DLD Reference: Steel2

John Abbott has posted a lot of pictures of the steel industry. Unfortunately, he has not provided much information. Hopefully others will comment on his postings. I've started another posting on steel to save his pictures.

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Loyd Boydigan Great pics John, the only steel mill type plant left here is the former U. S. Steel McDonald works. Now called McDonald steel and run as a mini mill. The former Republic Steel blast furnace is still standing for now in Warren, but is scheduled to come down. Vallourec does occupy Sheet and Tube's old open hearth building of the Brier Hill works. Lots of folks here can still remember Black Monday in 1977.James Miller It came as no surprise to me when LTV bought the farm on Nov 10 2001 closing 7 plants and chopping 53,000+ jobsJames Miller Billy Joel sang about the closures in the requiem; "Allentown" in 1982 when many plants shuttered (1977-1987) saw 13.7 million jobs lost due to divestment and overregulation.

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Augustine Teng Besseemers doing their job burning off all the unwanted impurities.Alan Vale Those people are skimming by hand wow very dangerousAugustine Teng Actually safer than it appears. After the Besseemer Process,there's nothing left to blow unless water gets in. I have been skimming gunk from crucibles holding molten brass,aluminium etc after degassing and grain refining. Built my own gas fired furnace. Only the Singapore Ingersoll-Rand did it. I had to cast some parts to make condensate traps to complement compressor packages. I know nothing on gravity casting of aluminium. Learnt from McGrawhill HandBooks. My uncles were did deslagging of the cupola furnaces. Was fun to watch from faraway.Ian Wilson We call these guys puddlers

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[There are a lot of comments concerning what steel mill are left in US.]

Ian Wilson posted three pictures with the comment:

Construction of Stewarts & Lloyds Steelworks Corby Northamptonshire 1934, the largest steelworks in Britain, at its heyday before nationalisation 1955 when it employed 11,000 workers and the start of its demolition in the 1980s.

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Travis William Shute https://www.google.com/.../mc-bw-bethlehem-steel-plant... here is some insight why it closed. Hint... it wasn't EPA and it wasn't labor. It also wasn't management.Ken Klatt I work in the modern day steel industry in N. W. Ohio. There are many good paying jobs available in this industry. We are non Union and have great benefits. The problem today is we can't find young people who are willing to this type of work. Everyone wants to sit behind a desk and make big $. Steel making is alive and well in the USA!

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PITTSBURGH STEEL

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[The three guys provide scale as to how big that ladle is.]

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Dave Hopwood Seem to remember that there was a blast furnace in England, maybe at Scunthorpe, that roared out 40,000 tons of pig iron per day and that was just one of them.....

Andy Pullen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xVWPRWS2cs

[The "L" Furnance (picture 32) stood as recently as 2012. Some neat aerial views after picture 32. RG Steel was also on Sparrows Point. Actually, maybe they were the last owner of the steel plant. Pennsylvania Steel was another name here.]

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Binky Dow There was a Bethlehem Steel Ship yard in Quincy Mass. One of the ships built there was the USS Massachusetts which still exist in Fall River Mass.Robert Livingston My father worked at Fore River, a division of Bethlehem Steel, during WWII. He helped pull the cables through the conning towers while Massachusetts was a-building.Binky Dow The USS Salem is still sitting there on display.Robert Phillips Where are they now??? UNION UNION EPA EPA EPA EPA!!!!!!1Robert Livingston Not exactly. My dad graduated from MIT in 1941, trained as a naval architect and marine engineer. But there was little work in the USA designing and building ships after 1945. Had nothing to do with the EPA (not started until the 1970's) nor with unions (no union engineers, ya know). USA had overbuilt its merchant fleet. Supply and demand. There was some big ship building still going on in places like Newport News, VA, but many shipyards closed then.

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[The comments indicate there is a vertical mold in the floor for big gun barrels and the crane would lift out the castings and shake the sand off.]

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Greg McMoses is that a monorail crane that travelled around the site?

Joe Scanlon The Patapsco and Back River Railroad did the pushing and pulling at Sparrows Point.

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Jason Baker I have made hundreds of parts that go into these rolling mills over the last 20 years. Universal spindles, couplings, drive spades, worm gear centers, the screw down nuts and screws, chocks and work rolls.Terry Smith Roughing Mill ?Jason Baker YesGary Cribb NUCOR Steel Berkeley County, SC.

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Robert Phillips The days of the tongs:):):):)

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Bruce Carrick What does the dial indicate?Thomas Rappen distance of rollers... the control guy runs it through, changing the distance.. power so high, that good guys don't need to reheat... my father told me abou two 5kV, 500 kW DC AEG motors on it, anno 1955.

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Gary Cribb One here in our state , located in Georgetown, SC. It has been shuttered for a couple years but has a new buyer that's starting it back up in June.Thomas Rappen steel wires, done from a 4x4" block, ending to 10, 5 and 3mm... running fist through double roll, finally through small dies, smaller done cold, here 20 metric tons, no interuption... my father told me about, and how a poor guy was caught to death...