AL fabrication

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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:21 pm by stevedj2000

There's probably nothing wrong with them Davie it's probably just me being
paranoid, you know brakes and all, plus being in the industry and
knowing more than I should about aluminium properties.

Just ignore me



My problem too Steve Used to work in an Aluminium factory so managed to pick up more than I could ever understand about alloys, annealing, billets, rolled, extrusions ... :sleep:

SteveCat wrote:Used to work in an Aluminium factory

Believe it or not I'm going to say "interesting"!! I still find it all a bit fascinating after all these yrs, did you work for a mill or fabricator??

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It was a bit of all sorts really. Mill and semi fabricator.

Got the ingots and billets in from the smelter, had remelt facilities used for recycle and also for adding metals to make the desired alloys.
Not sure if it is still the case but was the only rolling mill on the African Continent. There were hot and cold rolling mills, the former was huge and as you can imagine extremely hot. Since I left they built a new facility over the road and have another huge Rolled products section.
All plate was made here and also had a stamping section for can products and toothpaste tubes.
Nearby there was the extrusion presses and also the annealing ovens, anodising baths and other areas which I forget what they all did.

Other factories within the group did wire products and the foil containers as well as the familiar 'tin foil' (don't that get yer going too )

I'm an IT person not a metallurgist, I'd have to make sure all the terminals stayed working. We did connect some to the presses to automate the jobs.

This was in the early 80's ... here the to the corporate website in all the time, not lot has changed!

Small world!!! Our company has the sole UK selling rights to their recycled alum sheet grade 4017!!

How dull am I it's Friday night FFS

Small World indeed

Make up for it by cracking open an alucan of some sort

Too late!! Glug glug glug!!