Word: reheating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...CONTINUOUS CASTING. The idea is so obvious that Bessemer filed a patent on it 101 years ago, but complex production bugs stymied its use until recently. The ordinary method of casting is to pour the metal into ingot molds to harden, strip away the mold, reheat the ingot and roll it into semifinished shapes. Continuous casting eliminates these cumbersome steps. A ladle atop a tower pours white-hot steel into a 2-to-4-ft-deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays...
Continuous casting (the process is still unnamed) bypasses the cumbersome and expensive system which steelmen use to cast ingots, reheat and mold their steel...
...clear that she would win the Cup next day unless something unexpected happened. When the time came for the second heat next day. Gar Wood asked for a 45-min. postponement to repair his gas tank. Kaye Don refused-because he would have had to drain his oil and reheat it, which would have taken more than 45 minutes and perhaps made it impossible to finish the race before dark. Gar Wood repaired his gas tank as best he could and the three boats got ready for the start...
...Lord Leon Trotzky was reported to be writing a new book, My Mistakes, which is expected to reheat* the ire of the Bolshevik triumvirate-Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin...