ok, fair enough.. my experience is limited to throwing aluminum cans into (hot) fires and burning aluminum foil with sparkler powder. I'll trust a boilermaker to know.
Ive had bonfires up north that burned for 2 or 3 days while clearing my land, white hot with beer cans in it and the beer cans do not melt, they just char and the lattice is weakened. So why dont the beer cans melt in these white hot fires but aluminum wheels did here? One fire is unmoving and the aluminum is engulfed for a couple days and the other by definition is transient. Doesnt make a lick of sense.
I’m with you in it doesn’t all make sense. The fire is having to jump from one object to the next and each object has to reach these high temps but an isolated bonfire being fed doesn’t reach the same temps.
ok, fair enough.. my experience is limited to throwing aluminum cans into (hot) fires and burning aluminum foil with sparkler powder. I'll trust a boilermaker to know.
Ive had bonfires up north that burned for 2 or 3 days while clearing my land, white hot with beer cans in it and the beer cans do not melt, they just char and the lattice is weakened. So why dont the beer cans melt in these white hot fires but aluminum wheels did here? One fire is unmoving and the aluminum is engulfed for a couple days and the other by definition is transient. Doesnt make a lick of sense.
I’m with you in it doesn’t all make sense. The fire is having to jump from one object to the next and each object has to reach these high temps but an isolated bonfire being fed doesn’t reach the same temps.
put some grinder dust on an aluminum can and melt it with a torch= thermite. fun times