Massive Can Meltdown - How Much Pure Aluminum Is In 500 Cans - Is It Worth Melting Aluminum Cans
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- I wanted to melt down a bunch of aluminum cans that I have been saving for quite some time. 500 plus cans! 517 cans to be exact... It seems like a simple melt, and it is. But it takes a lot of time and energy to melt down aluminum cans. Let's have some fun and melt down a bunch of pure aluminum! Let me know what you guys think... Leave a comment, Send me an email to TheGrowingStack@Gmail.com, or send me something(If you want to) to:
TheGrowingStack
P. O. Box 13542
Tempe Az, 85284
Enjoy!!!
So is it worth melting down 500+ aluminum cans?
Short answer...NO.
Total the time- just over 2 hours to melt these all down, plus setup and clean up time.
Total the propane cost- I used about 2/3 of a tank, so depending on what you pay for propane near you...for me it’s about $10-12. The result of the10.75lbs of aluminum is worth about $10.75 USD.
The fuel alone costs more than the aluminum is worth, then take into consideration what your time is worth and you’re way over budget!
For me...there is everything I just mentioned, plus add another 2 hours to sand, polish, and shine one of these ingots, and another 8-10 hours editing to provide 12 minutes of cheap entertainment & enjoyment.
Long answer...worth every second 😉👍
Thank you all for watching, I hope you enjoy, and stay awesome!
No is absolutely the correct answer. Everyone tries melting cans at least once though, and I never saw anyone get talked out of it. But FWIW I can reduce 3 whole alloy car wheels into crucible friendly sized bits with my wood fired stack melter in an hour or less. That's a lot more melting stock processed in a lot less time with a lot less work, cheaper to buy as scrap than 500 cans of pop, far better for making castings with later since they are made with an alloy that is designed for being made into castings rather than for being made into cans, creates far, far less dross to skim off because cans are all surface area just waiting to burn up before they can melt, and I bet 3 wheels even take up less space to store than all those cans... "Free," yeah, right...
@@tobhomott very well put!
@@TheGrowingStack what size smelter is that? Great video by the way
@@JondroNation Thank you, that one is the Devil-Forge FB2M that has a 10kg max crucible size.
Where I live on the northeast, 517 cans would give me $25.85 at the recycling center. .05¢ deposit return for each can. The fun factor is what would make this hobby worthwhile.
I work for an aluminum rolling company. Scrap aluminum is incredibly valuable because of the INSANE amount of energy and cost required to produce prime aluminum from bauxite ore. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable - meaning it will not lose its properties over time as it undergoes various transformations. The key is simply to have large scale, efficient industrial processes. The margins are small for can stock but they add up when you apply them accross the 100s of millions of pounds produced each year
Even molten aluminum oxide slag can be reacted with electricity and a carbon rod to return it back to elemental aluminum from what I recall
Thanks, that's interesting information.!
doesn't recycled aluminium in case of particular applications together with iron/steel components have iron contamination? that makes the aluminium alloy fragile and the mechanical behaviour very bad for some applications, so it's not technically always recyclable. Still, there are so many uses for it that it can be used for something else.
I checked my old notes and also it seems that the energy consumption during the recycling process is roughly 90% of what you spend for primary extraction, but you save tons of scrap, MANY tons of water, and a considerable amount of CO2 and SO2.
@@AB-ld1rp so, when aluminum oxide is converted back into elemental aluminum, addition of other elements to precipitate iron with crystalization and filtration. By doing this, whether or not it was originally alloyed or became contaminated it can be removed to lower traces. However it still takes a while so you're on the right thought process of it being a bit hectic.
Problem is I get screwed by the recycling places here and it’s not worth the trouble breaking down extruded aluminum windows .
I could easily bring in 3 maybe 4 tons of pretty clean aluminum but my shifty local dealer will start dropping the price to 15 cents a pound for a few screws . I want 40-50 at least for my clean. Just not worth it when I have three boys and a wife fighting for my attention
I work in a aluminum recycling facility and our average recovery rate from UBC or Used Beverage Cans is 97%. That's not to say the plant losses that 3%, we skim the dross and remelt it over and over again. The plant also remelts bulk dross from large manufacturers such Kaiser and Toyota.
Very interesting to hear your insight thank you.
What do you mean by 3% loss
No business runs on a loss.
Okay I reread your comment again. There is no loss
@Hugh Jaanus no argument there, I'm learning a lot of things here on TH-cam and on a lot of different subjects 🤔
@@icost4671 He meant loss of material, to oxidation, etc. In other words, any 100 oz of Al into the forge produced 97 oz of Al out.
It's amazing to see what can be reclaimed from the dross, and there's companies that take it even after it's been run through and still make miracles happen. The biggest thing is making sure to crush and get all that air out and in a better environment otherwise the amount of losses just increases so much
Random videos like this keep me sane when waking up in the middle of the night strssing about life.
No bs，no noisy music，just birds sing，lovely👍
Thank you!!
Yeah that heavy metal bird singing in the beginning was so peaceful. Idiot
F.....u....in silent....
@@mastercheif3071 whats up with your attitude dawg
Hey I love waking up to the sound of the birds singing. On the other hand my friend hates it. Some people like it some people don’t.
Great video, I took around 200-300 cans that I had saved over around 4/5 months to my scrap yard here in the uk.
Never taking in cans previously was unsure what to expect, the guy at the scrap yard told me due to the cost of what it takes to melt the cans down, the scrap yard hate taking cans as they need a hella lot of them to make any sort of profit.
But looking at your aluminium pile I can see it is a labour of love especially seeing the 1 that you polished up.
Makes me want to get my self a kiln and melt some down my self.
That's interesting. I had some melted aluminum that I scrapped last year, it was probably aluminum wire that had the insulation melted off. The scrap yard said they could only pay me for dirty aluminum since they can't say what all was melted down. Aluminum is 50 cents per pound right now, and dirty aluminum is 15 cents.
Aluminum can prices always go up and down so I mash mine flat to get more in a trash bag then wait until prices rise before taking them in. I own a full size '88 Chevy van so often had it packed full with bags of cans with each bag weighing around 12 pounds. Think I got 60 cents per pound several years ago when aluminum was in short supply then 32 cents a few years later after the price finally rose from 24 cents per pound. The scrapyards with smelters make more off the cans and other types of aluminum scrap once melted down and cast into ingots.
The sounds made by the ingots hitting the concrete, the ice hissing with the heat. This is one of the most interesting and enjoyable vids I've seen in a long time 👍🤩
If you shred the cans, it will increase the surface area of the aluminum causing you to melt the cans quicker. This will also save you fuel as well. Love the vids btw
This just makes me think. There was a time you would not dream of throwing away precious material like metal. And now, we do it all the time.
That will change
@Jan - AmiLoGiXx We have something like that also. We pay 10 cents per plastic bottle, glass bottle, or aluminum can... then when we return it to the recycling center for reimbursement they give us about 1 cent. Its part of how they keep all of us slaves.
@Jan - AmiLoGiXx That's interesting. Not that different from how certain things worked in one of the books I wrote. Was not with cans though.
@@gibsondrummer Ya think? Look what we do with water right now, in most areas of the world. I GUARANTEE you that will change, already is in some areas actually. In fact, wars are beginning to be fought over it.
@Jan - AmiLoGiXx And what is the Pfandbon made out of? :-/ Is it at least readily recyclable? I'm just messin with ya, BTW.
But many such schemes, when you examine them deeply, like the US govt's subsidizing new car buys for 'environmental' reasons to get 'old polluters' off the road, cause more environmental damage, by cycling out all of those perfectly usable cars given the materials, energy, transportation, etc. required to get the unneeded new ones in service, than was gained getting the old ones off the road. The net gain is a definite loss in the precise area they were trying to address...typical, actually. My guess on that one was some car manufacturer's lobbyist.
Also, I always love it when I hear things like "solar energy is free!". That is only at least somewhat true if you are a plant. For us humans, to power our homes, etc. with it requires raw materials, energy, pollutants released, etc to get those collectors manufactured and into our hands, at regular intervals. A good trade, in that case, but not REMOTELY free. And just go price a good solar system for your home, and look at the monetary payback time if you think it's monetarily free. We got a quote from Tesla's company that made me think he's been smoking WAYYYY too much weed. How's 60kish for a house unit sound? I only paid 10k more than that for the whole damned house (not kidding).
I would like to send you a little something but my Old age penson doesn’t allow for anything extra.above basic cost of living. I do enjoy immensely watching your channel. Thank you for taking us along on all your melts. Stay safe God bless. 🇨🇦
Thank you so much. I enjoy doing it so long as it gives others enjoyment. Your comment made me happy and smile and that is all I could ask for...
