05-01-2020, 08:20 PM
Round Oak Steel Works
Favourite Furnaces
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05-01-2020, 08:20 PM
Round Oak Steel Works
05-01-2020, 09:38 PM
They're just another heat source..
05-02-2020, 03:07 AM
Not the ones at TI Weldless in Wednesfield (now long gone). Had a summer job as a 16 year old helping to reline the bastards - hot work.
05-02-2020, 05:37 AM
Instructive video WWHO
05-02-2020, 06:19 AM
Very informative video, a must see for schools, colleges and the Black Country Museum? It could do with a media information centre.
05-02-2020, 07:44 AM
Cottonace
05-02-2020, 11:25 AM
(05-01-2020, 07:58 PM)coxy134 Wrote:Wrought a good post.(05-01-2020, 07:52 PM)WWHO Wrote:Good video never been involved with steel.(05-01-2020, 07:39 PM)coxy134 Wrote: A cupola isnt technically a furnace, its a round tower on top of a blast furnace used to trap stray sparks. (05-01-2020, 07:39 PM)coxy134 Wrote: A cupola isnt technically a furnace, its a round tower on top of a blast furnace used to trap stray sparks. Not my experience but I always thought a cupola was a foundry furnace in toto, not a gizmo on top of a blast furnace. I worked on electric induction furnaces mainly. Chucking co-ag onto the open tops and then skimming off the slag with a half cwt skimming bar was good exercise and ferociously hot in the summer... Not the same at Johnson's Rolls in West Brom (Rolls for rolling mills for British Steel). SG converter the dog's bollocks for drama (Johnson's made SG but different process). WWHO - don't forget Round Oak steelworks. I couldn't believe how clean it was were compared to an iron foundry. (05-02-2020, 02:13 PM)hudds Wrote:(05-01-2020, 07:39 PM)coxy134 Wrote: A cupola isnt technically a furnace, its a round tower on top of a blast furnace used to trap stray sparks. I'm no authority on this but i'm pretty sure Round Oak stopped producing its own hot pig iron in 1936. From hereon in it imported cold plate in order to produce steel in their Open-Hearths and electric arcs. This meant Round Oak was a steelworks (and finishing end) and Bilston a fully-integrated iron and steelworks (and finishing end).
05-02-2020, 04:02 PM
(05-02-2020, 02:13 PM)hudds Wrote:Thinking back its possibly better to say(05-01-2020, 07:39 PM)coxy134 Wrote: A cupola isnt technically a furnace, its a round tower on top of a blast furnace used to trap stray sparks. A cupola is a furnace getting its name from the round dome spark arrestor on the top? I remember when I worked there we didnt realize water had stopped flowing the spark arrestor and a load of cars in Tividale (near Boat pub) had sparks burnt into their cars! |
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