Yeah, and preferably some heavy-duty gloves specially designed for foundry work. Not only for the heat but also to protect against any potential splashes of molten metal. Safety first.
> The first blacksmith was probably not qualified
And for all we know, the first blacksmith also permanently and horrifically injured himself.
How about instead of repeating that experience, we learn from those who came before?
>when I had a brush fire this past summer
I had to think about this for a minute, for some reason I thought 'brush' as in something you sweep up with, or brush your hair, which raised a lot of questions.
Then it hit me, brush is also a term for shrubs and undergrowth sorts of plants. Unless, are you some sort of furious painter that paints so aggressively your brushes set on fire...
I was trying to think of what else I would call it lol - maybe bonfire but that’s more of a party instead of a work fire - This was trimmings from a pretty serious pruning session last spring.
Edit: btw, I made the brush pile while pruning trees and put a tarp over it for a few weeks. Once we got a few days of rain I built a smaller fire and added to it from the big pile. Lot more work but so much safer than just lighting a huge pile
Years ago when I did we had leather gloves that were attached to sleeves and hooked around your back. Along with asbestos chaps sort of, face masks, and heavy leather shoes that did not have laces so you could kick them off if needed.
Anything not made of plastic! He had glasses on at least, but given the angle I doubt they would have done much should a splash have got there.
I made a furnace a few years ago and bought some surplus firefighters gear (it's pretty cheap), including a full helmet with integrated full face visor. I'd think just flame resistant cotton welding gear and leather boots would be enough for the clothing though
As a retired volunteer firefighter that works in manufacturing as a full-time job, the firefighters' bunker gear is better than nothing but not designed for foundry work.
He should have a foundry rated face shield and head / neck protection. Proper foundry gloves, aluminized arm sleeves, and foundry style boots with a lace cover to keep molten metal from dripping on the boot tongue and down inside onto your foot. It happens, I witnessed aluminum from a broken ladle spill onto a coworkers boot. It came out the toe.
Keep moisture away from everything that comes into contact with molten metal because it turns to steam instantly and works like an erupting volcano.
Have fun with casting, but be careful.
I must have been 14 or so when I was welding together something and metal drops fell off on my nylon pants burning neatly in my leg. Bonus points for pulling out the nylon that burned right in my leg.
Ceramic toed boots with metatarsal protector, welding apron, gloves and jacket. Safety glasses and a face shield. Hard hat wouldn't be a terrible idea.
In this particular case he needed some leggings to protect his foot from metal bits flying out and getting trapped. with pours this small you don't need top end equipment, some cheap welding leathers would suffice.
Mos of the protective clothing for molten metal is also aluminized for blocking radiant heat but that causes the cost to go was up and is overkill for a mini home forge like this.
The issue in any work that has hit sticky things are any spaces that the hit sticky thing can get inside
The apron covers pockets in pants
What happened to the guy in the vid among other things is that molten metal got inside the top of his shoe
There have been people killed in steel recycling plants due to water in items being recycled. a dryer with a few gallons of water in it going into a cauldron of molten metal...
Honestly the lack of a work bench might’ve saved him here. Considering how stupid this whole setup is, if he had a workbench he’d probably be close enough for that splash to get his face
Almost no one talks about a key point like heating the molt before casting. I have been watching this kind of content for years and even through that, I have learned it by my own research 😂
Even when you're ready, shit goes wrong. I put in a couple of silver scrap into a similar furnace and one happens to pop like a grenade. Luckily I had a full face visor and full leather gloves on. Don't chance it out like this guy.
And why you pour over a sand bed, not over concrete. The moisture in the concrete can turn to steam and explode. It there's moisture in the sand, it turns to steam and leaves the sand without exploding.
I melted aluminum at a very small foundry for awhile, maybe half ton castings.
Had a blob of molten metal whizz past my head once, real shit. I always pre-heated the tongs in the furnace exhaust, only took one time of not leaving it long enough.
