I am melting aluminum cans that I collected during my trips to the trash heaps when looking for scrap metal and various other valuables. In addition to modern beer cans and beverage cans, I will also melt Soviet tin cans and cylinders, both modern and from the USSR, I will see what the yield of aluminum will be from which cans and how difficult it will be to melt the cans. Before melting, I sorted all the cans and weighed the cans of each type separately, so that I would know how many and what kind of cans I would melt. The first thing I decided to melt from what I found in the trash heaps was various aluminum cans, before melting the cans need to be pierced so that there is no residual pressure in them, this must be done carefully and preferably in a mask so that nothing splashes out of them. Before melting, I did not disassemble the cans and did not take out the iron part and plastic from them, everything unnecessary will burn out or go into slag. By the way, the yield of aluminum from the cans was the largest, but not significantly more than from other types of aluminum cans. Next, I melted Soviet tin cans, they melted quite easily and quickly, but there was much more slag from them than from cans, a normal ingot was obtained from a Soviet aluminum can, by the way, I cast aluminum ingots in aluminum cans, which I placed in a bucket of sand and covered the sides with sand. Then I melted modern beer cans and cans from various drinks, the aluminum in them is alloyed and its composition includes several percent of magnesium and manganese. The can melted very well, but the temperature in the furnace was high, the bottom of the crucible heated up to red. I brought the cans to the furnace in buckets and threw them into the crucible one by one for melting. I had to cast ingots from a modern can in two stages, since a large amount of slag accumulated in the crucible and it was no longer convenient to melt aluminum in it. By the way, the yield of aluminum from modern beer cans turned out to be even higher than from a Soviet can, but this is most likely because I remelted the slag that remained from the cans, and there was still a lot of aluminum in it. By the way, it is quite difficult to remelt slag. Perhaps I would have smelted even more aluminum, but the crucible for melting failed, it burned out and it was not possible to melt further. Today I simply cast aluminum ingots for the next melts, I did not cast any products, since I was simply interested in the yield of aluminum. By the way, there is no particular sense in melting a can for scrap metal, it is more profitable to hand it over simply as is, you can melt the cans into ingots, since the cans are not always accepted. But if you use the ingots for further remelting and casting, then you can of course melt the can. I hope the video about aluminum smelting will be interesting and informative, will bring practical benefit to someone. Enjoy watching everyone and thanks for watching! Please, if you liked the video, subscribe to support the channel, your support is very important. #aluminumcan #meltingaluminumcans #meltingaluminum #meltingcans #meltingcans #aluminumfromcans #aluminum #meltingaluminum #recyclingbeercans #aluminuminbeercans #moltenaluminum #ingotsandcans #educational