If you have a family, then nine out of ten times you are going to have aluminum soda cans ready to be taken out to the “blue barrel” for recycling. If you are consciences and keep up with it, we commend you. It’s good for the environment!
However, what if you can take those cans and do something personally useful with them? Perhaps even creating some interesting prepping and survival items for the entire family! How you may wonder, can a busy guy or gal like you do such a thing?
With a mini metal foundry.
If you’ve ever worked with one before you know how hot they get and also how quickly aluminum will melt inside one of these awesome gadgets!
Over on the next page, we have a motivating video that will show you how cool it is to recycle scrap metal, in the backyard, with a homemade mini metal foundry!
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Tres Parkins-Taito
Jeffrey Slater, this is kind of cool.
Let’s make one
Yes
John Owens
I got the fire extinguisher
No need, let the$#%&!@*burn
He used a fire extinguisher cut in half as the melting pot
This video is fake! Well tbh fakish. The concept is correct but his execution is hollywood.
1 the crucible used will burn thru before that amout of cans can be melted.
2 cans are a poor source of aluminum and require too much time ergo fuel to produce any usable amount of AL.
3 his timescale and amout produce as well as quality casting are all fake.
I tried it and failed till I remade set up with a schedule 40 capped pipe crucible and use aluminum electrical wire, pure AA 8000 aluminum. And it works beuatifully.
Just wondering I have a buddy with a set up like this and it worked fine. Cos maybe you did something wrong. Anyway I’ve got a bunch of lead. Anyone do anything with lead before like this ?
Like i said it works. Just not nearly as well as vid portrays. Basically to make one of his muffins would take about 2 hrs and a 20+ gallon bucket of cans, with a tremendous amount of dross or slag waste. And if the crucible lasted it wouldnt make a second run.
Lead melts easy, half temp of al. If u cut the air flow almost to nothing and halved the coal or even less, one could easily melt a soda cans volume of lead in this setup.
What do you do when you don’t have electricity?
I just use a propane crab cooker/ Turkey fryer burner and cast iron Dutch oven to do lead
Lead melts at 622degrees Fahrenheit
Richard Kusak
That was super cool!
Justin Daniel Giddens
you better find a thicker can to melt it in cause it will only melt about 5 cans before the metal can melts also
This is a really interesting operation, I see lot’s of potential.
I couldnt find a link so i could see how one made hid foundry
You can also use a fresnel screen from a rear projection TV will melt almost anything
https://www.google.ca/url?q=http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Death-Ray-TV-Fresnel-Lens/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiUz42e1NbSAhWILpQKHcW-AakQFggXMAQ&usg=AFQjCNF8Z2y5CLmZ7Gpi9_82mY-uRpcspQ
I’ll just plug my hairdryer in for power
a lot of your$#%&!@*is cool no doubt. a blot is car camping
car camping is cool but your$#%&!@*is so heavy i would never carry that.
cool im going to ecpose you and your$#%&!@*s**t. there is no way a real backpacker would evere cary that$#%&!@*.!!!!!
Making the forge is actually super easy. What I want to know is how to make the crucible! Anyone else wondering how, after the$#%&!@*actually hits the fan, you’re going to make a container for those metals you want to melt down? I’ve wondered that for years, but nobody’s addressed that yet.