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the_sarah•5mo ago

Safety guy flagged my glove trick - now I never skip the wrist wraps

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claire_ramirez22•5mo ago

Hot take: preheating your ladle longer makes for better pours

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linda_butler28•5mo ago

Used to pack green sand by stomping it with my boots back in the 90s

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lisa839•5mo ago

Spent $80 on a digital pyrometer and it paid off in one shift

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jakewhite•5mo ago

Just caught someone at the plant using a chipping hammer with a mushroomed head

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the_mason•5mo ago

Showerthought: I've been ramming my risers wrong for a decade

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charlesj46•5mo ago

Finally got my pour team to nail a tricky green sand mold

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mason283•5mo ago

Question about a trick an old-timer showed me for core box vents

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dianab68•5mo ago

A different way to handle sand washout on big molds

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hugo50•5mo ago

We cut our scrap rate by almost half after switching to a different riser sleeve design

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rose_hart31•5mo ago

A new guy from the aluminum shop said our pour temps were 'aggressive' and it got me looking at our logs.

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amymartinez•6mo ago

Shoutout to the guy at the scrap yard who showed me his clean castings

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tessa_roberts1•6mo ago

Our old core box finally gave out halfway through a big pour yesterday

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the_seth•6mo ago

Warning: I thought that new ceramic foam filter for aluminum was just a gimmick until we ran a batch of 6061 last month and the X-ray showed zero inclusions.

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barbara399•6mo ago

Showerthought: My furnace hit 3000 pours and the wear pattern shocked me

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