Massive Can Meltdown - How Much Pure Aluminum Is In 500 Cans - Is It Worth Melting Aluminum Cans

So is it worth melting down 500+ aluminum cans? Short answer...NO. Total the time- just over 2 hours to melt these all down, plus setup and clean up time. Total the propane cost- I used about 2/3 of a tank, so depending on what you pay for propane near you...for me it’s about $10-12. The result of the10.75lbs of aluminum is worth about $10.75 USD. The fuel alone costs more than the aluminum is worth, then take into consideration what your time is worth and you’re way over budget! For me...there is everything I just mentioned, plus add another 2 hours to sand, polish, and shine one of these ingots, and another 8-10 hours editing to provide 12 minutes of cheap entertainment & enjoyment. Long answer...worth every second 😉👍 Thank you all for watching, I hope you enjoy, and stay awesome!

I work for an aluminum rolling company. Scrap aluminum is incredibly valuable because of the INSANE amount of energy and cost required to produce prime aluminum from bauxite ore. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable - meaning it will not lose its properties over time as it undergoes various transformations. The key is simply to have large scale, efficient industrial processes. The margins are small for can stock but they add up when you apply them accross the 100s of millions of pounds produced each year

Random videos like this keep me sane when waking up in the middle of the night strssing about life.

Am I the only one that found the most impressive thing about this video (aside from the rest of the obvious awesomeness) is that he wrote the numbers upside down so perfectly? :D

I work in a aluminum recycling facility and our average recovery rate from UBC or Used Beverage Cans is 97%. That's not to say the plant losses that 3%, we skim the dross and remelt it over and over again. The plant also remelts bulk dross from large manufacturers such Kaiser and Toyota.

I started collecting cans off the streets the last few months, they are worth €0.65 per Kg. I have 35 Kg at present, I'll cash them in at Christmas. At least I'm doing my bit for the environment, I collect plastic and glass also to recycle.

If you shred the cans, it will increase the surface area of the aluminum causing you to melt the cans quicker. This will also save you fuel as well. Love the vids btw

You could totally sell the polished ingots, although it would cut into the growing stack. You need a “growing stack” mold that marks the bars. I find these videos astonishingly satisfying to watch.

No bs，no noisy music，just birds sing，lovely👍

The sounds made by the ingots hitting the concrete, the ice hissing with the heat. This is one of the most interesting and enjoyable vids I've seen in a long time 👍🤩

Pouring molten metal looks so satisfying honestly.

Found your video quite by accident. And it was oddly satisfying to watch!! Thank you for posting it!

I did a major refit on my yacht and decided to trash the mast as it was old, previously broken and repaired and ready to recycle. I cut it into three sections, and a mate and I delivered it to the recycler. We made enough to buy him a carton of beer for helping out!

I would like to send you a little something but my Old age penson doesn’t allow for anything extra.above basic cost of living. I do enjoy immensely watching your channel. Thank you for taking us along on all your melts. Stay safe God bless. 🇨🇦

I worked for a large nonferrous scrap dealer back in the 80s and found that when we melted cans we were losing money with every melt. Most don’t realize that the vast majority of the recycled cans don’t actually turn back into consumer goods. The cans are shredded and added to desulfurizer, a product that is added to purify steel when it is melted in an electric arc furnace. The aluminum is literally burned up in the high temperatures of the steel melting process.

Great video, I took around 200-300 cans that I had saved over around 4/5 months to my scrap yard here in the uk. Never taking in cans previously was unsure what to expect, the guy at the scrap yard told me due to the cost of what it takes to melt the cans down, the scrap yard hate taking cans as they need a hella lot of them to make any sort of profit. But looking at your aluminium pile I can see it is a labour of love especially seeing the 1 that you polished up. Makes me want to get my self a kiln and melt some down my self.

This just makes me think. There was a time you would not dream of throwing away precious material like metal. And now, we do it all the time.

The hidden value is indulging ones self in their pyromania fixation.

one man's trash is another man's metal.

When I was a kid, you could still get lead soldier kits (I lived in Europe) and I would go to the military range to collect bullets. I made thousands of lead soldiers in my moms kitchen. Probably not the best of ideas but it it was fun at the time.