Great question. When melting metal, the chemical composition will be roughly the average of all materials put into the melt. If you're looking specifically for 6061 or 6063, you want to avoid other scrap alloys getting into your melt. A little bit of the wrong alloy can go a long way in messing up the final chemical composition. We have helped many folks melt scrap aluminum in the USA. You will need handheld and benchtop equipment along with a furnace setup to melt like this. Melting aluminum is disruptive enough that local environmental individuals need to be notified as well.
Hi! Thanks for the informative video! A question in Aluminium recycling: would the process of melting and casting of sorted scrap made of Alloy 6061 or 6063, affect alloy composition? resulting in different alloy and requiring additives (magnesium, silicon, Cu...)?
This can depend on a lot of factors. In short, melting properly sorted metals like a batch of only 6061 where you have verified every single piece of 6061 as the correct alloy will yield a good melt of 6061, so long as you do not mix it or dwell it with anything else. Some factors that could cause an off chemistry mix: dirty furnace lining, dirty ladle lining, improper scrap sorting, the list goes on. However, I can tell you from experience that most important part of the entire process is what you put in the furnace to begin with.
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what sort of an alloy results from aluminum scrap junk when melted down.
Great question. When melting metal, the chemical composition will be roughly the average of all materials put into the melt. If you're looking specifically for 6061 or 6063, you want to avoid other scrap alloys getting into your melt. A little bit of the wrong alloy can go a long way in messing up the final chemical composition.
We have helped many folks melt scrap aluminum in the USA. You will need handheld and benchtop equipment along with a furnace setup to melt like this. Melting aluminum is disruptive enough that local environmental individuals need to be notified as well.
Crazy that such a small amount of Cu can cause a meaningful reduction in corrosion resistance.
Hi! Thanks for the informative video! A question in Aluminium recycling: would the process of melting and casting of sorted scrap made of Alloy 6061 or 6063, affect alloy composition? resulting in different alloy and requiring additives (magnesium, silicon, Cu...)?
This can depend on a lot of factors. In short, melting properly sorted metals like a batch of only 6061 where you have verified every single piece of 6061 as the correct alloy will yield a good melt of 6061, so long as you do not mix it or dwell it with anything else. Some factors that could cause an off chemistry mix: dirty furnace lining, dirty ladle lining, improper scrap sorting, the list goes on. However, I can tell you from experience that most important part of the entire process is what you put in the furnace to begin with.
@@AlloyGeek Thanks a lot! 🙂
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