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this is the most expensive xbox controller in the world it's made of one

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and a half kilograms so that's a little under four pounds of solid gold and

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you might be wondering how we made it

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so i just got an email back from expert casting they did some test casts and

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they can do it yes it's going to be about one and a half

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kilograms of 18 karat gold

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wow which is going to be 87

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500

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let's take a moment to appreciate just how challenging this is going to be by

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cracking open this pulse red xbox series x controller

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starting with the battery cover i guess for disassembly we pry off the outer

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shell starting with these hand grips at the back and then remove all the screws

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including ah yes this sneaky little boy

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under the sticker here my warranty is now void i think hello

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ah wow

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that is a complicated part if we want the functionality of the finished

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controller to be exactly the same though we are going to have to recreate this

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one for one and that won't be easy thin components particularly ones with

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lots of intricate detail are especially difficult to cast that's why we won't be

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attempting this here in our own shop which brings us to expert castings here

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in beautiful downtown vancouver but as

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grand as the entryway looks things are about to get down and dirty

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unlike ourselves expert castings are

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just that experts with accolades like being one of

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two places in canada that can work on a tiffany piece and making jewelry for

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disney 50 shades of grey once upon a time and many more

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now they first tried to convince us to cast our piece in bronze then gold

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played it this is generally what's done for movie props like this one right here

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it's way cheaper and usually gives a better result anyway but

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problem is this was one of those videos where we came up with the title first

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and then figured out how to fill in the gaps later so we were stuck cutting a

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fat order of pure gold to the royal canadian mint

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they just brought this over and look at it we have one kilogram of gold right

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here so this is a professional engineer's salary in my hands and it's

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shocking how heavy it is given like the size i'm surprised how small it is

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look at this thing forecasting you first have to create a

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negative of the shape that you want for the metal to be poured into adam is

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going to be taking care of this step called spruing wax gets heated up by a

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low temperature soldering iron and stuck to parts of our controller this will

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create pathways for the gold to pour into in the past rings would be

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painstakingly hand carved out of wax but

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now most parts are just 3d printed some parts they cast all the time like

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this anchor so for that they've created a negative that they can inject wax into

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using this wax pot all of the pieces on the sprue need to be organized kind of

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like an upside down tree this shape makes it easier for the molten metal to

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flow into the cavities while also making it easier for air to find its way out

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that's critical because it's super important to accurately weigh the

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plastic and the wax on the sprue and use

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the density of those materials compared to gold to figure out how much metal

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will be needed to fill the mold too little metal and there won't be enough

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force pushing down into the mold or it might just not fill at all and too much

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metal well that's just wasteful and that's very expensive waste now we need

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to create the investment which will harden around our sprue simply add a

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.395 ratio of water to plaster powder in a large bowl and then combine with a

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kitchen mixer for two minutes place the mixture under vacuum for one minute 40

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seconds to remove bubbles pour the plaster into the mold and place under

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vacuum again for another minute and 40 seconds from here the whole thing is

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placed in the kiln at 700 degrees celsius overnight this will give the wax

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and plastic time to melt and then burn off leaving only voids behind now we're

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basically ready to melt the gold but there's one problem our hunk of gold is

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too big if it makes you feel any better this is

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much more painful for me to watch than it is for you so if you could go to

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might have guessed that during this chopping process tiny flakes of gold

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will fall off it's not too bad the flakes coming off

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of our piece here total only about 10 to 20 cents but they do add up they

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actually sweep the floor here and the benches every day chuck it in this big

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bucket and in a year it can catch about a hundred thousand dollars in tiny

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pieces of gold our second problem is that the royal canadian mint is awesome

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and their four nines gold bars are just too pure

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but okay seriously though even pleb american us mint gold would be much too

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ductile for actual use in fact

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oh yeah it's so soft that it would probably

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deform in your hands the first time you got head shot by some 11 year old in

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call of duty so then summer here we'll be expertly creating our alloy using 450

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grams of gold per 150 grams of alloy

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blend we're using number 220 which is 12

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zinc 11.5 silver and 76.5 percent copper

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blends are chosen mostly for the color that they produce and ours should give

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us a nice orangey yellow look finally

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it's time to melt some metal baby using an induction oven the gold is heated up

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to 100 degrees celsius and our mold is

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then removed from the kiln at 600 degrees celsius the thing is if the mold

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is too cool then the gold might solidify

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before it fills in all the cavities before the gold can be added though all

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the air in the mold has to be replaced with an inert hydrogen nitrogen mixture

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this helps prevent the gold alloy from reacting with the air while it's molten

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so when everything's ready they just lift up the center column that's lined

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up with the center sprue of our mold and

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all the gold flows in is it going is it going did it go can i see it

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molten gold david is it good

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yeah oh that doesn't sound very confident we

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didn't put in enough gold oh

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the concern right now is that there's a bunch of tunnels that the gold is

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supposed to flow down and there's one that it didn't go down but there's like

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five that it did apparently that's what she was poking at she was poking to see

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if the tunnels were full let's see if it worked ladies and gentlemen

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here we go

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oh bomber

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oh wow it's heavy i guess we might not even need to worry

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about that though because that's covered like all of this in here you don't see

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well because of the uh holding it together

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i think it's fine actually you might be right

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it's actually the texture oh my god it has the texture of the xbox controller

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i mean i i know i shouldn't be surprised but like

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but it but it did it kind of looks like ass hey

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right like that's my ass tens of thousands of dollars and

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it just doesn't look like anything tens of thousands of dollars of ass

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of course what you saw was only the back piece of the controller so the front the

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shoulder and trigger buttons as well as i don't know whatever you call these

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back pieces and the battery cover were all done ahead of time due to size

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limitations so with a combination of a soap bath

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scrubbing with a toothbrush scraping with a pick and

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even some actual removal of the material

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this will turn in to this

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now this was our first cast and it was pretty good but there are some small

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surface finish problems once it's cleaned up we should be able

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to go from a more satin like finish to a

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super shiny one like you actually see on this corner here of course there are

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still some problems that we have to solve like for example what are you

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going to do about the parts where the sprue was joined to the original plastic

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i don't know but i can't wait to see if the thing actually comes

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together so this is it ladies and gentlemen

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test fit time oh

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that's it okay where's my uh where's my battery cover at alex can you be can you

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be my third hand here

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oh man once all the sprue crap is on there and

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this fits together this is gonna be crazy

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