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RE: Nice shot! So is that fall water contaminated ?

Posted by tomservo (M) on September 5, 2024 at 14:44:24

In Reply to: Nice shot! So is that fall water contaminated ? posted by AbeCollins on September 5, 2024 at 08:00:22:

Don't know about that, but here where there is a lot of iron in ground / rocks, that would not need be a sign of concern.

There is opposition to the buy out because nearly all of our steel comes from China now and if there was a war, not having the capacity to make steel in quantity is not a good strategy.
Just as China's steel capacity being greater than they need and sell, is a good strategy for war for them and possibly both some sort of clue.

An steel aside
About 30 years ago, the company i worked for was contracted to examine the bottom for the #8 furnace in Gary (pic) to see if we could measure the thickness of the interior with sound. The reason was the giant furnace had a carbon lining 20 feet thick. Every 10 or so years of non-stop operation, the have to shut down and replace the carbon which was a huge cost / disruption..

The reason they do that and are interested in thickness is there have been "worm holes", a cute name where the molten steel makes a tunnel through the carbon to the outer steel jacket. When the jacket melts and fails, tons of white hot molten steel squirts out under pressure. As explained, a bad thing in several ways and very messy, once cool, steel is extremely hard to clean up.

Just getting to the bottom of this huge thing was terrifying and when we had our coats and hats on, the guy that took over and took us there had a half dozen gas monitors on his jacket and said "if any of these go off, leave the gear and stay right behind me, run if you need to".
No one ever told me that before.

Sure enough, when we finally got to the bottom of the furnace which itself was about 2 stories high, after walking past some rail cars that were blazing hot and pouring steel an uncomfortably short distance away to look at the situation, a monitor shrieked and we trotted off right behind the guy.

Thankfully that was exciting enough for my boss and we didn't go back.
To me, once behind the gates, it was like being on another planet or something, smoke, steam, sulfur smell 100% of everything rust colored, what the heck am i doing here?

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