Melting Pop Tabs - MicroMelt - Aluminum Ingot From Pop tabs - Simple Melting - TheGrowingStack
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- This is a MicroMelt. I decided to do a quick melt of some pop tabs, and turn them into an ingot. Some funny moments along the way, and a fail that I was not anticipating... I hope you all enjoy, and stay amazing my friends!
-TheGrowingStack
I worked in a foundry and we had to hot press blades for tractors. the guy I was working with lost his grip on the tongs and idk wtf he was thinking but he tried to catch it...
the part weighed about 50lbs and landed straight on his crotch out of the oven...
kudos to you for not panicking
Damn! Is he female now?
well i know it's been a bit since ya put this out.. but ill just state the obvious..put the bowl on the scale and then zero the scale...unfortunately not all of us are scholars like you LOL that's a dig at me :) am enjoying going back into your videos since i am newly subbed..thanks again for the content.
The humor is just as good as the metal melting expertise.
Great work! When I am litter picking I always take those small peaces of Aluminum. You make them great!
Very nice quick melt, blasted one handed operation!
Idk if you've ever seen a refrigerator compressor, but those things are an excellent source of copper. You should be able to yield a few pounds from each. You just need a grinder to get the case open. It's very stout.
Also old school tube tv cones have about a pound of copper per. Just watch for a stored charge. Dont want to drop dead over 3 bucks worth of copper.
I've enjoyed watching ArtByAdrock and BigDStack for sometime now so I was very pleasantly surprised to find your channel. I can now add a 3rd one to look forward to. Thanks and please keep filming.
Dave Cronjaeger
Thanks Dave, that really means a lot to me. This Thanksgiving week has got me off schedule a bit, but I’m going to find something to melt and make today.
I watched the 2 of them till I learned how to do it. They are both great channels. I now have this one added to. Will make my channel fir this soon!
Hola
Re-melt that one and add the rest to it. Why is this stuff so satisfying to watch! I like the idea that you are putting it back and making a storage of metals that will eventually go up in value. Good investment bro.
The dude just love melting aluminum and then give it form. Beautiful
As a metal detectorist. I salute you sir.
Ha!
imagine reading the title of this with tired eyes thinking that it says "Melting Pop Tarts"
Now that’s all I can see when I look at it 😂 👍
@@TheGrowingStack hmm, melting pop tarts eh? Sounds like messy fun 🤣🤣🤣
@@chriswhite4678 I might just have to start every episode that way lol. Make a mess of something before the real thing 🤔🤔🤔
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... That was me, cursed dyslexia.
You can put the bowl on the scale before turning it on, and it starts at zero
Or hit the tear button
Or hit the button that says tear and it does it for you duh
@@birdpersonbudtender7771 if you do that, you’ll have to wait for it to come on, put the bowl on, wait for it to finish weighing, THEN press tare, and wait for it to zero. Setting the bowl on the scale and pressing the power button is much simpler. Duh.
@@dangiraffe so ur saying ur way is simpler than pressing a button god u have lo$t ur brain cells
@@birdpersonbudtender7771 clearly you can’t read. So I’ll dumb it down for you. My way = press one button, wait once.
Your way= press two buttons, wait twice
You should be able to rezero your scale with the bowl on it to avoid doing the math.
Lol. Right. He must be doing it deliberately
You spend 12 years learning math, why not use it! LOL
I love the foreshadowing. Let's wrap this up with no problems...
No lie, I was kinda low-key hoping the paper plate would burst into flame~
Nice ingot, tho!
I've smelted a time or 2. Never once did I do it in some high tech Converse lol well played my friend.
Hopefully some of these bars will allow this man to get a tripod.. That one handed work is tuff
Thumbs up for droping the bowl, it was funny😀
😃👍
This is why a proper pouring shank always has a clamp to hold the edge of the crucible.
I have a couple gallons of pop tabs saved up - kinda makes me want to do some melting - thx for the vid
Dude, this was great!
Andrei Pendle
Thank you! I’ve got a great one dropping tomorrow at 5am that I worked really hard on. Let me know what you think. I think you’re gonna love it!
I love that I can see that bigstackd has inspired you with these videos. I also love that you have put your own humor and love into them. Awesome quick pour bro! Bigstackd inspired me as well and I’m ordering all my setup to make videos in about 5 months time. Iv watched people smelt and pour for years but was always scared of the price wall behind the hobby. Now I can afford it and I am excited! I will tune in to every video you upload! Especially if you upload one explains exactly how to set up and use the forge/propane tank. Wink wink lol
How do u know he was inspired by bigstackd just wondering
@@animeguygaming4803 Bigstack D has been making melting content for almost a decade, and, this guy's videos look remarkably similar to D's
only things missing are cute puppies, snacks, boot kick and beer. aussies do it best :D
I subscribed when you couldn’t get the tongs to stay up and threw the down In rage 😂
Am I the only person who was bored scrolling during the lockdowns and found this guy??🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Thank you MJ Muscle!!
no
6:36 The best moment.
