$30 backyard aluminum foundry

[UkrainianDragon1993]

I thought he said "iron nipple, piping nipple".

[TheChickenrun3]

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[Roerekable]

did you actually make the ingots?

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[ddemko100]

How mooch is aluminum per pound

[StelloLIVE]

@ddemko100 Right now $1.12

[ddemko100]

Hey how much is aluminum per pound

[kempouk]

what's aloominum is it like al-u-minium ?

[AzaIndustries]

@kempouk yeah idk why Americans say it like that... its spelt totally different to how they say it.

[Nuvious]

@AzaIndustries Because the US has influences from so many different languages that American Standard English is full of oddities like that.

[mehave9bona]

wat a bloody good thing for me as a 14 year old

[jmar1371]

Would lathe turnings of 6061 T-6 be any good for foundry casting? Cuz I throw out bags of it into the recycle. Not worth taking to the scrap yard.

[MikkoMuhis]

And soon you can make cheap engines for mopeds ^.^

[scarekrow9]

don't try this at home? you did..

[Fletch8600]

Guy, there ain't a soul who watches this video who will take heed of your "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!" warning; the point of backyard metal-casting is *TO* do it at *HOME*. I will make a crude estimate that 90% of the people who searched for videos relating to (s)melting aluminum are planning on building a foundry, thus they will be carrying out the same concept as is here in this video.

[darkhouse48]

@Fletch8600

would love to make something like this in the back yard. see other vids about tesla coils and other very interesting stuff.

[Fletch8600]

Yeah, you should. I made mine yesterday and have been melting down cans into nice shiny ingots. Used a steel bucket, cut open a little hole near the bottom of it, ran a 1 foot copper pipe between the bucket and a $30 Coleman mattress inflator/blower, with the crucible of aluminum in the bucket. Bucket's fed hot charcoal; real charcoal, not store-bought artificial briquets. Melts cans and chunk-aluminum *nicely* in a matter of minutes.

[pyrea17]

cool! why shouldn't we try this at home?

[pyrea17]

why shouldn't we try this at home?

[pimpsta0078]

how did you get that inget tray?

[KEVINWALSTON]

why cool,doesnt smelting require heat?

[danrichards23]

@KEVINWALSTON no, the hair dryer is just to blow air on the coal. he didnt really explain how to make it. coal make a lot of heat but you have to have a blower.

[hinckleyruss]

piping nipple

[19SamMan98]

what is a crucible

[lurxtlifeson]

@19SamMan98 used to hold the metal when it's melting

[Allroundmoviemaker]

I finished my foundry and casted my first copper ingot. You can watch the video on my channel :)

[imgeek1337]

did you use refractory?

[GreatNorthWeb]

@petro062 I used bags and bags of beer and pop cans and cast them into ingots. You do have to skim off boatloads of contamination from the paint though. i found the final product to be worth the effort.

[evinsteven13]

did you use fire clay inside the can?

[flamedrag18]

you can always use beverage cans for the aluminum too.

[petro062]

@flamedrag18 Beverage cans don't work. They shrink like wax. All extruded aluminum has a big shrink factor.You can only use old castings of aluminum. Watch out for magnesum it will catch fire and won't go out no matter what you do and will explode if you put water on it.

[HTDEAO]

It hapned to me i used some old automated valves boxs to get some free aluminium.

They worked very well. only got to mutch slag in it with lots of good aluminium in it.

So i put every thing in th crucible again and got over 1Kl of aluminium more but the slag cougth on fire and it burned until it got all stuck back together :) it was fun to see

[dramey03]

@petro062 pop cans definetly work and theres 100s of vidoes on youtube, i just watched at least 2 dozen people actually do it

[nativeskater25]

dont try this at home, but you did?

[mitchellberry]

and what do you use the aluminum for exactly?

[Nuvious]

Just made paperweights effectively :). Could've done lost-foam casting, etc. Just a fun weekend project was all.

[ibcrazysumtimes]

30 dollar paperweights

[MikeofWyoming]

I had my girls press hand prints into moist sand and made casts of their hands.