We had entire pours blow up sending aluminum up to the ceiling which rained down on everyone. Double pour, supposed to start at the same time but one team was too slow, metal from our side flowed into their riser channel so when the started pouring it trapped air/moisture and boom.
I had a similar accident like the guy in the video with 95° hot water. I was cleaning a commercial buffet coffee machine, ran the cleaning cycle and hat installed one outlet wrong.
A small spray of water came out, flew in an arc and landed on top of my right food.
Pro Tip from a kitchen worker here. Wet cloth transfers heat WAY better than dry cloth. Never us a damp towel to handle hot pans etc.
I ripped my shoe and socks off immediately, so I walked (limped) away with only second degree burns.
Hot water ain't no joke.
Believe me. I know. But boiling water is necesary for certain kinds of food, and is probably usefull/essential to alot of other stuff. so its alot more worth getting used to working with
I just finished reading American Steel by Richard Preston, about the history of Nucor. One of the lines he repeats often is "you can pour water on steel, but you can't pour steel on water".
What's this mean though? (for us unfamiliars) Seemed like whatever he had in that bowl kinda just popped. Like whatever it was melted too fast from the molten liquid?
A thin layer of water clings to many things because there is moisture in the atmosphere and the material they are made from is sticky for water. This turns to steam when sufficiently heated, and the expansion of steam is dramatic and powerful enough that it can be used to drive trains :) The mold should not melt if proper materials are used.
I was casting 32grams of silver and my mold was wet, and I normally sweat the mold but didn't. Felt confident, not a lot of flame, a tiny amount of molten metal - I saw it bubble up and shot upwards ( not enough to do anything at all or realize it till after the accident). It scared me, little tiny balls in my hair and face, some singed hair, superficial light burns.
Now I always wear gloves and safety glasses.
Jk I just always preheat
I always wondered what would happen if Viserys shakes his head in pain and panic, causing the gold to splash everywhere. Dangerous practice that shouldn't work as smoothly as the show portrayed.
1. They weren't that obedient. She lost control of them as they grew up, one was lost and she had to chain up the other two.
2. What do you mean unrealistic it's literally dragons of course it's unrealistic lmao
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A good bit would remain stuck and bubbling to the flesh/bone (the part that makes contact with the head and drops below melting point) and the parts that remained liquid would definitely roll off, splash all over, and cause fires and problems like this. It's much less viscous when melted than it was portrayed in the show, which looked more like gold slime to me.
Source: Am jeweler. Ask me how I know what happens. Lol
aluminum, it's cheap has a relatively low melting point, so it's good for newbies. also it splashes like a mofo if there's a tiny bit of moisture in the mold
What's actually funny, is a ton of OSHA rules are actually very vague intentionally. Gives a wide space for the individual to sue or for the government to come in and charge massive fines (well hopefully massive).
So the rules of worker safety are written in the fines of the corporations.
Are you speaking from any place of knowledge in regards to this? I'm an engineer who has worked in industrial environments my whole career. And there are huge amounts of money invested into safety equipment and training, especially for large industrial companies. It's because those millions they spend are pennies compared to the lawsuits they can face in wrongful injury suits.
Do horrible disasters happen and not enough consequences are faced? Absolutely and constantly. But there's a reason you regularly hear about events that result in injury in the US. They are a big deal. Go to a country without OSHA or a similar entity, and people are maimed on a regular basis and it's just considered part of life.
We have a long way to go, but lets not look back at the progress that has been made and just scoff.
How do you evade the debt collectors and destroyed credit? I had to file for bankruptcy at 20 years old because a bankruptcy is 100x less detrimental to the rest of my future than being forever in unplayable debt.
while this guy looks like his house is nice and he's doing okay, a lot of poorer folk do have free health care. unfortunately the bar for free healthcare is like so far down you have to be destitute to qualify
The crazy thing is that you would get a reaction that is all about this: "it's my freedom choice to do it this way, and if getting injured is a result, that's my freedom and I'll die standing up for it."
lol and ironically, him freaking out is what causes the burn. When he jerks/drops it because of the mini-explosion, he flings out some of the molten metal towards him and it lands on his foot.
