We have established a beer can melting guild out here at the lake. Well, mostly the “guild” is Tad St. Clair stuffing a small crucible into our lakeside campfire and melting down aluminum beer cans. The other day, however, I took a more active role in the guild. “Let’s see if we can melt a hundred cans into one pour,” I suggested.
Oh, yes, that’s the other half
of the deal, we (read Tad here) pour the molten aluminum into various makeshift
molds, including a rusty cast iron frying pan.
“A hundred cans,” Tad ruminated. “Okay.
You have to count the cans. I
will do the melting.”
“Deal.” I agreed.
Melting down one-hundred beer
cans sort of turned into actual work (for Tad).
But, after something close to two hours, we reached our mark and stoked
the fire to build up heat and get the metal juicy enough to pour into the
frying pan.
After cooling down our pour on
the lake ice, Tad presented our work to everyone. That’s when someone remarked: “Hey, that looks
like Terry!”
Sure enough, one-hundred melted
beer cans turned into Terry’s profile.
Posted is a photograph of
me holding aluminum Terry alongside our authentic Terry.
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