Recycling Aluminum - Melting an Aluminum Electrical Panel - Scrap to Treasure - Trash to Treasure
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2023
- I had a friend give me an electrical panel that had burned up and he had to replace it. Rather than throw it in the trash, I melted it down to ingots and saved it from the landfill. It took a bit of time to break down and melt, but I enjoyed every second of it. I hope you enjoy watching this one as much as I did making it!
-TheGrowingStack 
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I hope you all enjoy this one, I had a lot of fun breaking down and melting this electrical panel. I’ve been so busy with work and day to day life, I’m sorry for the delay in melting and posting, but I hope you like this one. It was fun to get a melt in. Have an awesome week and let me know what you think in the comments. Stay awesome my friends!
I enjoyed watching you tear that thing down. Nice,
Man I've hung soooo many of those disconnects since 2006. I've wanted to do this to a few of them so getting to see this was great.
@@brettlejeune7009 That’s awesome Brett 👍
What I appreciate about your channel and its videos is there’s no fluff or filler (i.e. no dogs, no beer drinking, no cooking, no eating, etc.). You’re just straight to the point and all business of melting and casting.
Thank you Tony. I appreciate you! 👍
It’s so nice to see more channels like this
Thank you my friend! Nice to see you! 👍
That drill is so cool because it had a light. Glad to see the shiny shiny's. Very fun melt to watch ! Thanks for sharing !!
Thank you Lisa! Always good to hear from you, you make my day!!!
Cool stacking today buddy!
They look great!
That top shelf is definitely bowing! LOL
Thanx for a great vid!
Thanks Captain! I haven’t noticed the top shelf 😬, I better take a look at that now that you mention it. Always great to hear from you my friend, please don’t stop! 👍👍👍
Nice simple melt. Cant go wrong with that
Thank you my friend!
He’s back!!!! No worries about frequency, I’m glad you’re still doing them. As far as the copper, I guess you’ll have to do enough videos for RUclips to buy you an XRF scanner 😀
Thank you Jim! It’s good to be back! I’ll try to post more often, work and life has been brutal lately. But I still love melting and making videos. I’d love to have an XRF scanner. One of these days I’ll get one 👍
If you’re looking for ideas and have access to 3d printers, a tetrahedron cast in something shiny or even any complex shape like dodecahedron would be way cool.
This was a great video as always! I enjoy watching the disassembling. I have a box of cords back in Chicago. Next time I’m there I’m going to strip the cords and send you the copper.
Love you Irish! You are amazing as always!
Thank you so much, I always appreciate you’re nice comments. You’re the best!!!
Cool video, nice to see you back!
Thank you my friend! It’s good to be back and I’ll try my best to get back on schedule, you know how it goes. Life loves to throw you curveballs 😉👍
That's was a pretty cool thing you melted. The axe might not have been needed, but it was a great tool to use!
Thank you Tracy! The axe was kinda of fun, it gave me a chuckle while breaking it down realizing I could use brains over brawn 🙂
Awesome red / black electrical thing! So, I thing it comes from an industrial electrical substation - If you can notice, at the extreme the right corner of the switchgear, the connector is burnt black and half molten! That's why the switchgear was scrapped!
Nice job t wasn't expecting that much 👍 👏 😳
Thank you Philip! 👍
Well done! Great to see another video from you. I like the break down of, otherwise, landfill stuff. Less landfill is always a good thing. Always looking forward to another great video from you.😍
Thank you Leslie! Always fun to have a project and add to the collection instead of winding up in the landfill. I’ll try not to be away for so long next time 😉🙂
good to see a new addition to the stack!
Thank you my friend!! I’ve been away for far too long!!!
The back of the hatchet/axe coming into the shot the first time was terrifying as totally not expected, lol.
Got horror movie there for a second, 😂
Great video! Love both watching the melt and bonus of seeing the inside of stuff as you do the tear down!
Awesome aluminum bar's thanks for sharing
Thank you Tim! I know I could have tried to make some coins or sand mold something, but I was a bar kind of mood. 👍
Right you're welcome either one would work
Great video. Those bars were awesome. I really enjoy the break down of the items as well. Looking forward to the next video
Thank you, I appreciate you! 👍
Dude, you should do a mold of Thor's hammer and cast it in Nordic Gold. I just thought of it, but it would make for an awesome addition to the stack.
That’s a great idea Sinaka. I’ll look for a 3D print of it and see what I can do. 👍
👍 new here, been watching bigstackeD for a while and stumbled on your channel. I just recently bought a furnace and picked up the hobby myself. Appriciate the vid's and the info!
Thank you Ryan, it is definitely fun, addictive, and for me a nice stress relief to disappear into the garage for a few hours and melt something and make something. Feel free to email me if you want to and share anything you’ve done or are working on, I’d love to see it. 👍
Ooh, could you make a replica of a brake disc rotor out of AL, please? That might be neat…
Nice 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍
Thank you Norma Jean!!! 👍
I am not sure why, but the bars you made today looked like the carbonite that Jaba froze Han in. looked like little people in the depressions of the bars, maybe it's just me but I thought it looked cool.
Thank you Sinaka! I love your feedback. They were some cool bars for what they were and I loved where they came from! You’re awesome as always! 👍
Cool 😎
Cool. What's it worth?.
Interesting tools,, I'm sure the tools are worth a few bucks ,, what type of fuel are you heating this with,?
The brief check to make sure you still have all your fingers and didn't cut anything...
All too real. Been there too often and always a bit of a heart stopper and a "did I just ruin my day by making the rest of it being in an urgent care or ER?"
Glad you're ok.
Is there some type of grease or something on it that you're wearing nitrile gloves for the takedown instead of work gloves?
What's up my friend!!!!! good to see ya back with a vid again.. hey real life always comes first.. just take care of what ya need to my friend.. we will be here. going to be honest.. I am very interested in this stuff.. as an outlet to relax with .. but I feel the breaking stuff with a hammer would happen more than the unscrew it part LOL.. another great video... and be safe ok... that's why ya have a vice :P
My melt went very badly today. I had a fair ammount of copper and the coating burned off of the steel I was using to stir it, turning almost all of the liquid into a slag monstrosity. I only saved a tiny bit of what could have been.
Oh no, I’m sorry to hear that. What were you stirring it with that had a coating? That sucks my friend, I make sure to use a bare metal spoon or anything when stirring. Don’t let it get or keep you down, every melt will get better. Stay strong and melt on Benny!
Thank you, TGS. A minor setback!
Great video as always . Curious do you do your own music?
Thank you so much! My brother makes all the music, a new custom track for each video, he’s really good. It’s one of my favorite things about the videos 👍
Im curious as to why you can't melt magnetized metal? Ive been thinking about getting into this myself.
When the metal is magnetic that means that it is ferrous. Ferrous metals contain iron, which in most cases I cannot get the furnace hot enough to reach their melting points.
For example:
Aluminums melting point is 1221 F
Coppers melting point is 1984 F
I can easily do these metals.
Irons melting point is 2800 F
That is just outside of my ability so I can’t melt things like iron and steel. 👍
@@TheGrowingStack Thank you for explaining.
Where are you getting your coin molds from?
Why can you not melt magnetic metals?
Being magnetic implies that it is a ferrous metal(it contains iron) and the melting point of iron is 2,800 F, a temperature I can’t really reach and maintain.
:D
Why can’t you melt magnets? 🧲 🔥🫠🚫❓