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MAY 11, 1959

STEEL

The

Metalworking Weekly

A PENTON PUBLICATION

Companies, Union Far Apart as
Steel Pact Negotiations Begin

Page 104...

Why 14,964 Firms Failed in ’58

Page 114...

he Case How to Stop Productivity Killers

f the Lathe Can Advance with Technology

anishing a
Blast Furnaces Being Automated

axes

AGE 100 Page 164...

Throwaway Cutters Save $15,596
A Year at Westinghouse Division

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CONTENTS — PAGE 5

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TING MAGNETS
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57’"AND 66" @ DIAMETERS

New throughout, these EC&M Type SB Lifting
Magnets have many improvements over previous-
design bolted magnets. They are mechanically
stronger, have improved coil construction, and high
lifting capacity due toa better magnetic path. Ta-
pered-head, through bolts simplify field replacement
of worn pole shoes...permit quick access to coil.

Strap aluminum coil winding is firmly anchored
by top-plate held by bolts and screws. Continuous
welds seal coil spool in magnet case and make it
water-tight. Welds are easily ground or chipped off
for field removal of coil.

Coil-leads terminate in separate chambers, 180°
apart. The magnet is freed of moisture and complete-
ly filled, through these two chambers, with self-
polymerizing, insulating compound.

Chains, the same as used on large EC&M ALL-
WELDED Magnets, are of 3-leg design with links of
cast manganese steel terminating in a forged crane
link for easy hook-on.

EC&M BOLTED MAGNETS
complement the complete line of
EC&M ALL-WELDED Magnets « For all
the facts, Write for Bulletin 1300 SB

THE ELECTRIC CONTROLLER & MFG. CO.
A DIVISION OF THE SQUARE D COMPANY
CLEVELAND 28 « OHIO

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Tighten bolt head with power
wrench. This draws up the plug,
expanding the serrated leaves of
the shell. Machine is locked
tightly to the concrete base.

Move machine into position; in-
sert assembly through hole in
machine leg into the hole drilled
in the concrete floor.

Determine position of machine;
mark holes on floor; drill holes in
machine legs to required diame-
ter; drill holes in floor to required
diameter and depth.

Special bolts that anchor machinery

When the forklift truck dumps its load, that hopper bin concrete. Today, these hopper bins are firmly anchored,

really vibrates. Keeping it anchored firmly in place used undisturbed by the drastic vibration.

to be quite a problem. Our fasteners engineers are often able to find a solu-

Then Bethlehem fasteners engineers were called in. tion that adds up to a saving for the user. If you'd like

their help, just get in touch with our nearest sales otlice.

They recommended using a special-headed anchor bolt

with an expansion shell to anchor the hoppers. As shown tae Br 3 2
BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY, BETHLEHEM, PA.

in the drawings above, this bole /ocks machinery to base

What's “special”
about these
standard

aaKF bearings?

Spherical Roller Thrust Bearing

SEE THEM AT THE

DESIGN ENGINEERING SHOW
MAY 25-26

SKF BOOTH +618

Angular
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“Tyson Tapered

Roller Bearing

They all have exclusive features. Where else,
for example, can you get the 3344 % higher
capacity available in standard S&F
spherical roller bearings?

*Or, take the cylindrical roller bearing. This type
provides high radial capacity and minimum

shaft friction. Controlled shaft end float within
the bearing is a natural advantage of this design.
Yet this is SesF’s standard cylindrical roller
bearing, promptly available in 154 sizes ranging
from just under 1” to 6” (bore) . In the

double row it’s 1” to 9.5”.

Why not get the complete facts on these
“special” but standard (and economical)
bearings? For details, call any of the 25 S&F
sales offices today. $923

EVERY TYPE—-EVERY USE

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WHO FORGES THE TOUGH ONES?...
and precision-machines them, too?

When the forgings come as tough as this motor hous-
ing, the customers come to National Forge. On this
job (for a chemical manufacturer), we had to forge
and precision-machine to extremely close dimensional
tolerances (+.0020”, —.0002” including run-out).

National Forge handled the complete production—

NATIONAL FORGE COMPANY

IRVINE, WARREN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

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For more information on “the tough ones,”’ and the machinery that makes them

from melting AISI E4340 steel, to forging, to hollow
boring, to finish-machining—in our integrated “one-
source” plant.

You say your forging specs are tough? Call National
Forge, the company with over 40 years’ experience in
forging and precision-machining the tough ones.

best"’—write for bulletin NFO

“No More
Crystal Ball!

Now we’re in business with

FACTS-IN-FIGURES”

Here are some of the chief advantages
you'll get from Veeder-Root Counters
on all your machines and processes:

e Accurate, up-to-date production
records

Closer production Countrol

Stop-and-Go Countrol (with preset
counters that prevent over-runs
and shortages)

Measurement of material lengths
More accurate costing

Better basis for wage and incentive
payments, piecework and payroll
Countrol

Simplified tax computation

Let us show you how easy it is to
count out costly guesswork. Write:

#1110 Measuring Counters are easily installed
on many types of production and inspection
machines . . . recording yards, feet, meters and
other units of length. Furnished with smooth,
knurled, grooved or rubber-faced friction wheels
or forked coupling for attachment to rolls

or shafts. Send for new Condensed Catalog.

Veeder-Root....

Everyone can Count on Hartford 2, Connecticut

Hartford, Conn. * Greenville, S.C. © Altoona, Pa. * Chicago
New York « Los Angeles * San Francisco * Montreal

Offices and Agents in Principal Cities

STEEL

This Week

May 11, 1959
Vol. 144 No. 19

STEEL

Metalworking Weekly

EDITORIAL 97
Passage of the watered down alias
Ervin Bill by the Senate is just a start
on labor reform.

SPECIAL FEATURE 100

The Case of the
Vanishing Taxes!

Acton Chance, STEEL’s own private eye,
gave such a good report on “The Case of
the Vanishing Jobs” (Apr. 6, p. 99) that
he was retained for this case also. You'll
be amazed at what he has turned up.

WINDOWS OF WASHINGTON 108

Rep. Carl Vinson’s appearance at
Ways & Means hearing seen as ma
neuver to weaken renegotiation on

aircraft.

MIRRORS OF MOTORDOM 117

GM integrates its iron and aluminum
casting facilities. Move touches off
round of speculation.

THE BUSINESS TREND 121

Construction surges ahead. Old esti-
mates for °59 are erased. Pencils are
sharpened to figure probable record.

WHERE TO FIND—

Behind the Scenes .

Letters to the Editors .
Editorial & Business Staffs
Calendar of Meetings
Men of Industry

New Products

New Literature ....
\dvertising Index

Business —

Production —

Markets —

METALWORKING OUTLOOK

Companies, Union Far Apart as Steel Pact Negotiations Begin .
The Case of the Vanishing Taxes—U. S. loses on foreign bids . .
Example: Saving on one contract, $37,000. Loss in direct taxes, $67,000
TVA Asks for Bids on Generating Equipment
Big Steel Has New Chief—Elects Walter F. Munford pre indian
Vanadium Alloys Finishes $3.5 Million Expansion
Why 14,964 Firms Failed in °58—Reasons given as safety lll *
When Do You Replace Equipment?—Formula may help you decide
Machine Tool Sales Pick Up—Cloud: Our losses in world markets
Sales of Used Machinery Heading Up—Long term outlook bright
Gabriel Makes Headlines as It Diversifies into New Markets
How to Combat These Productivity Killers:
Fatigue, Poor Visibility, and Boredom
J&L’s $50 Million Project at Cleveland to Cut Costs

TECHNICAL OUTLOOK

Lathe Can Advance with Technology—Unit principle allows it

Chemical Tames Corrosion in Nitrogen Gas Generator

Wide Use Predicted for New Graphite Fabric—Tests continue

Machine Topics—New Machine Boosts Builder Sales .

Even Rookie Welders Can Use This Method—It’s that simple

Progress in Steelmaking—Automation’s Taking Over in the
Blast Furnace

Tips from Missilemakers Can Cut Your Costs—Three listed

Transfer System Is Fast, Flexible—This may fit your needs

Throwaway Cutters Save $15,596 a Year—Cost study on gears

MARKET OUTLOOK

Complete Index to Market News and Prices

Distributors Back Steelmen—Hold the line resolution passed
Steelworks operation chart and district ingot rates

Latest figures on iron ore stocks and consumption

Scrap Price Composite Declines

Nonferrous Metals—Stability Seen until Midyear

STEEL, the metalworking weekly,

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New York 18, N. Y

FOR TIRED
MACHINES

PATIENT: Style 215 Precision Boring
Machine—built in 1939.

SYMPTOM: Speeds too slow for mod-
ern production, tooling outdated.

DIAGNOSIS: Continuous duty from
16 years of heavy work.

CURE: Ex-Cell-O Machine Renewal
and Repair Service.

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EX-CELL-O FOR PRECISION
58-52

CORPORATION
DETROIT 32, MICHIGAN

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Private Eye Has New Case

Every full-blooded American metalwork
ing management man who was raised o1
Mutt & Jeff knows that characters seldon
spring into being at one bound. Sometime:
they come on stage carrying a spear and
vind up by taking the lead. Comic strij
aficionados know that Mutt & Jeff wer
two bums who became national characters;
that Dinty Moore, though seldom depicted,
carried more weight than the strip’s hero,
Jiggs; that Popeye, who appeared origi
nally as background decoration, took over
top billing.

The new figure who appeared in STrei
(The Case of the Vanishing Jobs, Apr. 6.
p. 99) seems to be establishing a place fo:
himself. Private Eye Acton Chance, brain
child of Associate Managing Editor Joh:
Morgan, is up to his tricks again this
week, beginning on Page 100. He is on
the trail of The Vanished Taxes, and
you don’t have to be a mystery fan to

ittend this story—you simply
be a taxpayer. Confidentially, d

carefully
have to
you know anybody who isn’t?