That’s good that sum1 is watching ur finances then.
He made good money off of the video posting it on you tube so since you and everyone else watched it you did help him..
Pouring molten metal looks so satisfying honestly.
It does
Rather than dishonestly?
Till it splashes on your foot then things change quickly.
Yeah and that stuff can explode concrete if dropped on it
You would have to melt down 106,027 cans to get 1 metric ton of pure aluminum. Today the value would be 2,446.67. That's a lot of time to make so little.
Dropping these cans made a nice tune
I can totally see why this is fun. The stockpiling itself is worth it.
Lol no it's not. Lay off the daily caller and other brainwashing propaganda
@@trolltracker lmaooo we do a little trolling
Lol it’s only worth it if he enjoys doing it. He paid not only his time but also he spent more on propane and materials than all that aluminum is worth
@@RepressedEel55 Even at a 10 year high in price, I think it’s only 60 cents a pound.
@@jzubs Spooner?
Found your video quite by accident. And it was oddly satisfying to watch!! Thank you for posting it!
Thank you!!
Am I the only one that found the most impressive thing about this video (aside from the rest of the obvious awesomeness) is that he wrote the numbers upside down so perfectly? :D
I like how you have it stacked like pirate treasure at the end
I did a major refit on my yacht and decided to trash the mast as it was old, previously broken and repaired and ready to recycle. I cut it into three sections, and a mate and I delivered it to the recycler. We made enough to buy him a carton of beer for helping out!
Wich you then both emptied at the deck of your yacht, having another great day... yup, absolutely worth it!!!
@@henridejong9433 Unsustainable though. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Fun fact: recycling an aluminum can can use up to 95% LESS energy than creating a new can from aluminum ore.
and since it's already refined you get more aluminum out of it too.
Isnt aluminum an alloy?
@@xTr4c3d nope.
There's money to be made in this statement.
@@xTr4c3d Aluminum is a basic element but aluminum cans are an aluminum alloy. They are about 97% aluminum.
Melting is rarely worth the time and money but ALWAYS worth the fun and the goodies you can add to your stack! Nice video brother - enjoyed!
Imma start doin this since i recycle cans anyways but never for money since its not worth the time (unless ive got a scrap run already) be cool to have a stock pile of aluminum bars for no reason
How so? It's extremely expensive to mill a shape!??
I just whip out the receipts for the LP and acetylene refills when I get the question. It's just fluxing fun.
@@_nom_ No. You spend allot of time on melting, plus the gas for melting this stuff.
They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
bigstackD's ears must be burning all day every day.
You could totally sell the polished ingots, although it would cut into the growing stack. You need a “growing stack” mold that marks the bars. I find these videos astonishingly satisfying to watch.
I didn’t know BigStackD had a brother in the States lol 😂 good stuff, cheers!🍻
Ahahahhahaha
just came here from BigStackD lol, brothers from a different mother for sure!
My thoughts exactly
I agree! Thanks for sharing us the video. Amazing. Congratulations. From Rio Brazil. 🇧🇷🇦🇺🇺🇸
Lol
That was an excellent video! I had a metal molding kit at a teen and really enjoyed the craft.
Thank you for this video. Pouring it into bars is visually amazing. I do drywall mudding and painting so I like meticulous things. I think I'm gonna give this a go.
A big scrapyard in my town has an aluminum smelter where they melt down different grades of scrap aluminum to cast into ingots then stamped to show their alloy. The owner said the ingots from melted cans are only used to make more cans so are sold to a mill that rolls the sheets the cans are stamped from. The ingots made from melted brake calipers are shipped to a foundry that makes those and the ingots from aluminum wheels are shipped to another plant that makes aluminum wheels. I was considering on making a few cast aluminum oil pans that would hold a spin-on oil filter for old BMW motorcycles so checked with that yard about the price per ingot made from brake calipers to see if those were cheaper than junk yard calipers. The ingots were cheaper but I would still need to cut them into smaller pieces so they'd melt faster.
Lot's of work to get this video done but the results are enjoyable and excellent. Well done to you. 👍
When im older and if i have a house. I wanna get into this. Looks awesome man
Thank you for sharing!
Guys if you all are going to melt Aluminum cans don't make the same mistake this guy and I made. Putting the cold metal bar in the crucible makes your Aluminum solid
and harder to melt preheat it as you mix and add cans to prevent it from getting solid chumps. Good video though keep up the good work👍
Something oddly beautiful about a polished ingot of metal.
