Fun Fact about aluminum cans: They have a thin plastic coating on the inside to avoid the soda reacting with the aluminum and giving the soda a metallic taste.
Fun fact about aluminum it oxidizes in air to get a layer of aluminum oxide most of his dross is aluminum oxide which melts at a higher temperature than metallic aluminum. 660 C for aluminum 2000 C for oxide of aluminum to recover all of the aluminum he would need to heat to 2000C
Fun fact about the chemical that makes that plastic coating, when it's in liquid form it's such a volatile chemical that it can ignite just by friction in the air.
Everyone talking about your can crusher, and rightfully so it is very well made, are missing the most important thing in this video! The way your dogs smile when they get washed. So adorable!
yeah he still is too ... no BACON sandwich ... burrittos like he was in mexico ... but NO BACON SAMMIES ... the most important part of any task ... the bacon sammie ;)
Hi, you had a high lost of aluminum due to the slag formation. You can decrease it by burning the cans before melting. The objective is to take out lacquer and paint of the publicity. This is going to increase the recovery of aluminum.
@@bobbadobidob9624 Not adding more paint. You need literally burning the cans with a flame, but no melting. This take out the paint outside the can and the lacker inside.
@@D1GItAL_CVTS The lacker or paint inside the can is burned too. It is not going to dissapear completely, but its quantity is lower and then the lost aluminum too.
Fun fact: in my state, you get 5 cents back on each can when you recycle them. It's very amusing to me that the redemption value on those 250 cans is $12.50 while the actual material price is less than eight bucks.
So where I live it's 10 cents per can return, but you pay that 10 cents at the point of purchase they call it a "bottle deposit" and you get that "deposit" back if you return the cans or bottles to the depot. I don't think it's tied to the literal weight value of the recyclable product, it's just a forced incentive to get people to stop throwing them in the trash, or melting them into bars... I bet it's probably the same in your area.
or the better way to look at it .. recycle the can thats 1 ton of rock that doesnt have to be dug for that 10 pounds of aluminium ore to make into cans ... at 125,000 bucks an hour for labour and machinery and transport etc ...
@@0623kaboom It helps that aluminum is one of the most easily recycled metals there is. Most of the energy to produce the aluminum in the first place has already been expended, so recycling it makes it much cheaper than making it new.
I like how he always writes all the currency including CZK. We are of course a small country and I know the dollar or euro exchange rates, but I always appreciate it that he cares.
Hello. My husband, John, was a huge fan of yours. He made the Paw Prints on your Heart wooden heart. I wanted to let you know that he passed away two weeks ago.
Damn that’s terrible news ☹️! Soo sorry for your loss . His wooden heart gift is still sitting proudly on my bench and will be there for the foreseeable future 👊🏻. Again sorry to hear about John he will be greatly missed 😞
...what if I told you him that if it weren't for ads and sponsoring, him desintegrating those cans for raw material actually makes him _LOSE_ a lot of money? No, jokes aside: The cost of labor, material, equipment and energy is leaving him at a net loss. This type of video is purely entertainment.
@@mr.stirfry9310 I'm fairly certain at 10c per can the profit from sending them in to the recycling ($25) is better than aluminium blocks but its not about profit now is it.
Wow that was a quick week. Time absolutely flies along lately , Today I show off my awesome Can Crusher that a local subscriber donated to me and it’s certainly fun to use. Ok guys a nice Can melt today as I wanted to make some room in the garage plus it’s been almost 2 years since my last Aluminum can melt and alot of people have been asking👍🏻. So sit back enjoy the Melt and I'll see you all next Friday. Have a happy safe weekend😁👋🏻 Due to a small editing error in today’s video I didn’t mention where the Can Crusher came from or why I hooked it up to my Jeep’s battery🤦🏻♂️.
2 years? Jezus mate, time flyes by like a bloddy Kangoo there aye? Hard to belive that 2 years where the shit storm of corona outbrake haha. Cheers form poland.
Aye I'm gonna be 22 in 3 days and have been watching you for almost 4 years now I was wondering if I could get a b-day shout out from my fave metal melting youtuber and aussie
So this on a small scale isn't profitable. But on an industrial scale recovering 70% or more solid metal from the recycled waste; would make sense. Several tons of Aluminum would be profitable.
He's got a shelf that he stacks all of his bars on. And a goal weight that once reached he cashes in. He's not tinkering around that's for sure! I forgot to mention that it's primarily other metals he's often melting
It depends on how you sell it also. Scrap value is the obvious easy choice to do but pays the least amount. The price of metal is constantly going up and down so it's hard to plan around stuff like that. Making the big bars like he is doing here you can sell them as blanks to sculptures, or different manufacturing facility's and get more then scrap for them. All depends on how creative one can be really!
If I understand this correctly that CAD stands for Canadian It does not seem profitable at all to melt them down yourself. Considering at least where I am it is .10 cents per can returned to a bottle depot which would net $25.00 CAD. But then we would not be getting these types of videos :)
I found your channel couple of years ago when the total metal weight was a little over 400kg. It's been very pleasant and calming to watch progress over all this time. Congrats on 801kg! Cheers!
It is strangely relaxing to watch him at work, only another couple of years to get to the 1 tonne target, I'll be lost if he just quits when he gets there, like you I got here just after the 400kg mark, I always get the urge to want to melt some metal after watching him. Best wishes from Cornwall, uk.
Welcome aboard my friend, I put out a new video every Friday and haven’t missed an upload in over six years so you have quite a few to catch up on if you have some spare time👊🏻😁
10:38 Worked in a foundry once when I was 17. Boss brought out a steel “pig” and told me to pour my first bucket of aluminum into that because the owner wanted to cut down on imperfections in the vehicle parts we were casting. No one knew to make sure to put that near the crucible and when I began pouring my metal into that damn thing the aluminum started bubbling up around the edges of the pig. Luckily I sensed something was wrong when the aluminum bubbles started coalescing into one big bubble. I told my coworkers to get back and a second later POP! all that metal went about 20 feet up and came back down on the crucible operator’s back. Sadly he was the only one not wearing any protective gear. I was told later that at the hospital, it took a very long time to pick all that aluminum out of his back…..some dangerous stuff if not done correctly
Yeah, need to heat the vessel that you're gonna cast it to in order to avoid explosions. Happened in BigStackD's videos multiple times but nothing serious due to the amounts that he pours per mold. Hope your colleague didn't suffer any permanent health conditions from that explosion. Also need to pour it gently so you allow air to escape and not form pockets
@@justjoe5373 he ended up returning to work a few months later. Soon after that I moved away and left that death trap. This happened 15 years ago and I really believe most people who worked there ended up with health problems from all the hazardous chemicals used in the foundry, chrome shop and polishing shop. The place was called Street&Performance. They’ve since been shut down
25:15 My God. This Guy has his own treasure room. He'll bury this somewhere, draw some map and let his children and grandchildren find this in the future.
