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welcome to well.com and I don't know why I'm saying that first but I'm with Mr Sean Lowery
Mr saw blade head of designs man we haven't talked in quite a while but we were we were
having an egging on the phone and we were talking about Metal finishes and what you
see I see and all the all the options we can do with finishing and stuff and I think we
ought to start banging out some videos on different finishes of different materials
for the sole purpose of when you do a repair or you fabricate something or whatever you got
to take it back to either the original finish or you're creating your own finish right yep
I mean if I go into a kitchen and I got to do a repair on this beautiful stainless tube that you
brought over I better match that finish right yep so we got to learn how to do that anyway I think
today we're going to do uh this video is going to be a shorty on what you can do carbon steel
aluminum stainless and we'll play with some copper too so yeah what's first on the list
um I would say uh we got some copper sulfate we do what brought some copper sulfate too yeah
that gives us a nice patina over a copper and and uh and a carbon steel yeah and carbon steel
I'm kind of experimenting with other materials so we can do it on both a smooth finish here on this
carbon steel and one that we've scratched on in various you know pattern so the next one would be
and aluminum you know an aluminum looks you know it's clean it's got the edge over here
from being welded it's got the dull Gray from the oxidation and here's where I just hit it with the
die grinder and the sander over there so definite color difference getting through that oxide layer
again your stainless steel nice and clean nothing really ever happens to this it just goes on
through life looking like this might get dust and water stains or something but it cleans up
with the yeah you might get up you might get that greenish patina on it for being outside but it'll
just I gotta wipe right on off and then good old copper it does get the green patina on it UV light
water moisture and time just it'll build this thing up and we're gonna and we're going to
experiment with a torch and heating that up and get some colors we want to do a little
coloring if we could and we might do some experimenting with some copper sulfate on
it just to see if there's a reaction I don't know but the importance of all this and there's just a
plethora of abrasives that you can grab some of them are aggressive some of them are geared
toward blending and polishing some of them or just the plain old wire wheel uh on a dog grinder or a
drill uh some of them are aggressive wire wheels yep and we're not I'm not here to name brands or
anything there's some fantastic products out there we've got a little bit of rouge we've
got some Rouge we'll play with some Rouge yep um got the green and we got the gray which is a good
that's pretty much kind of does the whole gamut of all the metals from copper to stainless uh yeah
it's a nice finish when it's done this is mainly for protect from scratches gives that restoring
grinding is an art you can ruin a part by with the grinder seriously it is you know if you're
putting something together out here on the outside corner to corner and you're not grinding correctly
you could gouge that all up and it might look fine for you while you're fabricating it but when you
finish yep you paint it or something you're walking by in the right light you're going
oh man what happened there's all looks like it's all dented up and everything so grinding
grinding will make a breaker project as a matter of fact files I see you got some
files over there yep you learn how to file that's a that's craftsmanship right there
uh so anyway first up we want to do some some hacking away on the old carbon steel here
what we want to do we want to polish some of it we want to do the copper sulfate what you want
to do I'd say that's well it's that's let's make a mess I would say polish it and then we could
hit it with copper sulfate first thing I want to do is change abrasives here because that's
what cleaned that up and it's pretty pretty uh aggressive so the next thing I'd want to do in
that system over there let's go with the red pad in front of you the red jobber out front
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let's just put a let's just put a zerk on here 40 grit and just come off of it smooth is all
you know so we got super rough scratched up we've got something
that's fairly controlled you know another thing we should have mentioned like the D.A
I love running d a on aluminum the orbital type random sander I love that finish
so we want to do this and then we talked about doing a copper sulfate do you want to do that
now for we probably should because once it's not going to show up on we're not going to do
it to all these Metals here so let's just go ahead and do it now uh so I'm going to dribble
some on there immediate copper because I mix this in a little hot yeah it's a little harsh
we can stand back and we'll get a light mist on there too
so all three of those just got a nice generous shot down through there and we can go
and go blow it off the air hose but I've done this before I kind of like it
Better Living Through Chemistry I always say huh let nature take its close and hard facing
and all kinds of other cool stuff so there's that we're gonna blow that off of there then we could
preserve that I like blowing them off and I like rinsing them off this you can tell where I've made
it drip down that direction but you know there's some color and then leave it on there overnight
and see what happens we ought to do that we'll leave it out back let the lizards play with it
tonight and you can also do it and do it in layers and you'll it'll react differently as time goes on
like that layer those layers it will yep all right we'll do that does it do anything to aluminum what
do we do with aluminum well we can clean it clean the oxide layer off of it we can polish it that's
just cleaning the oxide layer off we're getting a little toothbrush looks here uh we knocked that
oxide layer off a lot of people haven't seen this they think it's clean but it isn't it
and you you want to brush in One Direction if at all possible doesn't feel like this brush is
cutting into it but it's going to start to here in a sec so being patient you can start getting into
this surface and you want to brush it in One Direction but that's your oxide layer right
there you're looking at on my finger and what's odd is aluminum melts it let's just
say 1200 degrees depends on what it's alloyed with but the oxide layer melts at 3 700 degrees
so as far as finishing I you know I've gone in and and done the skip sand or let it
roll around in here I don't do anything have you ever painted I haven't I don't aluminum
doesn't take paint does it a powder coating but you can still powder coating yeah but
for decorative but uh like you said it's you know I've done it where it's a matte finish
I've used the wire wheel um to get that kind of solid brushed look but it's a softer look
you'll still get the brushed look whether it's a softer muted look and then this way the paint
actually grips it better because you're down to the pure metal I see what you're saying so you
you create a texture that the paint adheres to and then you can have you ever clear coated this
because I have not I don't think uh powder coat clear coat yeah powder coat clear coat all right
