Melting Pop Tabs - Massive Aluminum Tab Melt - Melting Pop Tabs at Home - The Growing Stack 

Screw the haters, you keep doing what you love doing, because we love watching you do it! Well done, sir!

I love your experimentation and the fact that you're still learning - just like us! It sets you apart. Keep up the good work and thank you for the uploads!

It's so cool how molten aluminum has a solid layer on the outside so it always looks like (and technically IS,) its own little self-contained package, constantly recycling and re-forming that super-thin solid outer coating. I wonder how thick that solid layer is. It must be very thin, like a fraction of a millimeter.

The commitment of actually counting out 3,914 tabs. Respect

DUDE! That intro tune led me to believe that greatness was about to unfold! Great video!!

I bought a small crafting vice which I just set up. I didn't notice till I used it, it has smooth jaws. No grip. Live and learn. I dig your videos. Keep melting.🐎

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be done! Great job. Looking forward to your next video.

I can't explain it but I love watching stuff melt.🐎

I am not sure for how many months I have watched your videos but I really enjoy them. Keep up the good work!

That was fun to watch! I just picked up a Devil Forge myself. Getting started soon. Good luck pouring.

Hello from NY. My family collects can tabs as a fundraiser for our local cancer support group. I recently turned in 1800 pounds of just tabs. That was 15 full 55 gallon barrels of tabs. We get 50 cents per lb for them. I've often thought it would benefit us to melt them down first but it looks like it might hurt us more than help. It was very interesting watching you melt those down. I would be interested in buying some of your cancer ribbon ingots if you can pour them a bit thinner.

The camera angle and asmr style reminds me of Big stackD.

Dude 113 out and you got long sleeves and sat there to count out 3,914 tabs??? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I gotta hand it to y’a brother, I wouldn’t have done it lol as the old saying said, do it for the vine 🤣🤣🤣🍻🤜🏻🤛🏻

Awesome bar man an thanks for your time enjoy the videos

Lol when the dust bar came out! Shows the difference in the melting points of the different metals

I appreciate the ribbon mold, but it either sucks, not machined deep enough or your metal is not hot or viscous enough. Great video and never stop experimenting!

Lol, your sander reminds me of your “floor grinder” from way back when 😂

That’s so cool! I wonder what household metals I can burn Down easily for a tiny cast. Hmmm.

Looking good, awesome shine on that bar. Al never does to well in the graphite shape molds, that oxide bubble always messes things up. It would be more trouble, but if you could make a plate with a sprue hole, and clamp it with the mold and pour it vertically, they work pretty good.

Wow. I've been saving scrap aluminum I've been finding while enjoying the outdoors. Its mostly been Aluminum Pull Tabs. lol

Great video as always 💪🏻👍🏻 Lovely mirror finish btw!

I can't wait to get my own in, I hope its as fun as it looks!

Aluminum is my all time fav looking melts. I love the beautiful shine on them. I would love to buy a ingot from you but the shipping would cost wayyyyy more than what its worth lol Loved this video.

I liked how the powder added color to the bar...

I dont know if anybody else has commented on it, but, the one with the dust, very nice idea, but I think it will take a metal with at least same meltingpoint, or higher to combine🤔?, not sure, just a thought,…

Love it. I can get behind the ribbon, got it tattooed on me with "Fu-- Cancer" as the sideways ck. Worst shit I've been through

That was a lot of tabs to count. Cool video.

Great work especially in that heat. Why was the aluminium so viscose? The glow of the crucible shows that it was hot enough.

Great sharing

Great job❤

4:32 that looks so cool for some reason a firy pot & cool metal inside. Looks bazaar

Skull: Hello. Shiny ingot: Geeyah! 🙊

when your parents say "so *That* is why he was collecting all of those."

I don't know much about metal and how much is lost in grinding and stuff, but could you do a full box-y kinda finish on any metal block, like the ones they show in movies, like the finish on top, but also the same on sides as well.

What is the big deal with pull tabs are they beter aloy.

My mother passed away to cancer back in October and I was wondering if you could make one of those for me.

Why do all of this? Its pretty interesting but other than collect what you make do you sell what you smelt?

You should get a new ribbon mold made that has a little bit deeper cut. It might turn out a bit better for you.. As for that powder you sprinkled on before the pour. Maybe you have to heat it up before the pour.

Is that sand that was trapped in the folds of the metal? WTH is that?

I was always curious why do people separate the tabs from the can? Are they made out of a different kind of metal?

Super but how u collect this 😱

Good job.

Can you include the USD amount of the metal if you were to sale it? I am curious if this would be a feasible investment, comparable to those who invest in silver and gold.

Sweet! What is the thing you put in the drill to sand with called?

