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ALU melting
Eugene:
I'm glad it isn't just me who thought the guy a cretin.
I've worked in die-cast shops and take it from me getting even a small blob of molten zinc ally on you can really spoil your day. That set up was, as Ginger Nut said, horribly unstable and well capable of tipping over and dropping a couple of pints of liquid metal over his unprotected feet.
However it did show the valuable lesson of how not to do things, so I'll bear it in mind when I start on my casting project in the Summer. :(
Eug
RobWilson:
I actually turned it off @ "light the foundry " :bang: , but decided to have another look this morning lol oh my did it get worse .
I cant agree more with everyone above's comments, ALL bring up very valid concerns , yet another bullshit youtube video demonstrating that if you cant even get the terminology right its all down hill from there .
Rob
John Rudd:
Agreed the guy is a cretin.....he seems to exhibit the same blasé approach on every vid I've seen of his on youtube and this us no exception......
I can't imagine what he was thinking when he created this vid......no sense of danger of any kind....
Would you weld without a mask? Answers on the back of a postage stamp..... :doh:
dawesy:
While this is all true and I agree with what's said, I think it's more to do with the current culture.
Should we really have warning stickers on everything? Or should we not look and think ah this part could be dangerous so I'll take these steps.
This is what bugs me with H+S rules today. The current trend is 'if there's no warning signs then it must be safe' rather than teaching people to risk assess before they do something.
Yes more info on correct ppe would be good but if you aren't aware of the dangers of very hot things, especially liquids, then really doing things like that is not for you.
The reason we have so many idiots about now is because HS stops them being naturally removed from the gene pool.
lordedmond:
Yep
The guys a complete idiot of the first order
Now I do not own use a furnace of any description but I served my time and did a further five years at Stanton iron works who ran base exchange units and quite a few cupolas plus six induction furnaces the bigges was a modest 1.5 megawatt unit
So I have seen a lot of metal melted
To say you can put wet cans into a melt is insane , the guys used to put the bales of scap steel around the top of the induction furnaces to warm up and dry out if they were damp , well one day i was doing maint on the control panel , we did it live so as not to stop production , they kicked in the said bales guess what have you seen 7 tons of molten iron going skywards it's a fair sight , anyway no one was hurt but the crane track and crane above was destroyed along with the furnace coil.
That made a lot of work for us to refit it all
The cause was guessed at but full tin cans were found it some other bales so take bets.
Much larger bangs were made when the prop was pulled from under a cupola at the end of the shift , have you seen the counter sunk bolts used to hold chequer plate down turned into wine glasses
Stuart
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