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Found a few nice pics and a report on a steel rolling mill earlier, thought id share it. Probably a few here that may be interested
Here it is
Here it is
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Porschemaniac
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Love those photos - and the write up.
It's the sort of process that I'm sure we all know exists - but to see it end to end in pictures certainly gives some scale.
The 30 ton slabs that it all begins from are incredible.
It's the sort of process that I'm sure we all know exists - but to see it end to end in pictures certainly gives some scale.
The 30 ton slabs that it all begins from are incredible.
madkayaker
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once got to round the rowntree wire mill in Rotherham and the Alwalk steel mill very interesting
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I've been wanting to make myself a rolling mill for forging damascus for quite a while just not quite as big as that 
I'd love see it working in the flesh
I'd love see it working in the flesh
I started my working life in British Steel now Corus. One of the jobs I was allocated was to check the legs of the rolling mills. When the billet, slab or whatever passes through the rolls the whole housing stretches. They have to allow for it when calculating the reductions / dimensions. So with time the possibility of a fatigue crack increases. Therfore they have to be checked as a massive crack could have disatrous consequences.
They are water cooled so underneath is a sump that contains some of the water (a lot of it evaporates as you can imagine). I had to get into the sump to check the legs with the dye pen. So they give me a pair of waders. The upto the armpit variety. So down into this goes I armed with the cans of dye, cleaner and chalk. Once down there someone decides to send a red / white hot slab through. The noise is deafening and you can seriously feel the heat. What do I do.....duck down..........thus filling the waders with water from the inside.........now I cant move and Im surrounded by a gang of blokes ******* themselves laughing.......... There wasnt enough room down there to take off the waders so I had to be lifted out by the crane.
I still dont know if it was a mistake or a practical joke
They are water cooled so underneath is a sump that contains some of the water (a lot of it evaporates as you can imagine). I had to get into the sump to check the legs with the dye pen. So they give me a pair of waders. The upto the armpit variety. So down into this goes I armed with the cans of dye, cleaner and chalk. Once down there someone decides to send a red / white hot slab through. The noise is deafening and you can seriously feel the heat. What do I do.....duck down..........thus filling the waders with water from the inside.........now I cant move and Im surrounded by a gang of blokes ******* themselves laughing.......... There wasnt enough room down there to take off the waders so I had to be lifted out by the crane.
I still dont know if it was a mistake or a practical joke
the snooper
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mistakes like that dont just happen they are set up at your expence you probably wasnt the first
madkayaker
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you were set up but very funny
