we're making a solid gold xbox controller

 - This is the most expensiveXbox controller in the world. It's made of one and a half kilograms, so that's a little underfour pounds of solid gold. And you might be wondering how we made it. - So I just got an emailback from Expert Castings, they did some test castsand they can do it. - Yes. - It's going to be about one and a half kilograms of 18 karat gold. - Wow. - Which is going to be $87,500. - Well, you only live once, gold Xbox controller here we come. This video is broughtto you by the VOLTA 2.0, a universal reliable, fastcharging magnetic cable that works across all USB devices, including with data transfer capabilities. Check it out today at thelink in the video description. (upbeat music) Lets take a moment to appreciate just how challenging this is gonna be, by cracking open this pulsered Xbox Series X controller, starting with the battery cover I guess. For this assembly we pulloff the outer shell , starting with these hand grips at the back and then removeall the screws, including IAS, this sneaky little boy,under the sticker here. My warranty is now voidI think, and woo ah! Wow! That is a complicated part. If we want the functionality of the finished controller tobe exactly the same though, we're going to have torecreate this one for one. And that won't be easy. Thin components,particularly ones with lots of intricate detail areespecially difficult to cast. That's why we won't be attemptingthis here in our own shop. Which brings us to Expert Castings here, in beautiful downtown Vancouver. But as grand as the entryway looks things are about to get down and dirty. Unlike ourselves, ExpertCastings are just that experts with accolades like being one of two places in Canada that can work on a Tiffany pierce, and making jewelry forDisney, 50 Shades of Gray, Once Upon a Time and many more. Now, they first tried toconvince us to cast our piece in bronze, then gold played it. This is generally what'sdone for movie props like this one right here. It's way cheaper and usuallygives a better results anyway, but problem is, thiswas one of those videos where we came up with the title first and then figured out howto fill in the gaps later. So we were stuck cutting a fat order of pure gold to the Royal Canadian Mint. - They just brought thisover and look at it, we have one kilogram of gold right here. So this is, a professionalengineer's salary in my hands, and it's shocking how heavyit is given like the size. I'm surprised how smallit is, look at this thing. - For casting, you firsthave to create a negative of the shape that you want forthe metal to be poured into. Adam is gonna be taking careof this step called sprung. Wax gets heated up by lowtemperature soldering iron and stuck to parts of our controller. This will create pathwaysfor the gold to pour into. In the past, rings would be painstakingly hand carved out of wax, but now most parts are just 3D printed. Some parts they cast allthe time, like this anchor, so for that, they've created a negative that they can inject waxinto using this wax pot. All of the pieces on thesprue need to be organized, kind of like an upside down tree. This shape makes it easierfor the molten metal to flow into the cavities, while also making it easierfor air to find its way out. That's critical, becauseit's super important to accurately weigh the plasticand the wax on the sprue, and use the density of thosematerials compared to gold, to figure out how muchmetal will be needed to fill the mold. Too little metal, and there won't be enough forcepushing down into the mould or it might just not fill it all, and too much metal, wellthat's just wasteful, and that's very expensive waste. Now we need to create the investment, which will harden around our sprue. Simply add a 0.395 ratio of water to plaster powder and a large bowl, and then combine with akitchen mixer for two minutes. Place the mixture undervacuum for one minute 40 seconds to remove bubbles,pour the plaster into the mold and place under vacuum again for another minute and 40 seconds. From here, the whole thing is placed in the Kilns at 700degrees Celsius overnight. This will give the wax and plastic time to melt and then burnoff leaving only voids behind. Now we're basicallyready to melt the gold, but there's one problem. Our hunk of gold is too big. If it makes you feel any better,this is much more painful for me to watch than it is for you. So if you could go to lttstore.com right now to ease thepain, that'd be great. Thanks. Now you guys might've guessed that during this chopping process tiny flakes of gold will fall off. It's not too bad, the flakes coming off of our piece here totalonly about 10 to 20 