I agree, ppl think I'm crazy but I love this stuff..!!
It's because it's something shiny.
Dios bendiga a Todos los que estan leyendo esto! Deseo que tengan un hermoso dia! Buscad a Dios mientras pueda ser hallado! Jesus es el camino y el unico camino y regresa pronto! Recuerda cuando te sientas que no eres amado... el mayor sacrificio se hizo por amor! EL SUICIDIO NUNCA ES LA RESPUESTA!
Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna.
S. Juan 3:16 RVR1960
La paga del pecado es muerte (infierno) pero Cristo pagó nuestra deuda en la cruz para nuestra salvacion! Debemos volvernos a Dios y apartarnos de nuestros caminos pecaminosos, confesar que Jesús es el Señor y creer con nuestro corazón que fue resucitado de entre los muertos por Dios, y debemos de ser bautizados en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo y vivir por Su palabra y mandamientos! Confia que Dios ayudara con el resto!
Busca a Dios, antes de que sea muy tarde! Hoy podria ser tu ultimo dia en la tierra!
Que tengas un hermoso dia!
Shinyyyy....myyyyy preeeeciiiousss...
Thank Mr Electron for reflecting the light from the conduction band. BTW that slag can be converted to pure aluminum using molten flouride salt and electricity.
Q: What does one do with all that aluminum?
A: Tell an uninformed buyer that it’s silver.
Lol
To the uninformed buyer. GG no re
😆👍🏻
A: Anthills
@@donniebrown2896 Really?
I’am thinking of melting aluminum cans, so I went on you tube, and this is what I found, very impressive.
sometimes i really appreciate content with all visuals and zero chit chat
Agreed.
Even though it wasn't worth it cost wise pretty cool you got almost 11 lb of pure aluminum! I'm sure you could use that for many projects!
11:34 Those 'silver' bars gonna come in handy in the post apocalypse world
Why?
in South Australia, each can there is worth 10c at a recycling joint, the raw price of ally is around $1 a kg here. This was really interesting to see!
10:25--- 10 cents per can to return @ 517 cans= $51.7
Scrap aluminum in the form of pop cans- 50 cents per pound @ 10.75 lbs= $5.37
Scrap aluminum casting- 60 cents per pound @ 10.75 lbs= $6.45 minus cost of your labour, propane etc
Based on the ending it looks like you are already melting the aluminium down to make items so might be "worth" it to you but for the average person looking to make some money from scrap metal it is better to just returns the cans. And where cans are not returnable just take the cans in as scrap without spending all the time and effort melting them.
The hidden value is indulging ones self in their pyromania fixation.
😊 oh yeah!!
It's really just playing with fire for grown ups.
Priceless.
Ahhhh, yeah, what he said.
I wonder if my apartment complex would be ok with my getting one of these?
By the time your collection grows enough to be called a BigStack, I'm pretty sure it'll be ok, because by that time, BigStackD will have evolved into MEGAStackD~
When big stack hit 1 ton
i been watching big stacked too. been liking these vids lately.
That was actually more than I'd have guessed! Now if I could just find a couple hundred cans made of gold or silver! ;)
When I was a kid, you could still get lead soldier kits (I lived in Europe) and I would go to the military range to collect bullets. I made thousands of lead soldiers in my moms kitchen. Probably not the best of ideas but it it was fun at the time.
Cool dude
My friends and I did that too. We melted down fishing weights.
Making lead soldiers is cool, especially the ones which comes out of the moulds missing arms, legs and heads.
The good old days before the world turn all soft and scared. My bedroom growing up probably smelled like an industrial plant between the lead casting, model painting and plastic and rubber molding.
You're in Tempe? Just leave the cans outside, they'll melt on their own.
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
Not this summer, there's been much rain.
Would actually work, on Venus.
There's really not enough of this going on in the world..
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you! 👍
Maybe. Maybe not
I used to honestly think I was going to drink myself rich. Didn't work out that way but I tried!
I tried the drink it rich method now my liver hurts
Always good to have dreams
I have a neighbor that drinks about five 30 packs a week, it takes about 3 to 4 weeks to fill a 55 gal drum.
If I wait till I get about three drums, I can make enough to pay for the gas to drive to the scrap yard.
Three different people have tried making money by saving his cans, we all gave up, they go in the trash now.
