The other day I saw an episode of How It's Made that had a segment on making stainless steel. It started with a typical electric furnace melting the scrap into...
I saw this, too. I liked the shots from the overhead crane - typically you don't see shots like this. The shots of the DEC and water cooled duct were very...
Hey Wil, Give me a call. Eric ... From: Iron Will To: STEEL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:16 AM Subject: [STEEL] How It's Made episode The...
The photo inside the cast house for Inland # 7 is amazing and shows how far we've come. Every cast house I've seen looked like a scary dangerous place to work....
I found several photos of the merchant iron facility at Maysville, Wisconsin, which I believe was owned by YS&T at some point. I know someone had an interest...
Hi Group, Ludlum I think owns the J & L Speciality Steel Mill in Midland PA and they have two large Electric Furnaces and and AOD. They roll a lot of...
There is a new movie on youtube.com called "Bethlehem Steel, The People Who Built America". It's really a one hour PBS special. It tells a lot of the history...
I can also help. I have a bunch of postcard views of this plant. I also have the hard-to-find book "When Iron Was King", a huge book that has everything you...
Is the site: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/mb/todengine dead? Tried to visit just now and it is off line. mike ... Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your...
Those episodes used to cover manufacturing processes in Canada almost exclusively (i.e. hockey sticks & pucks, curling stones, Bombardier "toys", tractors in...
I personally have not had any problems with the steelheritage.org site! However Yahoo took a couple of days to distribute that post I made about the Indiana...
I think there is a building with the name "American Steel & Wire" around 13rd & Torrence, across from the gas station. I'm not 100%, but i definitely remember...
The heat would go to an AOD. The AOD refines what the EAF has sent. The operation at the AOD will blow oxygen, argon and stir at certain refining. Additions...
Hi, I am new member of the group and would like to introduce myself. I am one of six HO modelers from Scotland Icovering the Glasgow Perth and Fife areas) who...
The two big stainless plants in Canada were the Atlas Steel plants in Welland, Ontario and in Tracy, Quebec. If there was an AOD, then it was shot in Welland...
Welcome Keith: This site has a good mix of modelers, historians and former/active mill workers. Brendan (modeler & photographer) ... From: Keith Fox...
After locating a copy in a library, I spent 8 months tracking down the one I purchased. Paid $125, and it was the only one I could find. Not really surprised...
Did he give a reason that the book won't be reprinted? With web based publishing that book could be made available without the hassle of dealing with a...
Blast furnace casthouses are still dangerous places to work. Such recent accidents at Burns Harbor and Severstal bring that to mind. You always have to be very...
In any cast house there is but two feet or sometimes less of refractory between you and hundreds of tons of molten iron, and the only thing keeping that...
Some time back someone asked about BOF vessel dimensions. I don't remember who, but here are the vessel dimensions at Burns Harbor. Over all height=38' 6" OD...
You said it! My little CO monitor has saved me a few times. It would be at 0 ppm then jump to 400 ppm in just a few seconds. One thing I've noticed about...
There are two new photos of McLouth Steel the McLouth album. I'm also wondering who would be interested in a tour of the plant sometime this spring. It's not...
I am sorry, but what exactly do you mean by "flame suppression?" Thanks. Mark B. ... ppm then jump to 400 ppm in just a few seconds. ... bigger. Before the...
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