Melting lawnmower motors and other cast aluminum
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- In this video I melt a lawnmower motor, to get clean aluminum ingots. and I talk about how I built the melting pot. for info on the burner build see the first video in the play list (waste oil burner and melting metal)
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You remind me of my cuz. He lives out that way too. Thank you for the information. Enjoy learning from you.
I appreciate that
If you have that contraption sitting up on a tin trash can with no actual solid base.. then you sir are my hero
Parts of your setup are amazing and clever. Other parts are incredibly ghetto. I'm okay with both paradigms. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to keep it simple, I have a big air compressor tank down in the field that I may try to make a bigger one out of some day, but will spend a lot more time building it. this is the prototype will try to improve on it latter. but it is working for now. Thanks for watching
Bare bones and works like a beaut
great idea and no slag to deal with. never thought of that
I made a double barrel wood stove at a machine shop years ago. I did the waste oil injection too. Thing sounded like a jet. Turned it blaze orange. Now you’ve inspired me to build one big enough to melt car engine blocks! Thanks! I love the smell of scrap in the morning...
I would like to see the video of that when you get it done. Fire is fun and liquid metal. Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper that I will. :)
Very inspiring and the good thing about the waste oil setup is that you can literally do free oil changes and keep the old oil, and it's very efficient but I would suggest using a respirator
yes but it is hard to talk while making a video while wearing a respirator
I really enjoyed this video. It motivates me to do the same in mexico. I have access to a lot of scrap and this melting is awesome. Make more videos like this please
Thank you Jimmy, I have a play list on the burner and melting metal. and in the description of one of the early videos is a link to the burner tip, I will make more will try to change them up a bit, thanks for watching
Great video, love watching you melt down scrap. Great idea with the used oil siphon forced air burner🔥🔥
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for stopping by
That's awesome man, thanks for sharing your methods. 👍
Any time! Thanks for watching
Found your channel and subscribed. Made a homemade scrapping furnace myself. Its a bit of a different setup but basic. Always nice to see others take on designs.
Thanks for the sub! yeah I wanted something big for lawnmower motors, I haven't tried yet but I think I can get a riding lawnmower motor into it, Thanks for watching
Wow what a sweet setup
Thanks for sharing hope you share more
Thank you Elbert, I do plan to do more when time and weather permit, I may make a video tomorrow as I season my crucible. may even pore a few small ingots. Thanks for watching
Wow, that is a very cool set up you have there. Very cool.
Thank you, I kept looking at those hard to clean aluminum items and I didn't like the aluminum breakage prices, and asked myself what can I do about it, and this is what I came up with, a little rough but it works good. Thanks for watching Jeff
Neat idea. Throw it all in and let the aluminum drip out the bottom.
Thanks Hope I can sell the ingots on eBay when I get a bunch made, aluminum with steel in it goes for about 10 cents a lb. and ingots on eBay go for $2.00 to $4.00 a lb. Thanks for watching
Good job you done there boss, loving your videos
Glad you like them!
I was looking for useful information. I found it here.
Glad it was helpful! I have the build of the burner in my play list and a link to the burner tip
That’s going to be a nice setup on the furnace 👍👍
Thanks you Scrapper D. I think that I have the lifting tongs done, I may make another pair latter with longer handles the one's I made are 30 inches long, Thanks for watching
First video I came across of yours. Had to sub!!
Welcome aboard! thanks for watching
Panting well there fella😉.
Good shout with the chicken wire reinforced refractory 👍
I suspect a reburn on the fumes would make a heck of a difference.
Great job
Thank you Billy glad that you liked it, and thanks for watching
I could do this all day . 👍
I do it for 4 or 5 hours sometimes, then it gets dark, and I have to quit
Neat smelter,It reminds me of Jonathan w's smelter. I cut some the other day and i decided the price has to go up more,for now im taking it in as long iron!
prices are funny how they are all over the place, yards in my area are from $110 a ton to $160 a ton for tin, and I hear in some states they are getting $270 a ton. Thanks for watching
Great video! One of these days, I hope to make a burner like that as well. Right now, I'm going to get a 20-ton press...I got an idea for pulling copper from motors! Yes, I am from Central Illinois and I did just over 108 tons last year. Shooting for 150 tons this year! Hope to do the unboxing video for the press today or tomorrow!
that will be a good video and I will look forward to seeing what you build with it, Thanks for watching
Stripping copper cable isn't fun and profitable.Never try burning the wire ,if clean it's a buck a pound.
