Getting "Rid Of" your Aluminum Cans

[3Ts]

I have heard of folks melting down the aluminum cans and making ingots, but is the type of aluminum alloy in the cans any good for casting? What would one do with aluminum ingots?

 

[Frankenkubota]

yea, that's right, i remember when i told the judge, your honor, i was brainwashed and my friends made me take all that LSD.

Honestly, i was brainwashed, by tv and govt education, or lack there of. As far as the LSD goes....my friends made me take it.

I lived in oregon for quite a while and i must say, many people there tend to look at things very differently than i do.

best wishes to you and patty hearst, an american hero.

 

[forgeblast]

I have heard of folks melting down the aluminum cans and making ingots, but is the type of aluminum alloy in the cans any good for casting? What would one do with aluminum ingots?

You can do aluminum vaporization casting. make a styrofoam mold, bury it in general purpose sand and make sure you have a sprue and then pour right on top. the aluminum will vaporize the Styrofoam and fill the void.

 

[Frankenkubota]

sounds like lost wax. saw someone on tv pouring molten aluminum down ant hills. amazing results, lots of digging.

 

[forgeblast]

The only difference is you do not have to burn out the wax, you pour right on into the styrofoam (aka the wax in lost wax), and your good to go. Just watch the fumes they can be nasty.
I saw on nova the ant hill castings. Really cool things. I thought it would be awesome to have a light fixture like it.

 

[user.69169]

Sort of looks like how to already known, why ain't bein done is probably a matter of right guy getting proper donation.
Looks like everything from car to plastic & glass bottles got another life like aluminum cans.
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Not sure what language dat announcer fellow talkin.

Seems like Milwaukee still makin and sellin Milorganite too, and Penn Power is makin electric from Allentown sewer plant.

 

[two_bit_score]

We have recycling as part of our regular trash service. We have a large trash can and a small bin for recycling. They are both picked up every week.

We seldom fill the trash can completely full but the recycling is always over flowing. Can稚 get a bigger recycling bin.

At our other place in addition to trash, no recycling, they pick up limbs about every two weeks.



Here is a pic of what they picked up a couple weeks ago.

 

[goeduck]

We have recycling as part of our regular trash service. We have a large trash can and a small bin for recycling. They are both picked up every week.

We seldom fill the trash can completely full but the recycling is always over flowing. Can稚 get a bigger recycling bin.

At our other place in addition to trash, no recycling, they pick up limbs about every two weeKs

Here is a pic of what they picked up a couple weeks ago.

Up here a firewood scrounger would take much of that off your hands

 

[ultrarunner]

In the SF Bay Area most of the tree guys give wood away. With the ban on wood burning in new homes and no burn ordinances even oak has almost no value

It wasn't always so as back in the 70's and 80's guys would line up asking to haul away storm fall oaks on the property.

We also had scavengers including those that would steal aluminum window frames from vacant homes... it happened to me.

 

[two_bit_score]

Up here a firewood scrounger would take much of that off your hands

Nobody was much interested in it.