Re: Homemade alloys

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:06:06 -0500

steve mew wrote:
>
> Anyone know what the composition is of aluminum tin cans, specifically soda
> cans (coke, pepsi etc) ?
> I was hoping to collect a bunch of them and melt them down in a kiln
>
> Has anybody tried to make homemade Aluminium alloy's ?
>
> Any ideas , advice ?

"Scientific American" maybe a decade ago had an article on
rolling then deep drawing aluminum can alloy. If you melt the
cans you will have a lot of dross from the varnish inside and
out. You also have to worry about air oxidation of the molten
metal. 

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