Knew a family of beer drinker. Daily after work then all weekend. Had bags after bags is empty can. Ben of a pick up full. Paid for along more beer. Cha ching. I guess
At least you got them working overtime!
i think the real return is the views on you tube
Wanna let you know you are the first person I watched that made me question the whole "melting cans" thing. I am building my 3rd version of my wood fired dry stacked brick furnace. I have about 20 lbs after my first 4 firings.
Is that good or bad? I ask that honestly and whole heartedly, just want to understand exactly your experience before I replied without going into to much info one way or the other in case I didn’t understand the comment completely. 👍
No question about it, you'd come out better off financially by taking your cans to a metal recycling place.
@@TheGrowingStack ok NOW is it worth it? Given that propane cost is way up and so is metal value
I worked for a large nonferrous scrap dealer back in the 80s and found that when we melted cans we were losing money with every melt. Most don’t realize that the vast majority of the recycled cans don’t actually turn back into consumer goods. The cans are shredded and added to desulfurizer, a product that is added to purify steel when it is melted in an electric arc furnace. The aluminum is literally burned up in the high temperatures of the steel melting process.
I can't speak to the economics of this vid, but it was super cool to watch. Quite satisfying. Thanks for the vid!
This would be super economical cause those aluminium ingots can now be used for many things and the slag can also be used as well.
@@kurokitsune6173 clearly you've never actually looked at aluminum prices have you! Including time and effort and fuel for the furnace this is a losing proposition he does it for fun not-for-profit!
This is so fascinating to watch. I have no idea why, it just is.
Thank you!!!
Nice video and a great haul of ingots. Good mirror finish too!
one man's trash is another man's metal.
You need to flux that slag to get the metal to stop sticking to the garbage. Also, some of those cans had fluid in them, which would cause molten metals to splatter violently; they must be baked dry in the sun or roasting tray feeding the furnace.
Same flux as the stain glass bond?
Amazing video! You just inspired me to research this for making crafts. That polished bar is beautiful. God bless
I just calculated that with the aluminium prizes at the scrap yard i would get about 3,50€ ( about 3$) for the 4,87 kg.
But for recycling the 517 cans to the shop i would get 77,55€ ( about 70$) .
One can is worth 0.15€ and the scrap yards pay 0.70€/kg for aluminium.
So here in Finland it's a no brainer to melt the cans
there you go...expand your collection....lots of junk made from aluminum
You mean NOT to melt the cans...
I worked for a refractory company and we replaced a furnace with splattered aluminum all over it. The owner had two guys chip it all off and it was 150,000 worth of aluminum.
that is literally impossible... it would have been about 80,000lbs of aluminum.... way way more then would be splattered anywhere. For context.... an 18 wheeler semi truck can only haul 40,000 lbs on the highway legally.... so it would have been 2, semi truck loads.
@@Legohaiden I saw your comment, so for fun I searched TH-cam to see what 80 000 lbs of aluminum looks like. And this was the first video to come up.
@@Legohaiden It's not splattered it builds up on the walls of the furnace over time.
@ Cool.... there was STILL not 80,000 lbs of build up.
Okay YT algorithm, I watched the whole thing and smiled.
I enjoyed the video although there was no dogs, crazy socks and a cold 🍺 lol
Lol
7:19 "Never ending cans." == Unlimited skills 😆
Rick throws aluminum can outside...
Morty: You can't do that you're littering!!
Rick: yeah right morty the Earth's crust is 8% aluminum not like we need every Atom
Most of that is in a state needing massive ammounts of energy to convert to metal 😉
-Littering- **Enrichment**
@@John-rw9bv that's pretty-pretty good
Nothing more satisfying than seeing a semi rolling down the road with a load of pure aluminum igots.
I hear that!
Looks about right even a bit more than I expected basing on my experience roughly around 9 grams from one can.
In high school many years ago we collected cans to get money for our car projects. Back then it took about 25 cans to make a pound. Apparently we are now able to make cans that are a lot thinner.
I think some is slag and I just put some pop in shopping cart other day and one hit a cart wire and crack open. So there lot thinner Arizona ice tea in can seem thinker of them all.
Yep
Those were probably the old tin beverage cans. Drank my first pilfered Coors from a tin can.
Nasty thing about aluminum is the hot aluminum looks just like cold aluminum….I’ll only make that mistake once!
Ice cube test lol
As a former aluminium foundry worker, I can personally confirm this to be true
Lol...ouch!