That's a neat way to melt motors. Looks just like a lead melting pot the way it drips, speaking you could make a valve for the bottom. May make it easier to fill.
I had thought about having a tube coming out to fill the ingot mold but the aluminum would harden in the tube or pipe and may never get it hot enough to melt what was in the pipe. Thanks for watching
Just seen this video and had to subscribe! Nice job mate
Welcome aboard!. it is a prototype but it works good for what I want to do, I am thinking about building another melting pot some day, after I retire most likely I should have more time then. I do have a play list for the burner and melting metal. Thanks for watching
Your mic must be real close to your mouth. Your breathing is louder than your voice is.
Very cool, I mean hot video! great furnace you have build /cheers
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper Very cool you sell those ingots online also /cheers
Great video we could hear you just fine
Good to know! Thanks for stopping by
@@Okiescrapper your very welcome
Just found your channel, subbed
Welcome aboard! glad to have you here, hope you can find things you like and just ask If you would like to see or know anything, and please share your way's of doing things, we learn from each other, I have gotten lots of tips and ideas from other scrappers and I do my best to pass them along. thanks for watching
that right yall got that snow we just got a bunch of rain miserable rain when the high is 36 I really like your set up but I told you that already does the oil in the fridge comps burn good too I know power steering oil burns great cuz I used to put it in fuel filters when i changed them
Thank you C yes the compressor oil burn's great, I try to mix the compressor oil with used motor oil. Thanks for watching
I was thinking about building something like that for doing big stuff. Awesome. I've been just using a steel crucible for doing aluminum. they're cheap to make a big one.
Yeah that is what this is more to take the big stuff and melt it down into bite size pieces, I may do some sand casting someday but hope to sell some of this to sand casters, Thanks for watching
another thing you could do is make the table bigger, find a barrel about 2 inches bigger diameter, and place it around your melt chamber, then fill the space between the 2 with dirt. easy to get, free, and will insulate.
Very interesting Ty
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching
get'er done.
Awesome
Thank you
That's a nice set up,wish I had the room for it. Think you need to look at safety a bit more. If something explodes, where is it going to go. Probably tubs of easy access water. Full face mask. Just freaks me out. Awesome video,please show more on this.
I don't get to use it much, as Oklahoma is windy and most calm days I am at work, nothing should explode as long as I don't put a sealed unit in there, I keep the propane and oil back away from the heat, some guys that have waste oil stoves like to preheat the oil so that it vaporizes and burn's better Thanks for watching Kevin
i have a setup thats a lot like that , but i use a steel drum laying on its side with 2 - 1/2" holes drilled at the bottom rim and the drum canted at about a 15 degree angle , that allows the molten aluminum to flow out and the heavier steel will get caught by the ribs in the barrel , makes it really easy to clean out and you can fit things like rear lawn mower axels in it too, also , i made a door to contain more of the heat
sounds like a good setup. kind of like what oil burner used. the door is a good idea and if you could wrap the drum in kale wool and them seal it with something that would help to get more heat. Thanks for watching
Creative work and your right without melting it’s to difficult to separate the aluminum from the rotors and engine blocks.
Thank you, have a great day
Some people just don't get it.
ty for the video cool
you are welcome Arthur Thanks for watching
Nice
Thanks
Brother, that smoke ain't good for your lungs. You otta steer clear until the burn turns clean. Awesome stuff!
yeah I stay up wind the best that I can
@@Okiescrapper okay, love the vids!
