This dirty lead needs to be cleaned

So today I'll be cleaning some really dirty lead. To do this, first I just have to melt it on a camping stove. When it's fully melted, lead oxide and other contaminants separate from pure liquid lead. Now I just have to carefully pour the liquid lead into water, and hopefully leave all of the contaminants behind.

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[breadvelvet]

i love how these shorts blend the educational value of nilered and the absolute chaos of nileblue

[gianroque]

My chem teacher: "Always use gloves, protective glasses, a lab coat, and close-toe'd shoes! Never touch your projects directly"
Nile Red:

[halt]

anyone else remember back when he was super careful with stuff and used all kinds of high-tech-looking crucibles and other gear instead of a camping stove, pot, old tin can, and kitchen fork to stir molten lead around

[JeanneWitter]

I’m 73 and I cannot recall a time when I needed or wanted to clean lead.

[jamesbarisitz]

Now I've got a friggin FILTHY steel pot to clean.

[princezukonopelord]

Him: I need to pull it carefully out of the water.
A second later: YEET

[GSTK]

Everyone’s talking about him turning into HowtoBasic but no one’s talking about how satisfying that was

[GorkoTheArchaeologist]

This channel is slowly becoming more and more like a chemistry HowToBasic. Eventually the voice over will stop and it'll just be him throwing chemicals and tools around.

[machinist]

You need to flux it, to really get it clean. Fortunately, lead uses anything organic for flux - commercially, they use sawdust, but bullet casters also use beeswax and paint stirrers...

[dannydetonator]

I'm 3 years late to note that Nigel just performed a genuine ancient pagan magic adivination ritual of winter solstice (later Christmas) in my Baltic country (LV). Led is heated next to christmas tree, then everyone grabs a soup-cup of it and pours some in the water. Then takes the hardened random form and shines a candle's light on it that it makes a sharpish shadow on the wall and everyone guesses what that shadow resembles. Whatever you can see in the shadow will happen in that person's life the coming year. Led was largely replaced by tin last century, but people are not too fussy and do it to this day. It's called "pouring hapinesses", but it doesn't purify the metal too well tbh (it doesn't become too shiny and gets even darker quickly).

[blc]

My first thought was “Why doesn’t use a strainer”
Then I realized molten lead is hot as shit

[michaelk]

It didn’t stick! Must not be done. Thanks for the video.

[emily_quiesaver]

I was really scared when he started pouring molten lead into water. My mom, being a kid, once melted lead with her friends for fun, but it was outside and suddenly it started to rain. Water got onto the molten lead and it caused its explosion. The metal splattered on my mom and some droplets just ended up in her skin, leaving many small scars

Be careful when you melt your metal

[asnaghall]

Calm, collected voice.

Throws that lead against a wall like it owes him money.

[LazyLover-tddd]

This man is more interesting then my chemistry teacher

[Mrsh]

And here he is when I needed him the most

[cendark]

as a plumber, this made my eyes open so far and wide, " the lead is bound to splash terribly once it makes contact with the water ! " but with only small splashes and the end result being the cleanest lead ive seen im just wow

[TreacherousFennec]

NileRed casually performing a shaman ritual without knowing

[cr_cryptic]

I seen the making Purple Gold like “this isn’t a part of that video” lol😂

[straightbusta]

He talked gentle throughout the video and smashed it at the end. Caught me off guard lol