Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
A large hull casting is being lifted by a crane while below an employee uses a grinder to smooth a propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Interior view of Columbia Steel Casting Company
A large hull casting is being lifted by a crane while below an employee uses a grinder to smooth a propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees cleaning steel-cast components with an electric swing grinder and a pneumatic chipping gun at Columbia Steel Casting company.
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Finish work on steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified men work on finishing several steel cast pieces at Columbia Steel Casting Company. A stern frame casting is being polished in the foreground.
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Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses track burner to remove riser from stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Welders at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two welders doing repair work on a rudder pivot shaft casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a chipping gun to excavate a casting defect to prepare for a weld repair at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun to clean out an internal cavity in a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Packing sand into a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company hand packing sand into a core box to form a core.
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Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company pours steel into a mold from a lip pour ladle while a second employee uses a rake to hold back floating slag.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three employees pulling a pattern from a deep mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pour steel into opposite ends of a large mold from two ladles simultaneously ('Double Pour') for a steel cast component.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder setting cores inside a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Constructing a casting flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee on a crane seat uses a slinger to fill a larger mold box with sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company transfer liquid metal from a crane ladle into a smaller shank ladle with two long handles.
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Pouring steel into a flask in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Pouring crew at Columbia Steel Casting Company fills mall molds from a shank ladle.
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Frank Budrow guiding a crane in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Frank Budrow, a Columbia Steel Casting Company employee, guiding a crane hook onto the ladle bail in the foundry. An unidentified man operating the crane is sitting on a platform in the upper left corner of the building.
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Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company place rebar on large cores for rebar to act as an inserted chill.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company working on a completed casting mold. One employee is shoveling heap sand. A second employee is standing on the mold loosening riser plugs with a sledge hammer for removal.
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Filling flasks at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees using an open cabbed overhead crane ladle to pour a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee at Columbia Steel Casting Company uses a pneumatic rammer to pack backing sand into a cope (top half of mold).
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Building a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder using a trowel to fine tune a large ship hull casting before the cores are set at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a large swing frame grinder on a ship stern hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a hand grinder on a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a small pneumatic grinder to blend the parting line on a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
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Pouring steel in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry
Workers pouring steel from the ladle into molds in the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Pictured to the left of the ladle is Lee Beavers. In the foreground of the picture, D. C. Gore, furnace department foreman, is preparing to put riser compound on the riser top once pouring is complete.
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