Briefly, friends, here’s the pitch. Actos
learns that Company X lost its bid to ;
Japanese firm on a government order fo:
hip plates. Company X learned that it
was underbid by about $37,000, and when
the government began to crow about its
savings, Company X called in Private
Fye Chance. This boy poured himself a
hoot of bourbon into a Dixie cup, called
Clementine to tell her that he would be
mable to catch her act at the Lucky
Eleven night club, and was off like a shot

or, rather, with the shot

He found out some amazing informa
tion. While the government saved $37,00'
on the contract, it lost more than that it
the tane it would have collected fron
Company X and its employees in the event
that Company X had filled the order
Acton traces lost taxes all the way down
the line, but we're not going to pirate hi
report. You may read it for yourself, start
ing on Page 100 when he picks up hi
phone

Drums Along the Ohio

An old astrologer we know
promised to read our horoscope if we
bought him a drink. This kid was on in
timate terms with Venus, and the moon
and alcohol; beyond that, he confessed
that he had grown a third set of teeth, s«
it will be noted for the record that h«
was a man of some consequence.

After he had poured a moderate amoun
of that which stingeth like an adder dow:
his patient esophagus, he said: “Friend
Jupiter is in a state of indecision, possibly
because today marks the feast of Set. You
receive a communicatio!

recenuys

are vhout

from the Orient, maybe from Syria. Do as
the man says.”

Sure enough, next day we received a
letter from the drummer in the Syrian
lemple Shrine Oriental Band of Cin
cinnati. The drummer is Shafer O. Dieck
mann, vice president, F. H. Lawson Co.,
an organization that has been producing
sheet metal products in Cincinnati since
1816. That’s a right smart piece back:
Why, the War of 1812 had recently ended,
ind President Madison was winding up
his second term among the ashes of Wash
ington. It’s safe to assume that there were
few sheet metal shops in Ohio at that
time—and even fewer Oriental bands.

Mr. Dieckmann wanted to use the drum
poem (Street, Mar. 23, p. 6) in his Tem
ple publication. We told him that Srer
vould be quite pleased to be mentioned
in the Syrian Temple Shrine publication
Why, when a genuine drummer picks up
the beat from a business publication, it’s
use for all hands to snap to attention

Column Fills Lobby

Machine Tool Editor Robert Huber was
pleasantly astonished a few weeks ago in
Milwaukee. He walked into the lobby
Kearney & Trecker Corp. and ran into
1 6 ft blowup of one of his own stories
K&T officials were so pleased with his
column in the Mar. 16 Sreet (Builder
Doesn’t Believe in Mousetrap Theory, p
130) they blew it up into a giant photo
stat, set it on an easel, and planted it in
their lobby. “Seeing your stuff on a bill
board makes you think twice,” said Rob
ert. “Imagine what would happen if vo
had made a little mistake!”

(Metalworking Outlook—Page 91 )

Table pad of the compact Style 2112-B provides ample space for
this rugged fixture. Work is shown clamped in position.

Ex-Cell-O Style 2112-B
bores, faces heavy casting
in a single cycle

RUGGED for roughing— PRECISE for finishing—
ECONOMICAL for short runs
Precision built for boring, turning and facing small or
medium-size parts, the Ex-Cell-O Style 2112-B Precision
Boring Machine is equally adept at tackling a heavy
cast iron truck clutch housing.

The job is done quickly and accurately in one cycle.
After clamping, rapid traverse brings the work into
position for roughing tools to face two shoulders and
plunge two bores. Feed is reversed for finish facing,
and table feed-out doubles as a finish-bore pass. A
standard hydraulically-operated Ex-Cell-O Facing Head
carries the tooling.

Find out how the Style 2112-B or the double-bridge

FINISHING
ROUGHING

Machining cycle and tooling are outlined
above, with roughing tools shown fed to
depth; finishing is done at opposite end of
the feed stroke.

59-18

Style 1212-B can put similar flexibility into your oper-
ation. Write direct, or ask your local Ex-Cell-O Repre-
sentative about combining these rugged, time-tested
Precision Boring Machines with low-cost tooling for
real economy in long runs or limited production.

EX CELL Of _ractaws

CORPORATION
DETROIT 32, MICHIGAN

EX-CELL-O PRECISION PRODUCTS INCLUDE: MACHINE TOOLS + GRINDING AND
BORING SPINDLES +* CUTTING TOOLS + RAILROAD PINS AND BUSHINGS + DRILL JIG
BUSHINGS « TORQUE ACTUATORS » THREAD AND GROOVE GAGES + GRANITE SURFACE
PLATES « AIRCRAFT AND MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION PARTS + DAIRY EQUIPMENT.

Progress Report on

TWO NEW METHODS OF
TUBULAR COMPONENTS PRODUCTION

Special metal-working techniques are
being used by the Tapco Group to pro-
duce tubular members with distinct
advantages for hundreds of aircraft,
missile industrial and consumet
product applications. Iwo of these
technique s, Metal Gathering and Flo-
trusion offer nunportant solutions to
ck signers and engineers with the prob-

Jem of tubular parts production
METAL GATHERING

Using the Metal Gathering process, a
portion of a metal tube is heated in a
resistance unit, then “gathered” into a
forged lump or mass at either or both
ends of the tube. The heated end-mass
can then be immediately extruded o1
forged to any desired rough contigura-
tion. After gathering or forging, any
machining operation needed to finish
the end is readily done right in the
shops of the Tapco Group. Examples
of tubing end-features produced by
this process are illustrated in Figure |

Metal Gathering by the Tapco meth
od offers several advantages: one-piece
parts free from welds, brazing, ot
mechanical aSs¢ mbly minimum
machining for end features; no
machining of tube interior to reduce
wall thickness

greater strength and fatigue resist-

better grain flow ton

*Reg. Trademark — Used under License from Flotrusivn, Inc

rege ae er

Figure 1—Typical end-features that are readily
produced in tubing by the Tapeo Group using the
versatile, cost-saving Metal Gathering process.

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Figure 2—Flotrusion produces any desired variation in metal tubing. including those illustrated here

ance; uniform heat-treatment because
the whole part is formed from tub-
ing; heavy sections are integral with
tubing; no excess metal required,
hence material cost is less; a rapid
process for reproduction once tooling
is established.

rhe Tapco Metal Gathering process
is readily applied to any metal, includ-
ing steel, stainless steel, aluminum,
titanium, and zirconium

Designs are almost unlimited in
size, complexity, and features. A broad
range of tubing lengths, diameters,
and wall thicknesses can be handled
by the Metal Gathering process. ¢ lose
tolerances can be supplied; grinding,
polishing, or honing can be vastly
reduced,,and in some cases eliminated.
One-piece parts replace multi-part
assemblies. The process can also be
used at various points along the length
of the tubing

FLOTRUSION

Che Tapco Flotrusion process per-
mits cold-drawing of tubing into vari-
ous internal and external thicknesses,
contigurations, sizes, and shapes,
shown in Figure 2. The process was
developed to permit high-production
rates of parts normally emploving high
cost machining or polishing. Flotru-
sion can also be combined with the
Tapco Metal Gathering process to pro-
duce an almost limitless variety of
end-features, wall-thickness variations,
and other features in tubing.

Tapco Flotrusion offers these
advantages:

Heavy wall sections can be devel-
oped at one or both ends of cvlindrical

forms to provide for bearings, threads,
or weldments,

Uniform wall thickness can be pro-
vided with smaller or larger diameters
on the tube,

Surface finishes of excellent qual-
ity are standard, without expensive
machining or polishing,

Burring and honing are not required,

Grain structure is improved, and
additional heat-treatment can often be
eliminated since cold-working im-
proves tensile strength,

Tubing that has been heat-treated
before Flotrusion gains added strength
by cold-working,

Non-heat-treatable metals also gain
strength by the cold-work effect of
Flotrusion,

No excess material is required .
Flotrusion requires only the exact vol-
ume of material that the finished part
requires. Material cost is kept down

All forgeable metals can be pro-
cessed by Flotrusion . . . alloy and
stainless steels, aluminum, titanium,
zirconium, and others.

Tube diameters from 0.060” to 10
can be worked on present Flotrusion
equipment at Tapco’s completely-
equipped plant. Lengths to 15 feet
have been processed, but longer
lengths and larger diameters are within
the range of Tapco capabilities
and facilities.

The configurations shown will give
vou ideas of how vou can reduce the
cost of tubular components by Metal
Gathering or Flotrusion or a combina-
tion of the two. A 16-page design and
data book on both processes will be
sent to you on request.

TAPCO GROUP

Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.

DEPT. ST-SS9 +*« CLEVELAND 17, OHIO

Each year, thousands of gallons of worn-
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With them go millions of dollars that
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WHEN EMULSIONS GO SOUR, COSTS GO UP. The
machine has to be shut down, losing production
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BACTERIAL PLATE COUNTS PROVE ELCIDE 75
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LETTERS

TO THE EDITORS

Applauds Keeping Wages in Line

We wish to congratulate you on your
fine article, “Keeping Wages in Line”
(Apr. 13, p. 95). It was most interesting
and informative, and I am sure it will be
of use to our company.

Will you please send us 12 reprints?

Marion G. Reisner
Adams Co.
Dubuque, Iowa

I find this article most interesting. We
would appreciate two dozen copies.
I. W. Strong
Executive Vice President
Appleton Electric Co.
Chicago
° ° °
May I have a reprint of this excellent
article?
Roy Mynsberge
Administrative Assistant
Design & Drafting
Bendix Products Div.-Missiles
Bendix Aviation Corp.
Mishawaka, Ind.

A Dissenting Opinion

“The Case of the Vanishing Jobs”
(Apr. 6, p. 99) is completely biased and
unworthy of your usual objective report-
ing. It appears to have been borrowed
from some union’s files or from a political
lobbyist.

The article makes a pretense of being
statistical, yet the easy way in which
the writer doubles the values of imports
in the case of machine tools would make
a Sstatistician’s hair stand on end.

Completely overlooked is the fact that
in many cases, imports offer the American
people something not available on the
American market. Your own pages have
attested to this fact with regard to cars.
It is not that imported cars are cheaper
in all classes—in many cases they are
more expensive. Finally, the U. S. manu-
facturers are waking up to the needs of
the motorists.

Another point overlooked is that, after

(Please turn to Page 12)

STEEL

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Abrasives. 44 ALUNDUM* (alumi-
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the war, the tremendous exports from this
country were largely subsidized by U. S.
foreign aid and were paid for by the tax-
payers. This condition could not con-
tinue forever. In many cases, a condi-
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spent in the U. S. A. Naturally, our
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As long as we export more than we im-
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Every exporting country is faced with
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world trade must shift.

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Loewy-Hydropress Div.
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp.
New York

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OF MEETINGS

May II-13, American Management As-
sociation: Special labor relations con-
ference, LaSalle Hotel, Chicago. As-
sociation’s address: 1515 Broadway, New
York 36, N. Y.

