"Snag" wrote in message
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Existential Angst wrote:
"Winston" wrote in message
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On 5/4/2010 6:52 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
Today I decided I needed a short piece of aluminum tube to modify a
prototype... I didn't have any so I made a piece. Geez.


Watch the criticism Bob.
We'll have you in the back yard digging for bauxite.

My junk-collecting dumpster-diving buddy wants me to hook up a
smelter in my shop.... goodgawd.....
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EA

I've got a foundry furnace built in a 5 gallon steel bucket . Wheels ,
radiators , extruded stock , cylinder heads , nothing is safe from melting
but cans . Too much work for too little material .

What do you then do with your melted/smelted stuff??? Forge it??

And, couldn't you just crush the cans first (in an automated hydraulic 80
ton press, of course), and drop them in with the heavier stuff?

What happens if you melt, say, alum, brass, and steel together?

Sound really neat. Mebbe I WILL get a little foundry thing going!!!

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EA

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Snag