How To Melt Aluminum Into Sheets

Once you know the setting on the dimmer that the aluminum starts to melt at mark this on the dimmer.

How to melt aluminum into sheets.

Fire up the kiln or furnace to 1220 f. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees f. Place a plexiglass sheet on large pan and place on the middle oven rack. Add low salt to make the aluminum more fluid.

To cool it down faster use steel tongs to place the aluminum into a bucket of cold water. Put the aluminum into the pot and turn up the power gradually until the aluminum starts to melt. After about 10 seconds the aluminum will still be hot but safe to touch with your bare hands. Blowtorch melting some aluminum sheet.

Using tool remove all the lumpy slag from the aluminum. The aluminum will melt almost immediately once it reaches this temperature. This uses bbq charcoal as the fuel and a hair dryer as the blower it ll melt a small batch of aluminum in about 10 minutes. Once the crucible is glowing orange the foundry is hot enough to melt aluminum.

Blowtorch melting some aluminum sheet. Let the foundry heat for about 10 minutes before placing aluminum inside of it. Once the aluminum has hardened it is still much too hot to touch with your bare hands. Load your cans into the container you re using as a crucible and place the crucible inside the kiln.

Use a long metal ladle to scoop off the stuff that floats to the top when the aluminum is melted called dross. Place the lid on the foundry and let it warm up. Most of the materials to build this can be found in dumpsters. The temperature in the foundry will need to be above 1220 degrees fahrenheit 660 degrees celsius.

The large pan prevents the plexiglass from coming into contact with the hot rack which can distort the plexiglass due to uneven heating. The only cost here is the charcoal fuel duct tape and the 1 yard sale hair dryer. Heat for approximately five minutes. Place hardened aluminum into a bucket of cold water using steel tongs.

This is the melting point of aluminum 660 32 c 1220 58 f but below the melting point of steel.