So close to 10K subscribers.
buy the time I got on here tonight 8:30 I had 10,050 subs big jump👍
When I saw your setup and how it works, I initially thought of my Lee melting pot and how it looks like the same idea. If you installed a levered value on the bottom of your melting barrel, then you could open the valve and fill up whatever mold you wish and close it again. And since it would be controllable, you don't have to worry about dripping metals when you are doing something else. Just an idea. The valve isn't difficult to design or install. Just a tapered rod into a tapered outlet. The tapers are different angles to control the flow. Thumbs Up!
I like the idea, the threads on the 3/4 inch hole in the bottom are messed up, and with my luck the aluminum would cool and harden in the valve and I would never get it to melt. would have to put the burner on the valve to melt the hardened aluminum. I will have to do a search for the lee melting pot and see how it works. Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper Gary M is likely talking about a Lee production pot for bullet casting. They simply have a tapered wedge (think steel cork)that closes the pour spout hole. It is inside the pot in the molten lead and pivots with a weighted handle so it is normally closed.
tyvm
you are welcome, I need to get back to using that thing again. I have a big pile of cast aluminum and lots of waste oil to burn up
I find that letting molten aluminum fall into a pail of water results in small nuggets of aluminum that are easy to handle, easily put into a crucible for remelting, and are often very clean with little or no dross. One suggestion would be to use a 5 gallon metal pail preferably on a turntable. Turning slowly the ingots would never glob up and would result in a very friendly raw aluminum product for either future recasting or future Ingot making. I have done this on several occasions and is my new go-to way of doing things. Give it a shot. I don't think you'll regret it.
I may have to try that, I will have to cut a hole in the metal plate under the hole, and I will have to put the thing on legs or I do have a metal table with no top that will work, it is sitting on a metal garbage can right now, Thanks for the idea. I saw a video a few years ago where a guy tried that but he didn't turn the bucket and had a nice piece of art when he got done, he wanted pellets. Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper if your pail of water was deep enough it might not require turning it. Mine was only probably 14 in deep. I'll bet if it was 30 inches deep the drops would cool by the time they made it to the bottom. Even with the setup I had without it turning the " art work" was very easily disassembled with a couple of Love taps with a sledge. I think deep enough water might negate the need for a turntable. Perhaps even just a good squirrel in the bucket might do the trick if the molten aluminum was entering off centre, and not in the relatively still middle of a vortex. Looks to me like you won't be long figuring it out :-) good luck!
I have a wood fired stack melter that works this way. The bottom third of a 55 gallon drum full of water under a stand with a grate on top and another 55 gallon drum with no ends standing on the grate. Fill the top drum about halfway with firewood, throw 3 aluminum wheels on top of the wood, light from below and watch it burn for an hour. Works great, but an oil burner would mean not having all that charcoal and ash mush in the bucket with the aluminum... Maybe I'll try it. If you keep adding cold water now and then, the pellets won't stick together.
@@tobhomott I have an old rim and axel from a Mobil home I was thinking about welding a plate on the axel and put the bucket on it and I could turn it with my foot so it would not drop in the same place all the time, I am on well water I could have water slowly running into the bucket
Great channel, I just subscribed 👍
Can you use power steering fluid and ATF or only motor oil?
I am sure you can or mix it, it is all oil base. Thanks for stopping by
If one of those police drones does a fly over they might think you're moonshining😄
well after the stuff is cooked, and when it cools down it is the hard stuff, Thanks for watching Matt good to see you around
First time watching your channel. I'd never get away with the smoke here I town where I do my melting. Question. Would it be more efficient to keep more material in the furnace at a time.?4 Would you get more effective use of the btu's? Do you just have a drain hole in the bottom where it runs out? So simple😉
yes there is a 3/4 inch hole to one side of the bottom, It may be more efficient to keep it full, but I try to keep stuff back from the inlet hole to get the best flame, at this time I am sure that I have over 50 gallons of oil to burn, so not going to run out any time soon, I have a playlist on the burner and melting pot, I even show my first burns when the temps. didn't get all that hot, and the build of the burner. If I took the plastic off It would burn clean, the oily dirt may smoke a little. I got my lifting tongs made so now I need to season the crucible and then ready to remelt some aluminum and pour into the small ingots. Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper oh so the smoke was from plastic. I was wondering about that because you other video shows a clean burn.