This guy is living the life most men want: eating burritos, melting things in his garage with a freezer full of beer and soda. Probabaly the coolest video I see in a long time.
You should try using salt flux for separating the aluminum and dross. The slag you keep remelting is impurities stuck to the aluminum. Salt flux will separate it when mixed and stirred into the molten metal and then dross will be on the top of the pot(usually shiny black with very little pearls of aluminum beads). Cans are very dirty as far as what clean aluminum is considered.
Well don't know why YT recommends this one, but it's an awesome melt, and that international metal treasure just made the video a bow down, cheers to the passion 👍
This video right here is like the definition of a good UA-camr, interacting with their viewers and taking the time to show different things other than just the task at hand. Still taking time and doing other stuff at the same time, if more people saw your videos, you would be a blown-up UA-camr in the smithing or forging community. Keep up the amazing work!
I can't tell you how many times I've fallen asleep watching your videos at night. I find it very relaxing and because you don't talk or have incessant music playing in the background, I'm addicted to your channel lol. Keep at it bro!!
So in Sweden (and many European countries) you can recycle the cans for 1kr a piece, which means those 250 cans would be worth about 24 USD, but when you melted it down to raw aluminium, it's now worth about 4,34 dollars for the 2,25kg you collected. Huge loss, but if you just like melting stuff and make youtube videos about it, it definitely adds value! :D
Some US states are the same, but it varies. .05, .10, or nothing per can. Unfortunately scrap metal prices have come down so much that throwing them in the recycling bin in a non-can fee location is the only thing that makes sense. Used to be decent money in scrap aluminum, enough that it was worth saving it until you could turn it in to a salvage place yourself. Melting things however, is always fun.
Thanks for the entertaining video. Fun fact: here in Germany 250 empty aluminium cans are worth 62,50€ (AUD $91,23) if you bring them back to a store to claim the deposit. So a similar video wouldn't work here 😅
Doesnt work here in Western Australia either. You get a 10c deposit back when you take them in. I (like Big Stacked) live in WA, but I also melt all my cans. No fun in taking them for recycling. I dont bother crushing them and I feed them in through the vent hole
@@arturomorales966 In Germany you pay an extra fee to buy things in glass/metal/plastic bottles and get the money back if you return them. It encourages recycling and sometimes they are refilled then sold again.
The same thing happens for shopping carts. You put a coin into the lock to unlock it and get the coin back when you return it. Kids (and me) like to return abandoned shopping carts for extra money.
Well don't know why YT recommends this one, but it's an awesome melt, and that international metal treasure just made the video a bow down, cheers to the passion
No worries at all my friend glad you enjoyed it, I release a video every Friday and have done so for the last seven years and I can assure you there a lot better quality than this one. Bigger melts bigger property bigger workshop if you’re interested jump on over and check out some of my new ones and if not that’s cool. Have a great day👊🏻😁.
I was wondering "How much is that worth?" - and in the end, about $10. In Canada, we get 10 cents deposit per can, so you melted down $25.00 worth of cans to get $10. Think I'll just stick with taking the cans in to the depot. But, I did watch and enjoy the whole video.
Tbh him being a youtuber him melting all those cans and getting close to 7million views he made much more than $10 as revenue would be a couple thousand just for this video. But yea for the average person it's best to take to the depot. :)
But he's making serious money from this video, clicks and ad revenue are very real. I bet he made at least several times more from this one video than I'd make in a year if I could find a job (I'm in Eastern Europe)
I watch a lot of these at-home forge channels and you’re definitely the most fun to watch. Love how thorough you are with everything - I usually have unanswered questions by the end of most videos. Never with yours, though. Thanks, man!
This video has made me grateful that I can drive a short distance to a place called Industrial Metal Supply where I can buy aluminum in various alloys, temper conditions, shapes, and sizes and not spend all day melting down a bunch of cans from stuff that I don't even drink any more. Seriously, it's an enjoyable video.
Well I know a 5 gallon 20lb cylinder full of propane has enough propane compressed, that if it was realeased on a totally windless day it would cover an entire football field 1 foot deep with propane!
One day near future that stack of bars nay be worth more.Back early 1800s stuff was worth the same as gold.Right now stack of semi precious metals may be as good as gold again with world economy and society going mad Max future
@@dougybrownie481 you're right society is going along with world economic form's leader Klaus Schwab to hook everyone up to the "internet of things", starting with a one world digital currency.
Hi m8 from uk 🇬🇧 im a new subscriber and one if my hobbies is extracting metals from old electronics i get for free or find dumped and been thinking about a smelter for a while and thats how i found your channel just have to say love your channel and your sense of humour!!!the way you treat your dogs and how you act i can tell you are a real decent human being and a real genuine down to earth guy thanks for your videos gunna binge watch all your vids as i only found your channel a few days ago thanks bigstackd take care and be lucky
All I can think of is that making a magazine system for this as storage for the cans would be great. Store the empty cans in a magazine and just attach it to the crusher so you don’t have to manually insert them, gravity feed it
I was thinking about how In first grade a guy came with truck loads of these and we crushed them for him. I have a vague memory that we were told it was for charity but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a lie. Might be more efficient to enlist the services of a first grade class haha
To get more of a metal casting fix throughout the week I am coming back to old videos I haven't seen before. Wow 1700lbs of metals compared to 3500lbs present day. Damn you'll come a long way in 2 years.
Wow, only 199 kg to go.....thanks for showing. Your entertaining format and organization is so pleasant to watch over the years. Big 'garbage' reduced to small fine treasure, all sorted....too cool.....liquid metal is amazing
Where I work, we run 5, 35,000 lb capacity furnaces melting aluminum and custom aluminum alloys. Each one pours every 45-50 mins. We are now opening a new plant in Mississippi that will begin with two more furnaces. Lol. Forgive me if I laugh when I watch this.
That’s alright my friend laugh away 👍🏻 you watch the video that’s all that matters👊🏻😁. I’ve actually got a small group of subscribers that watch purely to dislike and send abusive messages but they don’t realise they’ve been blocked👌🏻 Have a good day mate.
You should never wash your car while the sun is out - for everyone out there. Always wash your car in the shade. Because water drops create lens, and they work like a magnifying glass, and burn the paint. If you do this on regular basis, the paint will fade quicker.
I just take cans to the scrap yard and use the money for propane. A good source for free aluminum is office park suite demo jobs. Talk to the GC on the jobsite. Framing, ceiling grid, cable tray, data racks are all made from aluminum. The more you take the less dumpsters they have to pay for.
