Dangerous

Melting Aluminum

Warning This is provided for informational purposes. Melting metal is always dangerous. You are responsible for your own safety if you decide to try anything described here. tl;dr Don’t try to sue me because you did something something stupid. Melting aluminum is not particularly hard or expensive to get a basic setup. You just need to know how to get the metal hot enough to melt. In the past my setup was a 2-3 foot across pit in the ground with an old rusted out dutch oven to hold the molten metal and a hair dryer attached to a metal pipe with a PVC coupling and duck tape.