That’s absolutely huge money boost... I really wish I had a piece of property that I could do that on... you are just killing it on the money side... I’d not have gotten a nickel for that engine as dirty...????????
at one time I took a bunch if irony aluminum in to the scrap yard and I got a price that was lower then the tin price, felt like I got robed. and I watched some videos of a guy named oil burner and saw him melt heads in a 55 gallon drum with his oil burner
SO......in other words folks ...Kerosene ( aviation fuel ) ONLY MELTS ALUMINUM....NOT HIGH GRADE STRUCTURAL STEEL !!! GREAT VIDEO OKIE !!!!!!!
It is waste oil with about 24 oz. of Kerosene to 1 gallon of waste oil. the aluminum melts at about 1220 degrees much lower then steel
I wonder if you were to use a tin can like Campbell's soup comes in instead f the cupcake tin, how much effort would it take to peel it apart after your aluminum cooled
the cupcake tin is tapered so the aluminum comes out easy. the ingots weigh right at 1/2 lb. and fit into most crucibles. the soup can you would have to take the angle grinder and cut the can away. I have some cupcake tins that hole 12 cupcakes each but 3 lbs. of molten aluminum is a lot easier to move then 6 lbs. Thanks for watching and for the idea Matt
Wouldn't it be easier to crush up the engine blocks with a sledge hammer to separate cast aluminum from steel and plastic parts? you could put more aluminum in the melter that way.
It may be for a younger guy but it is not that easy for this old man to swing a sledge hammer, then have to pick up all the pieces, I am in no hurry and I have a lot of oil to burn, about 100 gallons, Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper Well in that case I guess your method is better for a man of your age and physeek. It was a entertaining method to watch as I never seen it done that way, it was interesting seeing you pick clean parts out of the burn chamber. You should do more melting vid like this.
BIG SMILE
Love the video. You may want to rethink showing burning plastic. I don't have a problem with it but I can assure you that there will be some how will and it may become a problem. You do you just don't want to see any problems for you.
yeah I try to get most of it off, don't think they will say much over a small piece, but will try to get it cleaner shouldn't take but a minute thanks Jonathan for your concern and for watching
@@Okiescrapper how about a hammermill id bet you could come up with a smasher to separate most of the cast then just take the small bits and melt them off the steel
how do you tell the difference between aluminum and magnesium. This looks like fun but I wouldn't want something to get away from me if I grabbed the wrong wheel rim or engine block.
go to home depot and get some zep root killer ( copper sulfate ) put a teaspoon into a spray bottle, grind the aluminum and spray it, it it does nothing it is aluminum, if it turns dark it is die cast, if it bubbles or has a reaction it is magnesium
Its an awesome setup you have there. Where do you get the oil from - compressors and the like? Oh - you might want to get a high quality air filter / mask thing. Got to protect your lungs! ... and your ears from the sound
yeah I save the compressor oil and I get oil from lawnmowers and when I do my oil changes, and a guy at work gave me about 50 gallons of used oil. Thanks for watching David
David Kalnins ... good advice🤔 ... I've seen the progression😳 ... cough today and spewing blood tomorrow 🙄 .... RIP Harry K ✌🏽️
Do you think a wood fired steel barrel would get hot enough to melt aluminum? I have lots of free wood i could burn. and lots of dirty aluminum.
they melt aluminum with charcoal, so I would say yes, you will have to get some good coals going and have a way to blow air into the coals to keep them hot like a blacksmith would do,
What keeps the plastic and other junk from falling in the molds with aluminum?
the plastic will burn up but ash and other stuff do fall into the molds, that is why I remelt the ingots in a crucible so that I can get the dross off the top and pour a clean ingots, here is a link to that video th-cam.com/video/fj3ReiocrmM/w-d-xo.html
do you have plans for your aluminum smelting pot that runs on waste oil?