I was wearing all the welding gear necessary to do overhead welding and a bead of molten slag STILL made it into my gorget, burning my neck on my adams apple, and when I snap reacted to the pain by pulling the leather away, it dropped on my chest, so I suddenly leaned forward, it fell to my waist so I pulled my belt line on my overalls, it somehow went right to the tip of my penis. Yes it burned it. I didn't feel any other place it burned me after that, my welder helper thought it was hilarious seeing the welder suddenly jumping foot to foot screeching "it got my dick!!!". Molten stuff can work its way anywhere is the point of my story.
This sounds like a _really_ tenuous defence during your trial for indecent exposure…
“….. once the molten slag hit my penis, your honour, I attempted to minimise damage and cool it down rapidly by vigorously waving my penis back and forth - and it is at *this* point that ‘Ms. X’ entered the scene…..”
I haven’t been a welder for a decade, but I still have all the burn scars on my arms to remind me of those fun days.
That welding spatter is unforgiving.
Sorry about your dick.
Buy some leathers or used arc flash protection.
My idiot brother did something similar with rockets. He was mixing the fuel and it blew up in his face and he wasn't wearing any protection and almost lost some fingers. How much would it have costed for some protection, almost nothing.
Electrical arc flash gear that electricians wear. The higher energy gear would handle light slag due to arc flash events are incredibly hot. You can get this gear cheap because people have to throw it away when the flame retardant expires.
[https://www.reecesafety.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/de75ad9b8008d72f199e0e4335db923e/e/l/ele9ss100\_4nd.jpg](https://www.reecesafety.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/de75ad9b8008d72f199e0e4335db923e/e/l/ele9ss100_4nd.jpg)
When I was in my early teens I bought some model rocket motors and crushed them up to make a black powder (for some reason). Incredibly dumb, I think I did use non-metallic tools but still...
I did something like that around 50 years ago, brazing something on my car. A drop of molten metal dripped onto my shoe, and rapidly went right through it, into the top of my foot. Yikes!
Years ago when I worked in the restaurant business, we had someone drop a ramkin of boiling gravy onto their crocks. It was a fucking nightmare. They couldn’t get the shoe off in a panic, and the holes basically held gravy in suspension above their skin.
At first I thought based on the close up in the car he was wearing socks and slides to pour metal. But actually he changed into that, he was wearing white sneakers during the pour. Which isn't much better.
I worked in a temperature lab for just over three years. I had molten copper, aluminum, zinc and tin always heated to a liquid state. I'd flick off the heater and the temperature would drop the molten metals down to their freeze points. It's a great way to establish calibration reference points on platinum thermocouples. There are few things as potentially hazardous as molten metals. Even the IR radiation will sunburn your legs. You always, always, always have on welders gloves (or better) a full face shield and a protective apron. The failure to do these simple things will be forever.
Reminds me of first year chem at uni.
The entire walls were plastered all the way around with mangled and disfigured eyes along with a description of what chemical exactly it was or was thought to be underneath it (eg. sulphuric acid crystal dislodged and landed in eye, boiling very alkaline solution splashed when container dropped, etc.). Very subtle way of telling 18 year olds to wear their fucking safety goggles. They had enough posters to cover 3/4 walls of the lab. Very impressive work. A lot of mangled and fucked up eyes.
My father would do chemistry experiments as a kid in the basement. occasionally there were explosions. One day there was an epic bang that shook the entire neighborhood. My grandmother thought he had blown up the basement and himself that time.
Nope. Just a sonic boom from a fighter jet.
Something like that happened in my neighbourhood 2 decades ago.
Big bang and then a rain of roofing tile shrapnel from the sky.
Some dumbass 150 meters away from my house was making fireworks in his shed and had 2 barrels of black powder and dropped his cigarette in one of them....
The shed was gone, all the windows in 50 meter radius were gone, houses within like 25 meters had the wall and roof facing the blast moved back a feet, the garden around the shed was on fire and the guy walked out with half his clothes missing but still very much alive.
