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[dallen]

I found and collected this picture today off of a site that I was looking at, figured the rest of you that like stuff hot might like this. I did have to resize it so it would be large enough to see.

[F.C.]

Indeed... some "DO" like it HOT. Here's me pour'n a bronze seal for a time capsule vault I made on commission.

[dallen]

nice looking flask you make it? from the size of the flask thats a pretty good size pour?

[Jammer]

Here's acouple I took at work. Try to be artsy on some.
Cooling slag.

Dumping slag from a ladle.

50 tons of Steel waiting to go to the tower. The black cover is insulating material, burnt rice hulls.
Hard to get a perspective of this, the ladle is about 10 feet across. Mike, around 3 meters.

Me! Stirring the heat from inside the stir pulpit. The glow is the hot steel.

[dallen]

nice pictures how do they keep the rice hulls from turning to ash, I put charcoal in a brass melt and it just burnt up? I may snag one of your pics for wall paper on my laptop that one of the slag I like they are all good shots though, specially the one dumping the slag.

[Jammer]

These are shrunk a little so they may not cover the desktop or they may get fuzzy. If you want a full pic, send me a note and I'll try to email you one. I've got the cooling slag on my desktop now.

[Harry]

Jammer, if you upload the pictures full res in your posts the forum will resize them for in the post and link to full version. Nice shots...

[dallen]

jammer with a little photoshop trickery, any photo can be made to do any thing you want it to. be pretty funny to crop a guy out in shorts and a tee shirt and stand him up on the edge of that ladle

[F.C.]

Yes, Dallen... I did make that flask... out of aluminum channel, aluminum solid stock (for pins) and aluminum angle for pin guides and pin supports and handles. That flask is 46 inches in diameter and each half is 6" deep. That pour was 230 lbs of melt.

[dallen]

you mind me asking what you were pouring, a flask that size you could pour a custom manhole cover in it. but I don't think that is what you were pouring, thats a lot of bronze in one pot. I just ordered me a new A20 Silicon Carbide crucilbe from Mifco, who knows maybe I'll get to do a big pour like that some day. only I want mine to be cast iron parts for a steam engine that I have visions of building. got a deal on the crucible it was cheaper to buy the 20 then it was to buy a 16.