Alex A. D
Yeah for sure!! That’s my favorite too.
Mmm
Bowling for tripods... ASMR version
😉😉Sometimes melting down is messy and too much risky but look how cool is that!! kids don't try this at home🏠
I've been saving for awhile. I'm going to do a video on tabs a few weeks. 😄
Very interesting. TH-cam never ceases to amaze me. So what is this aluminum worth per kilo?
It all depends on where you live. It’s different everywhere, I should have included a country or region breakdown. What I go by, it’s about $1/lb.
Got an excellent heat treat. No bends or warps. Time to go to the grinder, out an edge on this ingot.
En donde se vende esto vivo en costa Rica y cual es el precio
bad ass !!!!.....guess imma have to switch from glass bottles to aluminum beer cans !!!
Bro. Respect from GA
Nice pour, like most of us little things always seem to happen.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Thanks for a good chuckle. Keep it up.
Here's a REALLY HELPFUL tip to stir the aluminum, USE A PEICE OF rebar to stir it, it's long and it's not ever going to melt
It's rebar, not rubar. Used in the construction industry to strengthen concrete. Personally, I don't see the point in removing the pop tabs from cans.
Some soldiers collect them and they make prosthetic limbs for people from war , they have some titanium in them
had to laugh when your bath started rocking and you stopped it but it then gave one more rock and it looked to me like you said do you mind :) then it stopped lmso :)
really cool turnout.
Dude thank you for the content. I now want to do this myself. Maybe make some gears for a motor for my kids power wheels.
I was just wondering how that tool was supposed to hold the crucible as it flips it over...got my answer there hahaha
I wonder how awesome is it at dusk or the first 30 minutes of night time
I started watching one of you videos and thought it was one of bigsackD's.
I don't mean that as 'your a rip-off of him!' I mean it as it was one of the videos that I love!
Thank you. He inspired me so much to get into this, and what does anyone do that wants to be like someone they admire and look up to? They try to be like them. That’s what I did and I always credit him as my inspiration and where I came from. Thank you again, that means a lot!
Saludos desde Galicia, España!!
Then i got a aluminium foil ad after this...
cool video!!! i'd love to see a video shining all of the aluminium bars
Where do you get your cool molds from? Great channel.
Thank you! I got those molds from PMCsupplies.com
Or search them on Amazon
Had a good kek at dropping the cauldron/vat thingy
Next time, just put the bowl on the scale and press the button to zero it.
In your experience how you say melting little pieces (pull tabs or cpu shards) or metal compares to large chunks (crushed cans)? Do you get more slag because of all the extra (potentially oxidized) surface area? It is reliably faster to fully melt (based on the episode my guess would be yes)?
jwaterdrag
Definitely less from the pop tabs vs full cans. The cans have that lining on the inside and the ink that contribute more than the tabs. In my experience from little pieces to big pieces, it all depends on what you’re melting and the purity of it as far as dross goes. For the speed, the smaller pieces definitely melt faster.
Well said!
Great stuff
Thanks Chuck 👍
Great video
I knew that was coming saw it from a mile away 😂
Losing part of it from the pour when the crucible dropped I would have had to melt again and repour
I love the skull
Very cool pour. Sweet table full of work you got there. Just started pouring not to long ago so I'm searching out others. Just subbed
Thanks man! I’d love to see some of your stuff, if you ever feel like sharing, shoot me an email.(it’s in my channel description)
Absolutely. Will definitely shoot you some pics. You can also see some of the on my channel.
@@willstreasures7986 I’ll check it out right now. 👍
Cast a metal plaque for those concrete imprints in your garage
Гений! Трёхзначные числа в столбик вычитает. 😂
I have that kind of scale you can tare out the weight of the container
Ttf fxgsedeeet bye 7h vc 7
Yes. Place your bowl on the scale, hit the on switch and it will zero out leaving just whatever you put in it weighed.
This is so cool!
Thank you Elizabeth!!
Tare helps or put container on the scales then turn it on without the maths lol.
So this bar is worth like $0.30, how much mapp/propane did that cost you?
Much
Great material pop caps are 90% aluminium and soda cans have 60% aluminium. I like melting soda cans but is a bit of slag from them have a great day
You need a longer stir stick
I need to to a micro melt. No it can't wait.