Haha! Dang dude! Just found you this morning before work and wow! Looks like you are living the dream. So neat. And you seem like an awesome dude. From the frenchies and tin tin shirt to the Marvin the Martian socks. Thanks for making my day start right man.
I just have to say that I've been watching for a while, for about 500kgs and these videos have just been so relaxing for me, just laying back and enjoying watching the melts and the occasion when you use fun different casts. Thank you for the hard work and can't wait till you reach the tonne!!!
Oh man, BigSnackD time always looks like the most delicious perfect thing to suit my mood. Kinda helps that everything else is great too. Keep it up Stacky. 🤟
It took me awhile to put my finger on it but I've finally got it - you're like Odd Tinkering. No talking and it's ASMR with subtitles, but you destroy stuff instead of fix it 😂
I like to tell myself that he doesn't just hide the food right before he films it, but instead he's just going about doing all this work while his burrito is buried in some rocks all morning.
The time was worth the most. Raw materials are cheap but a skilled worker can easily be $30 per hour. But even with the low yield, this has to be one of the most profitable aluminum melts yet because he’s making thousands from ad revenue lol.
Hey BigstackD! Question, why don’t you sand and polish the inside faces of your moulds? Wouldn’t it help make the bars smoother and require less sanding on each bar? Just a curious question! Love your videos. The wife and I look forward to every Friday! Thanks for the amazing content!!
I assume the extreme heat cracks it up. You can't really sand stuff like that as easily as you can sand metal, as they're a lot more brittle in comparison. And even if you could, the residue slag etc would deposit and it would become unpolished when you actually use it
@@mortache oh I wasn’t talking about the sand moulds he makes, but that he uses a lot of those steel ingot moulds. You could polish the inside faces of the steel moulds to make a nice smooth face
Yes that's what I had to always do with my induction furnace, but wasn't doing aluminum as much as stainless steel, but had a separate type of coil/crucible setup and the aluminum one was separate with a hydraulic lift instead of the main one being a tilting box mold.
Can anyone tell me how much extra net profit ( fuel cost subtracted) in terms of percentage can be obtained by selling the aluminum bars instead of selling the aluminum cans?
I was hooked to this channel since I watched the first video that appeared on my UA-cam: A big motor melt at the old house. I love copper pouring, it's my favorite. I also love not hearing any human voice, so quiet, so amazing 😍 Great channel.
This is particularly pleasing. I love any silver, nice gray colors, so having a shiny ingot like that would never leave my hands. 😂 So pretty to me. ☺️❤️
And the good news is that it's much, much cheaper than silver! Though the bad news is that I don't think aluminum stays shiny like that for long, it forms a thin layer of oxides very quickly.
This channel: you melt stuff. Someone please tell me why I (and 1.22 MILLION other people) can't wait til Friday to see you do it again! I absolutely love this shit! Give the boys a scratch for me.
When I clean the Crucible I normally use a stainless steel spoon or a flathead screwdriver and give it a gentle scrape while its still very hot but if I’m going to melt more aluminium in the Crucible I won’t need to clean it all out👍🏻
That's an interesting suggestion! Using salt flux for separating aluminum and dross seems like a viable method to remove impurities from the molten metal. It's intriguing to see how different techniques can enhance the purification process. 🧂🔥🔄 I wonder if this approach could be further optimized for large-scale aluminum recycling, especially considering the high impurity levels in cans. It's great to explore innovative ways to turn trash into treasure!
A little Paraffin wax would stop the wood squeak and make it last a lot longer from less friction and would stop any liquids from penetrating the wood. Nice simple design.
Im i the only one who think it is very dangerous? Or there is an emergency button or something? If you don't watching carefully your finger may injured!
Man I sure learned that melting cans is freaking HARD! It takes a LOT of cans to amount to anything. I started with cans and quickly graduated up to anything that wasn’t “cans”. 😂
Yes it does but once you get them refined you can reuse them for anything. That’s what I love about them but it sure does take a lot of time. The slag is the worst
@@ArtByAdrock yeah exactly. You really scrape about as much slag as you get aluminum per can. I know I sound like I’m complaining but I really do love all of it. 😆
@@omegadragons321 Yes. The item he is dropping the cans into to melt is called a crucible, which is inside of a forge. The one he uses is specifically called a devil forge. You then pour the molten metal from the crucible into a mold, which also has to be heated. If there is any moisture on the mold at all, it could explode when it comes into contact with the metal. A steam explosion with molten metal is the makings for a bad day. Btw, devil forges run on propane gas just like gas grills. The smallest devil forge set is as little as $350 and has all of the necessary accessories to start smelting including hoses, tongues, a 4kg crucible, gloves, etc. You'll still have to buy molds separately though. The forge gets hot enough to melt steel and graphite molds can handle those temperatures. The devil forge kit and a cheap set of graphite molds. For $400 you could be turning cans into coins lol www.amazon.com/Graphite-Casting-Refining-Crucible-Melting/dp/B08R8WY3H1/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3F5CG63ZWBWJ6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MnCNeNJKN6LzsF8EWS2iwrYQ07T7oK6GssBrKh87pp2W_zGJ5KvewV8t38Tx4h-7opY_1xf4esJoXPioOer_Hup3rZO5m_dAlTUrRGB_oAz0KntzRC8YDmZc-9MKfJGFRug6nvep2wUTYZVXUkvk64Zcxsf_9Sm5lfj4INLtWB0hfOZQw8LhZ-HWjYUfXcrGcTUJwIldaVZ9jHnLUa2ZOv27FHC29usvw7oXyx_E7rUO1QYrxa25v8LWQkl_auCUfhJIWRW33QKmNDwVwtfarBWSSBt46jE2aYkdrEtTp0M.-QVXgCibdaUkuFRJQ3ILxcPw217tJfzeDKdU0IngLF4&dib_tag=se&keywords=ingot+mold+set&qid=1717466897&sprefix=ingot+mold+set%2Caps%2C346&sr=8-5 www.amazon.com/DEVIL-FORGE-Propane-Furnace-FB1Sb-Full/dp/B0B3BRJ2JS/ref=sr_1_3?crid=XYJ5MRE43CN0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gJcmMqK_Sp9cL-5OAZOKJH2kM-HIJYm2zsoRI21r3aQn8QjoUpK-lRaxfsUIIveQjflPbdeaSu9butkGR7fV1DNnERqm8sUWs7TUBz7Y735ih0Lvlnb4UY6aHJRhL5DlEj0ZnMLd_zAcvP6jxihklfXhUNXyLeHCAmghRUuLWwHF2iaLbZtG02Wwwoxiad7xICcasc8uLPhACFm3bq-jvK6EVDc_EDxEEpjEjcSWbsa3TFXZNEJAnz57RHQud9_lZmhX39aSUlu2Kp0efffXNW-V4Ctc6lJNWA2QF3bdT8o.AdHy3-0iLjxBhY2P6oyI0sBhWs5Bl1vUN2cPtCk7lFM&dib_tag=se&keywords=devil+forge&qid=1717466711&sprefix=devil%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-3
Fun Fact about aluminum cans: They have a thin plastic coating on the inside to avoid the soda reacting with the aluminum and giving the soda a metallic taste.
