I've tried breaking the block with a sledge. No go.
I read somewhere about using a welder to run a few beads inside to shrink the sleeve and pull it. Haven't tried it yet.
Have wondered how hard it would be to cut through it with a band saw, then pop the sleeve loose.
Cutting torch seems easiest as suggested by easyrecycle.
If heating the entire block would get it out, then I would think putting it in an old oven would work? Unless it needs to be hotter than that.
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Can you take those blocks in as part of a larger load of cleaned aluminum, so that even with the sleeves still in, your contamination for the entire load is still under the 5% or 10% or whatever your yard allows before it is considered contaminated? I'm able to do that here when some material is just way too much of a hassle to clean, with specifically sleeves being one of the items I won't remove.
Last edited by zito; 05-22-2011 at 11:03 AM.
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