Melting 300 Aluminum Cans at Home | Backyard Metal Foundry | ASMR
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2021
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Today we will be melting soda cans into ingots! To be honest, I didn't realize how time consuming this would be, but in the end it was all worth it. The whole process was so much fun!
Unfortunately I was only able to melt half the cans because the garage started to smoke up with fumes and smell like a very bad idea...But worry not! I'll finish the rest of the melt in my backyard soon, so stay tuned!
Thanks for watching!
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Brilliant, really enjoyed watching your first ever melt
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it 🤗
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Indeed, thanks!
Cool video. Subscribed.. Always good to see a Devil forge spitting fire..
Thanks for the sub and glad you enjoyed the video!
Great first run and pour. Like someone else said about the galvanized bucket, could put off some nasty fumes. A few helpful hints, put your hot slag on your firebrick til it cools, then put it in the bucket. No fumes and won’t stick to bucket. Pour just a tad slower and you won’t get as much sink in the middle.
I am now a subscriber and look forward to more great videos. Keep it up brother.
Thanks for the support bro and I always appreciate good tips! I didn't think about pouring speed. I'll keep that in mind for future pours! 👍
Nice! Congratulations on a successful first pour! 👍
Thanks man! It was quite exhilarating!
Very nice comments
Congratulations on your first melt. The lerning curve is always interesting. I watched many melters do a can melt and all of them showed that almost half of the melt is dross. But they keep it and when they have a lot of it they do a melt just for the dross and get a little ingot or two out of it. Good luck with the future melts too.
Thanks! Haha it must take a lot of patience to do a dross melt 🤭
@@DuckShop Actually, that is an interesting point. I don't seem to get that much dross, but I might be doing something wrong. I'm gonna check the weight ratios! (I always only poor when all the surface dross is gone and after some stirring up of hidden dross..
But those cans do give quite the dross :) Maybe some tips (I am not an expert!!):
1. I stir the alu to loosen the dross from the bottom and sides and stir it to the top
2. I wait 1+ minute to reheat the whole, since the stirring stick cools the solution down and creates 'fake dross'
3. After that I stir the dross again (only the top layer) so the actual alu has a chance to join the pool again
4. Then I start scooping of the tops, but also keep disturbing as in 3.
5. As soon as I see molten alu layer and most of the top is gone, I let the mixture heat up the spoon (steel) to the mixture (at least red-hot!)
6. Scrape around to find dross in the mixture, one last chance for dross
7. Give it another few minutes to heat back up after opening to prevent a undercooled top layer. Scoop the last and then:
8. Pour the love out!
I barely end up with the 'end-cake-in-the-bottom' that way, always something of course. But that is rich dross, ofhten cooled due to exposion, not composition.
Love your vid :)
@@Helyzz82 glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the tip! If youre getting more yield, Im sure youre doing it correctly! Ill need to find a better tool to stir the aluminum, and then ill be able to try out this method 👍
@@DuckShop No thanks, good to see fellow hobbyist take a hit at recycling :) Maybe try using a thin steel rod, like 4mm ish. I use 8mm, it works but it is actually too thick since it cools down the alu too easily. But be aware when melting with gas, it can also melt the steel also. I melt electric, i can pretty finely adjust the temperature, but it is also at least twice as slow, if not more..
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Good job and nice looking bars.
Thanks man!
Keep up the good work
Will do, Thanks! 💪
Congratulations on your first melt next up copper than brass maybe Nordic gold aluminum bronze and so forth looking forward to it😊👍🏻😀
Thanks man! And yeah dude. I cant wait to melt different types of metal!
Nice bars, your slag contains lots of aluminium. You could melt the slag again to obtain an extra bar.
Thanks man! Yeah, my slag pile is pretty heavy now. Bet I can get a lot out of it.
Good job... 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks man!
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Thanks! Happy you liked it~
Good working
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Бесплатная проверенная идея! В шлаке много алюминий остаётся. Кинь туда же пластмассы любой.
Thanks for watching! 🤗
Cans have a ton of slag. The inner liner paint etc.
