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Can I melt my aluminum cans at home ?

April 26, 2017aluminum cans Home melt

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Can I melt my aluminum cans at home ?

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Possibly but it is fairly dangerous and very uneconomical. Can scrap is worth more that what you would get paid for a homemade aluminum ingot. Also, for every pound of cans you melt, you will only recover about 3/4 of a pound of melted metal, if you are careful. This is not for amateurs. Aluminum melts at 1240 F and can explode violently if there is any water present in the scrap.