Fun fact about aluminum it oxidizes in air to get a layer of aluminum oxide most of his dross is aluminum oxide which melts at a higher temperature than metallic aluminum.
660 C for aluminum 2000 C for oxide of aluminum to recover all of the aluminum he would need to heat to 2000C
Fun fact about the chemical that makes that plastic coating, when it's in liquid form it's such a volatile chemical that it can ignite just by friction in the air.
How are any of these amazing facts fun.
Seems like a trap to make learning fun.
But learning is fun.
Yeah they also gave plutonium nitrate in them!.. bet ya didn’t know that Einstein 🤪
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Well duh… he shows that in basically ever video too.
This guy must have like a treasure chest of gold, silver, and bronze bars!
He finished the game and completed all the sidequests, now he's just kinda chillinh
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@@lamiascrimes7132 :P
@@Hackanhacker :o
More like copper, brass, and aluminum.
Everyone talking about your can crusher, and rightfully so it is very well made, are missing the most important thing in this video! The way your dogs smile when they get washed. So adorable!
yeah he still is too ... no BACON sandwich ... burrittos like he was in mexico ... but NO BACON SAMMIES ... the most important part of any task ... the bacon sammie ;)
maybe they skipped that part, like me
99% anjo, perfeito, mas aquele 1% é vagabundo!
Hehehe Dogs 😍 i rememberes mines 💕
This man has duff beer and nobody noticed
80 minutes for all that is actually quicker than I thought. Looked like you were out there the whole day.
i think only the melting took 80 minutes
isn’t this video 26min only?
@@pongtony2582really
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@@pongtony2582 🤦♂️
Hi, you had a high lost of aluminum due to the slag formation. You can decrease it by burning the cans before melting. The objective is to take out lacquer and paint of the publicity. This is going to increase the recovery of aluminum.
Does adding a bit of paint stripper and shaking em around work?
@@bobbadobidob9624 Not adding more paint. You need literally burning the cans with a flame, but no melting. This take out the paint outside the can and the lacker inside.
@@MetalurgiaMéxico what about the pain inside?
@@D1GItAL_CVTS The lacker or paint inside the can is burned too. It is not going to dissapear completely, but its quantity is lower and then the lost aluminum too.
@@D1GItAL_CVTS most people use alcohol, don’t recomend it tho
Fun fact: in my state, you get 5 cents back on each can when you recycle them. It's very amusing to me that the redemption value on those 250 cans is $12.50 while the actual material price is less than eight bucks.
So where I live it's 10 cents per can return, but you pay that 10 cents at the point of purchase they call it a "bottle deposit" and you get that "deposit" back if you return the cans or bottles to the depot. I don't think it's tied to the literal weight value of the recyclable product, it's just a forced incentive to get people to stop throwing them in the trash, or melting them into bars... I bet it's probably the same in your area.
In Germany his "Dosenpfand" would have made 62,5€ from these 250 cans
Collect cans, recycle for small amount of money, buy aluminum, turn aluminum into more cans. Infinite money.
or the better way to look at it .. recycle the can thats 1 ton of rock that doesnt have to be dug for that 10 pounds of aluminium ore to make into cans ... at 125,000 bucks an hour for labour and machinery and transport etc ...
@@0623kaboom It helps that aluminum is one of the most easily recycled metals there is. Most of the energy to produce the aluminum in the first place has already been expended, so recycling it makes it much cheaper than making it new.
I like how he always writes all the currency including CZK. We are of course a small country and I know the dollar or euro exchange rates, but I always appreciate it that he cares.
Me too, I didn't expect to see my currency in a video that is not in my language. Nice surprise
You forgot the X in CZK
@@Cay9z what x
@@DrLokal Only a samurai would know
@@DrLokal xenomorph
Hello. My husband, John, was a huge fan of yours. He made the Paw Prints on your Heart wooden heart. I wanted to let you know that he passed away two weeks ago.
Damn that’s terrible news ☹️! Soo sorry for your loss . His wooden heart gift is still sitting proudly on my bench and will be there for the foreseeable future 👊🏻. Again sorry to hear about John he will be greatly missed 😞
sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss
May he rest in peace 🙏
rest in peace, john.
At 13 million views, this would have to be the most profitable disposal of cans I've ever seen!
18 million now
...what if I told you him that if it weren't for ads and sponsoring, him desintegrating those cans for raw material actually makes him _LOSE_ a lot of money? No, jokes aside:
The cost of labor, material, equipment and energy is leaving him at a net loss.
This type of video is purely entertainment.
@@TheDendran That's what I was getting at. The profit is from ad revenue, not the cans themselves.
@@InoFughaul Also profit is per like 1000 views as well not just ads.
@@mr.stirfry9310 I'm fairly certain at 10c per can the profit from sending them in to the recycling ($25) is better than aluminium blocks but its not about profit now is it.
This dude seems like an absolute lad. 10/10 would watch more can melting
Isn't the spelling - ALUMINIUM???
Not NUM
The spelling depends whether if it's American or British english. Hence, aluminum and aluminium are acceptable.
@@deimosmendez7824 he's Aussie tho so I think he should have spelled it aluminium
He doesn't care about your opinion
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Wow that was a quick week. Time absolutely flies along lately , Today I show off my awesome Can Crusher that a local subscriber donated to me and it’s certainly fun to use. Ok guys a nice Can melt today as I wanted to make some room in the garage plus it’s been almost 2 years since my last Aluminum can melt and alot of people have been asking👍🏻. So sit back enjoy the Melt and I'll see you all next Friday. Have a happy safe weekend😁👋🏻
Due to a small editing error in today’s video I didn’t mention where the Can Crusher came from or why I hooked it up to my Jeep’s battery🤦🏻♂️.
2 years?
Jezus mate, time flyes by like a bloddy Kangoo there aye?
Hard to belive that 2 years where the shit storm of corona outbrake haha.
Cheers form poland.
Good morning🏴 my day just got better thanks bigstackD🇦🇺
seriously time Flys when your melting metal....or having fun one of those
Such a great video today
Aye I'm gonna be 22 in 3 days and have been watching you for almost 4 years now I was wondering if I could get a b-day shout out from my fave metal melting youtuber and aussie
This is your most popular video ever. And it’s not even close. Congrats on your spectacular success. You truly deserve it.
👊🏻😁
So this on a small scale isn't profitable. But on an industrial scale recovering 70% or more solid metal from the recycled waste; would make sense.
