Drilling Granite with Copper & Sand: How to

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Drilling granite with copper and sand
From 27th of March 2020
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For some unknown reason experienced stone masons and building industry experts say it's impossible, and aren't content with simply testing it for themselves with some sand and a power drill fitted with a copper tube. So here's the footage of a hand powered flywheel drill just as depicted in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Raw footage of drilling granite with copper and sand (quartz). During the event of early 2020 I sat down and drilled various types of granite with a copper tube and different abrasives/abrasive mixes.

The abrasive I use in this example is just crushed local Sydney sandstone- the yellow variety which unlike the darker types has very very little iron in it. Either way Iron is less abrasive than the quartz in the sandstone and that is what does the cutting.

Sandstone and granite have the same Mohs Hardness of 6-7 because they both contain quartz.

Just like diamond cuts diamond so does quartz cut quartz. You don’t need a harder material to cut or drill or polish. Like cuts like. Just rub two pieces of granite together.

Copper is soft but so is paper, sand paper cuts metals or stone. Since it is the abrasive sand not the paper that does the cutting. The sand cuts and the copper is nothing more than the paper. I used a modern copper tube of 99.9% + pure copper. Ancient Egyptian copper was an alloy of arsenic effectively making it bronze. At least what is known as arsenical bronze or arsenical copper. Some samples of Ancient Egyptian copper have up to 3.1% arsenic.

Arsenical bronze is comparable to mild steel/wrought iron.

By using a tube of modern 99.9% + copper I am at a disadvantage.

Drilling speeds:

Reports 8 to 12 mm per hour at 150 RPM

They use a heavier weight on their flywheel drill than I do. I have a higher RPM of 300. I get the same drill speed of approx 1cm an hour.

Further experimentation in the perfect balance between RPM and the weight of the drill.

Related videos:

Tapering of the cores- inevitable. A signature of primitive techniques.

Using a PVC pipe and sand to drill granite

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"It's not impossible to achieve with ancient technology, it's impossible not to achieve" 🤣🤘 Love it!

ClearAdventure
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I picture several men using a very large corded drill version of this and drilling large holes relatively efficiently

EvilMaxWar
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Desert sand are mostly made of quartz. Quartz is harder than granite. You can drill or cut granite with copper tools and quartz sand. The sand acts as an abrasive and helps you cut through hard stone like granite. This had been demonstrated with basic hand tool many times. Modern cutting tools use the same principles just with an electric motor.

justcallmejeff
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BRAVO - i wonder, how incorporating the pottery wheel concept would be helpful ? or maybe the "water wheel" design, . in tandem with stepped "reductions/gears/pulleys", such that it's like turning wood on a lathe - > remove your elbow grease from the equation and let nature do the spin spin -> she never gets "tired" ... cheers !!

spacecreatorband
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A copper casting with a hole the size of the copper tube could act as a bearing guide. Today we use plastic ones for drilling holes in stone countertops and tile

itsnot_stupid_ifitworks
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Ironically I found this video on reddit. And my theory is that they used water jet cutting technology. Using sand and water to cut stone. Including drill cores. I would love to see you use a waterjet cutter to make a drill core. 😉

kungfumaster
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A simple wooden bow shaped brace with a hole top and bottom for the pipe to sit in would help to cancel out the wobble.

sprudel
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Primitive piling
You even use a proper spacer for ballast :)
Great video
Good one

jgraham
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Can you tell me the width of the groove you made? As exact as possible. I need this since you said "whether you use a bow drill or the drill that I'm using now, it will always wobble ... that can not be escaped if you're using hand operated tools". I need to compare the width of your groove with the width of circular drill grooves founds in Egypt and elsewhere.

SamBorgman
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another question is who exactly and when and why they were made

geog
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The Egyptians invented sawing, drilling, polishing granite, and using abrasive. Pretty ahead of their time. What do you know, applying modern techniques to crude ancient tools that takes a lot longer works. There you have it.

Plus they also discovered pi and Pythagorean theorem and golden ratios. Probably other stuff like, ball bearing with granite stones, gliding bird toys, shaping hard stone into weird discs, geography measurements like latitudes and meridians. It only took people thousands of years later to reinvent/rediscover these knowledge and techniques.

wavereader
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In this video: Reverse engineering of alien technology.

schlafer
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Isn't copper pipe 75% copper and 25% zink? At least does used for water.

QuestionTheTruth
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You could oil up your hand to avoid blisters.

lukalabudovic
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How much of the copper pipe wears off to get 15mm of granite to wear off?

daniellewis
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Electric copper drill gets straight holes. Question is if they were capable of using electricity in that way, if not, then the copper tube hand drill method the only viable method.

QuestionTheTruth
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Im trying to do the experiment as well. Will it work with normal beach sand ?

petitprolo
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What if you used black sand and micro gems from gold panning? How did Egyptians get gold? Just trying to speed u up

matthewmclean
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Great vid. I really love the stone work of ancient civilizations and theories of alternate history, however the thing that annoys me is how researchers and the community in general will grab 'facts' out of thin air or come up with a theory that has absolutely no leg to stand on...like cosmic Ray guns that liquify rocks while levitating blah blah blah. I was actually looking for another video I saw a couple years ago but I'm glad yours came up.

tekopuakanapanapa
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I was just watching another video and thought..
what would happen if you used granite powder, and smelted it with copper.
Im sure thats the tool they were using..unless...nah, couldnt be aliens LMAO

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