OS OK
02-12-2022, 02:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1ytAcjQmc
Here's what some of us have been waiting for...the actual pouring of 8 tons of lead. If my math is right, that is 497,777 - 225 grain cast projectiles!
Here is the 'Silver River' ...
https://i.imgur.com/5azHkPF.jpg
Here they are working the last of the pour, skimming the surface of the new keel & adding more lead where needed to bring the surface flush along it's length...
https://i.imgur.com/7SGnhHL.jpg
I'm not trying to point out a negative aspect here...BUT...I am glad 'Ole'Murphy' was out of town during this process.
One thing that made me extremely anxious was their 'Pot Tender' standing so close to the pot as they lowered the old keel parts and 'bathtub ingots' into the melt. If one had slipped the chain or if the chain had come loose from the fork tongs this would have ended in a death by 'lead coating a human being'! No kidding, I can't believe they worked the pot this way...I would have had the pot tender stay back until the ingot was partially submerged before he approached the pot.
Other than this I thought it went very well...
https://i.imgur.com/qcJv7wy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GsZjrNA.jpg
Pretty impressive for a bunch of Sailors...:bigsmyl2:
What do you boys think?
Here's what some of us have been waiting for...the actual pouring of 8 tons of lead. If my math is right, that is 497,777 - 225 grain cast projectiles!
Here is the 'Silver River' ...
https://i.imgur.com/5azHkPF.jpg
Here they are working the last of the pour, skimming the surface of the new keel & adding more lead where needed to bring the surface flush along it's length...
https://i.imgur.com/7SGnhHL.jpg
I'm not trying to point out a negative aspect here...BUT...I am glad 'Ole'Murphy' was out of town during this process.
One thing that made me extremely anxious was their 'Pot Tender' standing so close to the pot as they lowered the old keel parts and 'bathtub ingots' into the melt. If one had slipped the chain or if the chain had come loose from the fork tongs this would have ended in a death by 'lead coating a human being'! No kidding, I can't believe they worked the pot this way...I would have had the pot tender stay back until the ingot was partially submerged before he approached the pot.
Other than this I thought it went very well...
https://i.imgur.com/qcJv7wy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GsZjrNA.jpg
Pretty impressive for a bunch of Sailors...:bigsmyl2:
What do you boys think?