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Water Bath Bulk Scrapper for Aluminum

Here's one way I break down large cast aluminum objects such as car wheels that are too big to fit in my crucible (or even my big furnace, which does have a drain hole meant to make direct melting possible). Wheelium is great stuff for casting, but it can be a pain to break them up! Some people just toss them on a bonfire. This works well, but if you don't break them up when they start getting crumbly and drag the pieces out of the fire somehow, I have found you will lose a lot more to dross. Some people use power saws. You'll see I did a little bit of this here, and it was slow going, though I used a really bad old blade... Not really sure I own the right saw or the right blade for that. I have also used a sawzall with a metal demolition blade. Not tooooo bad, but my arms were numb for a couple hours afterwards... Some people even use log splitters. Sounds awesome, but I don't have one. I first saw this design posted by Bob Ward on the Alloy Avenue forums in December of 2013, and it has been my favourite method ever since. The little lumps of aluminum you get are really nice and clean and it's fun to watch burning and quick to set up even at regular speed. The big pieces of angle iron the stand sits on here are my way of keeping the legs from sinking into the mud when the ground around it starts getting wet, and it seemed to work well - you can see in the other short clip of it that I have posted, I had to prop one side of the stand up with a log the first time I used it. Keeping the hose running throughout makes it easy to skim off the bits of charcoal as they drop down into the water and so makes retrieving the aluminum later on a cleaner job, and more importantly, it keeps the water cool. The bucket will actually come to a boil eventually and the blobs will start fusing back together when they land if I don't.