May 11-13, American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers: Joint conference with
American Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers and Institute of Radio Engineers
on automatic techniques, Pick-Congress
Hotel, Chicago. Information: ASME,
29 W. 39th St., New York 18, N. Y.
Secretary: O. B. Schier.

May I1-14, American Mining Congress:
Coal Show, Public Auditorium, Cleve-
land. Congress’ address: Ring Bldg.,
Washington 6, D. C. Executive vice
president: Julian D. Conover.

May 12-14, American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers: National production en-
gineering conference, Statler-Hilton Ho-
tel, Detroit. Society’s address: 29 W.
39th St., New York 18, N. Y. Secre-
tary: O. B. Schier.

May 13-14, Porcelain Enamel Institute:
Midyear conference, Edgewater Beach
Hotel, Chicago. Institute’s address:
1145 19th St. N.W., Washington, D. C.
Managing director: John C. Oliver.

May 13-15, American Supply & Machin-
ery Manufacturers Association: Triple
industrial supply convention. Statler-
Hilton Hotel, Dallas. Information:
Thomas Associates, Keith Bldg., Cleve-
land 15, Ohio. Business manager:
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Association: Annual meeting, Plaza Ho-
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ton 5, D. C. Executive director: R. K.
Vinson.

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Metal Distributors: Spring meeting,
Pick-Roosevelt Hotel, Pittsburgh. As-
sociation’s address: 1900 Arch St., Phil-
adelphia 3, Pa. Executive secretary:
Thomas A. Fernley Jr.

May 14-17, National Tool & Die Manu-
facturers Association: Spring board meet-
ing, Marott Hotel, Indianapolis. As-
sociation’s address: 907 Public Square
Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. Executive vice
president: George S. Eaton.

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cal Engineers: Spring meeting, Hotel
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36, N. Y. Secretary: F. J. Van Antwer-
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Samuel Arnold 3rd graduated from Pennsylvania State
University in 1913 with a B.S. Degree. In 1918, he
received an E.E. Degree from the same University.
From 1916 to the present, he has been primarily con-
cerned with the development, sale and use of Heroult
electric arc furnaces. In 1927, he developed the use of
multiple voltages as applied to arc furnaces. In 1928,
he was responsible for the design of the first successful
six-electrode steel melting furnace. Since 1925, Mr.
Arnold has been Consulting Engineer for American
Bridge Division of United States Steel Corporation.

By Samuel Arnold 3rd
Consulting Engineer

INTRODUCTION

To keep pace with the demand for electric furnace
steel, electric furnaces have continued to increase in
size and use of power. In 1906, the first heat of elec-
tric furnace steel was made in the United States. The
furnace used for this heat was built in France by
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two electrodes for single phase operation. Shortly
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furnace designs had a relatively shallow bath and
were equipped with transformers of low capacity.
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BIRTH OF SIX-ELECTRODE FURNACE

Thirty-one years ago the writer, riding by train from
Pittsburgh to Canton, made a sketch of a six-elec-
trode elliptical furnace and submitted the idea to
the engineers of the Timken Roller Bearing Com-
pany. This preliminary design was slightly modified
as to size, and a short time later the original elliptical

shell six-electrode furnace was built by American
Bridge and installed at the Timken Plant. I believe
that this has been the only successful six-electrode
steel melting furnace ever used. The shell of elliptical
shape has an inside long dimension of 29 ft. and a
width of 20 ft. The hearth is relatively shallow, and
it is arranged for charging through two doors by
means of a charging machine of the open-hearth
type. The unit is equipped with two 7500 KVA
transformers.

In 1953, Mr. James K. Preston, of the Timken
Roller Bearing Company, presented a paper at the
Annual Electric Furnace Committee meeting of the
A. I. M. E. His paper was entitled “Comparative
Melting Rates of an Elliptical Six-electrode Furnace
and a Circular Three-electrode Furnace.” Mr.
Preston’s conclusions definitely indicated that melting
time and bath oxidation were more rapid in the
old elliptical unit than in a modern three-electrode
furnace, and stated in his conclusions that “the rea-
son for this appears to be a result of the better distri-
bution of the radiant energy from the arcs.”

The question now arises as to why this prototype
six-electrode furnace has not been further developed
and utilized. The probable answer to this question
is the fact that with the use of the removable roof
and higher transformer capacities, together with the
availability of light scrap, the three-electrode furnace
has been developed to the present capacities as a
relatively efficient unit.

With a 24 ft. diameter shell three-electrode fur-
nace and 35000 KVA transformer capacity, 24”
electrodes are necessary. To provide movement for
these electrodes, motors of 25 H. P. have been used.
To control these motors, requires a motor genera-
tor set with driving motor capacity approximating
75 H.P. per electrode. If larger three-electrode fur-
naces are built with as much as 50000 KVA trans-
former capacity, still larger electrode sizes will be
required. This in turn would require heavier elec-
trode arms, with motor sizes necessarily increased.

To introduce 40000 KW from a 50000 KVA
power transformer at an acceptable power factor
would require relatively high secondary voltages.
This increased voltage would in turn increase the
length and configuration of the arcs. Problems of
carrying the heavy current to the furnace would also
be multiplied.

In the November issue of Carbon & Graphite
News, one of the problems of utilizing power in
electric furnaces has been ably outlined by Mr. W. E.
Schwabe. The problem discussed by Mr. Schwabe
relates to the introduction of equal amounts of
energy at each electrode tip. Because of the inherent
design of the bus and cable structure, the variation
in impedance in the phases results in a variation of
the amount of energy liberated at each arc. The
unbalancing effect and its correction will be greatly
magnified as current values are increased.

ADVANTAGES OF
SIX-ELECTRODE FURNACE

If increased furnace holding capacities are to be
used in the future, serious consideration should be
given to the six-electrode unit. The advantages to be
had from a six-electrode furnace as compared with
a three-electrode furnace are as follows:
1. Six energy liberating areas would be had in-
stead of three to better utilize the power avail-
able.

Lower secondary voltages and lower current
values can be used, thus minimizing the prob-
lem of carrying the power to the furnace and
liberating the energy uniformly.

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3. A six-electrode furnace with an elliptical shell
will offer less difficulty of bottom and side wall
maintenance. This is primarily due to the fact
that the lateral spacing between front and back
wall would be less than on an equivalent hold-
ing capacity three-electrode unit. Refractory
losses would also be materially reduced, due to
the fact that less heat will be radiated to the
refractories from the bath, with a greater
amount of the liberated energy absorbed by the
charge. With increased refractory life, furnace
down time will be less.

. With smaller electrodes, as well as electrode
holders and masts of less weight, electrode
motor sizes are materially reduced. Therefore,
more accurate electrode regulation can be ob-
tained. Futhermore, the handling and servicing
of smaller electrodes minimizes cost.

A BASIS FOR COMPARISON

As a means of comparing a large six-electrode fur-
nace with a present day large three-electrode furnace,
a preliminary design of a 250 ton holding capacity,

six-electrode unit has been made. The shell of this
furnace would be an ellipse with a dimension of
approximately 35 ft. in length and 24 ft. in width.
It would be equipped with two 25000 KVA trans-
formers and would use two sets of three 20” elec-
trodes arranged in a similar way to the original
six-electrode furnace (see cover illustration). The side
frames would be connected together to form a gantry
designed to carry the roof. The roof would be lifted
and the gantry and roof moved out over the tapping
side to permit charging. If two six-electrode furnaces
were installed, a central transformer vault would
house two of the transformers, with all of the switch-
ing equipment at the central location. On each oppo-
site side, there would be a smaller transformer vault
to house the additional transformers, panel and
regulator.

Calculated data pertaining to a 250 ton holding
capacity 35’0” x 24’0” six-electrode furnace
equipped with two 25000 KVA transformers and
using 20” electrodes, is as follows:

1. Furnace to be initially charged with 125 tons

of scrap and a 125 ton re-charge made.

2. 50000 KVA at 80% power factor, 40000 KW

demand.
. At 85% power-use factor* for melt, 34000
KW average power load.

. Assume 400 KWH per ton required to melt
scrap only.
125 tons at 400 KWH per ton, 50000 KWH
required to melt initial charge.

. At 34000 KW average load, time required to
melt initial charge, approximately 1 hour 28
minutes.

ESTIMATED HEAT CYCLE
(35' 0" x 240" Six-Electrode Furnace, Ordinary Carbon Steels)

Fettie bottom 25 min.
First charge, 2 buckets,

62/2 tons each 30 min.
Melt first charge . 28min.
Re-charge, 2 buckets,

62" tons each 30 min.
Melt re-charge Thr. 28 min.
Refine &bringtotemperature 1 hr. O min.
Tap 20 min.
TOTAL TIME 5 hrs. 41 min.

6 hour heats, or 4 heats per 24 hours for
ordinary carbon steels

*The term power-use factor refers to the average amount
of power that is normally used at a given power demand.

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It is to be noted that an 85% power-use factor
has been utilized in calculating the average KW
power load during the melting period. It is highly
probable that this power-use factor would be in-
creased due to the relatively low amount of energy
to be released at each electrode tip, and its more
rapid absorption by the charge. Any increase in
power-use factor would reduce the time of melt. The
time required for bringing the bath to temperature
and refining for ordinary carbon steels might also
be reduced, and it is probable that more than 4 heats
can be obtained in 24 hours.

In the above calculations, the use of oxygen has
not been considered. If oxygen is used, the heat time
will be materially reduced. On this basis, it is pos-
sible to produce 5 to 6 heats per 24 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUAL PRODUCTION RATES
(Six-electrode 250 ton furnaces and
three-electrode 180 ton furnaces)

Furnace availability 95% for average of 684
hours per month.

SIX-ELECTRODE FURNACE—50000 KVA

6 hour heats—250 tons per heat

41.6 tons per hour (conservatively
estimated)

28,454 tons per month—341,448 tons
per year per furnace

THREE-ELECTRODE FURNACE—35000 KVA

27.5 tons per hour (obtained with
existing furnaces)

18,810 tons per month—225,720 tons
per year per furnace

Two six-electrode SOOOO KVA furnaces—
approximately 680,000 tons per year

Three three-electrode 35000 KVA furnaces—
approximately 675,000 tons per year

The production figures as outlined are for com-
parative purposes only. With modern transformers
equipped with heat exchangers, overloads can be
carried and together with the use of oxygen, average
production in excess of 27.5 tons per hour of ordi-
nary carbon steels can be obtained from the three-
electrode 35000 KVA furnaces. This possibility of
increased production holds true to an even greater
extent when the six-electrode furnace is considered,
for the reason that the increased power can be more
readily utilized. With the use of oxygen and utiliza-
tion of increased power, production in excess of 50
tons per hour can no doubt be obtained with the
six-electrode furnace. It is possible with very light

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scrap thatgnore than one re-charge may be necessary.
This would apply to either the six-electrode or three-
electrode furnace.