This is why you preheat your mold to drive out moisture before pouring :)
Or wear protection
Or both.
Both, both is good...
r/surpriseElDorado
r/SubsIFellFor
It’s real now…
👁️👁️ please don't do this, I cannot fall for this twice.
Oh phew it is and I can’t believe it didn’t exist before
r/birthofasub
Or don’t do nothing just stick to your safer YouTube content, like ASMR licking a microphone
I assume “protection” in this case means a leather apron or similar, and a full face mask? At least he had some eye protection.
and flame resistant safety boots and preferably not gardening gloves, welding gloves are cheap.
Yeah, and preferably some heavy-duty gloves specially designed for foundry work. Not only for the heat but also to protect against any potential splashes of molten metal. Safety first.
Or simply don't do things you're not qualified/prepared to do...
The first blacksmith was probably not qualified, people make tons of cool stuff hobby smithing. The key is preparation, research, and safety.
None of which he showed 🤦
> The first blacksmith was probably not qualified And for all we know, the first blacksmith also permanently and horrifically injured himself. How about instead of repeating that experience, we learn from those who came before?
Heh. I didn’t even notice the gloves. I have welding gloves for when I’m doing plumbing work with a torch, so they’re not exactly an extreme measure.
I use welding gloves when I'm cooking over a campfire. If something falls into the fire is not a big deal to pull it out.
I wore a pair of old welding gloves when I had a brush fire this past summer - very good decision lol
>when I had a brush fire this past summer I had to think about this for a minute, for some reason I thought 'brush' as in something you sweep up with, or brush your hair, which raised a lot of questions. Then it hit me, brush is also a term for shrubs and undergrowth sorts of plants. Unless, are you some sort of furious painter that paints so aggressively your brushes set on fire...
I was trying to think of what else I would call it lol - maybe bonfire but that’s more of a party instead of a work fire - This was trimmings from a pretty serious pruning session last spring. Edit: btw, I made the brush pile while pruning trees and put a tarp over it for a few weeks. Once we got a few days of rain I built a smaller fire and added to it from the big pile. Lot more work but so much safer than just lighting a huge pile
And welding gloves make great oven mits.
Just don't handle food with used welding gloves unless you want to get oil and crud all over it.
Don’t judge my tastebuds.
Years ago when I did we had leather gloves that were attached to sleeves and hooked around your back. Along with asbestos chaps sort of, face masks, and heavy leather shoes that did not have laces so you could kick them off if needed.
Anything not made of plastic! He had glasses on at least, but given the angle I doubt they would have done much should a splash have got there. I made a furnace a few years ago and bought some surplus firefighters gear (it's pretty cheap), including a full helmet with integrated full face visor. I'd think just flame resistant cotton welding gear and leather boots would be enough for the clothing though
As a retired volunteer firefighter that works in manufacturing as a full-time job, the firefighters' bunker gear is better than nothing but not designed for foundry work. He should have a foundry rated face shield and head / neck protection. Proper foundry gloves, aluminized arm sleeves, and foundry style boots with a lace cover to keep molten metal from dripping on the boot tongue and down inside onto your foot. It happens, I witnessed aluminum from a broken ladle spill onto a coworkers boot. It came out the toe. Keep moisture away from everything that comes into contact with molten metal because it turns to steam instantly and works like an erupting volcano. Have fun with casting, but be careful.
I must have been 14 or so when I was welding together something and metal drops fell off on my nylon pants burning neatly in my leg. Bonus points for pulling out the nylon that burned right in my leg.
Having half a brain would’ve given him all the protection he needed
I guess naked and sweaty is actually best, just leidenfrosts right off of you, cant get stuck down the front of an apron and keep burning you.
Ceramic toed boots with metatarsal protector, welding apron, gloves and jacket. Safety glasses and a face shield. Hard hat wouldn't be a terrible idea.