cents, but they do add up. They actually sweep the floor here and the benches every day, chuck it in this big bucket and in a year it cancatch about a $100,000 in tiny pieces of gold. Our second problem is that the Royal Canadian Mint is awesome and they're four nines goldbars are just two pair. But okay, seriously though even pleb American us mint gold, would be much too ductile for actual use. In fact, it's so soft that it would probablydeform in your hands the first time you got a head shot by some 11 year old in Call of Duty. So then, someone here we'll be expertly creating ouralloy using 450 grams of gold per 150 grams of alloy blend. We're using number 220, which is 12% zinc, 11.5% silver and 76.5% Copper. Blends are chosen mostly for the color that they produce, and ours, should give us anice orangey yellow look. Finally, it's time tomelt some metal baby. Using an induction oven, the gold is heated upto 1100 degrees Celsius and our mold is then removed from the Kilns at 600 degrees Celsius. The thing is if the mold is too cool, then the gold might solidify before it fills in all the cavities. Before the gold can be added though, all the air in themould has to be replaced with an inert hydrogen nitrogen mixture. This helps prevent the gold alloy from reacting with theair while it's molten. So when everything's ready they just lift up the center column that's lined up with thecenter sprue of our mould and all the gold flows in. Is it going, is it going? Did it go? Can I see it? Oh, oh molten gold therein, Is it good? - Yeah - Oh that doesn't sound very confident. We didn't put in enough gold, ooooooh The concern right now is that there's a bunch of tunnels, that the gold is supposed to flow down, and there's one that it didn't go down but there's like fivethat it did apparently. That's what she was poking at. She was poking to see ifthe tunnels were full. Let's see if it worked ladiesand gentlemen, there we go, woo, oh - [Adam] Tragic- Farmer. Oh, wow it's heavy. - [Alex] I guess we might not even need to worry about that though 'cause that's covered. Like all of this in here you don't see. - [Alex] Oh, because of the-- - [Adam] So we're just thinkingof to holding it together, I think it's fine. - Actually you, you might be right. It's actually the texture. Oh my God, it has the textureof the Xbox controller. I mean, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it did, it kind of looks like ass hey. - [Adam] Right? Like that's-- - [David] I wish my ass looked like that - [Adam] Tens of thousands of dollars and it just doesn't look like anything. - Tens of thousands of dollars of ass. - Of course what you saw was only the back piece of the controller. So the front, the shoulder andtrigger buttons, as well as I don't know, whateveryou call these back pieces in the battery cover, were all done ahead of timedue to size limitations. So, with a combination of a soap bath, scrubbing with a toothbrush,scraping with a pic and even some actualremoval of the material. This, will turn into this. Now, this was our firstcast and it was pretty good but there are some smallsurface finish problems. Once it's cleaned up, we shouldbe able to go from a more a satin like finish to a super shiny one like you actually see on this corner here. Of course, there are still some problems that we have to solve like for example, what do you gonna do about the parts where the sprue was joinedto the original plastic? I don't know, but I can't wait to see if the thingactually comes together. So this is it, ladies andgentlemen, test fit time. Oh, that's it. Okay, where's my battery cover at? Alex can you be my third hand here? (laughs) Oh man. Once all the sprue crap is onthere and this fits together, this is gonna be crazy. Guys, do not miss the next part of this, and don't list the segwayto our sponsor drop.com. Done guys, we need that sponsor dollars, like, bring on the raid shadow legends. No, but seriously drop.com is featuring the control keyboard. It's one of their top selling keyboards with over 11,000 sold and why not? It's got a solid CNC aluminum frame, a built-in switch plate, RGBlighting, Q and K firmware for excellent customizability,hot swappable key switches. And your choice of CherryMX, Kiowa or Halo switches. It features a floating key design with dual USB Type-C connectorsand weighs 964 grams. The only way it could be heavier, is if they made it out of a heavier metal. (laughing) So check it out at the link down below. If you guys enjoyed this videoand you love crazy projects maybe you'd like our watercooled PlayStation 4. That's right. We did one of those away a while back, we don't have anything current gen, look, we're working on it, okay?