Hard Drive To Aluminum Melting Process pour into ingot

A Different angle of the hard drive destruction (melting process). After the Hard Drives are physically destroyed they are then melted into Aluminum Ingots. The non-Aluminum parts (steel, circuit boards, etc.) are also recycled.

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• Hard
• Drive
• to
• Aluminum
• melting
• smelting
• process

[TheCombineify]

Thats pretty damn nice

[ninja6kid]

wow you cant spend a few seconds skimming cmon

i heard it takes 350 cans to get 5 kg though : /

[mtktm]

cans are a pour source of aluminum. There is coating on it that react with the aluminum when melted. That is why there are so many impurities that needs to be skimmed off, when using cans.

[bcfilename]

I melted aluminum cans using two coffee cans, a short pipe, charcoal, and a blower from an inflatible bed. It was barely successful. I found the idea by Goggling melting aluminum. Driveway safe though. My father built an oil burner with ram air kind of like a jet engine but not as sophisticated. We could not get the used oil feed consitent. Probably due to trash in the oil.

[keyko555]

Nice setup, can you explain how you built the furnace. thanks

[richardphat]

I dont know much thing about smelting metal such as the aluminum but can anyone explain to me the process to smelt how, with what materiel, is it easy, etc.