. Canadian foundryman (1918). ment. This is not exactly anyonesfault, it is simply the rule of ever thought of cleaning up thefoundry yard, it would only get dirtyagain. Recovering the MetalIf the melter encounters a piece of pigor scrap which he cannot break, he justpitches it aside, or if it is too cumber-some he lets it lie where it is. He is toldto not use scran with bolts in, or scrapcontaining babbitt metal or brass, andto not use hard scrap, and so on; continue to enumerate the reasons why he leaves things undone. No placehas been provided to put these things,an
. Canadian foundryman (1918). ment. This is not exactly anyonesfault, it is simply the rule of ever thought of cleaning up thefoundry yard, it would only get dirtyagain. Recovering the MetalIf the melter encounters a piece of pigor scrap which he cannot break, he justpitches it aside, or if it is too cumber-some he lets it lie where it is. He is toldto not use scran with bolts in, or scrapcontaining babbitt metal or brass, andto not use hard scrap, and so on; continue to enumerate the reasons why he leaves things undone. No placehas been provided to put these things,and no one has time to do anything withthem, anyway, and so they remain. When H. E. Mclntyre, the superinten-dent of the Sawyer-Massey works, cameto take charge of their foundry inHamilton a few months ago, this is ex-actly the condition of things with whichhe was confronted. Here was one of the most up-to-date,progressive institutions in the country,buying nothing but the best of material,rmploying the best of men, ami turning. H. E. McINTYRE,Foundry Sawyer & Massey Works out goods of the highest quality; infact, doing things right. Yet here iswhat Mr. Mclntyre found awaiting scrap iron yard was as described,several big castings, each weighing somethree or four hundredweight, and shapedlike air chambers, had refused to bebroken. It was decided that they did notrequire breaking, so they were taken upthe hoist and stood on end in the cupola,with the result that they out of theway, and the Sawyer-Massey Co. areseveral dollars to the good in the bar-gain. Among the relics in the scrap wereseveral horse power bull wheels, be-queathed from the days when threshingwas done with horses. These wheelscontained tons of first-class iron, withonly one obstacle in the way. A steelband had been shrunk around the out-side; two men with a diamond-pointedset cut these bands in ten minutes, andsecured 88 pounds of steel from each one,leaving the balance easily smashed. As we hav
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