How I built this Giant Hot Wax Pump for Casting My Biggest Sculpture Yet! скачать в хорошем качестве

How I built this Giant Hot Wax Pump for Casting My Biggest Sculpture Yet!

I’m in the middle of making my biggest sculpture so far—a permanent public sculpture that’s pushing my whole process to a new scale, and to make it happen, I've had to build a machine that didn't exist before. I’ve been underwater for weeks while working on this, and I’m not even sure if these machines exist, I was asking around on Reddit when I began this build and was mostly met with Redditors calling me mental. However, with lots of prototyping, a few phone calls with my dad, and a guy I found on eBay with a CNC mill, here it is. They say that once a nail appeared, someone had to invent the hammer. It feels a bit like this, my problem is that my 3d printed porcelain moulds are now too heavy to lift, 100kg plus. So I can no longer lift them to cast them by hand, the usual roto-casting methods wouldn’t work on something as delicate or as heavy as this. This means that the mould has to stay static and the molten wax has to move, all 140 litres of it, pumped at 70-80 degrees Celsius and one litre a second, into the big porcelain mould. All the while ensuring there are no cold spots or blockages on the line. And a small crack in the mould could mean that my studio floor gets covered in 100+ kilograms of hot wax. In this video, I’m sharing: 🔹 My renders for the public sculpture and how I'm translating these drawings into my sculpture. 🔹 How I cast with wax for the lost wax casting process. 🔹 My approach to sculpture and how I implement and hack the 3D printing machine I've built. 🔹 A look at my process for making molds from clay using a mix of 3D printing and hand-building 🔹 The wiring, design, and slightly chaotic process of building the wax pump from scratch 🔹 And finally—watch me test the machine for the first time (both the machine and my nerves are buzzing with electricity) instagram: jamesrogers_artist email: [email protected]