The endings of these reels go to the boiler. Each reel is for different alloys.
Here it is being put into the melted composition.
And the firework begins. Reaction is different depending on what has been put into.
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A dense cloud is above the boiler.
The process repeats several times and every time the alloy composition is under careful control.
Meanwhile special moulds are already prepared.
Much smoke or steam and the pouring begins.
Everybody wants to see this process.
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The process is finished.
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Look what happens to the metal then.
Every team has its own work place. It’s a deceptive impression that people are doing nothing here.
“Car â„–2″. Let’s have a look what is inside.
Just poured bars of metal are cut with saws.
And then come out of the gates.
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Part of these bars are left here to get cold.
Red-hot metal is just wonderful to look at. But one can hardly look at it for a long time because it’s too hot.
Another part of the bars is put into the special niches.
These niches can be closed completely or partially.
The plates that are already cool are put on the ground one by one.
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A worker is having a rest.
This woman marks every plate.
The workers are still having a rest…
Now it’s their turn to work. It turned out these men were cutters.
Storage of the ready-made products.
Transportation with help of the inner railway. Wagons with different bars of metal go to various workshops of the plant.
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Drilling equipment production in this workshop.
Here the bars are warmed up again.
In this way they are loaded into the furnace.
Extremely hot in here.
Then these claws take them.
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It looks like they Photoshopped demons into the fiery furnace photos!
This is a fascinating process, dangerous too.
The femen girls should be put to work there as punishment for their media exposure
hooooooooooooooooooooottttt!!!!
Engineering and Machinists PORN!
excellent tour and very well explained, lucky this place didn’t get completely destroyed during the war.
Job only for tough men!
These arc furnaces consume a few dozens of megawatt electric power, as much as a small city! Each electrode delivers current of about 50000Amp, while average house consumption is usually no more than 20A! And transformer to supply such enormous power has the size of a small railway car.
I liked that this plant is quite neat and uses modern technologies, somehow out of the stereotype that all Russian industry dates to Brezniev time.
OMG, I was on the edge of my seat with anxiety while scrolling through the photos because I just knew some of the hot melted metal was going to splash onto a worker’s testicles and rob him of his chance to procreate.
Now I can relax.
You don’t really want to boil your iron. Crucibles and ladles are the proper terms where they’ve been referred to as boilers. Nice plant tour for an operation with an amazing history. Makes a large portion of the American Rust Belt look like a flash in the pan.
Great pictures of the Arc Furnace. I’m from San Manuel where they had Flash Furnace. The whole thing was torn down and moved out of the country. Anyway, my father worked for the company for over 30 years and worked everywhere until they upgraded the furnace to a Flash. Then help build the O2 plant and was the Manager there.
Other then that you got the machining labels wrong as I’m a machinist and have been on for over 17 years.
Starting from the seventh picture is 1960′s lathe controls. Very much still great at doing the job it was design for. Eight:Starting to machine off the rust and to get to a ruff OD. 9th: Can’t tell if he is measuring the OD or using a ultra-sound machine measurement. 10th: A guy bolting the Steady rest. 11th: The Chuck and Saddle..He is machining down the OD on the blank. 12: Another view to his work. 12: Cooling mixture while it looks to be machining the ID of the blank. The rest is pretty much easy to guess.