The ART of Making Steel Rods !

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That's a high tech mill for Pakistan !! Safety ? What's that ?
 
It kinda looked like they weren't doing something quite right... should all that be on the floor like that?
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It kinda looked like they weren't doing something quite right... should all that be on the floor like that?
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Yeah! at the very least they could do is catch it coming out of the extruder. :D

Would be quite a show to watch them...The bars he is laying on at the end of the pics look relatively straight compared to the molten material that is all over the floor.


BTW- congrats on 2,500 posts Nathan!
 
bhyde said:
BTW- congrats on 2,500 posts Nathan!
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Yup... thanks.

all high quality contributions too... *snort*

(I might have poor "time management" skills)
 
Wow. OSHA would shit a brick if they saw that hehe.

Oh wait...it's islamabad....OSHA...yeah right...
 
The rods normally are either rolled into a coil or straightened and cut to length. The rod starts out thick and slow and as they go through the line of rollers they get smaller and faster.At the end they are moving very fast !!
There headings on some of the photos are silly like the 'molten steel'.
 
Man, I love steel. Wow. :)
Some of the shots have them glowing like red lightsabers- sweet!
 
Thanks, Mete. Great shots. I can't imagine the continued consentration required there. A one-hour shift must seem like an eternity.

The factory must use nearly all available space for production judging from the proximity of the showers and the nap on the steel rods. That shot alone says a lot about the physical & mental requirements of the job.
 
One of my great-grandfathers was a roller in a steel mill in Johnstown, Pa. and my father worked in Bethlehem's Sparrows Point shipyard. Somewhere along the line I heard stories about inattentive workers in the wire mill getting pierced by rods and wires that came out of the rolling machines. True or not I don't know. But OSHA or not they were and are dangerous places to work.
 
mete said:
The rods normally are either rolled into a coil or straightened and cut to length. The rod starts out thick and slow and as they go through the line of rollers they get smaller and faster.At the end they are moving very fast !!
There headings on some of the photos are silly like the 'molten steel'.
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yeh I laughed at that. I need to find my rolling mill misfeed video!
 
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