Smelting Metal In The Kitchen
Jun 8, 2021 09:08:53 #
RowdyRay wrote:
Complete morons. Have no idea how they didn't get severely burned. Stupidity or pure luck?
There is no such thing as luck.
Luck is impossible to prove and easy to disprove... ergo there is no such thing as luck... unless you ask the tooth fairy of course.
You (rhetorically?) ask " how they didn't get severely burned"... and present "Stupidity" as a possibility too... WTF
I put it to you, [b]they would more likely hurt themselves if they were Stupid.[b]
What is patently moronic/stupid however is your premise.
What those boys actually present, (is obviously something your limited faculties fail to
realize) is youthful high jinx and humour.
Jun 8, 2021 09:11:20 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Funny. I hope they don't try melting lead indoors. 
I did for awhile when dad wasn't home and then later in the kitchen in a wood burning stove to cast lead bullets , other than being a little crazy it didn't hurt me
Jun 8, 2021 09:11:42 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
I have melted aluminium in the kitchen.
But not on purpose.
But not on purpose.
Me too, but it was pewter they melted and poured into
a YouTube Award mold they 3D printed.
Jun 8, 2021 09:13:40 #
sb wrote:
"Smelting" is the use of heat to extract a metal from ore. What they are doing is simply "melting" what appears to be aluminum in a stainless steel pot.
Thank you!!!
And it takes an electric furnace, it takes a lot more heat to get the job done with aluminum .
Jun 8, 2021 09:23:54 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
We melted plastic army men when I was a kid......they were fun to stretch....
Jun 8, 2021 09:26:19 #
olemikey wrote:
We melted plastic army men when I was a kid......they were fun to stretch....
Lol, some of the gasses they give off is as bad or worse than lead.
Jun 8, 2021 09:58:53 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Manglesphoto wrote:
Lol, some of the gasses they give off is as bad or worse than lead.
We used magnifying glass, outside (where Mom/Dad couldn't see our deeds), so not much (if any) smoke/fumes.....
Jun 8, 2021 10:03:11 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Thank you!!!
And it takes an electric furnace, it takes a lot more heat to get the job done with aluminum .
And it takes an electric furnace, it takes a lot more heat to get the job done with aluminum .
It is possible to melt an aluminium pot on an electric stove. Have not tried it on a gas stove.
Jun 8, 2021 10:29:03 #
In my early days I would cast bullets for my black powder replica Navy Colt and for a .38 pistol cartridge. I'd use scrap plumbers lead and mix in old tire weights. Of course I was naive to the dangers of lead off-gassing.
Jun 8, 2021 11:18:48 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
It is possible to melt an aluminium pot on an electric stove. Have not tried it on a gas stove.
lol yet my first wife did that twice, gas stove don't get hot enough.
I have been told it take more heat to weld aluminum than weld steel.
I do know it takes a lot more heat to smelt bauxite oar than iron ore.
Jun 8, 2021 11:25:59 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
In my early days I would cast bullets for my black powder replica Navy Colt and for a .38 pistol cartridge. I'd use scrap plumbers lead and mix in old tire weights. Of course I was naive to the dangers of lead off-gassing.
Well it didn't kill us!!!
I was casting for .38 special and .357 Mag. By the time I started shooting front stuffers it was cheaper and easier just to buy the balls.
Jun 8, 2021 12:54:27 #
josquin1
Loc: Massachusetts
Yes and then there is the story of young man building a sailboat in his basement and was melting the lead for the ballast . He went to the hospital the next day and they couldn't save him as he died from lead poisoning.
Jun 8, 2021 13:04:18 #
josquin1 wrote:
Yes and then there is the story of young man building a sailboat in his basement and was melting the lead for the ballast . He went to the hospital the next day and they couldn't save him as he died from lead poisoning.
Well there is a big difference between melting a a small amount and and very large amounts. and you don't know how many times he did it
Like you there was a "STORY"
When I see it then!!!!!
Jun 8, 2021 13:12:21 #
josquin1
Loc: Massachusetts
Manglesphoto wrote:
Well there is a big difference between melting a a small amount and and very large amounts. and you don't know how many times he did it
Like you there was a "STORY"
When I see it then!!!!!
Like you there was a "STORY"
When I see it then!!!!!
No the story is true. It actually has happened a few times.
Jun 8, 2021 13:34:00 #
josquin1 wrote:
No the story is true. It actually has happened a few times.
Im from Missouri The Show Me State
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