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| US EPA via GeorgiaEncylopedia The Atlantic Steel Mill in Atlanta operated for more than 100 years before closing in 1998. The contaminated 138-acre site on which the mill stood was cleaned as part of the largest brownfield reclamation project in the nation. In 2001 it reopened as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use development complex. Charlie Williams posted Steve Blaylock posted |
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$2b has been invested to redevelop the site. [EPA]
Atlantic Steel was the first steel mill in Georgia. It was founded in 1901 as Atlanta Hoop Company to make cotton bale ties and barrel hoops. It was reorganized into Atlantic Steel Company in 1915 and broadened its product lines over the years. Operations at the plant, which was located where I-75 and I-85 meet to form the Downtown Connector, were discontinued in 1998. [AtlantaHistoryCenter via pinterest]
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| Jon Wolfe posted Atlantic Steelmill, Atlanta Georgia Gary Carlile: It started in 1901 shut down in 1999 |
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| Atlanta History Center posted Take a peek inside the Atlantic Steel mill ca. 1940, now the site of Atlantic Station. |
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| 1983 Northwest Atlanta Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| carterusa |
The left side and background in the above photo are also part of the development. And the developer added 17th Street.
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Tom Miller: No silver coats, hoods, leggings, or face shields either!
Randy Evans: Chrome dome hard hats also.
Graham Whitfield: In 1964 a camera crew were making a promotional film about the new Plant in South Wales.
They were on the Teeming platform when the Ladle exploded.
Three Film crew killed and Four Teemers absolute tragedy.
Randy Evans: Chrome dome hard hats also.
Graham Whitfield: In 1964 a camera crew were making a promotional film about the new Plant in South Wales.
They were on the Teeming platform when the Ladle exploded.
Three Film crew killed and Four Teemers absolute tragedy.
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| Steve Blaylock posted Atlantic Steel in the '70's, before the 4 strand caster was built. [Casting the ingots was called teeming.] Steve Blaylock: The men on the floor controlled the stream with the stopper rods, opening and closing, hardly ever a spill unless the rod blew out, once the craneman had the ladle in place over the mold, one of them would open the tap, and the craneman would jog over to the next mold once each was filled without ever stopping the flow, took some skill. Bill Edwards Jr.: The molds sit on bases which have a special compound melted into the center so they don't burn out, The molds were set down on a layer of thins strip steel which was stamped to look like a ripple chip to fill any small opening between the mold and base. The white spray you see is there to keep the splash of the steel from sticking to the mold to help stop slivers and other issues when the molds cool and the ingots inside are rolled in the rolling mill. I don.t see any thermal board hung on the inside of the molds , they were used along with topping powder to insulate the top of the ingot and keep the steel liquid so when it hardened the middle has steel to fill it up from the top. It would take 4 -5 hours for the ingots to be set enough to strip, The real fun was RIM steel it loots a lot like this was a set up rot that except you topped them with steel plates and sprayed water on the plates for the next 30 mins up and down the line. If and when the mold decided it could, POP there was hot water, steel plates ,steam and steel flying in the air, This was a speciality steel and our shop made tonn's of it Back in the day. Chuck Leslie Conley: After the ingots were "teamed" (poured) they had to sit undisturbed for a specified time. If they moved too soon the solidification got messed up and effected the quality of the steel. Phillip Claxon: At Armco Ashland they'd usually set for a hour to a hour 1/2 or so then the time it took for the engine crew to transport them to the hot strip mill dept. to be stripped from the mold. We made mostly 2 types of heats (1) was called a Rim Steel where the heat rimmed in the mold to burn off the carbon and (2) Semi- Killed where the steel was killed with aluminum while it was being poured from the ladle. The semi killed heats usually had to set longer before being transported to the hot strip mill. Graham Whitfield Great summary, we had 15-18 ton Ingots of both Rimmers, Bottle tops, and Hot Tops. Rim and Bottle tops were usually 2hours to be Stripped. Semi killed and Killed were about 4hours depending on Ingot size. Sometimes the tops were still ‘Wet’ and the Ram of the Stripper Crane would cause a mini eruption. Great fun. Richard Allison: I was visiting Atlantic Steel frequently in the early 1980s. They had two EAFs and the new caster, right in downtown Atlanta. Turner Broadcasting/CNN was a few blocks from there when Ted Turner was getting started on cable. Dave Detre: At WCI Steel in Warren, Ohio we switched from stopper rods to slide gates they worked Pretty good not many problems with them, the biggest molds we used were 56” open and 56” bottle caps. Kenneth Treharn: At Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Brier Hill Works, Open Hearth Melt Shop. We poured our steel into one drag of moulds. The drag of moulds was under the crane. The Craneman looked out the ride side window. The ladle of 180 tons of steel was on the right of the operator, out a bit. You could see the mould and the rear of ladle for positioning the nozzle, in the center of the mould. I operated a ladle crane before moving to the higher paid Charging Machine. One would get very good at moving the crane to the next mould, fast and accurate. The trick was to move it wide open, plug, kick the ladle then catch the swing, perfectly preferred. I always did it full speed and I was good at getting to the best position, without no swing, Everytime. The reason, if you ever saw a "full running stopper" you'd know why. That was caused by a stopper rod problem. Anyway, imagine a "full run" pour that will Not shut off. The mould is nearing the fill mark. Platform man puts a large chalk line to let the Steel Pourer know when to "stop" and go to the next mould. On a full run, no stopping to steel, everyone on the platform would hide behind protective areas. Steel Pourer yells, "NEXT!" Craneman goes full bore to the next mould. Picture what Hell might look like. If you're good under pressure, it turns into the"eye of the hurricane" right now. You go to the next mould, properly and no swing, everyone comes out and does their normal job while filling a mould. Life is good, till you hear again, NEXT. Those moulds in the picture are "slab" moulds, very easy to "hit" the spot because of there size. As soon as the Steel Pourer saw "slag" coming out, he'd yell, "take it away." In a running stopper, you'd rack out while lowering and head to a pit to minimize the mess. Graham Whitfield Whenever they had a Stopper failure and uncontrolled Teeming, the Crane driver did his best to fill the moulds then move to the next. There was usually a god awful mess and erratically shaped ingots. This was known as ‘A Flyer Cast.’ Peter Gonzalez Worked at Inland Steel #3 Open Hearth. I remember being on the pouring stand during a full running stopper. It was crazy, as the mold reached its fill mark the steel pourer would yell or blow a whistle and the craneman would move to the the next mold. As that stream would hit the mold edge steel sparks would fly everywhere while we would take cover in the safety isle. Our ladles were 300 tons. |
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| Lee Bradshaw commented on Steve's post We still make stainless and aerospace steel in ingots, , rotherham uk, some casts stipulate air cooled, these can be left for days, all relates to stratification. Still using ingots at Liberty speciality steels, rotherham UK, stainless, aerospace. |
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