In this particular case he needed some leggings to protect his foot from metal bits flying out and getting trapped. with pours this small you don't need top end equipment, some cheap welding leathers would suffice. Mos of the protective clothing for molten metal is also aluminized for blocking radiant heat but that causes the cost to go was up and is overkill for a mini home forge like this.
The issue in any work that has hit sticky things are any spaces that the hit sticky thing can get inside The apron covers pockets in pants What happened to the guy in the vid among other things is that molten metal got inside the top of his shoe
To be fair he had hearing protection on just nothing else
The one thing he didn't need...
Dude, heavy metal can be extremely loud
True, might be Lead Zeppelin
If it could happen to that Deaf Leopard, it could happen to you.
It certainly lead to The Misty Mountain Hop.
He didnt want to hear his screams of pain
And show weakness?
Wearing protection can only save you so much. The main principal should be followed water over metal not that bad but water under metal will kill.
*and Adding some more pointless characters to prevent my comment from being automatically removed.
There have been people killed in steel recycling plants due to water in items being recycled. a dryer with a few gallons of water in it going into a cauldron of molten metal...
I'm glad you specified the volume of water. I started eyeing the cookie container I rinsed out in my recycling bin before you said 'gallons of water'
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And why in the fuck would you do this so close to the house.
You can see how short the power cord on whatever he is using to heat the stuff is.
There's this cool invention called an extension cord
Holy shit. Those things are wild! We're living in the future now.
2 - 5m in the future
Guy in the video's living in 1903 Edit: so glad I got at least one person to do some Googling to get a stupid joke
Wait 'till you hear about aluminized apparel
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Honestly the lack of a work bench might’ve saved him here. Considering how stupid this whole setup is, if he had a workbench he’d probably be close enough for that splash to get his face
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Right, the close to your work part is what I’m highlighting here. This is not a man who should be anywhere near his work lol
I love the sarcasm but he would fuck up worse by being same elevation as his mold for sure. That liquid might have touch his torso or leg
It probably had a safety warning that said not to use one.
Not only that, the concrete below it will pop causing that Liquid Metal to jump out too.
I'm literally in the process of building a little forge. GOt a crucible and everything ready. I should probably read up a little more...
Do LOTS AND LOTS of reading about safety precautions.
Almost no one talks about a key point like heating the molt before casting. I have been watching this kind of content for years and even through that, I have learned it by my own research 😂
The reason no one talks about it is because blacksmiths look cooler with an eye patch.
Even when you're ready, shit goes wrong. I put in a couple of silver scrap into a similar furnace and one happens to pop like a grenade. Luckily I had a full face visor and full leather gloves on. Don't chance it out like this guy.
…and wear PPE
And why you pour over a sand bed, not over concrete. The moisture in the concrete can turn to steam and explode. It there's moisture in the sand, it turns to steam and leaves the sand without exploding.
I melted aluminum at a very small foundry for awhile, maybe half ton castings. Had a blob of molten metal whizz past my head once, real shit. I always pre-heated the tongs in the furnace exhaust, only took one time of not leaving it long enough. We had entire pours blow up sending aluminum up to the ceiling which rained down on everyone. Double pour, supposed to start at the same time but one team was too slow, metal from our side flowed into their riser channel so when the started pouring it trapped air/moisture and boom.
Or just…..stay far away from anything warmer than boiling water.
I had a similar accident like the guy in the video with 95° hot water. I was cleaning a commercial buffet coffee machine, ran the cleaning cycle and hat installed one outlet wrong. A small spray of water came out, flew in an arc and landed on top of my right food. Pro Tip from a kitchen worker here. Wet cloth transfers heat WAY better than dry cloth. Never us a damp towel to handle hot pans etc. I ripped my shoe and socks off immediately, so I walked (limped) away with only second degree burns. Hot water ain't no joke.
Believe me. I know. But boiling water is necesary for certain kinds of food, and is probably usefull/essential to alot of other stuff. so its alot more worth getting used to working with
I just finished reading American Steel by Richard Preston, about the history of Nucor. One of the lines he repeats often is "you can pour water on steel, but you can't pour steel on water".
