These videos have always fascinated me. You never really know the enormity of it until you see a guy walking around in the distance. Ok question… I know the bucket is lined with fire bricks and clay, so how does the cranes hook and cross arm keep from getting hot enough to bend and break?
25 years in factories and on casting floors ive seen molten steel flowing on floors from cracked kettles
These videos have always fascinated me. You never really know the enormity of it until you see a guy walking around in the distance.
Ok question… I know the bucket is lined with fire bricks and clay, so how does the cranes hook and cross arm keep from getting hot enough to bend and break?
Heat shields between the ladle and Bell ! ( bottom of the bell ) they block a majority of Heat between the two ! ✌
Great point!