[Allroundmoviemaker]

Sweet idea ;)

Maybe I'll try this with my penis.

[MikeofWyoming]

What? Make children to have for hand casts?

[PeterbiltEmzie]

@mitchellberry In most states 1 pound of aluminum is 70 cents which is 36 cans, so if you throw a party and people throw away a crap load of a cans you can burn them down into blocks of aluminum and sell em.

[pyroman675]

@mitchellberry you could also make a wood mold to pour your steal into, yes it would burn the wood but you would still end up with a ruff forum/shape of what you molded to smith into a knife or something.

[MonkeyMolesters]

@mitchellberry melt aluminum 

[goodoldjam]

Heat gun would probably hold up alot better than a blow dryer, if you don't have compressed air.

[danz409]

7 cents a pound!!?!?! where!?! thats a hell of a steal!

[tjinga2u1]

hay i have a paint can some charcoal

a steel can for the aluminium

but all i hyave to force air on it is with

straws lol but will that be strong enoughf?

[Nuvious]

Likely not. That blowdryer and pipe wasn't enough and I later upgraded to compressed air. Try to find a small blower from a vacuum or something instead.

[ab48726]

I used a vacuum cleaner blower for my waste oil furnace wired with a dimmer switch to control the blower speed. I had to restrict the intake a lot to keep the airflow down but it worked great. Unfortunately I don't have that blower anymore but I'm looking for another one for my propane furnace.

[cuttlefsh]

@Nuvious leaf blower



[theartilerysheller1]

instead of using a hair dryer, a leaf blower works really well

[AMSroadrunner]

that would seem WAY too powerful for this size. Yes? We are just talking a one gallon bucket.

[Nuvious]

I'm with AMSroadrunner on the leaf-blower idea. All you'd really need is a more powerful hair dryer with a dedicated cool setting or a small blower fan.

[bandiepoo945]

After digging various holes, making many small brick ovens, buying a propane weed burner, and even trying road flares, I have discolored plenty of aluminum cans and melted the steel crucible. Never once did I get liquid aluminum. I think I'll try it your way.

[chaz706]

You're going to need a ceramic crucible. If your oven is too hot, not only will it melt aluminum but steel too. The melting point for Al is lower than steel.

[smazz104]

what are you going to do with the aluminum after pouring into the ingot trays?

[jimmybobson123]

chuck em at CARS!!!!!!!!!

[clockguy2]

Uh...Why can't we try it?

[dov3r2011]

me and my friend did this it worked excellent! thank you

[ParapaDrifter]

and a hair dryer heats the crucible that high? incredible... I don't see how this getup absorbs and retains that much heat... Can the same principal be applied to ceramic kilns?

[AreThereNoMoreNames]

It forces air into the charcoal to heat it up more.

[lilg606]

DUDE!!! thank you so much!!!

Ive been trying to figure out how to do this for so long!!

i think I'm gonna put a little more money into mine

[rivethead469]

why doesnt the paint can melt to?

[ParapaDrifter]

paint can is more likely steel, meltingpoint much higher. Al is around 1200F

[slipstream1802]

Nice vid. As noted, would like to see more info. on melting aluminum.

[mrp0p]

nice job!

i think i *might* try to make one lol

[TheTroydanShow]

Can you use tin foil in that? seriously lol

[goodgooglegoo]

WOW

Awesome Man !!!!

[mikeyg828]

you didn't mention in your video how long it takes to melt the aluminum. it would be a nice thing to know for those of us looking to make a small forge such as myself

[eaglesbaseball134]

i saw a video where a guy puts in a peice of aluminum, about 7 inches long, into a foundry a little bigger than this, and it melted in like 20 seconds. the melting point of aluminum is 1220.58 °F

[RainJetSprinklers]

Don't try this at home...Hmm we'll have to see about that!

[LaCosa9]

What is a foundry?

[G30360]

A foundry is the buildings and works for casting metals.

Try googleing define: foundry next time. :)

[andrew01292]

He said nipple lol

[LaCosa9]

LOL