no plans. here is a link to the play list, the first video is how I first made it, then you will see one I did not long ago where I redid it with fewer parts waste oil burner th-cam.com/video/UAljaQ_-Tbo/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/users/Okiescrapperplaylists here is the rebuild video th-cam.com/video/12cBiFZbenk/w-d-xo.html
I'm re-watching this video, & one thing that you might have already changed your mind on is the need or efficiency of remelting your cupcakes to get them more pure. It seems for the extra money you would need to get for them, (because of the extra work & fuel needed) that they could just buy them as they are in the cupcakes, after all they will need to remelt them to use them anyways, just let them clean the little bit of dross that will float to the top themselves. I've melted lots of aluminum cans & with them you get a lot more dross. Have you tried melting aluminum cans in your set up, it seem like maybe that system I've been using might still be the way to go. I will see soon, I hope. Thanks.
I have not tried to melt aluminum cans, for the most part, anything that I can sell as clean I do, most of the things that I melt is aluminum breakage, stuff that you just cant get all the steel out of, and I have a bunch of that stuff, fuel cost is very low using waste oil
After killing the propane you are heating with the scrap oil alone. But it seems you still have pressure, are you injecting Compressed Air?? I cannot tell for sure by looking at the plumbing. I Subbed, Liked. You have a good channel, BB
yes the line coming out the back of the burner is air from the air compressor the gauge kind of lets me know about how much air is being used. and the air runs the Siphon Nozzle. I have a play list for the burner and melting metal. Thanks for watching
I have 3,000 stripped hard drive cases this would be the way to melt them .
it would work great for that, I wanted a way to melt big stuff that had steel in it that was hard to clean for clean aluminum, and most videos they used crucibles, then I saw a video from a guy named Oil Burner, and he had a burner aimed into a tilted 55 gallon drum and was melting aluminum heads, and I knew that I wanted something like that, I think his was drip feed
First time watcher here, quick question... At what temperature does a waste oil & air compressor blower setup like this burn at? Just wondering where it stands in comparison to propane or map gas because it seemed like you started getting melt pretty GD fast! Thanks
Thought I'd mention, when you were trying to measure how much that mold holds, you could use water to measure how much each of the 4 sections will hold in fluid ounces then convert as needed. (If you really needed that precise of a measurement.) 1 Fl oz (of water)= 29.5 grams, & 70 grams of liquid aluminum = volume1 fl oz
I am not sure how much heat that puts out
@@Okiescrapper oh ok, no prob. Well if I figure it out i'll let you know. thx for the reply anyways. Have a good one man!
1220 melts aluminum
make a big forge to smelt all that steel and bigger parts.
How is the oil burning w/out the propane lit? It's just the air compressor and the oil. How does it stay lit
the end of the pipe get's red hot and some of the metal inside, the air blows the oil into a mist or vapor to help it burn, that is why I light it up with propane to get some heat going.
@@Okiescrapper thanks for the info dude.
What did you use as refractory cement?
www.acehardware.com/departments/plumbing/solvents-and-cements/pvc-cement/4826871
Do you have details on how to build a jet
no I don't but I bet you can google it
what kind of oil you use n how open is valve? just a little
used motor oil and the oil from refrigeration compressors. the valve is about half way, if I turn it up all the way oil will drip out the end, and then I control it by the air flow from the compressor
funny you talking about 26k could be lived on, but maint. and fuel cost would eat it a bit made me chuckle as me and a bud up here in Indiana was talking about fuel costs yesterday and with the incoming "DC creature" it won't be long till fuel is up to $4+/gal 26k won't get very far. we already seen a huge jump in the last month from 190 to 235/gal and will only go up and up and up. we fully expect 3/gal by feb and 4/gal by spring
yeah fuel prices will go up they have to fund the green new deal. and the deal is putting all the green that they can in their pockets. but we have to keep on keeping on some how, and if they raise the minimum wage to $15.00 food and many other things will go up too. and it will hurt the elderly on SSI the worst, with prices going up and their income staying the same, well take care and try to do the best you can. and Thanks for watching
You mentioned cutting your motor oil with kerosene. Would diesel work as well?
