Finding Aluminium is so hard!
So I'm having major difficulty keeping up with the amount of aluminium I need to repair/upgrade my power armour and other bits and pieces.
I've spent a while now just searching for this single material and wondering if there's a good cache somewhere which I can hit. The wasteland needs me and I can't function without this armour!
Best Answer
In the beginning, your best source of aluminium will be aluminium cans. They're not only common, they also give you 2 units of aluminium and have a weight of 0.1; they yield 20 units of aluminium per weight. The next best items are the cake pan, the surgical tray, and the TV dinner tray, which yield 6 units per weight (3 units with a weight of 0.5) and are less common.
However, better than searching the wastelands for cans, you can get lots of aluminium from scrapping metal armor and weapons, if you've got the Scrapper perk. Although they yield much less aluminium per weight than the cans or the trays, they are exceedingly more common and easier to find; half the wastelands is armed and wants you dead, after all. Why look for the aluminium, if the aluminium's looking for you?
Also, don't forget to scrap any trash lying around in your neighborhood (highlighted in yellow in the workshop interface). Cars are fairly rich in aluminium and have no weight (or rather, they weigh so much, you can't carry them in the first place).
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Aluminium can be extracted (uneconomically) from some clays but the most common aluminium ore is a material called bauxite. First the aluminium ore needs to be mined, then the bauxite is refined into alumina (aluminium oxide). Large amounts of electricity are used to smelt the alumina into aluminium metal.Dropped Aluminium Biner #0: 255m onto hard surface.
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Answer 2
This worked for me but there's a few spoilers:
After you join the Institute there're 4 sets of stairs going up on the bottom floor. Next to those stairs there are rooms. Most of them have tools and other things in them, and everything in those rooms, including the broom for some reason, have aluminum in them. They reset every so often.
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