Checking a mold at Columbia Steel Casting Company
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- 1944-08
Employees at Columbia Steel Casting Company check a mold after the pattern has been pulled.
Atkeson, Ray
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Grinding seams on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a hand grinder to smooth seams 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified worker welding a joint on a cast-steel component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning room at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee using a swing frame grinder on a stern frame casting in the cleaning room at the Columbia Steel Casting Company foundry. Caption from bottom of negative reads, “Center section in cleaning room. Pouring weight 50,000 pounds.”
Atkeson, Ray
Welder at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An unidentified employee Employee removes solidification gusset with an acetylene cutting torch from a ship hull 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
Two employees using pneumatic tools on castings for a ship's hull at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning skeg from castings at Columbia Steel Casting Company
An employee uses a prybar to remove the slag after an acetylene cutting torch has cut the riser steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees operating swing grinders on a ship hull cast at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Cleaning steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees using swing grinders, chipping guns, and pneumatic chisels on steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray
Moving steel-cast components at Columbia Steel Casting Company
Employees guiding a ship hull frame casting on an overhead crane lift at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Atkeson, Ray