In the foregoing comparison of large six-elec-
trode with large three-electrode furnaces, no con-
sideration has been given to the use of high intensity
gas burners to facilitate melting, nor has considera-
tion been given to the use of hot metal. Based on
existing practice, there is no question but that hot
metal can be utilized as a part of the charge, per-
haps as much as 50% of the charge. In the use of
hot metal, the six-electrode furnace will have the
advantage of better distribution of the energy with-
out superheating portions of the bath.

COMPARISON OF POWER DEMAND

Three (3) 24'0", 35000 KVA three-electrode
furnaces, two melting at 35000 KVA each,
and one refining at 10000 KVA, with
diversity factor of 85%,68000 KVA demand.

Two (2) 35'0” x 24'0", SOOOO KVA six-
electrode furnaces, one meiting at S5S0OOO
KVA, one refining at 15000 KVA, with
diversity factor of 85%,55250 KVA demand.

It may be said in connection with the two six-
electrode 50000 KVA furnaces that a period could
occur when both units would be melting. This same
probability of melting times coinciding could also
occur with three three-electrode 35000 KVA fur-
naces. In either case, the best operating pre-deter-
mined maximum demand would of necessity be
utilized. This does not alter the fact, however, of an
indicated lower power demand for the two six-elec-
trode furnaces.

Comparison of Kilowatts of available and
usable power per ton of charge during melt down

24'0” Furnace, 180 ton total heat, 90 ton charge

35000 KVA, 80% power factor, 28000 KW
90 ton initial charge, energy introduced
per ton of charge, 310 KW
Energy introduced per ton of charge
per electrode, 103.3 KW

35'0’’x 24'0” Furnace, 250 ton total heat,
125 ton charge

50000 KVA, 80% power factor, 40000 KW
125 ton initial charge, energy introduced
per ton of charge, 320 KW
Energy introduced per ton of charge
per electrode, 53.3 KW

As the energy to be liberated per electrode per
ton of charge for the 50000 KVA six-electrode
furnace is but slightly more than half of the energy
which must be liberated per electrode per ton of
charge for the 35000 KVA three-electrode furnace,
it follows that the rate at which energy is to be ab-
sorbed by the charge at each electrode tip is also
but slightly more than half. As this lesser amount
of energy per electrode is more readily and more
rapidly absorbed, it means that the full advantage
of the existing available power can be obtained.
This in turn increases furnace melting efficiency,
decreases refractory deterioration and decreases the
time required to melt.

COST COMPARISON

(2 six-electrode 50000 KVA furnaces with
3 three-electrode 35000 KVA furnaces)

Capital Costs

As to initial expense, it is estimated that two
50000 KVA six-electrode furnaces installed would
not be far different in cost than if three 35000 KVA
three-electrode furnaces were used. In connection
with the shop, however, while the length of the
building might be slightly reduced, larger ladle
cranes would be required for the two six-electrode
units as compared with the three three-electrode

furnaces. These larger ladle cranes would, of course,
entail a somewhat heavier building and slightly
greater cost.

Operating Costs

Refractories: As previously mentioned, refractory
costs for six-electrode furnaces should be materially
less than for three-electrode units. This is primarily
due to the better absorption of the energy by the scrap
and lesser amounts of radiant heat reflected to the
side walls and roof. Decreased refractory cost of
12% to 15% could, no doubt, be obtained.

Electrodes: Electrode consumption and electrode
cost per ton of steel produced in two six-electrode
furnaces will be approximately the same as that ob-
tained with three three-electrode units.

Power: Because of the lower power demand required
for two six-electrode furnaces, the cost per unit of
power will probably be decreased over that which
could be obtained in operating three three-electrode
furnaces. This decrease may be 3% to 5% of the
power cost.

Labor: Two six-electrode furnaces will require two
crews per turn, and three three-electrode furnaces
will require three crews per turn. Assuming direct
furnace labor at 50% of the total furnace shop labor,
there is indicated a saving of 1624 % in labor cost.

Gives greatest flexibility —

Makes any steel — any time — from
stainless to plain carbon. Handles cold
scrap, metallics, hot metal. Starts,
stops quickly — gives faster melts.

Delivers highest quality product —
Closer temperature control possible.

Lowers capital investment —
4Q% less than equivalent open-

hearth capacity.

Saves space —
Savings of 25% and more vs. open
hearths producing same tonnage.

Goes up fast —
Capital investment pays off sooner.

Uses clean fuel — electricity —
No combustion products to contam-
inate melt.

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Overali Costs

In combining amortization of capital cost with
operating expense based on lower refractory cost,
lower power cost, lower labor cost and equal elec-
trode cost for the six-electrode furnaces, it is defi-
nitely indicated that two 50000 KVA six-electrode
furnaces would show lower overall operating costs
than three 35000 KVA three-electrode furnaces. It
is entirely probable that this lower operating cost of
the six-electrode furnaces could range up to $2.00
per ton of steel produced. On the basis, however,
of only $1.00 per ton lower cost, there is indicated
a saving of $680,000.00 per year on a yearly pro-
duction of 680,000 tons. It is possible that a higher
power-use factor than that previously outlined can
be obtained with a six-electrode furnace. Oxygen
can also be utilized. In both cases production would
be increased and with increased production, greater
savings would accrue.

FUTURE DESIGN OF ELECTRIC FURNACES

The six-electrode furnace that has been outlined
as a 50000 KVA unit would have a nominal hold-
ing capacity of 250 tons and would use 20” elec-
trodes. Without modifying to any great extent the
design of the present electrode system and use of

power as now applied to existing three-electrode fur-
naces, a 300 ton 70000 KVA six-electrode furnace
using 24” electrodes could be built. It would also
be possible to build a 50000 KVA approximately
250 ton holding capacity, three-electrode furnace
using 30” electrodes. In building these larger three-
electrode furnaces, however, problems would be
magnified relating to mechanical and electrical de-
sign, minimizing refractory losses, full utilization of
power and operating difficulties. It is, therefore,
definitely indicated that higher melting efficiencies
and lower operating costs would be obtained with
six-electrode furnaces.

CONCLUSIONS

Based on the progress of the past, there is no doubt
that the production of electric furnace steel will
increase at an ever expanding rate. To provide for
this expansion and to produce electric furnace steel
at reasonable cost, furnaces of greater capacity will
be built. As higher efficiencies and resultant lower
operating costs can undoubtedly be obtained with
the use of large six-electrode furnaces as compared
with the use of large three-electrode furnaces, the
future development and use of the six-electrode fur-
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Progress Report

on ANOCUT. Electrolytic Machinin

INDIRECT COSTS -—Hidden Gold Mine

Perhaps cost reduction programs, value analysis committees
and the like have placed too much emphasis on reducing unit
costs by modernizing and powering up production tools. In-
direct costs-factory burden, has too often been a neglected area
in such studies. Labor hours spent in reconditioning tools and
cutters add dollars and cents to unit costs just as truly as do
those of a turret lathe operator. Yet, the equipment and
techniques used in many grinding cribs today are substantially
the same as 20 years ago. This heretofore neglected area must
also be up-dated and made competitive, and few if any areas
in a modern shop or plant offer an investment opportunity as
likely to produce such dramatic dividends, a forgotten gold
mine of savings.

It’s easy to talk about indirect costs. Here is what Anocut is
doing about them.

Abrasive costs reduced 80-90 per cent.

No rejects due to heat checks or cracks.

Reduces consumable tool purchases.

Broken tools and “scrap’”’ carbide reclaimed.

Regrind throwaways for 10% of original cost.

Excellent finish and no saw-tooth edges.

“‘Push-button”’ grinding.

Make form tools from standard blanks. No premium
priced preforms.

Grind carbide and steel simultaneously.

Faster grinding on most grades.

One grind only. Separate roughing and finishing not
required.

Regrinding carbide tipped milling cutter.
Each tooth is plunge-ground on a face-type
wheel to a positive stop. Cutter is then in-
dexed and the next tooth is plunged to the
same stop. Extremely low wheel wear allows
cutter to be finished in one indexing, regard-
less of amount to be removed, resulting in
substantial savings in abrasive costs and

Single pass machining of carbide tipped
milling cutter blades, removing carbide and
steel simultaneously. Using Model 1500
ampere Anocut unit on Mattison vertical
spindle machine, .005” to .008” of carbide
is removed in ~ single pass. Abrasive costs
are reduced & per cent, production in-
creased, scrap virtually eliminated.

Slot 4” by 4” by.100” ground in
hard ‘cotblde in one pass in 60
seconds. Electrolytic grinding
offers fast, inexpensive method
for bulk removal of carbide.

Eight spherical radii ground in
416 men piston pump part

High speed steel tool. New
higher powered supply units
provide rapid removal an

good finish on resharpening
dovetail and circular form
tools. Non-diamond wheel

(35 Re) 6-8 microinch finish,
reducing machining time 40 per
cent.

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HOW IT WORKS

Electrolytic removal may be considered as the reverse of electroplating.
The workpiece, which must be metallic, is made the anode in the circuit.
The metal bonded abrasive grinding wheel is made the cathode. Short cir-
cuiting between the two is prevented by the protrusion of spacer abrasive
particles from the surface of the wheel. A conductive water-base electrolyte
fluid flows across the surface of the wheel, passing the current between the
workpiece and the metal wheel. The automatically controlled direct current
= by the Anocet ual causes the workpiece - dissolve without ABRASIVE aS
chips, as the abrasive particles of the wheel maintain size and finish. PARTICLES ‘

Anocut Electrolytic Machining should not be confused with the spark- il reid SLEEVE
discharge or ultrasonic-impact methods. In the Anocut process, metal is me.
removed by electrochemical action as in electroplating, not by arcs or WHEEL-CATHODE
sparks. The work is not immersed in oil, but is fed into the wheel just as in
conventional machining.