Well done

Do you have social media or take your skills on the road too? I wouldn't call it a craft fair, but events like Cedar Lakes, WV, they have an annual event. There are blacksmiths there, people who make knives, carve stuff with chain saws, etc. it is or was a big event there.

Huh. Well that proved the rumor about magnesium in these making reject unsafe dead ass wrong now doesn't it. Well shown sir!

Blocks of white gold😀

Job Well Done 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

New sub. love it.

I wish I had ur devil forge it would help me melt copper

I thought the powdered metal was going to fuse more than that. The polished aluminum looks great though.

I wonder ... how would it be when you and BigstackD are in challenge mode... imagine we get video of TheGrowingStack and BigtstackD in one post like mixing "copper" & "zinc" to get BRASS!!

Did you include the tabs from those beers you had while counting? XD

I might get into this as a hobby, do you melt the cans too, or just bring them to the redemption center?

Heating your mold up more might help

Where does someone go for instruction in beginning smelting? I have some scrap copper, aluminum, gold, silver, etc. and would like to get into smelting.

That amount of soda cans where those tabs come from...

I really do think more heat is needed Try adding a second burner on the opposite side

Great Work!!!

Is there any difference between the can and aluminum tab? Or they are both the same? Thanks

Is there any way you can pour a super massive ingot that weights around 50 plus lbs

Nice

Have you ever tried to melt glass into an ingot

Your scales might be fine. My similar scales don't read amounts less than 2-3 grams very accurately. 4-5 grams and above they are fine. Need more precise scales if you want to measure 1-2 gram lots I would say.

a NEW way of melting, i don't know if this will work or not, but i suppose you could give it a try, i remember seeing a Fresnel lens setting a piece of paper on fire in less than a second, a long time ago, and was thinking that you might want to try to give it a go, you might want to give this a try on a crucible that you don't mind losing, it could shatter it, though i don't know if it will work or not, they work most efficiently in a place with a lot of sunlight, i will add the link below, you get 2 lenses , and you may want to build a rack to set them in before you attempt to melt melt, it may take a while for the sun to reach the needed temperature to melt, BOTH lenses will need to be focused on to the same spot, BUT, they MUST NOT be placed one on top of the other, it will reduce their effective ness , just focus them both on the same spot and wait, i have no idea how long it will take for things to heat up, or if this will work at all, any way, good luck if you decide to try this, i would love to see if it works, i hope so. www.amazon.com/Fresnel-Acrylic-Magnifier-Heating-Education/dp/B072Q2VX66/ref=asc_df_B071FRGJLJ/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416638584393&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7049568935744157285&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011659&hvtargid=pla-947167104397&ref=&adgrpid=93602482973&th=1

Random thought, I also suggested this to the other guy, if I could do what you do, I would do a series of smelt videos of breaking down an old car that someone was going to scrap.

I bet you would get a different result from that mixed dust if you tried it while melting a metal with a much higher melting point than aluminum.

nice with the dust

That mirror finish broski ……. And was that 10.00 or 10.01 either way crazy weight to be ……..

It's a Coors Light tab melt night

@2:33 Why put the newspaper on top?

What is value this bar?

bro got supplied with one day worth of pop tabs from caseoh

Use a blow torch and you wont have to clean the burnt paper debris

You could have bought so much stuff in Fallout Tactics with all those.

Imagine just how many cans of soda were used on this 😂

I've watched at least 4 different non-ferrous metals smelting channels & so far haven't seen any of them add borax powder to help separate the impurities & gasses. Not even when they're casting something they intend to polish to a high finish. Why is this?

The song ??

I wish I had access to that many tabs. I can make them into chains

4:40 that plastic jar is melting, you shouldn't have hold it on the top of super heated metals....

Yeah comment number 22 😃😃

I thought there would be a lot less dross and slag.

Sooooooo tell me what is the whole point ?

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5:20 why it be looking like goldfish tho

tennis shoes? best of luck...

New Jeraey

It’s pop that’s right

He should weigh all the aluminum

2:26 Whoops! I spoke too soon.

the jar was melting

My OCD would have made me find another 86 tabs.....

Forgot to feed and pat the dogs, drink a beer in front of a Australian flag and most importantly cool your metals in ice followed by throwing a brick on top smashing the remaining ice

Osm

You keep adding to it, you'll never get it counted

1st lol

If your scale sucks, why not get a better scale?

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unfortunately his collection of aluminum isn't worth much @ 20 cents pound Where 32 cents pound for cans but if own lathe milling machine sand box making useable objects should be worth more than cans pace industries an local foundry buys aluminum in 100 pound ingots has to be tested inspected for purity ,have a forge not quit as motivated, have forge mill lathe sand box like copper