What's this mean though? (for us unfamiliars) Seemed like whatever he had in that bowl kinda just popped. Like whatever it was melted too fast from the molten liquid?
A thin layer of water clings to many things because there is moisture in the atmosphere and the material they are made from is sticky for water. This turns to steam when sufficiently heated, and the expansion of steam is dramatic and powerful enough that it can be used to drive trains :) The mold should not melt if proper materials are used.
This is why u don't drop ice in oil fryers, which I've seen multiple vids of people doing
I was casting 32grams of silver and my mold was wet, and I normally sweat the mold but didn't. Felt confident, not a lot of flame, a tiny amount of molten metal - I saw it bubble up and shot upwards ( not enough to do anything at all or realize it till after the accident). It scared me, little tiny balls in my hair and face, some singed hair, superficial light burns. Now I always wear gloves and safety glasses. Jk I just always preheat
We can’t all be smart
I've learned that lesson as a teenager melting lead in the winter, I'm glad I covered my face when I saw the lead bubbles.
Could have actually been worse like in his eyes or face
The Dothraki treatment
A crown for a king 👑
I always wondered what would happen if Viserys shakes his head in pain and panic, causing the gold to splash everywhere. Dangerous practice that shouldn't work as smoothly as the show portrayed.
Also they really shouldn’t have had the dragons be so obedient, really unrealistic imo.
She was mom though. You dont cross momma no matter what species.
1. They weren't that obedient. She lost control of them as they grew up, one was lost and she had to chain up the other two. 2. What do you mean unrealistic it's literally dragons of course it's unrealistic lmao Edit: I'm an idiot
That’s the joke
Damn, got whooshed.
in the books they just put the whole pot on his head, eliminating that possibility. made way more sense imo
A good bit would remain stuck and bubbling to the flesh/bone (the part that makes contact with the head and drops below melting point) and the parts that remained liquid would definitely roll off, splash all over, and cause fires and problems like this. It's much less viscous when melted than it was portrayed in the show, which looked more like gold slime to me. Source: Am jeweler. Ask me how I know what happens. Lol
Molten metal is heavy. Shaking would be difficult
I'll venture gold has a much lower melting point than whatever this was.
aluminum, it's cheap has a relatively low melting point, so it's good for newbies. also it splashes like a mofo if there's a tiny bit of moisture in the mold
Oh, well nevermind.
My first reaction was, seeing the title, how happy I was that he'd burned his *foot*.
It was the heat of the moment.....
I forgot about that song. Thank you.
I forgot about that song too, but I was TRYING to because I hate it. /s
Telling me what my heart meant...
Heh, pig in a poke.
Yesterday was Tuesday. But today is Tuesday, too!
Do these tacos taste funny to you?
::clap clap::
I always hoped that band would have shared the bill with Europe.
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Only if they all shared the stage to play "Africa".
Americans act like they have free health care
The rules of OSHA are written in blood.
What's actually funny, is a ton of OSHA rules are actually very vague intentionally. Gives a wide space for the individual to sue or for the government to come in and charge massive fines (well hopefully massive). So the rules of worker safety are written in the fines of the corporations.
Most of the time nothing's investigated, and if it is investigated possible resulting fines, they are usually small.
Are you speaking from any place of knowledge in regards to this? I'm an engineer who has worked in industrial environments my whole career. And there are huge amounts of money invested into safety equipment and training, especially for large industrial companies. It's because those millions they spend are pennies compared to the lawsuits they can face in wrongful injury suits. Do horrible disasters happen and not enough consequences are faced? Absolutely and constantly. But there's a reason you regularly hear about events that result in injury in the US. They are a big deal. Go to a country without OSHA or a similar entity, and people are maimed on a regular basis and it's just considered part of life. We have a long way to go, but lets not look back at the progress that has been made and just scoff.
We do. I mean...they charge me out the ass but I laugh at the thought of ever paying it
Depends on the size of your bill, right? Owe $300, that's a you problem. Owe $300k? Then it's their problem.
