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Slag Door Pusher

For the divisions that have a KT Grant slag door pusher (or something similar with an extendable boom), how far do you allow your operators to extend the pusher arm into the furnace? We’re installing one in March and trying to finalize the final location so we’re looking for any feedback about other’s experiences. Thank […]

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LMF Slag Volume

Hi, Looking for some feedback on total average slag weight in the ladle during LMF refining.  Interested in low alloy/alloy steels with relatively low S levels.  Thanks in advance.

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Torquing Machines

We’re looking to upgrade our torquing machine, looking for a new offline torquer. We’ve gotten a proposal from EXO already, just wondering if anyone has other manufacturers they like. 

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Ladle Refractory Wear Monitoring

Has anyone tried monitoring ladle lining wear by monitoring the change in weight of an empty ladle over time? 

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EAF Hot Spot

Good afternoon, In the last few months I have been utilizing a FLIR IR camera gathering EAF shell temperatures. When gathering temperatures I noticed a very hot spot on the shell in the motor wall area, (>1100 F) this area was glowing red, it was not an isolated area and was in about a 3ft […]

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Hi Phos Pig Iron

Anyone using a significant amount of PI in their charge? and how do you deal with higher phos?

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Carbon pick-up at Ladle Furnace

Good day Guild Members, I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Does anybody experience re-carburizing of the steel at their Ladle furnace, i.e. carbon pick-up which often results in heats out analysis (high carbon) when a heat must be reladeled and reheated with extended power on time, due to a delay in the shop or […]

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Deslagging Ladle Rims

Does anyone have an effective tool for deslagging ladle rims that doesn’t require side-pulling with the crane? Currently we have a wrecking ball with teeth on the top for ripping the slag buildup off of the top rim but it requires the cranemen to slightly side pull in order to get it to effectively grab […]

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Tundish Lining Wear

We are experiencing unusual wear in our tundish working lining. The refractory supplier claims it is because we have higher concentration of Sodium in our tundish slag.  Anyone of you guys has ever experience this? Thanks 

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Burner Block

At our shop we have a dog house style burner block from PTI.  We are have some issues protecting the thermocouple wires and was curious as if there is an upgraded wire or how you protect this wire?  We are currently upgrading the panel to better protect from the flames around the block but want […]

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