Alright everyone, welcome back to Cody's lab. So last night, I spent several hours painstakingly smashing my $15,000 gold bar into this
roll of gold foil here.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to take advantage of the
trend on YouTube with the Japanese foil balls and make the first one out of solid gold.
What do you mean I can't do this video now?
When did they publish it? Today? I even bought a new anvil for this!
How's this keep happening?
What am I gonna do for a video this weekend now?
Turns out he didn't use real gold. It was just brass. Okay, so we're back in business.
Let's see how difficult it is to smash this
into a ball.
It's really stiff.
Yeah, I think the problem is this gold from that bar just has a little bit too much copper in it.
Yeah, I see when I was precipitating the gold from the solution I used excess sodium metabisulfate.
And that brings down a little bit of copper with it.
You might be able to tell this is a bit of a darker, cooler tone.
So it's really stiff for gold, I think this ended up being
22, 23 karat and so I think I'll refine this to 24 karat and another video basically re refine it.
Until then,
I've got a few of these bars of 24 karat gold. Let's mash these out and make a ball out of them.
So it is unfortunate that I have already rolled that other bar out, and I'm gonna have to do it all basically again.
It will save me a lot of time when I'm refining it
So, let's roll these out. Probably should go a little bit faster because they're already pretty thin.
There we go. You can see that I finished smashing the gold out flat, and I'm currently just giving it a heat treatment,
which both cleans and softens the metal. You can actually see that this pure gold
likes to stick to itself.
Actually, if push it too hard it can actually weld.
But that's probably a good thing
for making the foil ball does that means it'll turn into a solid chunk of metal
piece of gold
Kinda makes it sound like tin when it flops around it can kind of hold its own weight a little bit see there
Now watch what happens after I heat it
Okay
Cools off pretty quick when it is thin.
Now it doesn't make any noise on it flop around and it will not hold its own weight
It's now lovely
So here's my pile of gold
Let's start beating it that takes some of these pieces that kinda came off
Just kind of like I would aluminum foil
So here we are with the finished ball
Isn't that pretty? I probably could polish it up, but here it is just with the hammer
Seeing see it's still got the hammer marks in there, and I kind of like that. It's you know it kind of catches the light
And you also notice, there's no seams
It is completely welded
And it's not perfectly round I think there's a flat spot here that I wasn't able to get out
This is pretty close to spherical
Yeah see it spins
Actually kind of makes a weird noise when you roll it
Hear that
Oh!
It rattles so I guess it's not solid gold
You hear that (Gold Rattling)
lets see where's the mic on this?
(Gold Ball Rattling like something is loose on the inside)
So you know I think what happened here is because I was beating on it throughout
I essentially ended up with a smaller gold ball inside of a larger one
Basically the inner ball separated from the outer ball, so it's got like a shell.
Oh, that is cool. It's probably several balls in there actually
Or shells
(Laughs)
Well that is interesting
That's fun, okay now I want a bigger one
Already this is like
$12,000 in gold I do have some more gold. I guess once I get that refined down
I could probably add it to this ball
And in case you guys are wondering what I'm doing with all this gold I do want to make a solid gold play button at
some point I
Was thinking probably what I hit two million subscribers?
Or something like that
Oh, that's interesting
Alright, I hope you enjoyed. I'll see you next time
I
Actually think it helps to leave it a little bit loose so that I can stick to the next layer the
Gold doesn't seem to want to stick from a thin piece to a thick piece who wants to go in the thin
Stick might even heat up a little bit right there
See you basically welded right to it, that's awesome
Finish it up actually you know what there's other hammer here. Let's do this
That way we're beating that ass smooth to smooth