Topic: RE: Worth it to melt down broken aluminum

[chewbacca5000]

Got to love those old Coleman stoves!  Now all I need to do is borrow your 60 year old coleman and a cast iron pot and I will be melting in no time.

[333]

Any Coleman stove will do.  And I have the cast iron pot, but I just got it clean and usable.  I think it was used for lead, but I got it clean and tested it.  No lead.  So far, I've only cooked bread in it.

[chewbacca5000]

That is funny.  Sounds like a youtube series just waiting to be made.  Can't wait until I get ride of the rest of stuff laying around so I can focus on some fun projects like casting aluminum parts, tig welding, and working on my lathe.

[chewbacca5000]

Just throw it in your aluminum pile/bucket and take to scrap like normal? Not sure they'd pay any more for melted down bars vs raw, so long as it's not mixed with other metals. Scrap is down, so just wait until it either goes up or the pile is big enough to bother you.

It definitely was bothering me.  The clutter should be gone in a few days.  I have some extra 71 fork lowers if you are storing up parts to build a k1.  I have seen a couple around, but you have to be willing to travel for them.

[RAFster122s]

They want 2.20 per lb for stainless and aluminum.

Is that how much they charge you to take it away?

[chewbacca5000]

They want 2.20 per lb for stainless and aluminum.

Is that how much they charge you to take it away?

[faux fiddy]

You wanna make a sandcast?!

Just the other day While I was cleaning up my workbench a similar thought entered my mind.
I had replaced a damaged stator cover on the K3 and was wondering what I could do with it? Wall art??  Tossed it in the garbage bin, not worth it!

There are guys that weld the stuff fine and I think if the welding looks good run it. But it's a specialty.  We've been talking about casting one different Honda covers but until it's winter again and again it's pointless now.  If it's not moving the   shifter sure likes to poke through the cover on a 450 if you drop it in the shop.