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Old 12-14-2013, 10:06 PM
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Cool video of casting an ant hill with molten aluminum....


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Old 12-14-2013, 11:28 PM
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That was pretty cool but I agree with my son. Who wakes up one day and thinks of doing this? It was cool though.
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Old 12-15-2013, 07:11 AM
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Pretty awesome and a money making venture I'm sure. I looked on his site but he didn't have anything for sale at the time
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That's really cool
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Old 12-15-2013, 03:50 PM
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My son and some buds did this when they were juniors in high school as a science project. We kept the casting a couple years before passing it along to a relative. No two are the same.
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Old 12-15-2013, 04:24 PM
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That is cool!


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My son and some buds did this when they were juniors in high school as a science project. We kept the casting a couple years before passing it along to a relative. No two are the same.
How hard was it to do?
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Old 12-15-2013, 09:15 PM
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How hard was it to do?
That was back in 2000. I had a buddy that owned an iron foundary here. The kids gathered up everything aluminum they could find...even the screen door frame on my shop. Glen melted the stuff for them, they walked behind his shop and poured it down a huge ant bed. Dug it up, brought it home, washed it off and won 1st place at the Franklinton Parish Free Fair. Lots of kids were asking him if they could use it next year. It made a cool Christmas for a couple years.
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Pretty awesome and a money making venture I'm sure. I looked on his site but he didn't have anything for sale at the time

The one in the video sold for $2,550
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Old 12-16-2013, 09:10 AM
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The one in the video sold for $2,550

Holy *$(* &%*#) )@(* &(*$ &)(#) (*#$( *&$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm taking the day off and going scrounge up some scrap aluminum at my old man's shop!!!! Where did you see how much it sold for?
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That is really cool. $2500??!
Just quit my job today !


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Old 12-16-2013, 11:18 AM
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Holy *$(* &%*#) )@(* &(*$ &)(#) (*#$( *&$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm taking the day off and going scrounge up some scrap aluminum at my old man's shop!!!! Where did you see how much it sold for?

On another website, someone looked it up on E-Bay some kind of way, I'll see if I can find it.
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