Using Thermite to Cast an Iron Pan

feeding aluminum and iron oxide burritos to a fiery thermite volcano was not on the list of things I thought I would ever see

Future archaeologists are gonna be so confused by your farm

The fact that you got anything, let alone a skillet-shaped item is downright amazing. One thing I will say regarding cast iron, from having done a few braze jobs on it, is the fact that it needs to cool SLOWLY, and dumping a bunch of water on it likely did not help any residual stresses it had inside.

Cody: The single guy on YouTube who have 2million subscriber's but still record like a young YouTuber, without any setup or other 😂 Only the resolution is higher since some videos 🤣

22:25 "Now to tap it off" was the coolest thing I've seen in forever Like something out of a mythical dwarven forge.

It's also really fun to see cody saying "i'm not gonna do it that way because it doesnt work" and proceeds to show a clip of the thing he said doest work, going wrong. Love it! haha

Detonating home-made nitro glycerine with a butter knife, and the moment of 'tapping' off home-made thermite iron with no PPE whatsoever, is some of the best content on the internet. You are still as crazy as ever Cody. Never change mate, the world needs fearless people like you. Greetings from a loyal viewer in the UK.

I love you explaining why you are not doing something and then cutting to where you learned that lesson. Really nice to see the failures as well as the successes since they give so much to learn from.

Cody is the mad scientist of our generation. Nonchalantly tapping a thermite volcano to pour molten iron into a mold made of old bee boxes is the most Cody thing I’ve seen. Well played sir.

10/10 casting a pan with thermite skills; 2/10 egg frying skills.

I choose to read the title as a Metal-based wizard trying to use Thermite as an ingredient to cast the spell “metal pan”

The volcano is one of the coolest smelting projects I have ever seen

For future attempts - Prior to the early 20th century, cast iron pans were bottom gated, meaning the iron was poured through a flue leading to the bottom of the pan, with the pan upside down and horizontal in the mold. Older pans will have a visible gate mark, as they didn't have the ability to machine it smooth. Eventually they became side gated, and the iron was poured in through a gate at the top of one of the side walls. Modern pans will still have rough machining marks around the side walls where the gate was ground away. You'd probably have better luck with the bottom gate. The cooking surface of the pan would be formed first, with the iron then flowing down to fill the walls and handle. As it backfills the thickness of the pan is built up. At least by my basic understanding of casting.

Preheat your crucibles to a soft red glow. This’ll help prevent the iron from skinning on top. Also hit it with a small handful of borax before you pour. Cleans the metal.

I've been watching your videos for years and that sequence at 22:30 was one of the coolest things ive ever seen, the molten steel shooting out violently at 2000ºC and then the way you have to fight to wrangle it into the mold, that was amazing!

This is just fascinating. It's interesting to think of aluminum less as a metal, per se, but more as a storage medium of chemical potential energy.

Those are some MONSTEROUS crickets at 2:22

NileRed: “Always wear proper PPE at all times” Cody: “where are my shoes? Eh screw it”

The "I guess I'm having scrambled eggs" makes the 30 minutes of complex chemistry prior almost relatable

I was so happy when you dumped the water. It looked and sounded amazing! I can only imagine what it felt like standing next to it. Thank you for this really exciting video!