Where is everyone #5

Every time I’ve hauled what I call a “mill roll” it is going to a prossesing plant to be turned into thinner coils, bars, plate or tube. Sometimes it is also coated or galvanized at these secondary plants.

From there it seems to get hauled to someplace to have a product made out of it.

I’ve never hauled a raw or “mill roll” directly to a location that makes a consumer product. Always a secondary plant in between for stuff I’ve hauled.

That’s just what I know? Sounds like you know way more than me?

Heck maybe They call it a “master coil”????
Now I can’t remember?


Lol

The people that load and unload at most of these places could care less about there product and generally have 0 desire to be passionate about there profession.

 

Another dang railcar ! And they keep getting longer ! 70 ft.

 

I have a LS W9 and a Daily Express 389 playing body guards tonight. Your sacrifices do not go unnoticed gentlemen.

Thank you for protecting my small aero hood from the cruel world!





I’m full of jokes today, I know. Tends to happen when I’m enroute to the Mexican Derby (Laredo).

I’m getting sideways. Y’all be safe

 

Um,

The big rolling mills on the trailers are used to roll to thickness. Hot rolled sheet can have scale or be pickled and oiled or P/O not as smooth as cold rolled but, clean metal. The pickle juice is acid.

Steel is processed as hot or cold formed, hot rolled is orange when it is worked, cold rolled is a few hundred degrees. While cold rolled or formed steel is nicely finished it has stress in it that can cause issues with weldments and machined details. Hot rolled has less stress from forming, that is why it is often preferred for fabricated assemblies. There is stress relieved cold formed stock but, it is not as commonly available.

Rolling mills are a whole sub-set in the metal industry, some also roll tubing.

Most of the coils are used to make parts directly in factories, they go on racks that have straightening rolls to flatten the sheet before it is stamped or punched. There are some metal distributors that cut sheet from rolls as well.

Anybody here ever haul sheet aluminum to polishing mills? There is one here in Hutch that finishes sheets for Spirit Aero. Sheets as large as 9X50' are done.

Steve

 

Not 100% my taste, but this gentleman has pride in his ride!

 

A polishing mill... now there's an idea...

 

Cerveza= Mexican for Beer...man I sure wanted some Mexican food or BBQ but my electronic baby sitter wasn't havin' none of that!! So Breakfast in Mebane it is. Taking my 10 then off to Ladson.

 

D&R had one of the first ones shipped to MD. I wasn't impressed at all.

 

I won't argue about it, but I'm curious where you get your information from? While most of it is correct in varying degrees, some of it is written to remind me of a Wikipedia page.