Several tons of Aluminum would be profitable.
He's got a shelf that he stacks all of his bars on. And a goal weight that once reached he cashes in. He's not tinkering around that's for sure! I forgot to mention that it's primarily other metals he's often melting
What are the operating costs at a small scale like this ?
@@johnprater3981 after the initial cost of the equipment, which he already had, it’s just the cost of the propane needed to melt the cans down
It depends on how you sell it also. Scrap value is the obvious easy choice to do but pays the least amount. The price of metal is constantly going up and down so it's hard to plan around stuff like that. Making the big bars like he is doing here you can sell them as blanks to sculptures, or different manufacturing facility's and get more then scrap for them. All depends on how creative one can be really!
If I understand this correctly that CAD stands for Canadian It does not seem profitable at all to melt them down yourself. Considering at least where I am it is .10 cents per can returned to a bottle depot which would net $25.00 CAD. But then we would not be getting these types of videos :)
Her: I bet he’s with another girl right now…
Him: (fulfilling his primal urge to smelt cans into a big aluminum ingot)
His... Elemental urge? (Cause aluminum's an element?) Huh? Huh? I'll see myself out😂
And washing dogs
@@colestowing8695 it's fine I've made worse jokes
@@colestowing8695 the joke so bad that it's good!LOL
Real men always prefer purpose😂
I found your channel couple of years ago when the total metal weight was a little over 400kg. It's been very pleasant and calming to watch progress over all this time. Congrats on 801kg! Cheers!
It is strangely relaxing to watch him at work, only another couple of years to get to the 1 tonne target, I'll be lost if he just quits when he gets there, like you I got here just after the 400kg mark, I always get the urge to want to melt some metal after watching him. Best wishes from Cornwall, uk.
@@timthehippy9478
I say once he hits the mark, he remelts what he has and tried for more artsy/complicated stuff. Like levelling up lol
Is kg his measurement for subscribers or is it another thing he is working on?
@@mattygee6852 No, it's for Kilogrammes which is a measurement of weight, 1kg = 2.2lbs, 1000kg = 1 metric tonne.
@@timthehippy9478 okay... so what does this mean for this channel
Lol the classic setting up of the camera to show things like grabbing keys, opening doors, etc.
That's the love put into the video
I just love that you have a gigantic hoard of metals at the end, like a dragon sitting atop it's lair. So beautiful! Subbed.
Welcome aboard my friend, I put out a new video every Friday and haven’t missed an upload in over six years so you have quite a few to catch up on if you have some spare time👊🏻😁
And don't forget the good dogs
hobbit reference I like it
@@epicaksu6454 totally, cannot believe there havent been any dragon pictured on top of treasure before hobbit ....
the guy breaking into his house 🤑
The fact that YT just randomly recommended me to watch this and I enjoyed this was phenomenal! Subscribing to this channel!
There is sooooooo much to see in the back catalog!
Now that’s what I call recycling ♻️
I JUST WANNA START BY SAYING
THAT THIS IS GONNA HURT U MORE THEN IT WILL HURT BUT ALL I JUST WANNA SAY IS THAT
I FORGOT WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY
Sqme
10:38
Worked in a foundry once when I was 17. Boss brought out a steel “pig” and told me to pour my first bucket of aluminum into that because the owner wanted to cut down on imperfections in the vehicle parts we were casting. No one knew to make sure to put that near the crucible and when I began pouring my metal into that damn thing the aluminum started bubbling up around the edges of the pig. Luckily I sensed something was wrong when the aluminum bubbles started coalescing into one big bubble. I told my coworkers to get back and a second later POP! all that metal went about 20 feet up and came back down on the crucible operator’s back. Sadly he was the only one not wearing any protective gear. I was told later that at the hospital, it took a very long time to pick all that aluminum out of his back…..some dangerous stuff if not done correctly
Yeah, need to heat the vessel that you're gonna cast it to in order to avoid explosions. Happened in BigStackD's videos multiple times but nothing serious due to the amounts that he pours per mold. Hope your colleague didn't suffer any permanent health conditions from that explosion. Also need to pour it gently so you allow air to escape and not form pockets
@@justjoe5373 👍
Pre heating is a way of making sure that there are no violent reactions between the surface molecules of the two different substances.
جبت ابو العيد
@@justjoe5373 he ended up returning to work a few months later. Soon after that I moved away and left that death trap. This happened 15 years ago and I really believe most people who worked there ended up with health problems from all the hazardous chemicals used in the foundry, chrome shop and polishing shop. The place was called Street&Performance. They’ve since been shut down
If I had that stash I'd honestly just spend all day click-clacking all the metal together haha. It's such a satisfying sound.
25:15
My God. This Guy has his own treasure room. He'll bury this somewhere, draw some map and let his children and grandchildren find this in the future.
A true Goonie will find it!
That has to be at least 100k
He’ll call it One Piece
Could be worth more than bitcoins in the future. Metal
@@chezman5336 nah more than that
This guy is living the life most men want: eating burritos, melting things in his garage with a freezer full of beer and soda.
Probabaly the coolest video I see in a long time.
In reality he is poisoning himself breathing all this plastic fumes...
Wearing a Fallout Tshirt, using a Disney's Mulan bucket, and doing his accounting in a Girl Gang notebook.
You should try using salt flux for separating the aluminum and dross. The slag you keep remelting is impurities stuck to the aluminum. Salt flux will separate it when mixed and stirred into the molten metal and then dross will be on the top of the pot(usually shiny black with very little pearls of aluminum beads). Cans are very dirty as far as what clean aluminum is considered.
Can you provide me with an explanation to why salt can separate the 2, anything you know, maybe a chemical reaction equation
@@Taratouille. Google
@@Mr_ButtBuster huh , whats that, never heard of it
I give u better one, where to get the salt. In my place, im always struggling to find that salt to seperate the dross
I can just imagine this in a fantasy dwarven factory and all you hear is "FIRE UP THE METAL CRUNCHER AND MELTER"
"I should wash my car..."
washes doggos instead. This man has his priorities in order.
Well don't know why YT recommends this one, but it's an awesome melt, and that international metal treasure just made the video a bow down, cheers to the passion 👍
This video right here is like the definition of a good UA-camr, interacting with their viewers and taking the time to show different things other than just the task at hand. Still taking time and doing other stuff at the same time, if more people saw your videos, you would be a blown-up UA-camr in the smithing or forging community. Keep up the amazing work!
He has 1.3 million subscribers wdym more people saw his videos
don't care
@@captainross7800 why did you comment on it
@@cutefunnyvideos4318 don't care
@@captainross7800 your parents going through a divorce right now and you gotta get out your anger?
I can't tell you how many times I've fallen asleep watching your videos at night. I find it very relaxing and because you don't talk or have incessant music playing in the background, I'm addicted to your channel lol. Keep at it bro!!