Not magic, but an established scientific principle underlies Anocut
Electrolytic Machining. The removal rate on any metal is in strict accord-
ance with Faraday’s Law, which states that the amount of metal removed is
directly proportional to the number of amperes passed through the electro-
lyte fluid. If the number of amperes is doubled, the volume of material re-
moved is doubled. The current which is passed is determined in large part
by the area of contact between the wheel and the work. Hardness and tensile
strength are not important. As a general rule, approximately .100 cubic
inches of material can be removed per minute with each 1000 amperes. If
2000 amperes are passed, the removal will be doubled, to approximately
.200 cubic inches. Accordingly, the wheel-work interface area should be
maximized and every effort made to pass the maximum amount of current.

grinding time.

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The electrolytic machining process, pioneered by Anocut is covered by U.S. Patent No.2,826,540.Others pending,

From Alnico to Zircaloy...
Advantages and Limitations

Common soft metals, in most cases, can today be machined or
ground fast and inexpensively, with no special problems. Anocut
Electrolytic Machining is not recommended as a replacement
for the grinding wheel or milling cutter on such jobs. But this
new method of removing metal by electrolysis should be con-
sidered on any metal-removal application in which conven-
tional methods create problems of abrasive cost, slow speed,
thermal damage, burrs, layover or smear, finish, rapid tool
breakdown, collapsing thin sections, maintenance of form, or
size control.
Because the bulk of the metal is removed by electric current
flow you gain these advantages...
e Hardness or tensile strength have little effect on the

removal rate.

Wheel breakdown and abrasive cost per piece are drastically

reduced.

Unmachineable metals can be worked.

Fragile or heat sensitive parts are machined with speed.

Good finishes are obtained that are free of layover, smear

and abrasive or cutter marks.

Tool costs are slashed.

Materials from A to Z, and many having only a number,
are now being machined electrolytically. Tool and design en-
gineers more and more are specifying harder and tougher
materials, knowing that a practical method is now available
for working them.

The leading machine tool builders listed below have assisted
Anocut in introducing this new machining concept to industry.
Some have complete lines of electrolytic machines; others
offer their standard equipment with the necessary alterations
incorporated. Still others have designed special equipment to
take full advantage of the fact that Anocut now offers as stand-
ard equipment automatically controlled electrolytic supply
units with output capacities of 50 amperes to 3000 amperes.
Higher capacities, up to 120,000 amperes, are available on re-
quest. Leading abrasive manufacturers have also been of tre-
mendous help in developing diamond and non-diamond wheels
for all applications, replacing milling cutters in some cases.

Anocut’s sole business is the engineering of applications for
this potent new metal removal procedure and the manufacture
of electrolytic power supply units and electrolyte solutions,

Aluminum die casting, faced against
disc-type wheel to produce flat seal-
ing surface. Raw and finished parts
shown. Flatness held under .0005”.
Feed is .0015” per second. Current
required is 1200 amperes. All edges
are burr-free.

Front interior

Leading and trailing edges of gas

turbine bucket plunged against flat

surface of disc-type wheel. An av-

erage of .100” removed in 25 sec-

onds. No heat damage, and no
urr.

Spot weld inspection. Nugget and
tiny hole in center clearly exposed.
This job previously done by slow
etching and lapping procedure.
Now done on Anocut Model 300
and face type wheel.

Model SCE-6, one ot complete line
of tool grinding machines made by
Hammond Machinery Builders for
Anocut electrolytic grinding. Wheel
oscillates, table is mounted on ball
bearing ways, MistKolector is in-
corporated, and air feed can be used
for “push button” grinding.

Compound contouring of stainless steel
honeycomb is now an accomplished fact.
Sample shown is absolutely burr-free.
Other production installations involv-
ing flat machining of this material have
been operating successfully for years.

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trol chassis for
automatic voltage
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starter in 20 seconds. Contacts can be removed and inspected in ten seconds.
STRAIGHT-THROUGH WIRING means no wires need be bent or looped, and all
wiring is done from the front. Pressure-type terminals and 10% more wiring
room speed installation.

For more information, contact your nearest General Electric Apparatus
Sales Office or Distributor, or write Section 733-45, General Electric Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y. (Ask for Bulletin GEA-6917.)

GENERAL @@ ELECTRIC

RUGGED DEPENDABILITY of new General
Electric Size 2 starter is proved by se-
vere plugging-duty torture test.

STRAIGHT-THROUGH WIRING with

SNAP-SLIDE CONSTRUCTION permits
complete starter disassembly in 20
seconds without tools. All operating
parts either snap or slide together
for maximum accessibility.

10% MORE WIRING ROOM makes
the new Size 2 starter easier to wire,
even though it is 14% smaller than
previous enclosed forms. Wrap-
around cover adds extra accessibility.

line terminals on top and load ter-
minals on bottom saves wiring time.
All wiring is done from front, and
no wires need be bent or looped.

Best chain choice

for the hot and heavy jobs

CLASS SMGL

CLASS 1100

You can increase the life-span of Full information on these chains . . . plus

a broad line of attachments and sprockets—

your conveyors with LINK-BELT is contained in Catalog 1050. Get your copy

by writing direct . . . or call your nearest

Class SMGL and 1100 chains at Link-Belt office or authorized stock-carrying

re distributor, listed under CHAINS in the yel-
Where operating conditions involve heat and hard eee low pages of your Phone Directory.
service beyond the ordinary, you need the extra-
ordinary stamina of these Link-Belt chains.

CLASS SMGL combination chains are designed
specifically for furnace conveyor service. Sidebars and
center links are made of “file-hard” Promal, with
bosses on sidebars to reduce stress on free-floating pins. aa
CLASS 1100 roller chain is ideal for horizontal or CHAINS AND SPROCKETS

inclined rolling elevators and conveyors.

. iar ; . oe e LINK-BELT COMPANY: Executive Offices, Prudential Plaza, Chicago 1.
Full design information on both is contained in To Serve Industry There Are Link-Belt Plants, Sales Offices, Stock

Catalog 1050. Your Link-Belt representative will Carrying Factory Branch Stores and Distributors in All Principal Cities.

counsel on chain selection for high temperature con- Export Office, New York ; Australia, Marrickville (Sydney ) ; Brazil,
© Sao Paulo; Canada, Scarboro (Toronto 13); South Africa, Springs.

ditions. Representatives Throughout the World. 15,075

STEEL

Operator machines $1200 oblique-shaped, 31” diameter cross-head plate on Nebel extension bed gap lathe in half the usual time

Odd shapes to 40” dia. machined to .0004”
in 1/2 time on NEBEL extension bed gap lathe

The Port Arthur, Texas plant of Koppers Co., Inc., works
with flammable gas under high pressures. Equipment main-
tenance demands perfect machining, with accuracy to
four ten thousandths inches. The firm installed a Nebel ex-
tension bed gap lathe to obtain this precision, plus the ex-
treme versatility necessary to swing large, odd-shaped parts.

The 28”/50” Nebel, with its 120” centers, 52” swing through
the gap, and load-carrying capacity of over 37,000 pounds,
satisfies Koppers’ need for a “‘universal’’ unit. It has elimi-
nated “shut-down time’ in production, machining over-
night pieces that previously required weeks of delay for

MeBRE ET, “tes

replacement, being impossible to chuck or face on an ord-
inary lathe. Often, the machine ‘‘doubles”’ as an engine lathe.
Set up and geared for metric threading, ranging from 1.75 to
80 threads per mm., offering a precision impossible and im-
practical with competitive machines, the Nebel cuts machin-
ing time in half on most jobs, including the numerous special
alloys used by Koppers.

Learn how the incomparable accuracy and flexibility of a Nebel
extension bed gap lathe can save you time, money and space.
Write for free detailed bulletins on the complete line today!

Nebel Machine Tool Corporation

3405 Central Parkway, Cincinnati 25, Ohio

-world's largest stainless steel plates

ready for processing at Carlson

OMETIMES Carlson service is a cooperative venture
S that gets practically impossible jobs done. The proc-
essing and finishing of these, the world’s largest stain-
less steel plates, is an example of such teamwork.

As this was a “‘first time’’ job, the most careful plan-
ning and coordination had to be exercised. Oversize
ingot molds and a 70-ton capacity furnace had to be
used. It took the country’s largest plate mill to roll the
ingots to slabs, the slabs to plates. The finished plates,
cut-to-shape by Carlson specialists, met every cus-
tomer requirement.

These huge plates, of Type 304 stainless steel, were
made to Specification A-240 Grade S (ASTM A240-T).
Each plate weighed over 49,000 pounds; one measured
461" x 179’ x 2”; the other 451” x 184’’ x 2’’. Destined

for a nuclear application, these plates were flame-cut
and abrasive-cut to make two half-circles. The entire
order totaled nearly 100,000 pounds.

Cooperation made this ‘‘colossus’’ a success—coopera-
tion under the knowing eyes of Carlson specialists. This
same team is ready to work on your order. We invite
you to write, wire or phone for further information.

G.O,GEV RESON Ze.

Stainless Steel Exclusively

122 Marshalton Road
THORNDALE, PENNSYLVANIA
District Sales Offices in Principal Cities

PLATES « PLATE PRODUCTS + HEADS « RINGS « CIRCLES « FLANGES « FORGINGS « BARS and SHEETS (No. 1 Finish)

AIR CLUTCH AND BRAKE
. sensitive, smooth
eraiiiteMelite Minott] >) (mnie -1.
— needs no adjustment
throughout its life.

RAM PRESSURE RELEASE
. exclusive design
saves time, dies and
machine; operates
quickly and easily.

OE CS

... push button, direct
reading adjustment—
includes declutch for
adjusting out of parallel.

SOLID STEEL FRAME
... exceptional rigidity,
even at full capacity—
two bearings on each
eccentric for: long life.

Compare the Lodge & Shipley Press Brake against any other standard
equipped brake. You’ll pay extra for item after item in the list above.
The Lodge & Shipley Press Brake is fully equipped for fast, accurate,
.. you pay no more,

versatile and dependable operation. In a few words .
get lots more ...in a Lodge & Shipley Press Brake.

Want complete details? Write for Condensed Catalog PB-8 or mention
capacity requirements for specific literature and data.

3070 COLERAIN AVE., CINCINNATI 25, OHIO

EXTRA RUGGED DRIVE
. spur gearing for
efficiency — runs in oil;
two-speed drive avail-
able at extra cost.