I am sure it would, I plan to try it after I run out of kerosene, I may try it sooner just so I would know for sure, they are about the same as far as I know, I have been adding a little extra in this cold weather,
Have you tried selling your melted aluminum engine parts to scrap yards just in blobs and do they pay good for it?
I haven't tried to sell any to the scrap yard, think I can get a better price on eBay, I have 37 lbs. ready to sell and I have a guy wanting them, hope to get to melting again soon, I need to upgrade the melting pot and the furnace
What is burning when the propane is turned off?
waste oil, it is a waste oil burner, and I use compressed air to syphon the oil to the burner
That pours really sweet, you might aswell make granules this way. Btw you thought about using a gas mask?
yeah just hard to talk with a gas mask on
@@Okiescrapper i know but it is worth it.
you make me feel need to breath more, there are ways you could do it. Both for your health and for promotion of safe burn practices.
preheat the mold before it starts dripping out , set the molds on top for a few min .
I do that with my other cast iron molds, didn't think about doing it with the cupcake tins.
Or you get firework's when molten aluminum all over ya ass.
I like the idea but also there is probably parts on engines that could sell make more off of. If its just going to scrap yard
not much on a lawnmower motor, carb. flywheel, now a rider mower would have the starter, and the carb
@@Okiescrapper I know know you don't get much for the carb , intake (coil but not many sell used coils), recoil.
But I guess my self i fix small engines for a side job it seems like I am at least 5 to 10 times a year looking for a carb or carb bowl for them.
did the water bucket work any better or have you gone back to this?
yes I did one video with the water bucket, it worked good, need to go a little bigger and maybe have a cold water inlet to keep the water cool. been busy trying to get caught up with bringing the scrap home. dark at 6 now that doesn't help any either
@@Okiescrapper no it doesn't. Don't even know why we bother with DST at all. I had a random thought as I was watching this about a 55 gallon barrel cut in half as your water tank, hoses and a pump into some old radiators with a big shop fan or squirrel cage fan.
G Go for a number 10 crucifer
looks like the same fuel I run in my diesel truck. lol
mostly used motor oil with some oil from refrigeration compressors and a little kerosene
@@Okiescrapper I run w85 in my 7.3 diesel. 85% waste oil, 15% gasoline. I run everything from used motor oil, hydraulic oil, gear oil, and transmission fluid which works the best. I’ve always wondered about AC compressor oil if it would burn the same. LOL if you’re doing a lot of AC compressor which I plan on it’s a good way to get rid of the oil.
do you melt pop can as well ?
no I sell the pop cans as is, and it is best to use cast aluminum for sand casting, the aluminum that I melt if I were to sell it as is I would get 10 cents a lb. and I can get $2.00 a lb. as ingots, pop can's bring a clean aluminum price, and I have a big pile of lawnmower motors that I can melt
Why don't you just get a retractable magnet inside of a pipe to extract all the metal out easier
here in CA it gose for 40 cents a pound if your lucky i have lots of castings just laying around b/c its not worth doing right now
clean cast has come back up to 40 cents a lb. but dirty with the steel in it. it's about 10 cents a lb. the plan is to sell the ingots on eBay for about $2.00 a lb. Thanks for watching
@@Okiescrapper right on...my dad was born in OK =)
You should put a v channel so it can run in a bigger mold instead of muffin tins so only thing u got to do is feed and clean it out
at one time I was thinking of making a mold from angle iron for a v shaped mold. I may still do it. Thanks for watching
Haven't seen you for a while.
welcome back, been a little slow getting videos out, staying busy, about to start melting again soon, copper and aluminum,
Are you just making these for fun? Or have you found a place to sell them?
going to try to sell them on eBay, they go from $2.00 to $4.00 a lb. on there
Is a compressor or o2 tank?
