
Lost Foam Casting Skulls and Skyrim Statue
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Lost Foam Casting Skulls and Skyrim Statue
Dross Removal (Little Sparks Ep. #5)
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Dross Removal (Little Sparks Ep. #5)
Ant Hill Prep (Little Sparks Ep. #4)
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Ant Hill Prep (Little Sparks Ep. #4)
Hotwire Foam Cutter (Little Sparks Ep. #3)
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Hotwire Foam Cutter (Little Sparks Ep. #3)
Home made Foundry and Burner (Little Sparks Ep. #2)
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Home made Foundry and Burner (Little Sparks Ep. #2)
Crucible Tools (Little Sparks Ep. #1)
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Crucible Tools (Little Sparks Ep. #1)
Usually the ant hills are emptied before doing this in Australia. Awesome though mate 🤙
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Nice one.
Amen, faith in Jesus Christ is our only hope. Much love and God bless you and your family brother
I like how there was a cop car there
Look bro thanks for showing us this art...
With all the money and effort you spent, you could have purchased one.
your a frikn genius the before and after pics are choice many thanks
but you almost couldn't touch the ground , how high is it, how tall are you ? is the bike lowered ?
Instead of buying a $600 Condor for my bike I'll build this one.
I would like to see everyone having there own business in turning fire ants into fine works of art
I think that you guys should help the real estate industry of get rid of fire ants
🏆🏆🏆
Makes me wonder if Earth's extinction events; asteroids, volcanos et al. were hyper intelligent trans dimensional beings making art?
Looks like a silvery Christmas tree, great job! Added bonus that the pests are gone and you have a sculpture to keep
Jesus Christ is Lord and King and Our Savior!
Nice build
Why not pressure washer from a distance. Asking for a friend. Lol
All those screaming little ants sealed in metal. Their little souls trapped forever. Cool!!!! Burn them little mfs. If you never been stung by fire ants, you will never know the pain!!!! Burn suckers burn!!!!
Awesome
Nice. Every time I build vs buy thinks like this it take me more time and money than I planned.
Hey noticed you’re part of the CVMA are you still in. I’m in Florida chapter. I like what you did there with the DIY dolly gonna try and replicate it. Just one question why did you go with the slant on the metal peace’s
I got 2.8kg's of "99.99%" bismuth , on the first melt it went through all the colors blue to gold to pink to purple etc but I didn't get any crystals due to bad temp control , on second melt it stayed only silver and I got some square crystals , 3 remelts , no colors except silver and some square crystal growth , am I using inpure bismuth ?
Won't get me kneeling down near a fire ant colony, I've been stung by 'one' on my foot and the whole foot got swollen. I've had bee, wasp and spider bites but the fire ant was the worst.
Well published, you are creative and you master the work well. I subscribed to your channel, thank you very much
I miss seeing the vedios I love all your stuff
I love how they're not wearing shoes lol I stepped in one on the beach one time.... Horrible!
do people buy the casting?????
We’ll done Sir. I just picked up the 2021 RK and your video has convinced me to go with the same setup.
Nice job.
good job
he's Cool! hope you are doing well.
ua-cam.com/video/dwHGCMwZwJU/v-deo.html Here is the "Mother of All Ant-Hives" Cement cast 10 tons used !?!? It reminds me of the Sci-Fi story, "Starship Troopers"
Beautiful 👍👍try mashing your cans first!
Awesome 👍👍👍
Beautiful
I had to add a 5 ft orange plastic dow rod to the center of the front. My fairing completely covers the front, can't see the front tire or fender, so I keep the rod in view down the center of my handlebars to stay lined up with the dolly. I also added a ramp on the front so as to drive straight off instead of backing off the dolly.
Did you ever get any pure bismuth?
Nice result!!
Even as a teenager, It is so enjoyable to see fire ants being killed. Last video some jackass who said something like "Leave them alone. They did nothing to you, Bullshit. This is why humanity is filled with bad people" I bet he hasn't even been outside once. Anyways nice job man!
Your a murderer. ANTS LIVES MATTER!!! Everyone, meet me by the garbage can tonight at 10, we're rioting for table scraps, old fruit, leave these vermin nothing!!!
Ouch I heard his knees crack when he stooped down to the ground.
You should really invest in a can crusher. I have one for sale on FacebookMarket Place. I purchased on Amazon. I heard on other channels it is easier to burn the cans crushed because you can fit more in the crucible.
Shouldn't vets be helping animals?
i hope ufos iron cast your whole village with you in it
I hope no ant loving Kardashev 3 civilization is watching and decides to get even on behalf on the ants...
Like watching you work. Can’t you just heat more aluminum and set your cast base that you do have into it?
What about pure gold?))
Good one.
I think the best part of the amazing woman you have doing this with!! Good for you!!!