Always a good day to melt something. 🍺🍺😎😎 Hope you have a great weekend Bro!!!
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Hey Don! Yessir, always a good day to melt. I most certainly did, I hope you did too 👌👌👌🤙🤙
@vintagecardssteve8582 Жыл бұрын
Ohh man. Crazy to see that many soda can tabs melted. Always enjoy buddy and thanks for sharing with us. Hope you had a great weekend
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Hahah, I know!!! My buddy gave me 5 large containers full of pull tabs. The other containers are 2x the size of the one in the video. Thanks for your support, I hope you had a good weekend too 🤙🤙
@theamaturepro5 ай бұрын
I've been saving can tops for a future casting project. I thought the tops and tabs were better for casting, but should i just use the tabs? It's for a part that will be machined and needs to be good quality. I don't even have a furnace and have never done this, but I'm handy and feel confident about pulling it off. It's the different aluminum alloys I'm not familiar with and need to educate myself. Not a lot of people talk about it
@HeinrichsMade5 ай бұрын
Firstly I want to say thanks for stopping by 👍 Here is a little information for you... When casting metal, the metal shrinks. That means if you are trying to replicate a part from a part you currently have. The cast part will be smaller. Can tops, and tabs are better than the can itself, but neither are good casting metals. Aluminum in cans is wrought aluminum. You would really need cast aluminum for what you are looking to do. The best is a356 aluminum which is from aluminum car rims. definitely google wrought aluminum vs aluminum
@ScorpionMetals Жыл бұрын
Those make a great melt. Well done! Min Slag!
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy 👍👍
@KrakenCasting Жыл бұрын
Oooh, I was getting ready to do another pull tab melt. We must be on the same brainwave. 😂 Nice video, man! I kinda like how bubbly the ingots came out, they kinda make me think of the surface of the moon.
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see it buddy 👌. Im still waiting on the magic wand video 😉. I've been meaning to do the pull tab melt for some time. My buddy gave me probably 25 lbs of pull tabs. No kidding... Yeah I won't be remelting these. I like the crater's too 🔥🔥🔥
@KrakenCasting Жыл бұрын
@@HeinrichsMade Just started editing today! Should be done in a few days or so.
@HeinrichsMade11 ай бұрын
@@KrakenCasting let's gooooo 😉
@mattyal934711 ай бұрын
I wonder about that slag. Were you to super heat it in your furnace in a steel mold. Could it be pressed together tightly and after it cooled would it then hold its shape or just crumble?
@HeinrichsMade11 ай бұрын
That's a great question! I have no Idea! I've never though about compressing it. I've heard that compressing metal will distort it's molecules, but I'm not sure if it's the same for the slag. The slag is the impurities in the metal, along with oxidation from being on the top of the crucible. Unfortunately, I have no way of testing this out. It is a great question. 👍
@billmoran3219 Жыл бұрын
So what’s the value of pure aluminum ingots vs unprocessed aluminum pull tabs? Is there a greater recycle payout, seems the cost of tooling and gas/propane and time outweighs the price difference?
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
TBH the value is most likely less. I don't think scrap yards accept ingots. I melt them into bars so I can remelt them for projects later on. The pull tab aluminum is different from the can and the tops. It has both magnesium and manganese in the metal alloy. It could serve as a specific purpose.
@SpokaneSilverStacker Жыл бұрын
That’s a lot of pull tabs. Definitely more than I thought. So I saw you remelted some of that dross and just got a little more good aluminum in the video. But what about the rest? Do you just remelt it again?
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Lots of pull tabs and I have another 15 lbs 🤣🤣🤣. Crazy amount! The slag that wouldn't melt is junk. I just throw it in the metal bin at my recycling center. 👌
@doriWyo Жыл бұрын
Have you ever remelted the slag, to get more aluminum out of it?
@HeinrichsMade Жыл бұрын
Hey Dori! I actually did it for the first time in this video. Around 12:40 I don't think it's worth it IMO.