The snack break was such a small piece, but it added so much to the video. Loved it
I was searching for this comment. So funny
The video legit had him doing to same thing for 10 mins
I hated it. Nobody hides food like that.
@@lawsonransom8318 SAME
Did he find that wrap and say Falk it?
So in Sweden (and many European countries) you can recycle the cans for 1kr a piece, which means those 250 cans would be worth about 24 USD, but when you melted it down to raw aluminium, it's now worth about 4,34 dollars for the 2,25kg you collected. Huge loss, but if you just like melting stuff and make youtube videos about it, it definitely adds value! :D
Same in Canada, 10 cents per can. Total would be $25 CAD for 250 cans.
Some US states are the same, but it varies. .05, .10, or nothing per can.
Unfortunately scrap metal prices have come down so much that throwing them in the recycling bin in a non-can fee location is the only thing that makes sense.
Used to be decent money in scrap aluminum, enough that it was worth saving it until you could turn it in to a salvage place yourself.
Melting things however, is always fun.
But think about how much money he will now get from the UA-cam video. Much more that 24 bucks
@@lethalhemorrhoid3286 that's exactly what i wrote :)
In Germany it is 62.50 euro
Thanks for the entertaining video.
Fun fact: here in Germany 250 empty aluminium cans are worth 62,50€ (AUD $91,23) if you bring them back to a store to claim the deposit. So a similar video wouldn't work here 😅
Doesnt work here in Western Australia either. You get a 10c deposit back when you take them in. I (like Big Stacked) live in WA, but I also melt all my cans. No fun in taking them for recycling. I dont bother crushing them and I feed them in through the vent hole
Wait , did I misunderstand? The actual cans are worth more than the melted aluminum ?
@@arturomorales966 In Germany you pay an extra fee to buy things in glass/metal/plastic bottles and get the money back if you return them. It encourages recycling and sometimes they are refilled then sold again.
The same thing happens for shopping carts. You put a coin into the lock to unlock it and get the coin back when you return it. Kids (and me) like to return abandoned shopping carts for extra money.
So for U.S.A it would be 91 american money it would be 91.00
Well don't know why YT recommends this one, but it's an awesome melt, and that international metal treasure just made the video a bow down, cheers to the passion
No worries at all my friend glad you enjoyed it, I release a video every Friday and have done so for the last seven years and I can assure you there a lot better quality than this one. Bigger melts bigger property bigger workshop if you’re interested jump on over and check out some of my new ones and if not that’s cool. Have a great day👊🏻😁.
I was wondering "How much is that worth?" - and in the end, about $10. In Canada, we get 10 cents deposit per can, so you melted down $25.00 worth of cans to get $10. Think I'll just stick with taking the cans in to the depot. But, I did watch and enjoy the whole video.
Tbh him being a youtuber him melting all those cans and getting close to 7million views he made much more than $10 as revenue would be a couple thousand just for this video. But yea for the average person it's best to take to the depot. :)
I was just saying that, 14,800-22,200 in revenue at the time I watched this.
I'd rather have the aluminum at this point in the global economy
even at .05 per can where I'm from. I did the math and the came here to comment but I found your comment.
But he's making serious money from this video, clicks and ad revenue are very real. I bet he made at least several times more from this one video than I'd make in a year if I could find a job (I'm in Eastern Europe)
He's become extremely good at this over the years.
I watch a lot of these at-home forge channels and you’re definitely the most fun to watch. Love how thorough you are with everything - I usually have unanswered questions by the end of most videos. Never with yours, though. Thanks, man!
that shine at the end so worth it...can't believe it came from all those al cans.
Fun Fact: aluminum dose not glow red or orange when super hot so that’s why they are not glowing as much as other metals
Dose
Thats BS. everything glows above certain temperature. You just cant see it in a daylight.
@@TheKikosak water doesn't glow
@@angryapple1259 obviously, because you cant heat water above 100°c
i had a stroke reading the comment and the replies
We need more people like you in this world to clean the world of aluminum cans!
@@littlesam6280 yes my friend
Hey! That nice idea!!
But remember you have to use a lot of gas to melt all that aluminum cans but still i like this idea y'know
12:24 yay finally his dad is back
@@taro-san2281 fr, that's a lot of gas
@@littlesam6280 Odin loves me too and he is WAY more fun to hang out with.
This soup looks delicious, and the recipe is simple too, I'mma definitely try this at home!
Goodluck to your soup
good soup
I'd say it's alright, have tasted better
Lemme know the taste please .... thank you :)
@@eeshanbatarka69 legends say that when you taste it, you can't put words to describe it, like... you really can't!
This video has made me grateful that I can drive a short distance to a place called Industrial Metal Supply where I can buy aluminum in various alloys, temper conditions, shapes, and sizes and not spend all day melting down a bunch of cans from stuff that I don't even drink any more.
Seriously, it's an enjoyable video.
19:30
When that little boy inside you wakes up suddenly
22:32 perfectionist confirmed
I can see GREAT values in someone with this skill: patience, carefull, mind strengh, decided, smart, and much more! congratulations!
Fun fact: you can pinpoint the day/time frame the video was made using the Forex rates at the end
You deserve way more subs for all the hard work and time you take out of your day to make us happy
@@Jeeodevrplaysyeeps cheers I appreciate that comment . The Subs are only just creeping up but at least they’re going in the right direction 👍🏻
It would be interesting to machine a part from one of these ingots. It would help determine the quality/usability of the recovered aluminium.
I mean they do it all the time. But yeah this one may have weakening impurities
yeah. like beer cans.
Алюминий в том виде как на видео не пойдет на детали, сталевары много чего добавляют к алюминию для его прочности.
@@dmitriylobanov4686
Exactly my friend. At the foundry I worked at you would get fired for throwing cans into the furnace. Ruins the entire batch.
Wwll considering the body is 3004 aluminum and the ands are 5182, yeah their aluminum but not very good
I really like the way you do things.
Out of curiosity: How long can you run your furnace on full blast with one of those gas cans?
An amount of time long enough to burn down 3 orphanages. I can say that as an experienced arsonist.
Well I know a 5 gallon 20lb cylinder full of propane has enough propane compressed, that if it was realeased on a totally windless day it would cover an entire football field 1 foot deep with propane!
Btw anyone remember pink guy the legend?
@@NeroSonOfVergil101 you can burn down 3 orphanages with tiny ammounts of fire
@Check my about page link no, go away loser
Makes me wonder what the value of a whole bar of Aluminum is worth after smelting down like that... And how much it costs to melt all that down.