Very satisfying video, now I really appreciate my recycling efforts for the town
Great stuff , I really enjoyed watching, thanks for posting.
Someday, the world will have an aluminum shortage. All the companies will be running to this man when that day comes.
Well seeing as aluminium ore is the most abundant substance in the earths crust and scrap aluminium can be endlessly recycled I doubt if it will ever run out..
In Finland one empty can when you return to market one cost 0,15 e, cent - so 500 cans return to market you take 75 euro :) but to collect its not easy and takes time :D
We get a penny a can hear in wa. A nickel in OR
Bro that one you shined all up, oh my goodness that is so gorgeous. Great work! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Rob 👍
Hi, TGS. That's an interesting video. You seem to get more aluminum oxide than I expected. I guess the heat is a little low. Melted aluminum will oxidize anyway, but not like what you have. Have you determined what the waste is made of? If it is just aluminum oxide, you can reduce it by tweaking your settings. Thanks for sharing! Stay Healthy!
Thanks for the lesson!
A lot of that is the paint and plastic coatings used to manufacture the cans, it burns off but takes a tiny bit of aluminium with it as it forms ash!
Oxidation is not restricted to recycled aluminum. Granted exterior paint and content residue will affect recycled aluminum quality.
would have loved to see the polishing process as well, great video! the way you had the ingots laid out on the cement floor i couldn't help but think how cool a sidewalk made out of those all polished would look!
Sorry Kevin, I’ll showcase the polishing in a upcoming video. I was running heavy on time on this one or I would have. A sidewalk would look pretty cool!
Parquet floor style would look amazing
Here in AZ its about 35 cans to a pound, but if you melt them down, it takes 50 cans to make a pound. So recycle the cans at the recycle center and use the money to go buy scrap aluminum engine parts at a bone yard.
Like location makes a difference baha
@@MM-zj8be Sure it does because some states like NY (where I live) you can get a 5 cent deposit per can for returning them to a recycling center. So you could melt those 50 cans into a 1lb bar that is worth less than 1$ or return those 50 cans for $2.50 in deposit refunds
@@NYC-Gardener he mentioned weight not money. 35 pounds weighs the same wether your in arizona boston or africa. Smarten up
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The human story of invention and discovery is really quite amazing. Aside from social media of course. Cool video-thanks!
That’s a lot of work for you…and a lot of satisfaction for me!
Laid out in the herringbone pattern made me think that those bricks would make one hell of a blinged out walking path. cool stuff!
That would be awesome. Don’t give me any ideas 😂 👍
@@TheGrowingStack Yeah I'm already thinking about diecasting paver bricks!
slick in the rain tho
@@ufartface not much rain in Phoenix
"So is it worth melting down 500+ aluminum cans?" No, but your video is priceless..
DUDE! You had me doing math! You had each line as 10 instead of just 1. So each group of 5 lines =50. So you had 10 groups of 5 lines = 500 with 1 line of 10 plus the remainder 7 cans. Woa dude! I had NO idea the line could mean more than just 1. "I'm like dude, you got your count wrong!" but you didn't. MIND BLOWN! Thanks for the brain tease.
A good way to test to see if an aluminum bar is still hot is to simply touch it with your bare hands… That's the ticket!
That’s $51.70 in cans here in Michigan. Gotta love that deposit.
When I was little living in Michigan.. We use to make money off the cans.. And use that money to buy all video games..
I'm right over the border in Indiana. I'll be visiting WalMart very soon!
75€ when return cans to grocery in Finland.
I actually thought I was watching a BigStack video until I noticed a few differences.
Me to
This is my hubby….omg!! Has me saving cans from work!
It was fun to watch this video. Very relaxing. Thanks for not using music in the video. Thanks for keeping it pure.
Where did you get your gloves?
In Germany you would have get €130 if you did recycle all the cans :) 0,25€ per can!
I survived for 20yrs - canning, but l never took it near as seriously as Dude here does !
So beautiful. Aluminium is one of my favourite metals
That’s what we call a “Cat’s weight” of aluminum.
That was pretty cool, you might want to move those to the lower shelf.
Good to see this guy is wearing appropriate footwear to be pouring liquid metal.
Exactly my thoughts , his stupid dg and feet would be toast if he spilt that on them !!
It must be Monday night, I just sat here watching cans melt...
You're almost at half a million views which equals to about $1000 US.
I'd say that's worth it!
