Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Welders at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two welders doing repair work on a rudder pivot shaft casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a pneumatic chipping gun inside a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An interior view of a deep mold with many nails in the bottom to be used as a chill at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Finish work on a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees use pneumatic chipping guns to clean a stern frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning and finish grinding a steel propeller at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company cleaning a casting with pneumatic chipping guns while two welders fill in flaws in a propeller casting.
Atkeson, Ray
Packing sand into a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees use screens for facing the mold cavity for a stern frame while shoveling heap sand and using a specialized frame for drawing the complicated pattern out of the mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Molding hull castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company watch as a specialized frame holding a stern frame pattern of ship’s hull casting is removed by overhead crane.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A machinist using a lathe with an electric grinder on a manganese steel rock crusher liner at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a large casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three unidentified workers operate above-ground molding equipment designed by Columbia Steel Casting Company to speed production of large stern frames during World War II.
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using an acetylene torch track burner to remove a riser on a steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Worker at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A machinist checks the angle of the ground surface of a rock crusher liner at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Operating above-ground molding equipment at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Three unidentified workers operate above-ground molding equipment designed by Columbia Steel Casting Company to speed production of large stern frames during World War II.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Unidentified molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company work under the cope of a mold. Molders use core nails to secure chills, the mold parting compound is visible (white at edge of mold cavity).
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees work on cleaning a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove rigging, and another uses a bar to hand chip off sand.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company start to pull a pattern from a deep mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Interior view of an oven at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An interior view of a heat treat oven via an observation port at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
A molder blows off parting compound (white powder) from a mold before the pattern is pulled from the sand at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company pull a pattern from a mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Mold construction at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Four employees use an overhead crane to close the two halves of a ship hull frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Constructing a casting flask at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company working to close a mold by placing the cope (top half of the mold) onto the drag (bottom half) of the mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Forming a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company finish a larger core before it is set in the mold.
Atkeson, Ray
Workers at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Two employees use an overhead crane to pick up a core and a third employee uses a hand tamper to pack a core box with sand.
Atkeson, Ray
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.
Atkeson, Ray