The Official Status Update Thread: Part 93- Global Warming on my Driveway

[SaintsNSinners]

Hiya Acetone

 

[actaeon277]

Hiya Acetone

Wassup SNS?

 

[SaintsNSinners]

Just got off werkz

 

[actaeon277]

Here's a video of what happens when something goes wrong in a Continuous Caster. This isn't my caster, but it's similar.
Looks like a burn through, around 3 minutes. Go ahead and Fast forward to 2:55.

[video=youtube;cIA-7TLrw-E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIA-7TLrw-E[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Yup, hot steel and water. Bad combination.
Went through 2 bad ones at #1 BOP. I had to replace an instrument 100 foot above the furnace. The explosion had that much force, even after going through several armored floors.

Was walking on the "authorized walkway" couple days ago when they charged the furnace with wet scrap steel. Thought the wall was going to blow over me. There are all kinds of small holes, where steel's blown through like a shotgun.

Skulldaddy, do you remember a couple years ago. Bad wind was blowing Lake Michigan south into the mill. The water froze, creating a slide. Water then kept going further south, till it hit #2 Caster. Got in a motor control room, started blowing circuits.

I understand absolutely zero percent of this yet it sounds extraordinarily bad

When water turns to steam, it takes up something like 8 times it's liquid volume.
3000 degree steel tends to turn it to steam instantly.
This causes the water/steam to form an explosion.
Since the explosion is UNDER the liquid steel, it blows the liquid steel, and some scrap steel, to come out the furnace like a shotgun.
The little bits of liquid and solid steel blow through the walkway walls, forming little holes. Looks like a shotgun blast to the wall.

 

[actaeon277]

Holy poop
I musta scared everyone away.

 

[RedneckReject]

Holy poop
I musta scared everyone away.

No I was just distracted. I'm not feeling like myself tonight

 

[nakinate]

 

[Frosty]

 

[Mosineer]

Good morning InGO...I think...give me a minute NEED COFFEE!!

 

[MrsGungho]

the clock say morning. my body woke up as if it is, I'll be damned if I am going to enjoy it yet though

 

[db1959]

 

[db1959]

I said !

 

[db1959]

No one here....all gone

 

[MrsGungho]

yes I was andwill be again

 

[MrsGungho]

we need to go back to cold weather. the natives were restless last night in Indy. trying to figure this out, it's either 6 or 8 homicides overnight.

and I need to go shower

have a good day db

 

[churchmouse]

At least 5 of those were drug/thug related. Darwin is doing his best.

 

[db1959]

I believe Darwin is karmas first cousin. I could be wrong on the lineage though

 

[db1959]

Oh look, it's snowing out.

 

[db1959]

we need to go back to cold weather. the natives were restless last night in Indy. trying to figure this out, it's either 6 or 8 homicides overnight.

and I need to go shower

have a good day db

Now let's see, why do we need guns again?