How to Get Aluminum in Fallout 4

Aluminum is one of the many components needed for crafting weapons, armor, or power armor mods, as well as maintaining your settlement. It is obtained by scrapping the following items found around the world.

Items That Contain Aluminum

Item	Scrap	Weight (lb)	Value (Caps)
Alarm Clock	x2 Aluminum, x1 Glass, x1 Spring, x1 Nuclear Material	1	10
Aluminum	x1 Aluminum	0.1	3
Aluminum Can	x2 Aluminum	0.1	1
Aluminum Canister	x2 Aluminum, x2 Fiberglass, x1 Oil	3	12
Applicator	x1 Aluminum, Fiber Optics	0.5	12
Cake Pan	x3 Aluminum	0.5	5
Carlisle Typewriter	x2 Aluminum, x6 Gear, x4 Screw, x5 Spring	5	20
Cauterizer	x1 Ceramic	0.1	1
Clean Cake Pan	x2 Aluminum	0.5	7
Clean Coffee Tin	x2 Aluminum	1	6
Coffee Tin	x2 Aluminum	1	3
Coolant Cap	x2 Aluminum	1	5
Distress Pulser	x2 Aluminum, x1 Circuitry, x1 Nuclear Material	1	5
Ear Examiner	x1 Aluminum, x1 Fiber Optics, x1 Glass	0.75	15
FLL3 Turbopump Bearings	x3 Aluminum, x1 Circuitry	0	300
Hubcap	x2 Aluminum, x2 Screw	3	5
Inactive Distress Pulser	x2 Aluminum, x1 Circuitry, x1 Nuclear Material	1	5
Industrial Oil Canister	x2 Aluminum, x2 Oil	3	14
Injector	x1 Aluminum	0.5	8
Oil Can	x1 Aluminum, x4 Oil	0.5	15
Recorder	x1 Aluminum, x1 Circuitry, x1 Glass, x1 Nuclear Material,	0.75	23
Ring Stand	x1 Aluminum, x1 Steel	3	2
Sabotaged Turbopump Bearings	x3 Aluminum, x1 Circuitry	0	15
Sensor	x1 Aluminum, x1 Nuclear Material	0.5	20
Spanner	x1 Aluminum	0.5	8
Surgical Tray	x3 Aluminum	0.5	2
Sweeper	x3 Aluminum, x2 Nuclear Material, x2 Circuitry	4	100
Toy Rocket Ship	x1 Aluminum, x2 Plastic	0.5	7
Tray	x1 Aluminum, x2 Plastic	0.5	7
Tin Tool	x1 Aluminum, x1 Nuclear Material	0.5	15
TV Dinner Tray	x3 Aluminum	0.5	1
Tweezers	x1 Aluminum	0.2	8
Unrusted Tin Can	x1 Aluminum, x1 Steel	0.1	1
Wakemaster Alarm Clock	x2 Aluminum, x2 Glass, x2 Spring, x2 Nuclear Material	1	15

Shipments of Aluminum

You can find a shipment of aluminum in Diamond City. Arturo the weapons vendor sells them. Each shipment has fifty pieces of aluminum.

You can also find a shipment of 25 pieces being sold by Rufus Robins in Goodneighbor.

Aluminum Locations

There are a few great places scattered around the Commonwealth where you can find lots of Aluminum.

The Institute- All over the institute in the form of tools, there is a lot to be found here
Vault 95- Over 115 pieces can be found scattered around in the form of aluminum cans and both surgical and TV dinner trays
Vault 81- Around 40 pieces of aluminum can be found here, these are found inside the secret location located within the vault
Mass Pike Tunnel- Around 50 aluminum pieces. Many of these are underwater
Mahkra Fishpacking- Over 80 pieces can be found here
Corvega Assembly Plant- The aluminum is found both inside and out. Watch out for raiders here
Medford Memorial Hospital- Multiple surgical and TV dinner trays can be found here, making it an excellent location for aluminum farming