THE LODGE & SHIPLEY CO.,

May 11, 1959

For the best Jib Crane VALUE...

Get Borg-Warner QUALITY
and PERFORMANCE

1. Head assembly pivots on heavy-duty tapered
roller bearing.

. Head assembly accurately positioned and
welded for perfect alignment of jib. Heavy
side plates
Two large-diameter, carefully machined side
rollers, each with two precision ball bearings
for smooth jib rotation.

4. Heavy wall oD |
seamless steel pillar. | Fd = ez y -N
5. Heavy circular base plate, 6 large

gussets and pillar welded together to form
a rigid frame

Mass-production economies put Jib Master way out front in per-

formance and value... and ata price you can afford.

oe Entirely self-supported, Jib Master swings freely through a full
360° for efficient hook coverage over the maximum work area.
Two bottom load carrying rollers, each have two heavy duty pre-
cision ball bearings. The top thrust bearing is a heavy duty tapered f
The Jib Master is also avai. Oller bearing. Heavy side plates are welded to head assembly for
Y
~ a

able with Pillar Foundation
Mounting, designated N-PFM

ith
Eee noe ane use =~ unit with pillar and heavy steel base plate.

perfect alignment of jib. Six large gussets form a rigid all welded

Whatever your overhead materials handling requirements, it will
pay you to write for full details and prices today or call your local

B-W Industrial Cranes distributor

Design it better... van ni “y Distributors in all
: ellow
1 namemamanaate Make it better. steel | principal industrial cities.

Borg-Warner’ INDUSTRIAL CRANES

1550 PAULINA STREET, CHICAGO 8, ILLINOIS
} BORG -WARNER | Export Sales: Borg-Warner International, 36 South Wabash St., Chicago 3, Illinois

STEEL

STRAPPING

BRAINARD ZigaZ

There is a Threading Special

He is your Landis Service Representative. Although

not in your plant every minute of every day, a phone call
or wire will bring him to you promptly. Down time,
improper chaser life, failure to meet specifications

... these are the types of problems your Landis

Service Man helps you to avoid.

These Service Representatives, located throughout
the country, can help you in many ways. For example,
they can show you how to best use your threading equip-
ment (whether the operation is by cutting, grinding,
tapping, or rolling) to save you time and money. They
will aid in translating the general sales literature data re
into specific information on producing your particular Dita
threading job. They can describe the special equipment
that has been designed for threading unusual and
difficult-to-handle workpieces. By working with our
Engineering Department, they are able to provide addi-
tional information on similar equipment for your special
threading requirements. These are but a few of the many
ways the Landis Service Representative can help you.

All LANDIS Equipment is guaranteed to produce threads
to meet the degree of accuracy and production for which

it is sold. Our extensive staff of Service Men, plus the
above guarantee, emphasize the value LANDIS assigns

to satisfied customers. We sell performance, not just
products, and you become an expert on threading, when our
experienced Service Representatives are at your service.

LANDIS Machine COMPANY WAYNESBORO ¢ PENNSYLVANIA

THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF THREADING EQUIPMENT

a
Threading Machines

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an;

Ove Heads — Rotary & Stationary Taps — Collapsible & Solid Adjustable Centerless Thread Grinding Machines Thread Rolling Tools Thread Rollins Machines

gue

THE DODGE DEVELOPMENT
THAT CHANGED THE
NATION’S HABITS OF
SPEED REDUCTION

In fewer than ten years, the range of Torque-Arm

America’s Most
Shaft Mounted Speed Reducers has increased from

Complete Line of 6 to 55 models, to meet the ever increasing demand
for this improved method of speed reduction.
Shaft Mounted
By eliminating foundation, sliding base and flexible
Speed Reducers coupling this modern speed reducer has saved untold

installation time and untold dollars of cost.
e1to 200 hp at100 rpm! The rugged semisteel housing developed by Dodge
has never been improved upon. It is corrosion re-

e Output speeds from sistant—and it has the strength to hold bearing seats

10 to 378 rpm!

in line for the life of the unit.

Dodge design provides wide spacing for the bear-
Single Reduction ings. Loads are carried easily, contributing to Torque-
Arm’s long life and very high efficiency. The gears are
Double Reduction finest quality—helical, heat treated steel.

; Torque-Arm mounts vertically or horizontally in
e 5 to Ratio se , ‘ ;
any position around the driven shaft. It locks to the
e 15 to1 Ratio shaft on both sides of the housing. The holes in the
output hub provide simple removal with puller. Over-
e 25 to1 Ratio load release and built-in backstop are optional.

, Dodge Torque-Arm is America’s most widely used
e Any speed ratio up shaft mounted speed reducer. It is stocked by your local

to 150 to 1 obtainable Dodge Distributor. Ask him. Or write us for bulletin.
by selection of pre- DODGE MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, 4400 Union, Mishawaka, Ind.
determined combination of
reducer and V-belt drive.

CALL THE TRANSMISSIONEER — your local wa
Dodge Distributor. Factory trained by S

Dodge, he can give you valuable help on

new, cost-saving methods. Look in the white S *
pages of your telephone directory for / , of Mishawaka, Ind.

“Dodge Transmissioneer.’

Here is one of a fleet of forty Type 430 Stainless Steel tank cars that transport nitric acid. Built in 1956 by
General American Transportation Corporation, these tank cars are still in excellent condition

Leading the pure life—in (s8) Stainless Steet

A manufacturer's second biggest disappointment is to have his product rejected because
it was contaminated during shipment. The biggest disappointment comes when the customer
buys his next order from someone else.

Manufacturers who ship or contain their products in Stainless Steel seldom worry about product
purity. Many chemicals that eat away other metals have no effect on Stainless Steel. It keeps

a smooth, dense surface that is easy to clean. No corrosion. No pits. No place for dirt to hide.
And there’s less danger of spoiling one batch with residue from another.

Because Stainless Steel is so strong, it can be used in thinner, lighter gages—
reducing the overall weight of the container. But the real clincher is this:
even though Stainless Steel costs more, there is no cheaper material in the long run. Specify

USS Stainless Steel ... through our nearest sales office or your local Steel Service Center.
USS is a registered trademark

United States Steel Corporation — Pittsburgh
American Steel & Wire - Cleveland
National Tube — Pittsburgh -
Columbia-Geneva Steel - San Francisco U t d St t St |
Tennessee Coal & Iron — Fairfield, Alabama ni € a es ee
United States Stee! Supply — Stee! Service Centers
United States Steel Export Company

“60 tons of counterweights de-shimmied this shaft”

says A. H. McGurk, USS Machine Shop Foreman

Arthur H. McGurk has supervised a lot of
uncommon machining jobs during his 30
years in the Forgings Division of U.S. Steel.
But even he talks about this one:

It’s a 30-ton single throw crankshaft for
a vertical extrusion press. The German com-
pany making the press says that it’s the
biggest one-piece crankshaft of its kind ever
made—more than 15’ long and almost 36”
in diameter at the main bearing journals.
The “‘throw”’ section is about 31” deep, and
here, the crankpin journal is 42” in diameter.

We forged and machined this unusual
shape from one piece of steel—a 110” diam.-
476,000# ingot of Ni-Cr-Mo-V steel that
was double normalized and tempered to
develop a tensile strength level of 120,000
psi. When the smooth-forged shaft was ready
for machining on a 120” lathe it weighed 72
tons, and it created a real problem. As it
stood, the forging couldn’t be turned on the
lathe because the heavy throw section was
off-center from the line of the main shaft.
This eccentricity would tear the shaft from
the lathe.

The problem was solved with three spe-
cially designed counterweights that totaled
60 tons. Collars were welded to the weights
and they were bolted to the shaft so that
it could be turned on either of its two centers
without any whip. On a lathe and a planer-
miller, the shaft was machined to tolerances
of .001”.

Bearing surfaces were polished to a 63-
microinch finish.

The rest of the machinery for this extru-
sion press was made in Germany, but U. S.
Steel received the order for the crankshaft
because the forging and machining de-
manded equipment and know-how that can’t
be matched anywhere else in the world.
We'd appreciate your inquiries or requests
for our free 32-page booklet about USS
Quality Forgings. Just write United States
Steel, 525 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh
30, Pennsylvania. USS is a registered trademark

United States Steel Corporation — Pittsburgh
Columbia-Geneva Stee! — San Francisco
Tennessee Coal & Iron — Fairfield, Alabama
United States Steel Export Company

United States Steel

Steel can be flame-cut, welded, formed, sheared, punched, machined or forged

How to beef-up your equipment without adding fat

Build it stronger, tougher and lighter with USS “T-1" Steel.
This remarkable steel was developed especially to
meet the needs for bigger tools, stronger equipment,
larger yet less massive structures.

USS “T-1” Steel is a low carbon, quenched and
tempered constructional alloy steel combining weld-
ability and formability with exceptional strength
and toughness. Because of its high yield strength
(100,000 psi minimum) you can cut weight safely
in actual applications, as much as 25% to 50%
weight reductions have been achieved.

Total costs can frequently be reduced, too. In
applications such as heavy machinery, rotating
parts, pressure vessels and bridge members, steel
costs can be lowered by reduction in cross section

United States Steel Corporation - Pittsburgh
Columbia-Geneva Steel - San Francisco
Tennessee Coal & Iron - Fairfield, Alabama
United States Steel Supply - Steel Service Centers
United States Steel Export Company

and substantial savings experienced in welding,
maintenance, freight and erection costs.

Also, in equipment subjected to impact abrasion,
USS “T-1” Steel pays off. Users report service life
increases ranging from 25% to 100°%%—or more.
Power shovel buckets, bulldozer blades, coal and
ore bins . . . all cost less in the end when made of
“T-1” Steel because they last longer, cost less to
maintain.

Write for free book. The many advantages, applica-
tions and cost-saving features of this versatile steel
are completely described in our book USS “T-1.”
United States Steel, 525 William Penn Place, Pitts-
burgh 30, Pennsylvania.

USS and “‘T-1" are registered trademarks

United States Steel

THIS NE
QUILL-TYPE
AJUSTO-SPEDE

DRIVE

Plu

THIS NEW
K-2 CONTROL

and

PUSH-BUTTON
STATION Give You Controlled Adjustable Speed
~S from an AC Power Source

Red tint indicates
justable speed

in a Compact, Low Cost 3-Unit Drive Package

— by —

NAMAT|

PIONEER IN EDDY-CURRENT EQUIPMENT

Three compact components, the Ajusto-Spede Drive, the K-2 Control, and
the push-button station make up this complete drive package which provides
controlled adjustable speeds for any application from 2 HP through 7/2
HP at 1800 RPM.