Yeah, I never realized there was an inner liner in soda cans. Its quite interesting 🤔
Hi. Great video and beginner foult. The cans are a lot of waste and therefore fill the crucible up to the top and stir a little slag. Slag putting on a brick and making small piles. After the run remelting with borax.
Ohh thanks for the tip!
Nice
Thank you!
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Not sure what that means but thanks for watching!
Wait that’s actually so cool what the heck
I know right!? Thanks!!
Hi.. wish you successes.
How loud is the furnace noise ? could you put it in decibel . Thank you.
Nicely done. Now, get a drill with a wire brush attachment; that’ll work much better than the Dremel. An angle grinder for the future is also useful.
Thanks man. Yeah i actually just bought the wire brush!
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Sir nice one, but how can control wastage ubc of alumi
At 5:24 may not wanna set hot molting spoon on the gas line to tank lol just a idea lol good video
The angle makes it look like it is set on top but I should still set it further away like you said. Thanks for watching out for my safety and glad you enjoyed the video!
Is it worth alot more if ya melt them down curios
Dross is the nature of melting bear cans 🤣 What did you use as flux? Good first try 👍
Haha thanks man. I used mortons salt but apparently the wrong kind 🤣
A bit creepy, because I was thinking about to make a small foundry out of empty helium tank today and youtube gives me this... 🤔
I was thinking more about gold cupelation and not aluminium, so Google does not read my mind with 100 % accuracy, so, some hope for humans...
Nice video, everything looks so new and nice... 😁
Thanks man! Haha the same thing happens to me too...theyre always listening 🤫
1. What model devil forge is that?
2. Is that bucket you are putting the slag in galvanized steel? If so that contains zinc and can give off some very nasty toxic fumes. I’m not an expert by any means. I don’t know if the zinc needs to be melting or just burning though.
Great vid!
Thanks, its the FB1SB. Ohh I didnt think about that! I'll have to double check now. Good looks man!
How much weight loss ? Cans wright and bars weight?
Do you have aluminium ubc.?
Can you please show me where can I byy one like this in aliexpress?
what is the percentage of aluminum content?
Noice
Thank you!
Well done l, may i know which devices used for melting
Thanks! I just used a devil forge furnace and propane tank. PPE should always be worn too 👍
How many kg are there. I cant see.
What is the profit from melting cans? How much you can make from this?
Id say about 3.50. Haha but jokes aside, I don't think there really is any profit from melting aluminum cans. I wouldnt melt cans to make money, but rather melt to have fun 😎
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What gas you use???
Propane! 🤭
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Thanks for watching! 🙏
Maybe your burning the aluminium it was past melting point and it turns to burnty slaggy
Yup everyone is right! SAVE THE SLAG OR DROSS. Melt it over again till the dross is not metallic looking anymore
Thanks for the tip. Ive collected a lot but they seem to have formed a mountain. I gotta figure out how to break them apart 🤔
@@DuckShop I’m pretty new to this too, but when I melt I like to use a rectangular tray (steel) and every time I take a scoop of slag out, I put in in a separate section of the tray so that each spoon full should make its own little “rock”. With your big one, either clean it up and use it as decor, or take a hammer to it with safety goggles. Either way the coolest part is done. You have turned trash to treasure lol woot woot
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How much profit we can earn bro
I cant say since I haven’t sold anything, but the market price shows around $3.31 USD. I just melt for fun man 🤣
Much easier to just run over the cans with your car.....
Haha it's funny because I tempted to do exactly that midway through crushing 🤭
300 aluminium =???? kg
Melted less than half and got 663.7g so probably a little over 1kg haha. Need to extract more next time!!
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Copy content of bigstackd casting 🙄
Hi Sagar, welcome to the channel. I believe that Bigstackd Casting is an insiration to many people who melt metal and to those who are into this hobby. Let's keep our passion aflame! And thanks for watching!
Aluminum is girl or boy?
why you called "She"
Well done on first melt turned out good getting into melting myself watch out for my video's i have subscribed maybe could do same look forward to seeing more from you thanks for sharing
Thanks for the support!