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To: tet68

Could you let us know where those bridges are?

Those are places I’d like to avoid.


14 posted on 05/25/2018 3:54:53 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

Unfortunately, I don’t know which bridges they
went into. These were 3/4s and 1” + bent into
a 4” radius cold. Sometimes it would fall on a
hard spot in the bar, a place that chilled a little
fast in the rolling process and pow it would snap.
Since we were bending them cold by hand, it took
two men and a 10’ lever, and sometimes we would
take a spill.

Of course now one never knows where steel comes from,
China, Pakistan, India. We used to gripe about Bookuk
steel from South Korea, but now it is probably better
than some.

Not in the business now, retired so not sure.
Enviromental regs throttled the steel industry
so now we have these fine imports.


18 posted on 05/25/2018 4:21:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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