It’s around 8 bucks US
That is, the material cost of the aluminum
One day near future that stack of bars nay be worth more.Back early 1800s stuff was worth the same as gold.Right now stack of semi precious metals may be as good as gold again with world economy and society going mad Max future
@@dougybrownie481 you're right society is going along with world economic form's leader Klaus Schwab to hook everyone up to the "internet of things", starting with a one world digital currency.
@@dougybrownie481 you're crazy
Hi m8 from uk 🇬🇧 im a new subscriber and one if my hobbies is extracting metals from old electronics i get for free or find dumped and been thinking about a smelter for a while and thats how i found your channel just have to say love your channel and your sense of humour!!!the way you treat your dogs and how you act i can tell you are a real decent human being and a real genuine down to earth guy thanks for your videos gunna binge watch all your vids as i only found your channel a few days ago thanks bigstackd take care and be lucky
All I can think of is that making a magazine system for this as storage for the cans would be great. Store the empty cans in a magazine and just attach it to the crusher so you don’t have to manually insert them, gravity feed it
I was thinking about how In first grade a guy came with truck loads of these and we crushed them for him. I have a vague memory that we were told it was for charity but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a lie. Might be more efficient to enlist the services of a first grade class haha
Yeah, a hopper type system would probably suit him!
Probably used about £30 of gas to make £6 of metal
I don't know how much that translates to USD but i thought the same thing! Not very efficient... cool hobby i guess..@adrianridgway4333
А вы знали? Алюминиевые банки и их крышки имеют разный состав. Например в крышку добавляют магний, чтобы она была более жёсткая.
Он теперь может лить бронзу)
Прикольно
That’s very cool actually
I did not know that
это очень круто на самом деле
To get more of a metal casting fix throughout the week I am coming back to old videos I haven't seen before. Wow 1700lbs of metals compared to 3500lbs present day. Damn you'll come a long way in 2 years.
Something about watching people clean slag out is so therapeutic. like I don’t know why but I enjoy seeing it. And the remelting slag 👌🏻
Are you from the US ? In the UK a slag is slang for a whore or easy woman who gives it out easily ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That compactor design is just amazing! My favorite part of that device is you have an ejection hole so that the cans drop into the bin once crushed!
It's a good design, I wonder if it would be possible to add a feed hopper that could be loaded up with cans?
@@peterjf7723 In theory, yes. However in practice it may not be a good idea because of jams both in the inlet and the outlet of the smasher
@@peterjf7723 I was thinking the same thing, add a couple of rails and a hopper and you could load that crusher like a machine gun ;-)
Wow, only 199 kg to go.....thanks for showing. Your entertaining format and organization is so pleasant to watch over the years.
Big 'garbage' reduced to small fine treasure, all sorted....too cool.....liquid metal is amazing
Where I work, we run 5, 35,000 lb capacity furnaces melting aluminum and custom aluminum alloys. Each one pours every 45-50 mins. We are now opening a new plant in Mississippi that will begin with two more furnaces. Lol. Forgive me if I laugh when I watch this.
That’s alright my friend laugh away 👍🏻
you watch the video that’s all that matters👊🏻😁. I’ve actually got a small group of subscribers that watch purely to dislike and send abusive messages but they don’t realise they’ve been blocked👌🏻 Have a good day mate.
Aluminum Dynamics??
I heard the ice cream truck about 9:50 or so and he wasn’t even tempted! That’s dedication!😂
8:36 forbidden dark forest cake.... 🍰
When you melted the ice with metal, you melted my heart with satisfaction
You should never wash your car while the sun is out - for everyone out there. Always wash your car in the shade. Because water drops create lens, and they work like a magnifying glass, and burn the paint. If you do this on regular basis, the paint will fade quicker.
Thanks for the tip 👍🏼
Always wash off bird poop! A coworker had a red truck and didn't wash off bird poop over the summer. Messed up the clear coat badly!
Do any of your neighbors ever come by while you're doing this and just hang out?
25:14 That's such an amazing collection. 😲
That's like a loot haven from Skyrim ughhh haha
@@phalaxgames right! Ingots are such cool and satisfying objects
he better be careful or might have to fight off a dragon....
@@MrOnetedify by this point he is the dragon hoarding all that metal
Quite an apocalypse collection.
What no stamping the ingot today 🤣 shame on you! Gotta love the can melts though. It’s a big pain so I’m right there with ya 👍🏻
I just take cans to the scrap yard and use the money for propane. A good source for free aluminum is office park suite demo jobs. Talk to the GC on the jobsite. Framing, ceiling grid, cable tray, data racks are all made from aluminum. The more you take the less dumpsters they have to pay for.
hehehe no but still 72 % recover and great bars hehe ;)
18:33 when u do smth accidentally so u do it a few more times so it looks like u did it on purpose
Time to make a house with aluminium bricks 😂😂😂
Haha! Dang dude! Just found you this morning before work and wow! Looks like you are living the dream. So neat. And you seem like an awesome dude. From the frenchies and tin tin shirt to the Marvin the Martian socks. Thanks for making my day start right man.
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I just have to say that I've been watching for a while, for about 500kgs and these videos have just been so relaxing for me, just laying back and enjoying watching the melts and the occasion when you use fun different casts. Thank you for the hard work and can't wait till you reach the tonne!!!
Oh man, BigSnackD time always looks like the most delicious perfect thing to suit my mood. Kinda helps that everything else is great too. Keep it up Stacky. 🤟
Big snack your making me hungry xD
@@snowballil3133 uh you just
same lol
How good . I don't watch often but when I do I'm loving it for the whole video 🤣
It took me awhile to put my finger on it but I've finally got it - you're like Odd Tinkering. No talking and it's ASMR with subtitles, but you destroy stuff instead of fix it 😂
Am I the only one confused on why his "big snack" was hidden in a bucket of rocks lmao
Been scrolling for 10 mins to see if someone else noticed that
Humor
Fr tho
I like to tell myself that he doesn't just hide the food right before he films it, but instead he's just going about doing all this work while his burrito is buried in some rocks all morning.
😂😂😂😂😂
2am with nothing better to do, might as well see some casting. I always like how you polish the bars, makes it look the part
12:12 I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO MELT SOME MAGNETS😂😂😂😂😂
Wonder what was worth move...
The fuel used to melt the aluminum or the aluminum itself
The time was worth the most. Raw materials are cheap but a skilled worker can easily be $30 per hour. But even with the low yield, this has to be one of the most profitable aluminum melts yet because he’s making thousands from ad revenue lol.
The entertainment dip shit
Making the bar wasn't done for it to be sold. Returning those cans to the store for 5¢ each would give more than what that aluminum bar is worth.
The views on the video
How much heat can that spoon take geez
Hey BigstackD! Question, why don’t you sand and polish the inside faces of your moulds? Wouldn’t it help make the bars smoother and require less sanding on each bar? Just a curious question! Love your videos. The wife and I look forward to every Friday! Thanks for the amazing content!!
I assume the extreme heat cracks it up. You can't really sand stuff like that as easily as you can sand metal, as they're a lot more brittle in comparison. And even if you could, the residue slag etc would deposit and it would become unpolished when you actually use it
*Your wife love him*
@@mortache oh I wasn’t talking about the sand moulds he makes, but that he uses a lot of those steel ingot moulds. You could polish the inside faces of the steel moulds to make a nice smooth face
Yes that's what I had to always do with my induction furnace, but wasn't doing aluminum as much as stainless steel, but had a separate type of coil/crucible setup and the aluminum one was separate with a hydraulic lift instead of the main one being a tilting box mold.
Can anyone tell me how much extra net profit ( fuel cost subtracted) in terms of percentage can be obtained by selling the aluminum bars instead of selling the aluminum cans?
My inner child woke up the moment I heard the ice cream truck in the distance at 4:12
Ohh I didn't even realize
I was hooked to this channel since I watched the first video that appeared on my UA-cam: A big motor melt at the old house. I love copper pouring, it's my favorite. I also love not hearing any human voice, so quiet, so amazing 😍 Great channel.
when the world repeats itself, this man will be the king of metals we all depend on
3:20 water was too hot, you burned him!
LOL good joke same breed of dog just different dog it wasn't the same dog 😂
@@thelordschannel4723 it was the same dog it’s just wet
It’s cold water more than likely
@19:59.
🤣 Lmao!!
Sometimes, you gotta just fuck shit up..
I think this was the first bigstackd video I ever watched
Absolutely no regrets, this legend has become part of my weeky routine
There is just something so cathartic about watch stuff melt. As a hobbyist candle maker, I can relate.
Real oonga boonga energy, I 100% agree
Would it help to shred or chip the cans instead of crushing them?
Seems like you'd be able to get greater density in the crucible.
I’m not sure if it would save space but if it did it would only save you about 1-2 cans
@@mohamadrizk5536 that can add up
or just crushing them up smaller
Or setting a funnel over the crucible so the cans can go in by themselves
Idk about saving space but melting time would be way better
This is particularly pleasing. I love any silver, nice gray colors, so having a shiny ingot like that would never leave my hands. 😂 So pretty to me. ☺️❤️
And the good news is that it's much, much cheaper than silver! Though the bad news is that I don't think aluminum stays shiny like that for long, it forms a thin layer of oxides very quickly.
@@flydrop8822It forms an oxide layer instantly. You will never see it without an oxide layer.
Petting dogs and melting cans this man really is living his best life ❤
19:07 me on the coach after a long day of work 🤔
This channel: you melt stuff. Someone please tell me why I (and 1.22 MILLION other people) can't wait til Friday to see you do it again! I absolutely love this shit! Give the boys a scratch for me.
Great melt, thanks for sharing with us! My kids love watching your channel!
The dog changing color in this video was poetry married to the aluminum transformation. Bravo.
Holy shit you were a regular shop guy until the end i realized you were a bonafide pirate in a past life. You have legitimate treasure!
A A A A R R R R R R G G G G G G H H H H H!
I do enjoy the popping sound of the forge! When it happens, I actually smiled... That and the BigSnackD reference... Thanks for the video!
Which raises a question: how do you clean the aluminium out of the crucible?
Get a new one
Very carefully.
Porbaly just threw it away since he said it’s almost time for it to retire
LET IT DRY. Once it's dry, LET IT DRY.
When I clean the Crucible I normally use a stainless steel spoon or a flathead screwdriver and give it a gentle scrape while its still very hot but if I’m going to melt more aluminium in the Crucible I won’t need to clean it all out👍🏻
That's an interesting suggestion! Using salt flux for separating aluminum and dross seems like a viable method to remove impurities from the molten metal. It's intriguing to see how different techniques can enhance the purification process. 🧂🔥🔄 I wonder if this approach could be further optimized for large-scale aluminum recycling, especially considering the high impurity levels in cans. It's great to explore innovative ways to turn trash into treasure!
After a long day at work, I found myself staring in a trance at them cans going in as therapy. Great edit.
Your compactor is really well made, it looks like a cutaway of a car engine, it's probably the best thing that could happen to these cans 👍
A little Paraffin wax would stop the wood squeak and make it last a lot longer from less friction and would stop any liquids from penetrating the wood. Nice simple design.
Im i the only one who think it is very dangerous? Or there is an emergency button or something? If you don't watching carefully your finger may injured!
@@Eregh that’s just the challenge model
@@Eregh If you get crushed, you pull your finger out on the upstroke. Not to say it's not dangerous, but an emergency stop wouldn't really be helpful.
@@awldune yes I see! I'm not an engineer. What about the security cover? I think there are many possibilities.
Man I sure learned that melting cans is freaking HARD! It takes a LOT of cans to amount to anything. I started with cans and quickly graduated up to anything that wasn’t “cans”. 😂
Yes it does but once you get them refined you can reuse them for anything. That’s what I love about them but it sure does take a lot of time. The slag is the worst
@@ArtByAdrock yeah exactly. You really scrape about as much slag as you get aluminum per can. I know I sound like I’m complaining but I really do love all of it. 😆
@@GeorgeBonez I hear ya. It’s a lot of work but it’s worth it in the end. Keep on melting brotha 👍🏻
Pretty cool the video and all but
I wanted to tell you did a perfect trhow whit the first boot that was freaking amazing (20:46)
Incredible amount of paint/plastic left as "ashes" over the molten metal...
Nice video.
It was part of the slag
Him choosing to wash his dog over his car shows that there is still hope in the word😊😊😊
It's amazing how many cans it takes to fill up that comparatively tiny crucible.
The brilliance of how little metal is needed in making those cans.
Apparently n the walls of the can are 75 microns thick
is that what those things are called?? omg thank you
@@omegadragons321 Yes. The item he is dropping the cans into to melt is called a crucible, which is inside of a forge. The one he uses is specifically called a devil forge. You then pour the molten metal from the crucible into a mold, which also has to be heated. If there is any moisture on the mold at all, it could explode when it comes into contact with the metal. A steam explosion with molten metal is the makings for a bad day.
Btw, devil forges run on propane gas just like gas grills. The smallest devil forge set is as little as $350 and has all of the necessary accessories to start smelting including hoses, tongues, a 4kg crucible, gloves, etc. You'll still have to buy molds separately though. The forge gets hot enough to melt steel and graphite molds can handle those temperatures.
The devil forge kit and a cheap set of graphite molds. For $400 you could be turning cans into coins lol
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With the speed of you and the can crusher, you need to lay off the coffee 😁😁😁
OMG, you are killing me with these snack breaks. I WANT SOME OF THAT! Your food always looks ridiculously delicious.