As a steelworker for 23 years, I can tell you it's impossible to melt any kind of steel with jet fuels, whether refined or crude, whether synthetic or petroleum-based.
Steel isn't melted using fuel, its a complicated process that requires highly specialized foundry processes to turn steel into pliable molten metal.
Anyone with a crude understanding of metallurgy would tell you the same.
LOL!! If jet fuel could melt metal, we'd have airplane engines melting out of their fuselages during takeoff!
@sammyboi1453 Slag is the melted impurities when metal is melted. Since it is lighter that the metal, it floats to the surface and must be skimmed off. In iron & steel production it is the melted limestone which acts as a flux combining with iron ore now depleted of the Iron. That is run off through a hole on the Blast Furnace called a "Cinder Tap", put into special railcars and disposed of off site. It is reused in cement etc. The slag will make a casting weak & is why it's removed.
@strobx1 i asked that two years ago, but if you told me that a day earlier i might have got a few more marks on the mechanical engineering exam i had today haha!
@sammyboi1453 All I can say is "Better late than never". My knowledge of foundry/Steel Mill operations comes from a "Metals 10" foundry class I took in High School. We melted aluminum in a crucible furnace then used "smelling salts" to draw out the slag which we did with a huge spoon. The salts would flame up with a acrid smelling smoke. We heated the molten aluminum to about 1800F which is a "super heat" above the melting point. , Continued next
@strobx1 This was to make sure the metal didn't start to solidify when it came in contact with the cold sand mold and create what is known as a "cold pour". When that happens the metal will layer on top of each other and make a weak casting. Also we put in vent holes to let the gases escape or else you'd get pockets in the casting which would weak. My other experience comes from Alcoa/Misco/ Howmet Corp where we cast titanium,(Continued)
@strobx1 . Those temps with super heat was about 5000F. The titanium was poured into a ceramic "lost wax" mold. These were heated into an oven until the mold was yellow hot. This would bake the mold solid melt the wax & prevent the mold from breaking if poured into a cold mold spilling the 5000F titanium on the floor. This was done in a Vacuum Casting Electric Arc Furnace. I used to heat up my TV dinners on a hot casting. Worked great. Why use a microwave when the heat's there to be used?
super sport!
rinalouise 8 months ago
As a steelworker for 23 years, I can tell you it's impossible to melt any kind of steel with jet fuels, whether refined or crude, whether synthetic or petroleum-based.
Steel isn't melted using fuel, its a complicated process that requires highly specialized foundry processes to turn steel into pliable molten metal.
Anyone with a crude understanding of metallurgy would tell you the same.
LOL!! If jet fuel could melt metal, we'd have airplane engines melting out of their fuselages during takeoff!
GrotesqueMACHINERY 11 months ago
What is the temperature around you? Do you feel the heat in your suit? Also, are you still in this line of work?
I admire anyone who can work in a place like that.
BadCivilServant 2 years ago
what is slag?
sammyboi1453 3 years ago
@sammyboi1453 Slag is the melted impurities when metal is melted. Since it is lighter that the metal, it floats to the surface and must be skimmed off. In iron & steel production it is the melted limestone which acts as a flux combining with iron ore now depleted of the Iron. That is run off through a hole on the Blast Furnace called a "Cinder Tap", put into special railcars and disposed of off site. It is reused in cement etc. The slag will make a casting weak & is why it's removed.
strobx1 1 year ago
@strobx1 i asked that two years ago, but if you told me that a day earlier i might have got a few more marks on the mechanical engineering exam i had today haha!
sammyboi1453 1 year ago
@sammyboi1453 All I can say is "Better late than never". My knowledge of foundry/Steel Mill operations comes from a "Metals 10" foundry class I took in High School. We melted aluminum in a crucible furnace then used "smelling salts" to draw out the slag which we did with a huge spoon. The salts would flame up with a acrid smelling smoke. We heated the molten aluminum to about 1800F which is a "super heat" above the melting point. , Continued next
strobx1 1 year ago
@strobx1 This was to make sure the metal didn't start to solidify when it came in contact with the cold sand mold and create what is known as a "cold pour". When that happens the metal will layer on top of each other and make a weak casting. Also we put in vent holes to let the gases escape or else you'd get pockets in the casting which would weak. My other experience comes from Alcoa/Misco/ Howmet Corp where we cast titanium,(Continued)
strobx1 1 year ago
@strobx1 . Those temps with super heat was about 5000F. The titanium was poured into a ceramic "lost wax" mold. These were heated into an oven until the mold was yellow hot. This would bake the mold solid melt the wax & prevent the mold from breaking if poured into a cold mold spilling the 5000F titanium on the floor. This was done in a Vacuum Casting Electric Arc Furnace. I used to heat up my TV dinners on a hot casting. Worked great. Why use a microwave when the heat's there to be used?
strobx1 1 year ago
All caster operators fuck up! I once had a breakout due to "SLAG IN MOLD". That sux!
kdjfnvjvd 3 years ago
lol i think there using slag grip...its actually better to stick the slag rod in there and twirl it around lift it for a sec to cool and do it again
matty6ross 4 years ago
wow thats a shitload of slag God i hate slag!
midaran 4 years ago