you're talking about stuff I can't afford over you know what do we do with the stainless steel
I'm scared to touch this thing it's so nice you know you can hit that with a
wire wheel it still looks stainless you can rough up the surface of it I
guess do you mind we're going to do that for demonstrative purposes that's right
I mean that's brush yeah and it's
in line with the tube so obviously that went through some kind of machine to make it that
perfect that's a nice finish that I mean this is like restaurant type stuff here yep and then
I roughed it up a little bit and you could rough it up even more if you wanted to yeah we do the
same but how do we have you ever polished it from there the stainless steel yeah okay so
we're going to take this part that we just that we just roughed up and quickly take the scratches out
and bring it back to that lust but we're going to go beyond this here
this is a brush where we're going to go past that and go to a Polish
yep so I don't we want to go from here we probably want to go Blue
first we'll go Blue first get those scratches out I got the back of the hat right there just
kind of lightly hit that and bring it off with low pressure and slow speed slow travel speed
that Susan's making an odd noise it sounded like you uh well I don't understand
all right let's see what we got here all right oh yeah there we go you said
you've used this before yeah I've used the green before this is the high power so this
you want to use the green we'll go this wrap oh okay I'll see what you're saying
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polish this we obviously Can rough that up that helped a bunch that it was even at that
State you know where it's just a brush because it wasn't a whole lot of work and that brings
us back to the Copper look what happened I put some copper sulfate on this before we started
and it's just gonna sit in here and it looks like it's kind of gumming up yeah I don't think it's
doing anything really did we Shear something off of this the other day or is there a thin
piece like this that we want to play with was this was the part that we played with
the other day how about like crystallized this thing has heat and that crap all over it tons
of Heat beat it up and everything and went over it with multiple Flames experimenting and then
we shot some copper sulfate to it and it looks like some kind of acicular grain like a ice or
something on that it looks like it looks like ice in a window exactly all crystallized and you know
what it ain't wiping off very easy either one of our viewers out there in in well.com land and I
know they know this their chemistry professors and smart folks so help us out here whatever
we created it's like we've created a monster and I've never done this before we're trying to we're
showing what we've done what we're comfortable with and then we created this monster here so what
do you do with it I'd clear coat it and go with it I mean that's got some white colors in it you know
where'd that long piece go right there so what do we do with it I mean this is polished this
is stuff that that you can buy I tend to do stuff like and everybody knows why I do it
uh no pizza ever no two pieces will ever come out the same put that skips in on there let the
let a die grinder or rolock wheel hit it if you polish something it's got to be perfect right
I mean ever you're going to see every flaw uh and if you do some imperfections to hide
imperfections that's one thing but then how do you preserve all this because what does copper do
it is going to turn green you know it's that oxidation that that patina the copper does now
we can either depending on what the piece is for you resin dip it you can clear coat it you
can we had a we had a bank in our community that had copper the you know out there on the around
the windows and stuff you see people with really nice homes that have copper Dormers well for the
most part the Dormer hadn't seen the top of it didn't see and the face of it is but they just
they turn green yeah and it's I mean this is more blue but they turn kind of a green color and it's
like well that's what it's supposed to do you know that's what Architects like eventually I guess
that they want that color and that oxidation once it does that then it quits doesn't it
it's like a Texas paint job on a bunch of carbon steel and the brick Branch front Texas paint
jobs rust and once it does that then it quits rusting because it's got the covering on it so
I mean that's interesting you know I don't know what there's got to be some products that you
preserve that with obviously but then that Heat coloring thing I'm not an artist at it I know
people that are I haven't had time to play with it but I am going to study it and get into it
let's throw a little heat to this thing so I want to come over here and just kind of I'm going to
destroy this this coloration we've got in here it's nice polish and I just want to go for this
and kind of gray it kind of knock that down get it gray for a reason yeah I'm done there's my art
it's minimalistic yeah then how do I preserve that you know that's the deal I'm I'm wondering
how the gentleman with Phoenix flame art uh got uh still need some information now that gentlemen
not to take everything or try to copy ideas or anything else but
it's a community that's some pretty cool colors I know the camera guys over here and you can't see
it but and I'm not going to reach in there and show it to him either I know that's hot that's
the one that can you see that very well how about that I mean those are some cool colors
now I've got to control them you know how do we create the web.com logo and put that that
color in there where I think we better figure that out uh and again I've always done this uh
scratch skip Polish thing hit me the die grinder and the air hose you know I'll rough one up here
you know I like the contrasts that that come about polish this and the scratching and the rough
stuff you know I always like those contrasts it's like doing a piece of art or anything
where you do something where it's the contrast you know with like between stainless and copper
and glass and wood and all that it's like all that kind of different stuff mixed together too anyway
uh that should give you some ideas give us some questions send us some suggestions of what you'd
like to see if you're an expert at this please chime in you're more than welcome to come in
and shoot some vids with us always have been and uh again thank you for your time I haven't seen
you in a while yeah well we'll be working on some some bigger projects we'll pull out some we'll go
we'll go to the junkyard and get some ideas going that's where my mind starts clicking unfortunately
just wires come to my warehouse and that's bolts and elbows and fittings and all that stuff man my
mind just goes nuts especially when somebody's asked me to do a repair do you have this
I don't have it but I know where it's at you know that's so bad
that repurposing stuff and redoing repairs these days is like restaurants and all that stuff man
it's it's so hard to get anything done in my opinion everybody's throwing stuff away yep I
don't like throwing stuff away I like them fixing it rebuilding it so you've closed us
out there will you all right guys so have you got any questions or projects you want to see Bob and
I go ahead and work on uh it's something we want to do in the future got to come to my warehouse
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