Aluminum is a common and useful metal , known for its corrosion resistance, malleability , and for being lightweight. It's safe enough to be used around food and in contact with skin.
It's much easier to recycle this metal than it is to purify it from ores. You can melt old aluminum cans to get molten aluminum. Pour the metal into a suitable mold to make jewelry, cookware, ornaments, sculptures, or for another metalworking project.
It's a great introduction to home recycling. Melting cans is not complicated, but it's an adult-only project because high temperatures are involved.
You'll want to work in a clean, well-ventilated area. It's not necessary to clean the cans before melting them since organic matter plastic coating, leftover soda, etc. Re-melting aluminum to recycle it is far less expensive and uses less energy than producing new aluminum from the electrolysis of aluminum oxide Al 2 O 3.
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Alternatively, you can place a steel cup, pot, or pan directly onto a nonflammable surface like a cinder block. Put one aluminum can in the cup and heat it with the blowtorch. The first piece of metal will take the longest to melt. Once the first can has completely melted, you can add more cans. Pour the aluminum into steel muffin tins. Once the aluminum is melted down, pour it into a muffin tin to harden into ingots.
Any impurities will stick to the steel cup and you will be left with pure aluminum ingots. Once the metal cools down, you can remove it from the muffin tin and store it. Never handle any materials that are still hot. Method 2.
Surround a pipe with perlite and cement inside a 6 gallon 23 L steel pail. Fill the bottom 3 inches 7. Then, once the mixture dries, place the pipe on top and fill the rest of the bucket around the outside of the pipe with the same mixture.
This will be the mold for the melting chamber. Perlite can be found at gardening centers for a cheaper price than at hardware stores. The perlite and cement will take anywhere from days to dry, depending on the climate.
Alternatively, you can use sand and plaster of Paris to surround the pipe, which will harden in around 1 hour. Create a lid for the foundry. Pour the same mixture of perlite and Portland cement or plaster of Paris onto the lid of the bucket.
To create handles, stand up two 4 in 10 cm U-bolts in the mixture, placing the ends with the nuts down in the mix. Wait until the mixture has dried, then slide it out of the lid. Drill hole in the top of the lid using an electric drill and a 3 in 7. Fill it to around 2 inches 5. Remove the inner pipe and drill a hole in the foundry for air supply. Remove the pipe from the foundry. You may need to use a pair of pliers.
Once you have cut through the bucket, position the blade at a degree angle and drill. Attach 12 inches 30 cm of steel tubing to a PVC pipe. Screw a 1 inch 2. Then, slide a 1 inch 2. Slide the metal end of the pipe into the foundry. If it doesn't, either drill a slightly wider hole or find a slightly narrower piece of tubing. The PVC pipe will attach to the source of air that will keep your foundry hot.
Place a steel crucible into the foundry with charcoal. A plain steel cup around 3 inches 7. Use a plain, unpainted steel cup. Paint or decoration might catch on fire. Fill the foundry with charcoal briquets. Charcoal that you would use for grilling works perfectly fine. Fill the foundry around the crucible. Make sure whatever you use is made of steel, which is sturdy enough to withstand the high temperatures needed for melting aluminum.
Place a few charcoal briquets underneath the melting chamber to surround it with the most heat and melt cans more effectively. Always use your foundry in a well-ventilated area, preferably outside. Attach a hair dryer to the PVC air pipe using duct tape. The hair dryer will direct air into the foundry and get the flames hot enough to melt aluminum.
Support the hairdryer by placing it on top of something stable to reduce strain on the walls of the foundry. This will make it easier to remove the hair dryer. Light the charcoal briquets and turn on the hair dryer. Use a propane torch to quickly and evenly light the charcoal, or your own preferred method of lighting charcoal , if you have one.
Turn the hairdryer on low to direct a steady stream of air to the charcoal and get it hot. Use steel tongs to place cans into the crucible when it's glowing orange. After around 10 minutes, the entire inside of the foundry will start to glow orange. At this point, you can use steel tongs to remove the lid and place a single aluminum can into the crucible. Add more cans until the crucible is full of liquid aluminum.
Remove the full crucible using steel tongs. Make sure you can get a secure grip using your tongs. You may want to test out removing the crucible using tongs before heating up the foundry to make sure you will be able to get a good grip without spilling any aluminum. Make sure you are wearing heavy leather or Kevlar gloves, leather boots with reinforced toes, a long-sleeved shirt, and long pants. Pour the aluminum into a steel mold. Use muffin tins to create small bricks of pure aluminum.
Or, use a steel cake pan or a steel mold in a fun shape to create a molded design out of aluminum. Any dross, or impurities in the aluminum, will stick to the crucible and won't pour out. It will also act as a strainer and hold back more dross, so you will be left with pure aluminum ingots.
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