Remote wall mounting of the control panel conserves space on the
driven machine; the push-button station places vital controls at
the operator’s finger tips.

Standard control features include on-off clutch control, infinite
speed adjustment, constant speed regulation, and jogging. Any of
a variety of special features may be easily and economically added
to the standard control by the installation of a single resin-
encapsulated circuit.

Send for complete information covering design and operation of
the new models ACM-903 and 904 Ajusto-Spede Drives. Read how
the new K-2 Control provides infinite speed adjustment, on-off
clutch control, constant speed control, jogging, threading, cascad-
ing, and acceleration control.

Our New Bulletin K-2-159 is Now Available.

DYNAMATIC DIVISION

MANUFACTURING COMPANY
3307 FOURTEENTH AVENUE ¢ KENOSHA, WISCONSIN

May 11, 1959

When you require specific
physical properties combined
with accurate dimensions in
spring steel, call Sandvik.
~ From composition, through

pe C | processing to the finished
strip, Sandvik has had long
experience in precision-
control. That is why you find
Sandvik steels used for

feeler gauges, watch springs,
compressor valves, camera
shutters, reeds, shock
absorbers and many other
exacting spring steel
applications.

Sandvik supplies cold rolled

specialty strip steels —
@ In special analyses for specific
p P . T * | d applications.
@ Precision-rolled thicknesses to
I é C H AY / 0 N ™ a / 0 [ 6 fit your requirements.
@ In straight carbon and
alloy grades.
* A 1] dor
hardened and tempered —

~
scaleless or polished bright,
yellow or blue.
@ With square, round or

dressed edges.

Sandvik stocks a wide
variety of qualities and sizes.
In addition Sandvik has
FOR ACCURATE FLATNESS, Rolling, Slitting, Edge-
Filing and Hardening and
Tempering facilities.

STRAIGHTNESS, WIDTH, GAUGE AND eieypsoncnee

Gives Specific Data a. e
EDGE FINISH PLUS SPECIFIC On Sandvik Cold [14

Rolled and Hard- | fff

ened and Tempered ©

Strip Steels. Cat-
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES caiman Ee

by application and

lists finish, usual

size range and chem-

istry. Send for your copy todav.

SANDVIK STEEL, INC.

1702 Nevins Road, Fair Lawn,

New Jersey

Tel. SWarthmore 7-6200

In N. Y. C. Algonquin 5-2200
Warehouses: Fair Lawn, N. J. © Cleveland ©
Los Angeles

Branch Offices: Cleveland © Detroit ©

Chicago © Los Angeles

ANDVIK CANADIAN LTD. P. 0. Drawer 1335
Sta. 0., Montreal 9, P. Q.

WORKS: Sandviken, Sweden

IT PAYS TO STANDARDIZE ON STANSCREW

Stanscrew service adds strength,
lowers costs for Shafer Valve Company

The valve operators produced by Shafer Valve
Company of Mansfield, Ohio are used to open

and close large valves on gas pipe lines . . . often
in remote locations, many miles from human
supervision. They are subject to sudden surge
loads which cause extremely high stresses . . .
and their critical importance demands unfailing
reliability of all components.

Shafer formerly manufactured their own fas-
teners for this demanding application from a
special high strength steel. Then their distrib-
utor arranged for a visit from Stanscrew’s fas-
tener specialist. He quickly established that
Stanscrew’s heat-treated ‘“‘Carbon Restoration”’
cap screws, correctly applied, could provide
even greater fastener strength ... and at a sig-

nificant saving in cost.

The Stanscrew fastener specialist may be able
to make similar savings or improvements in
your assembly operations. For he brings to your
application the experience and facilities which
have made Stanscrew a leading supplier of fas-
teners to the top names in American industry
for over 80 years. And he can select money-
saving answers to your problems from a com-
plete line of over 5,000 different types and sizes
of standard fasteners . . . always in stock,
quickly available.

Whatever your fastener requirements, call your
nearby Stanscrew distributor today. He will ar-
range for a prompt visit from the Stanscrew fas-
tener specialist.

STANSCREW FASTENERS

CHICAGO | THE CHICAGO SCREW COMPANY, BELLWOOD, ILLINOIS

HMS
WESTERN

STANDARD SCREW COMPANY

May 11, 1959

HARTFORD MACHINE SCREW COMPANY, HARTFORD. CONNECTICUT
THE WESTERN AUTOMATIC MACHINE SCREW COMPANY, ELYRIA, OHIO

2701 Washington Boulevard, Bellwood, Illinois

Allen Hughes
cut abrasiwe costs 18 tol at

Grinding the gripper-die marks off a jet turbine
blade can be an expensive business. At the Harris-
burg Works of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, these
super-alloy steel blades used to be semi-finished
with coated abrasive belts until Industrial and
Abrasive Control Engineer Paul Mazich started
checking up on costs.

Mazich called in Bay State Abrasive Engineer
Allen B. Hughes and he dug into the problem.
Working with Bay State distributor General
Machinery & Equipment Company, Hughes made a
series of careful tests. The result was a grinding
wheel that cut the annual cost of abrasive materials

Industrial Engineer Paul Mazich ex-
amines finish on jet engine blade forg-
ing after off-hand grinding operation
illustrated at right.

alone from $18,000 to $1,000. Its unique combina-
tion of special bond and abrasive grit increased
cutting spread, prevented loading and eliminated
the need for dressing so successfully that produc-
tivity rose, labor costs dropped and there were
additional savings of around $5,000.

Like Allen Hughes, the Bay State Abrasive Engi-
neer in your area is a trained expert. He backs up
the work of the experienced men who represent
Bay State’s topflight distributors and Bay State’s
research labs back them both with new ideas,
techniques and materials. Better grinding at lower
cost... that is our business.

Operator E. S. Jones semi-finishes jet turbine blade in off-hand grinding operation
with cool-cutting, self-dressing Bay State grinding wheel.

Thompson Ramo Wooldridge

Allen B. Hughes worked up through
Bay State’s Westboro plant and then
added extensive field experience so
that his knowledge of abrasive prob-
lems and practical solutions for them
covers every phase of abrasive
engineering.

me
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ABRASIVES

@ Bay State Abrasive Products Co., Westboro, Massachusetts.
In Canada: Bay State Abrasive Products Co., (Canada) Ltd., Brantford, Ontario.
Branch Offices : Bristol, Conn., Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles. Distributors: All principal cities.

May 11, 1959

Here’s Eye Protection and Correction (F)in 3 Eye Appealing Series

How

These are the modern types of safety
prescription glasses that workers wear
willingly. Combining smart appear-
ance with SAFETY STANDARD FRAMES
AND LENSES, they provide the basic
ingredients for an RK program. By
guarding against accidents they save

2-TONE, Another
olatetielul-Mlehi tulele tt}
addition to AO's line
of Ultrascopic safety
glasses Onyx on
rystal acetate (Cat

No, F9700)

eyes —and compensation in four and
five figures. In indirect costs, they
save about four times as much as in
direct costs. In many cases, they pay
for themselves in 6 months or less.
Specify them for Safety Prescription.
Your workers deserve the best!

Safety Glasses like these
Can Pay for Themselves in
Six Months

“SAFEMASTER” is American
Optical’s latest. Virile good looks!
Frame is high quality nickel. Trim is
durable nonflammable plastic — min-
imizes glare-reflection. Every frame
must pass 3 National Bureau of
Standards tests (Cat. No. F5200).

Ultrascopic in Pink Crystal
or our very new Mahogany
frame. (Cat. Nos. F9500
—Pink Crystal, F9 500M
Mahogany).

YOUR NEAREST AO SAFETY PRODUCTS REPRESENTATIVE CAN SUPPLY YOU

NOTE: Your Safety Director has full
particulars on these safety glasses. He
knows there is no substitute for
quality in safety. Look to him!

American \@&) Optical

SAFETY PRODUCTS DIVISION

SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Always insist on the *& Trademark
on lenses and frames.

Safety Service Centers

in Principal Cities

Experience — the added al/oy in Allegheny Stainless

Ss. per cu. in.)

AM350 PROPERTIES (density 0.262 1b it a

DENSITY

|
2% YIELD STRENGTH

DENSITY

ALUMINUM 7075-76
TENSILE STRENGTH

DENSITY ELONGATION

4I—JANLVYIdWIL 1S3L
% Elong. in 2”

Two for the space age—AL’s AM-350 and AM-355
precipitation hardening steels

A unique combination of highly desirable properties de-
scribes Allegheny Stainless AM-350 and AM-355 Steels.
They combine high strength at both room and elevated
temperatures, excellent corrosion resistance, ease of fabrica-
tion, low temperature heat treatment, good resistance to
stress corrosion.

They are proving the answer to many space age problems.
Airframe and other structural parts, pressure tanks, power
plant components, high pressure ducting, etc. are all
natural missile and supersonic aircraft applications for
AM-350 and AM-355.

AVAILABILITY: AM-350, introduced several years ago, is
available commercially in sheet, strip, foil, small bars and
wire. AM-355, best suited for heavier sections, is available
commercially in forgings, forging billets, plates, bars
and wire.

CORROSION RESISTANCE: Compared to the more fa-
miliar stainless grades, AM-350 and AM-355 resist corrosion
and oxidation better than the hardenable grades (chromium

WSW 7516

martensitic) and only slightly less than the 18 and 8’s,
They resist stress corrosion at much higher strength levels
than do martensitic stainless grades.

SIMPLE HEAT TREATMENT: High strength is developed
by two methods. Both minimize oxidation and distortion
problems. The usual is the Allegheny Ludlum-developed
sub-zero cooling and tempering (SCT): minus 100F for 3
hrs plus 3 hrs at 850F. Alternate method is Double Aged
(DA): 2 hrs at 1375F plus 2 hrs at 850F.

EASY FABRICATION: AM-350 and AM-355 can be spun,
drawn, formed, machined and welded using normal stain-
less procedures. In the hardened conditions, some forming
may be done . . . 180 degree bend over a 3T radius pin.
Also AM-350 can be dimpled in the SCT condition to
insure accurate fit-up.

