Howdy! Utah Laws

Originally Posted by WhiteSquirrel

Welcome.

That really depends on the yard : one of my locals won't take non ferrous cast in ingot molds, but will take them cast in shapes or strips. Reasoning behind this is that it's easy to hide heavier metals in a thick ingot.

Another yard takes metal "In any form" (my favorite).



Give some local yards a call and ask what they take.

You have a lot to learn about aluminum and her many alloys.

Extruded aluminum is a type of metal when electrically heated softens like putty, the putty is forced through a die to give it shape. Extruded is designed to stiffen very fast leaving the die, no good to use as a casting metal.

And this is one of the many reasons why your whisky glass mold did not properly completely fill, the alloy used was designed to quick freeze..

Hydraulic pumps and transmission cases are made from an alloy having resistance to abrasion.

Larger aluminum castings such as cylinder heads and engine blocks have a slow freeze rate which allows the mold to completely fill.

Aluminum used for outboard engines has a high copper content which inhibits corrosion, sheet aluminum used to build boats and other items found in marine use will also have a high copper content but must remain easy to weld.

If you were able to guarantee the purity of your ingot you could look outside of the scrap area for a buyer.

You could not spin cast aluminum into a new shape.