[TheForge] recycling aluminum tubing to make cannoli tube/form

[David E. Smucker]

Terry,  The aluminum from the chair tubing is most likely either 1100 alloy 
(pure aluminum) or 3003.  Both widely used in food service.  Household foil 
is 1100 and most cookware is 3003 or similar alloy.   No high strength 
copper and zinc alloys would be used for a chair, expense would be too high, 
these being aerospace alloys.  Chair tubing is a "low cost alloy" hence a 
simple alloy.  Al cans are made from 3004 for the body and 5182 for the 
ends.

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: [TheForge] recycling aluminum tubing to make cannoli tube/form


> hello;
>
> i have a need to make one dozen cannoli tubes/forms.
> cannolia tubes/forms normally made out of aluminum
> tubing which has been cut to various lenghts. the
> common size for the aluminum tubing is 3/4 inches
> in diameter and 5 inches in length. the dough used
> to make the cannoli is wrapped around the cannoli
> tube/form and deep fat fried. however, before the
> use of aluminum wood dowels were used to form and
> fry the cannoli.
>
> i have several hardwood dowels of the correct diameter
> and i have aluminum flashing which i could use to make
> a cannoli tube/form. i also have a broken aluminum lawn
> chair which is made from the correct size aluminum tubing.
>
> i am not at all sure what aluminum alloy the lawn chair
> aluminum tubing may or may not be. i doubt that using
> the lawn chair aluminum tubing for the cannoli tube/form
> would be a problem, but i am just not 100 percent sure.
>
> could the lawn chair aluminum tubing react in some unknown
> manner with the hot olive/peanut/canola/corn/soybean oil?
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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