Paid for all the drinks and the propane twice over
@@ryanscott2548 it's not like he just bought the drinks for the video
@@mrmaximuser he bought them, drank them and saved them for the video
@@mrmaximuser and he just happened to have a crucible laying around
988476 views today
When I first started melting scrap metals, I melted a lot of cans. At one point I had over 250lbs of aluminum ingots from mostly cans.
What I found to work best as a flux for cans was a mix 40% baking soda, 40% salt and 20% borax. I'd put 1 spoonful into a 6inx6in aluminum foil square and ball it up. Then throw the ball into the crucible.
And aluminum looks like what you take out at 2:35, it just needs more heat.
I don't melt cans anymore because of the cost/work involved. At the time I didn't care because I was doing it for the fun/hobby and I'd use the ingots for other projects.
The tabs, as far as I know, are aerospace grade aluminum. The can itself, not so much. That's why elementary schools used to have programs to collect the tabs for donating to charities for melting and making wheelchair parts.
Try making an ingot out of tabs only... I'm sure the ingot would be considerably different than the others.
That's what I want to see--how much or how little slag comes off the tabs, vs an equal weight of cans (at least this seems like the scientific approach to this issue).
There is not such thing as aerospace grade aluminum. It's a term used by laymen.
@@bingosunnoon9341 Sure about that, are ya? Search your three word term there in google and see what comes up.
You will see things like:
For example, we supply American Aerospace grades released to AMS/AMS QQ-A specifications. View Brochure.
All aerospace grade means is exactly that, made to some aerospace specification, so of course there are different grades, or specs, for metals, including aerospace.
@@MrJdsenior Yeah, I'm sure about that. Aircraft Grade Aluminum was coined by the bicycle industry in the 80's to create a buzz. Never heard it before then but now it is mainstream. Never saw it on a blueprint, never put it on a blueprint, never saw it in Mil-Spec book. Even 1100 is used on airplanes.
"Aerospace aluminum" has documentation and certification of its composition and where it came from... The can tabs don't have and certification so they are not "aerospace grade aluminum" even if they are made from the same alloy.
Man I’d just probably stock pile those for a rainy day fund!! Or at least until I’ve got nearly 100 pounds worth!!!
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Seems cool. Next level, I'll put some skill points into Smelting.
Here in South Oz cans and bottles are worth 10c each - so 500 cans is worth $50 to us. We all collect them and once you have several hundred in to the collection point. My average is $120. There are no cans and bottles lying around in our state, literally nothing...
I pick up cans and other metals here in the UK 40,000 cans = £250.00 only !
"There are no cans and bottles lying around in our state, literally nothing..."
That is how it **used** to be in Florida, when I was a kid.
It was great. It was worth returning bottles, it reduced litter, and it reduced trash in the landfill.
That's pretty much the only way you're going to get regular people to recycle them lol. I used to go through the trouble of separating cans and glass, but then I talked to somebody at the local dump, and he told me it's a waste of time because the recycling plants only process something like less than 25 percent of the recyclables they get, most of it just goes in the dump anyway
What a lot of people forget to mention or don't realize though is that you pay a deposit on each of those cans when you first buy them. So in Michigan for example you pay 10 cents extra per can when you buy the beverage and then when you turn that can in at the recycling center you then get that 10c deposit back as a refund. So the only way you are making money is if you are turning in cans from another state which is not legal.
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I am fully aware where the deposit comes from.
Regardless of where the deposit comes from, it is still a great incentive to stop litter.
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I love the melted aluminum poured into ant hills...the results when dug up and cleaned is amazing! And they are pricey.
Hard on the ants, though.
plus educational for kids.....to see in schools..
Big stacked wouldn't be happy with you discarding that slag, alway save for future melt 🤣
Here in South Australia, we get 10 cents back for each can taken to recycle, so 500 cans is $50.
This means that it is not a business but an ecological process.
No its 0
It's a return on deposit, right?
Michigan has 10 cent deposit for plastic, aluminum or glass but you have to take it back to a gas station or store.
It's $150 in Germany.
Well in my early 20s I think I figured out with most of my Buddies we were not going to get rich on our empty Beer cans and I think you found that out too
No kidding lol after months of saving beer cans we ended up giving them to the neighbor .. think he got almost 60$ for that small mountain of bud light cans... out of probably 1500 maybe 2000 dollars in beer .
Back in the day, late 80s or early 90s, you'd fill your GMC Jimmy and get maybe 100.00. With machine parts.