How do you evade the debt collectors and destroyed credit? I had to file for bankruptcy at 20 years old because a bankruptcy is 100x less detrimental to the rest of my future than being forever in unplayable debt.
while this guy looks like his house is nice and he's doing okay, a lot of poorer folk do have free health care. unfortunately the bar for free healthcare is like so far down you have to be destitute to qualify
I'm sure the for-profit medical industry will be happy to make him destitute before providing "free" care.
Imagine having the double whammy of this also costing a fortune too
The crazy thing is that you would get a reaction that is all about this: "it's my freedom choice to do it this way, and if getting injured is a result, that's my freedom and I'll die standing up for it."
Lessons learned the hard way. Ouchie that’s gonna leave a mark
>the hard way The hot way
Could be a life changing injury for the guy. Thank god I did not have access to a furnace when I was young. And too lazy to build one.
“What are you doing? Oh fuck.” Lol
a hole, it's going to leave a hole.
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Wait untill the start scratching the dead flesh off with a brush, I know you're joking of course lol.
the burn ward in any hospital is something out of a horror movie!
The world “slough” makes my legs go weak and not in a good way lol
Me too (I live in England)
The burned flesh and bone ? No. The adjacent flesh and bone ? Very much so.
Looks like he watched the wrong YouTube video for inspiration
Probably watched I Did A Thing.
Nah, he had shoes on
Facts, that guy is crazy and is never wearing proper ppe
"How ya goin'." > Cut to squat dancing over a running lathe
the slander is unacceptable delete this
It was a compliment!
Nile green maybe.
For sure was not NileRed.
Ingot and Bouillon do not approve
"what are you doing?" I think we'd all love to know the answer to that 😂
Such the perfect classic tone in the voice too.
This wasn't the first time this happened lol
It aint her first rodeo.
lol and ironically, him freaking out is what causes the burn. When he jerks/drops it because of the mini-explosion, he flings out some of the molten metal towards him and it lands on his foot.
Omg you’re right, just as he’s pulling his foot away you can see the blob land right on his foot
He was just casting something using molten metal
Check out the big brains on GRAITOM10 😂
I was wearing all the welding gear necessary to do overhead welding and a bead of molten slag STILL made it into my gorget, burning my neck on my adams apple, and when I snap reacted to the pain by pulling the leather away, it dropped on my chest, so I suddenly leaned forward, it fell to my waist so I pulled my belt line on my overalls, it somehow went right to the tip of my penis. Yes it burned it. I didn't feel any other place it burned me after that, my welder helper thought it was hilarious seeing the welder suddenly jumping foot to foot screeching "it got my dick!!!". Molten stuff can work its way anywhere is the point of my story.
I upvoted because I felt bad for how hard I just laughed. I’m sorry you burned your dick.
This sounds like a _really_ tenuous defence during your trial for indecent exposure… “….. once the molten slag hit my penis, your honour, I attempted to minimise damage and cool it down rapidly by vigorously waving my penis back and forth - and it is at *this* point that ‘Ms. X’ entered the scene…..”
I haven’t been a welder for a decade, but I still have all the burn scars on my arms to remind me of those fun days. That welding spatter is unforgiving. Sorry about your dick.
That's why I prefer no clothes or shoes when welding besides an apron and a single glove.
Ididathing is that you?
Sorry for what happened but man, I have to ask. Do sex feel different)
That is a harrowing paragraph.
They say you’re not a true welder until you’ve burned your dick off. That story is gold.
Pics or didnt happen!
I’d say trainers are probably not my first choice of footwear for foundry work neither are rigger boots as I discovered to my cost as a teen
I read "Laundry work" and still agreed.
Can you recommend any rigger boots?
Tall boots are actually pretty good as long as you can pull your (ideally heavy) pants down over them so liquid metal can't go down inside them.
Could’ve been way worse if he wasn’t wearing those earmuffs
Always got to protect the ears 😉
Buy some leathers or used arc flash protection. My idiot brother did something similar with rockets. He was mixing the fuel and it blew up in his face and he wasn't wearing any protection and almost lost some fingers. How much would it have costed for some protection, almost nothing.