Those sell good on ebay and etsy for a lot more than melt value.
I'm going to try and get in this game...back woods...
Where in Australia are you at? No worries if you think I’m going to drop by, I live across the pond in the USA
I’m not in Australia, I’m in the US.
@@TheGrowingStack He probably confused you with bigstackD Casting.
You need to use some sort of security shoes to get your foots safe.
Thanks for sharing
Swiss made watches are the only good ones worth buying lol
👍👍
You should make a sign with your last name for the new homestead for melting
What I'm wondering is how you get that many pop tab lids.
I mean I drink a lot of diet coke but not that much. Probably.
Are you able to just buy them like that?
Did you know that the pull tabs are more pure Al than the can. Why is that. The paint on the can.
Paint and the plastic lining inside the can
Ok ,saludos desde La Costa del sol, de España, the spain
I have that same buddha mold! What metal did you use in it? I've only managed to do bismuth, lead and zinc. I need more practice with the higher melting metals.
Love the intro music
Thanks Patty!!!
Nice melt! I will start my channel on this soon! I busted out laughing 😅.
Wow,this is so interesting, do you sell any of your molded art?
I haven’t yet Sandy K, but I’ve been considering it for quite some time.
Is it cheaper to melt the aluminum in this shape... I mean with a ring shape?
Tell me how I can aquire one of those perfect round ones from you
This is so awesome to me. Are you retired or do you do this in your off time? How expensive of a hobby is this to get into?
I do it in my spare time outside of my career, it’s pretty much my second job. I love it and have a blast doing it.
It kind of depends on which way or how big you’d want to go and what you currently have.
I’d say you could get a nice furnace, a crucible, some tools(or make your own if you wanted) and have the basics to do this anywhere from $500-$750 depending on which direction you go. Thats assuming you have to buy everything. Send me an email if you want some more info, my email is in my channel description 👍
How does this man not have more subscribers 🤔
Because people would rather watch stuff melt than watch some garbage mobile battle royal game.
I can only "WONDER" why Ali, come In one grade, as I have 3, rates,1 Ring-pull's, 2, Bottom & tops of cans, Then shards, the only ones needed In "DROSS-MOVEMENTS" 3rd out of the 3 / Can't be wrong, so what's all the commotion about? "WAKEY WAKEY, I have blood dealing with such issues. Need I add more?
What’s your opinion on electric foundry’s and where do you get those coin molds with cool designs
I haven’t tried an electric furnace yet, but I’m not opposed to it. Maybe I’ll have to check that out in the future. I get all of mold from pmcsupplies.com
The other coin molds I have are from ArtByAdrock. Check him out and his store at ArtByAdrock.com
That's like the perfect size mold, but I can't find it anywhere!
Check out PMCSupplies.com 👍
@@TheGrowingStack can't find that size on there
@@beauford731 My fault my friend, I found that one on their Amazon store, I had to look back through my orders. I’ve bought some stuff directly from their site and some from their Amazon store. I just don’t remember if this is the 75oz or the 100oz, both are good though.
100 oz Troy Ounce Kit Kat Gold Graphite Ingot Mold for Melting Casting Refining Scrap Jewelry www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTLD3O4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_EWNFR48FWE44F6ENCA8M?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
@@TheGrowingStack wow 👌 90? Pricey mold for sure
@@beauford731 I know, I know. I feel your pain! I was tired of not having nice graphite molds so one day I said F it and bought the 50, 75, and the 100oz molds. I’m not gonna lie to you, it hurt. It hurt real bad 😂 But they are in good shape and I can’t imagine them falling apart any time soon.
I have roughly more than 50000 tabs should I melt
Le linguette delle lattine potrebbero essere le monete del futuro
I’ve never seen a post tensioned concrete garage floor. Is that common where you live?
It is common in my area because of the ground soil. 👍
You are awesome. Appreciate 👏👏👏
Exelente muy bueno
Con las latas de cervezas y gaseosas también se puede fundir? Como se llama el horno? Desde Tucumán Argentina
6:37😂😂
Where do you get all the pop tabs!?🌝👌✨
I save them from every can and have family and friends save them for me. 👍
Instead of doing the math calculation, why not just reset the scale after the bowl was put on (unless you were wanting to know the bowl weight) 🤔
Cool
I got lots of poptabs vut they are all muddy, i tried washing them but it didnt get some of the dirt out 😢
Ken you make alittel kaar?
Muy bello tu videoporque eso es valioso gracias un abrazo att bogota colombia
Nice video
Super channel. Regards from Poland :) I Subscribe You