I think it is an old compressor tank has a 3/4 inch hole in the end that I use as the drain hole
Hay man I know those are my channel locks.
they are mine now. Thanks for watching
what pressure do you run the air?
the gauge on the oil burner goes to 30 lb., and I run it almost to the peg so guessing about 40. don't think you could call it psi. as it flows past the gauge
@@Okiescrapper I was just wondering how big a compressor I would need. 30 lb. at flow-through is a LOT at the input. What size compressor are you using?
How are you able to burn plastic without running afoul of pollution control laws? I really enjoy your videos!
I try to burn as little as possible and I am about 6 miles out of town
Isn't the crank made out of steel
yes it is that is part of the reason that I melt the aluminum off of all the steel. with the steel I would get about 10 cents a lb. so I melt the aluminum to get $2.00 a lb. on eBay, steel melts at a much higher temp.
I believe that 4 bar ingot mold you have is 4 1lb bars, of lead any ways.
I think that you are right, Thanks for watching John
That would be correct for lead ingots
Are you from Oklahoma? If so where from?
I’m from North Central Illinois
I live in Blanchard Oklahoma, about 25 miles South of OKC
After you melt the aluminum into ingots what are they worth?
Less than clean cast since you burned fuel$ but if you have drty cast and melt it down to clean skim and mold it you go from like 20cents per lb to like 2.00 per lb so fuel cost is taken up by the higher payout
@@rustedratchetgarage6788 isn’t he just using used motor oil for fuel mostly?
Car rims. Aluminum doors. Aluminum wire. 35 cents per pound in Connecticut
I use a little propane to start the burner, the burner it's self runs on compressed air and waste oil, so fuel cost is low. and the aluminum ingots are bringing about $4.00 a lb. on eBay
they go for about $4.00 a lb. on eBay
Just let it drip into a barrel of water... very manageable balls of aluminum is what you're left qith...
you mean like this th-cam.com/video/Rna8NlirQoY/w-d-xo.html
Why are you melting all the steel in with the aluminum
The steel won’t melt as fast as the aluminum. Or will separate if the heat is high enough. Self separating machine
@@cheesynuts4291 wow pretty ingenious never would have thought that
As Jeremy has noted Aluminum melts at 1220 degrees F and the Carbon Steel will melt at 2600 to 2800 degrees, so it works great for my what I use it for, when I get done melting I have a pile of steel to pull out of the pot, Thanks for watching
why not drip the melt straight into a water bath if you are going to re-melt ?
the last video that I did on the melting pot I did jus that, now to refine the prosess
@@Okiescrapper
OK - just found your channel, and have a lot to catch on buddy :
I could use something this big to melt these radiator fins. It takes friggin forever to constanly feed the crucible.
I will bet and a big crucible is a ton of money,
“Getting a little smoky from the plastic” why not take the plastic out before putting it in there? I thought I saw a plastic gas tank maybe...there’s no plastic inside the motor, why not just unbolt or break it off? Love your channel, i haven’t scrapped in a dog’s age but, man I want to build a melter like this...1474 miles east and slightly north of OKC
it is fun to play with, yes I should take the time to remove the plastic, I am about 25 miles south of OKC
dont forget to drain the oil out of the motors ya'll , gets exciting real quik if ya forget , lol
I was just wondering if I could leave the oil in. This sure is easier than stripping the motors down
@@jasongrinnell1986 more expensive
Looks doesn’t matter when I’m sand casting
boy that's for sure, some things come out a little rough
Tht was different... Usually I c every1 take motors & things aprt... Not cook it whole...
to take one apart there are a lot of different size bolts and it takes a while then you may have a steel sleeve in the cylinder wall that is very hard to get out, if you leave any steel in it you get a aluminum breakage price of about 10 cents a pound, putting it in whole I can melt the aluminum away from all the steel and sell the aluminum ingots on eBay for $2.00 a pound
Ok... But now happens to any rubber or plastic thts connected with in the lawn mowe? If its all melted into the ingots its contaminated...
Im jiss askin
Why are you melting the scrap instead of just taking it in to the scrap yard?
10 cents a lb. if that for dirty aluminum. I can melt it into ingots and sell on eBay for $4.00 a lb.