It’s always a good and fun idea to recycle when you can, especially when the process involves firing up a smelter and melting a couple of hundred aluminum cans. TheGrowingStack is a YouTube channel whose goal is to melt and cast the largest pile of metal imaginable. While some pieces are turned into fine metalworks, others are just hunks of scrap waiting to be turned into something beautiful. So just how do you go about smelting 517 aluminum soda cans? There’s actually just very little to it. The only problem is how time-consuming the process is. After painstakingly crushing and counting all the cans, you can fire up the smelter.…

Ironically, working on small tasks like soldering, electronics repair, and other crafts require more helping hands. Intricate details that require precision might need one hand to hold the tiny project in place, another one to hold the lens for magnification and one or two more to work on the details. It is a good thing, therefore, that we could have extra hands with helping hands magnifier stations. Identifying which one is most likely to work best for you among all the products available in the market could be quite tricky, though. To help you make informed choices, this article summarizes the top 5 helping hands magnifier stations that were tried…

Steel toe boots, also known as safety boots, are made for durability with a protective reinforcement in the toe. They protect the foot from compressions, penetration of sharp objects, and even electric shocks when working. Besides the protective reinforcement being made of steel, it can also be made using aluminum and heavy-duty plastic such as thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). These safety boots are the best shoes for workers in the construction and manufacturing industries. And if you are an individual in need of a pair, here are the five best steel toe boots our team of professionals has tested and reviewed. Have a look at their best features that will suit…

Contour gauges are tools used to measure, copy and transfer the pattern of an object into another material as accurately as possible. There are contour gauges that are made of either plastic or stainless steel pins. Plastic pins are more compact and durable when it comes to handling. Metal pins, on the other hand, are prone to dislodge out of their housing. Nevertheless, thanks to the ability of metals to be formed thinly, metal pins will benefit you more in terms of extreme precision. Keep in mind that as the needle gets thinner, the more accurate tracing may be achieved and that is the best strength of metal models. On…

I am sure you have asked yourself before if there is anything that can survive the force of a 100-ton hydraulic press. Well, this YouTube channel dedicated to crushing stuff using the said machine will satisfy that weird curiosity. We’ve seen the Crazy Hidraulic Press channel crushing some interesting stuff, but ‘sometimes’ something survives under the foot of this powerful machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQvo90_NVHs The title of the video is a bit misleading, since not everything shown actually makes it out from under the hydraulic press alive. Objects like anvils are expected to give a lot of resistance, thanks to their high density and large size. But what’s curious is that even…

Normally when you make a knife, you have two main parts: the blade and the handle. The former is normally made out of some kind of metal while the latter is made from a separate material that provides a good grip like wood or rubber. While full tang knives exist (meaning the metal covers the whole portion of the handle), only a few knives use metal as a handle material. The answer behind this lies in the characteristic of metal being smooth. Unlike wood, metals don’t provide good grip unless they are properly shaped and textured. However, for the sake of our curiosity, let’s defy the stated fact above and…