Even MORE pics of Niagara Specialty Metals

Matthew Gregory

Matthew Gregory

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I finally got around to uploading the pictures that Matt Edson (sonyes) took on our trip to Niagara Specialty Metals, sorry for making you wait for what are truly MUCH better images than my own - amazing what happens when the guy behind the lens has talent!

I'm pretty sure none of the controllers in my shop are this cool:
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One of the rolling mill's oven process report:
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Here's Eric Harrington pulling a sheet from the oven. You can't imagine hoe dextrous these guys are with these massive sheets of HOT steel! They really do make it look effortless...
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A shot of Eric Harrington and rolling mill supervisor Stefan Moroz feeding a big sheet of 440c to a waiting Eric Eick on the far side of the rollers.
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A better shot of it being fed into the rolling mill:
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Steel - it does a body good!
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A good shot of one of their in-house custom-built annealing furnaces:
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No time is wasted - they yank these things out and whip them through the rolling mill with incredible speed. Here's Stefan and Eric once again:
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How Matt caught this shot, I have no idea - but that's why I asked him to come! Awesome...
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This is a cool shot of the steel poking out of both ends of the rolling mill as seen from the side:
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After hot rolling, being checked for thickness and prepared for annealing:
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Needless to say I kewpt my hands in my pockets for most of the trip ; )
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From left to right are Eric Eick, Eric Harrington, Stefan Moroz, the posterior side of Yours Truly, and Bob Shabala. I think at this point I was describing just how crazy knifemakers are!
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The sheets are passed through the mill, then lifted over the top roller and pushed to the feed again. You really have to see these guys in action to believe just how fast and smoothly they do it!
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A stack of sheets fresh from an annealing cycle:
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I'm pretty sure we should stop complaining about the cost of belts... these pigs are for the Timesaver, and they are HUGE! If we cut one and put a buckle on it, it would almost fit Spangler's waist!
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Some M42 billets. Yes, the numbers that precede the pound sign are the weight in pounds! These are little ones for this shop:
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This is a shot of some of the billet stock in the yard... I have no clue how far the yard runs, but it's long, and there's unbelievable quantities of steel:
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Waterjet!
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This is the spare 1,250 horsepower motor for the little mill. Wow.
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There was one entire building that contained bandsaws. LOTS of bandsaws. Big ones, small ones.
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55 gallon drums for scrap lay everywhere, all properly segregated to assure that they we recycled. VERY efficient!
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I wonder what it would take to make a post anvil out of CPM10v? Why not 770 pounds? :eek::D
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...mmmmm..... 3v. Better than bowls of bacon. Well, maybe not that good, but pretty good....
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Cool reference table:
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They wouldn't let me play with any of the buttons or switches. My guess is that someone had already warned them about me.
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...to be continued.

Next trip - the breaking down of big billets! Stay tuned...
 
WOW. The neatest things I have seen in a long time:thumbup::thumbup:. Too bad there is nothing like that place near here. I'm jealous!
 
that's hair?

i thought that was some type of helmet you see the special people like matt wearing all the time... shouldn't you have a mouth guard?
 
COOL stuff. I noticed their ad in Blade recently. Looks like a great place to get steel from.

Along with steel, it is nice to have some wood.:D

The other day I took a cruise on the scoot to a place called Berkshire Products in Sheffield MA. Just north of Canaan CT.

They have several buildings that customers can wander around in, stocked with every kind of wood you can imagine, from exotics to more common.

Burls the size of cars and some impressive machinery to process it.

Some wood is priced by the board foot and others by the piece. Some treasures to be found for sure. It was fun. (anyone interested can take a virtual tour if you go to their website)

Regards,
Peter
 
Cool pics Matt! Nice of you to take the time to post them. That one shot of the hot sheet just glowing there was very cool.:thumbup:
I have to say...there is not many things cooler than a bowl of bacon. You might need to start thinking about your priorities.:D;)
Mace
 
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