has some neat tricks up its quickly melting sleeve. It melts in your hand, can be used to make a gag spoon, and can turn a typical soda can into mush. The aluminum on a can amalgamates with the ...

After gathering 50 pounds of beer cans and melting them down into ingots of various sizes, [Brock] and company had a lot of aluminum and nothing to build. Eventually, someone got the idea to build ...

Then, they go to an aluminum manufacturing plant, where they are shredded, remelted and solidified again. In India, the cans are collected from garbage dumps and sent to small private companies, where ...

It’s just that we never would have thought to build an induction forge that can simultaneously melt and levitate a chunk of aluminum. (Video embedded below.) [imsmoother] has had plans for 3 kW ...