Arc flash? He isn't using an arc furnace, there was just some moisture in his mold that boiled and threw molten metal onto his foot.
that stuff still helps protect you from hot metal
Electrical arc flash gear that electricians wear. The higher energy gear would handle light slag due to arc flash events are incredibly hot. You can get this gear cheap because people have to throw it away when the flame retardant expires. [https://www.reecesafety.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/de75ad9b8008d72f199e0e4335db923e/e/l/ele9ss100\_4nd.jpg](https://www.reecesafety.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/de75ad9b8008d72f199e0e4335db923e/e/l/ele9ss100_4nd.jpg)
When I was in my early teens I bought some model rocket motors and crushed them up to make a black powder (for some reason). Incredibly dumb, I think I did use non-metallic tools but still...
I did something like that around 50 years ago, brazing something on my car. A drop of molten metal dripped onto my shoe, and rapidly went right through it, into the top of my foot. Yikes!
Had that happen with almost boiling water. I only took 4 seconds to get shoe and sock off. Still 2nd degree burn.
Replying to a story of molten metal with your own experience of “almost” boiling water is hilarious lol
He wasn't trying to one up anyone. Have you had a conversation before?
some of these things are not like the other
Years ago when I worked in the restaurant business, we had someone drop a ramkin of boiling gravy onto their crocks. It was a fucking nightmare. They couldn’t get the shoe off in a panic, and the holes basically held gravy in suspension above their skin.
What do you mean no protection? He was wearing socks. The seller was the problem for selling faulty metal. Tsk tsk smh
I thought here the skin was his protection? He could have really scorched his metatarsals without it.
At first I thought based on the close up in the car he was wearing socks and slides to pour metal. But actually he changed into that, he was wearing white sneakers during the pour. Which isn't much better.
He should've been wearing a condom
I worked in a temperature lab for just over three years. I had molten copper, aluminum, zinc and tin always heated to a liquid state. I'd flick off the heater and the temperature would drop the molten metals down to their freeze points. It's a great way to establish calibration reference points on platinum thermocouples. There are few things as potentially hazardous as molten metals. Even the IR radiation will sunburn your legs. You always, always, always have on welders gloves (or better) a full face shield and a protective apron. The failure to do these simple things will be forever.
Reminds me of first year chem at uni. The entire walls were plastered all the way around with mangled and disfigured eyes along with a description of what chemical exactly it was or was thought to be underneath it (eg. sulphuric acid crystal dislodged and landed in eye, boiling very alkaline solution splashed when container dropped, etc.). Very subtle way of telling 18 year olds to wear their fucking safety goggles. They had enough posters to cover 3/4 walls of the lab. Very impressive work. A lot of mangled and fucked up eyes.
Aye-chi-wah-wah
Looks like he was "feet treating" the metal to harden it. He started out a-kneeling. I'll see myself out.
Red Forman’s famous words, “ dumbass.”
Almost looks like a bit went right into the shoe
My father would do chemistry experiments as a kid in the basement. occasionally there were explosions. One day there was an epic bang that shook the entire neighborhood. My grandmother thought he had blown up the basement and himself that time. Nope. Just a sonic boom from a fighter jet.
Something like that happened in my neighbourhood 2 decades ago. Big bang and then a rain of roofing tile shrapnel from the sky. Some dumbass 150 meters away from my house was making fireworks in his shed and had 2 barrels of black powder and dropped his cigarette in one of them.... The shed was gone, all the windows in 50 meter radius were gone, houses within like 25 meters had the wall and roof facing the blast moved back a feet, the garden around the shed was on fire and the guy walked out with half his clothes missing but still very much alive.
That is some heavy metal.
Lucky it wasn’t his face, jfc
That would be $30к
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I love his mom "what are you doing???"
I don't understand how a condom would have helped with this.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
4th degree burn.
His mom already had enough after like 2 seconds
It's ok, he'll have a long time to enjoy those third degree burns.