Kelley says the impact on the community was one like nobody has seen, not just producing tin plate but a great American melting pot. "We had so many ethnic groups come from out of the country ...

If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry ... check out the overview of the device and a demo of melting aluminium.

God, Zangwill claimed, was using America as “a crucible” to melt the “fifty” barbarian tribes of Europe into a metal from which He can cast Americans. Today, the melting pot metaphor is ...

If you’re like [Brock], you’ll probably end up melting those cans down to build an engine. After gathering 50 pounds of beer cans and melting them down into ingots of various sizes ...