18 Sep
2018
18 Sep
'18
6:58 a.m.
On 09/17/2018 11:21 PM, juan wrote: <SNIP>
Have you ever tried to melt aluminium? (700C) Copper? (1070C)
I have :) At times, I've disposed of HDDs by burning them. In a 25 liter steel drum, with holes punched around the bottom, for draft. I used dry oak, started with kerosene, and juiced occasionally with paraffin. Everything but the steel parts burned. Including all the aluminum and copper. And that was without forced draft. I've also burned steel. But that took a methane-oxygen flame. And it was very dramatic. Even more so than magnesium. With lots of pops, and splattering molten steel. <SNIP>