For further information, see your A-L sales engineer or
write for the booklet “Engineering Properties, AM-350
and AM-355.” Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation,
Oliver Building, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. Address Dept. S-17

ALLEGHENY LUDLUM

Export distribution: AIRCO INTERNATIONAL
EVERY FORM OF STAINLESS... EVERY HELP IN USING IT

May 11, 1959

UNILOY

STAINLESS STEELS

it will still be as beautiful
when she grows up

Yes ... when she’s ready to drive her own car, she too
will want the long lasting beauty and protective qualities
of solid stainless steel trim .. . and if this car is still
around, the trim will be just as beautiful as it is today.
For stainless that offers maximum ease of fabrication
and lasting, lustrous finish, specify Uniloy Stainless Steel.

UNIVERSAL
@ CYCLOPS

STEEL CORPORATION
BRIDGEVILLE, PA.

STAINLESS STEELS © TOOL STEELS © HIGH TEMPERATURE METALS

STEEL

fork-lift history!

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EXPOSITION
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THE ONE-MAN-GANG

Certified Job Studies continue to report new records of productivity
and profit with Towmotor Fork Lift Trucks at work throughout
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varieties of loads in factories, mills, yards, docks and warehouses,
Unloading raw materials. Feeding production lines. Storing goods.
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industry ... including yours.

These comparative statistics are readily available to you. Ask for
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Booklet SP-23 describing new Towmotor Fork Lift Trucks. Write
Towmotor Corporation, Cleveland 10, Ohio.

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Another Remarkable Benefit

From Using Bliss and Laughlin’s
Patented LUSTERIZED® Finish

Cold Drawn Steel Bars

The bright, clean finish of Bliss & Laughlin’s Lusterized
cold drawn carbon and alloy steel bars has more advan-
tages than appearance alone.

One of the most enthusiastically mentioned is a very
practical production advantage—the virtual elimination
of the need to clean the chucking mechanisms of auto-
matic bar machines between job set-ups.

This saves time and money. Production schedules run
faster and smoother. From beginning to end, Lusterized
bars start cleaner, work cleaner, finish cleaner.

EXCLUSIVE, PATENTED FINISHING PROCESS

The secret is Bliss & Laughlin’s exclusive, patented
Lusterizing process which removes the processing grit,
oils and lime that clog the chucking mechanisms. Just
how this is avoided is explained at the right.

Here again is another profit-wise reason why it’s just
good business to specify the big difference in cold drawn
steel bars—the Bliss & Laughlin Lusterized difference.
Especially satisfying is the knowledge that you pay
only standard prices, and that Lusterized bars conform
to the new closer tolerances recently announced by

Bliss & Laughlin.

The BIG DIFFERENCE In Cold Drawn
Steel Bars Is The Bliss & Laughlin
LUSTERIZED® Difference

Don’t Clog Automatics
OIL OR LIME TO FOUL CHUCKING MECHANISMS

The photo at the left above shows the production station
of a single-spindle automatic bar machine. Familiar to
all is the substantial time consumed in cleaning dirt
accumulations from the chucking mechanism, caused by
the scraping action of the feed fingers on ordinary cold
finished bars during feed outs. The front and back slides,
the circular form tools and the tool holders must first be
removed. The nose piece then must be removed and
finally the chucking mechanism, which includes the collet
sleeve and the collet. On a multiple-spindle automatic,
several hours can be consumed in this cleaning operation.

Originators of LUSTERIZED° Finish—The BIG DIFFERENCE in Cold Drawn Steel Bars

BLISS & LAUGHLIN

The illustration above shows why foreign matter in
the chucking mechanism causes sluggish operation, stick-
ing of the collet sleeve and run outs. During the feed out
operation, the processing grit, oil and lime on ordinary
bars is scraped off when the feed finger returns to the
operating position. This dirt works through the openings
in the feed finger into the slits in the collet and on
through to the collet sleeve. Wiping ordinary bars before
machining does not effectively eliminate the processing
grit, oil and lime which the Bliss & Laughlin Lusterized
process removes at the mill.

Specialists in

Finish, Accuracy
Straightness, Strength
and Machinability

GENERAL OFFICES: Harvey, Ill. «© PLANTS: Harvey, Detroit, Buffalo, Mansfield, Mass.

Another Remarkable Benefit
From Using Bliss and Laughlin’s
Patented LUSTERIZED® Finish

Cold Drawn Steel Bars

The bright, clean finish of Bliss & Laughlin’s Lusterized
cold drawn carbon and alloy steel bars has more advan-
tages than appearance alone.

This saves time and money. Production schedules run
faster and smoother. From beginning to end, Lusterized
bars start cleaner, work cleaner, finish cleaner.

EXCLUSIVE, PATENTED FINISHING PROCESS

The BIG DIFFERENCE In Cold Drawn
Steel Bars Is The Bliss & Laughlin
LUSTERIZED® Difference

1 ado 2th es 2 eR Cee pasa ak a

Why Lusterized Bars

.»»NO PROCESSING GRIT,

Don’t Clog Automatics
OIL OR LIME TO FOUL CHUCKING MECHANISMS

Originators of LUSTERIZED” Finish—The BIG DIFFERENCE in Cold Drawn Steel Bars

BLISS & LAUGHLIN

GENERAL OFFICES: Harvey, Ill. © PLANTS: Harvey, Detroit, Buffalo, Mansfield, Mass.

Specialists in

Finish, Accuraty,
Straightness, Strength
and Machinability

&
AN AAF PRODUCT
FOR EVERY
DUST PROBLEM

Type N Roto-Clone

AAF ROTO-CLONE-Cycoil system
saves money for Duer Spring Co.

@ Here's what AAF’s team of Type D ROTO-
CLONE and Cycoil is doing for Duer Spring Com-
pany, McKees Rock, Pennsylvania: (1) eliminating
all spring grinding dust, (2) saving on fuel bills by
returning cleaned air to workroom, and (3) lowering
maintenance costs by preventing oxidation to build-
ing. Most dust particles are removed by the Type
D, and the Cycoil eliminates the rest!

AAF’s complete line of dust control equipment
was application-developed, now challenges any

metalworking dust problem. Where are troublesome
dust, fumes or mists causing you trouble—grinding,
buffing, polishing, plating, dry machining, wet ma-
chining, heat treating, abrasive cleaning? All can be
effectively and economically controlled by AAF.

If grinding dust is your problem, ci ill your local
AAF representative, or write direct for Type D
ROTO-CLONE Bulletin 272A and Cycoil Bulletin
285A. Address Mr. Robert Moore, American Air
Filter Co., Inc., 443 Central Ave., Louisville, Ky

AAE Prcnetiocmn Ai Litter

BETTER AIR

IS OUR BUSINESS

GREENLEE MILLING ATTACHMENT eo

Qt AA\LLING OPERATIONS.

ee.

OTHER GREENLEE
ATTACHMENTS AVAILABLE

® Eccentric Boring

® Eccentric Drilling

® Eccentric Forming

® Eccentric Turning
Mounts on Main Tool Slide igi

Gear-Fed Reaming

The Greenlee milling attachment eliminates second operation milling Relieved Type Facing

on many jobs. Two millers, normally mounted in 3rd and 4th posi- Thread Rolling

tions, can profitably mill squares or double slot end of work piece at bar Broaching

automatic speeds. The cutter head rotates at the same RPM as the work Trepanning
Hollow Milling

Burring

Six-Spindie
Automatic Bar Machine

piece. Cutter speed is independent of spindle speeds. The Greenlee

milling attachment is only one of many versatile standard and special

attachments that expand your job range... GREENLEE STANDARD AND
increase your profits. Find out how Greenlee SPECIAL MACHINE TOOLS

attachments can help you. Get the details from e Multiple-Spindle Drilling ied
Tapping Machines

® Transfer-Type Processing Machines

Write for your copy of Catalog A-405 first step on bd Six and Four-Spindle Automatic

the way to more profitable production with Greenlee Bar Machines

Automatic Bar Machines. ® Hydro-Borer Precision Boring Machines

® Die Casting Machines

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your Greenlee Distributor.

May 11, 1959

BIG-BY 2 YARDSTICKS!

Heavy duty lathes are intended primarily for heavy
stock removal from large work having considerable
weight. But more than massive machine compo-
nents and swing capacity are required. The basic
consideration is almost always greater production,
therefore lowered costs.

This you get in the Monarch Series 80 Heavy
Duty Dyna-Shift—an ultra-modern machine which
will remove more metal at any speed than is possible
on any other heavy duty lathes. Maximum produc-
tion results because the machine can be kept under
full load during the entire cutting cycle. Major con-
tributing factors are more machine output per unit

of power input, less operator effort, reduced main-
tenance and ease of supervision.

Performance reports from the field reveal pro-
duction increases of 25% or more along with a like
improvement in tool life. As always, invest in the
best—the cheapest in the long run. The Series 80
includes two separate machines—two models for
work requiring 25”-30” clearance diameter, 16”-20”
swing over cross slide and three models for larger
and heavier work in the range of 32”-40” clearance
diameter and 20”-28” swing over cross slide.

These machines are big in size and even bigger in
productivity —Ask for Booklet 1603.

THE MONARCH MACHINE TOOL COMPANY, SIDNEY, OHIO

PRODUCTIVITY

SPECIAL INTERLOCKS —SAFETY FIRST

1. When machine is started, the
brake engages automatically, pre-

ELECTRICALS RIGHT WHERE THEY BELONG

1. External main drive motor
mounting and external electrical
control mounting (either NEMA or
JIC) for quick accessibility.

2. Motor mounted on hydraulic
system sump also supplies power
for hydraulic pump.

PROTECTED GEAR BOX AND END GEARING

1. Both the gear box and end gear-
ing are totally enclosed. Lubrication
is kept in, dirt kept out, original ac-
curacy maintained.

venting spindle rotation regardless
of main control lever position.

2. No speed shift can be made with
spindle rotating. More than any-
thing else this preserves the original
accuracy of headstock gearing.

3. Leadscrew and feed rod cannot
be engaged simultaneously; neither
can feed and power rapid traverse.

WEIGHT

THE HEADSTOCK THAT THINKS

1. 36 speeds— range 10 to 1250 R.P.M. on
some models, 8 to 1000 R.P.M. on other
models—ratio 1 to 125. Standard range low
enough, high enough, with plenty of speeds
in between to provide reasonably constant
surface cutting speed on most work.

2. Operator works in terms of surface cut-
ting speed. Machine automatically figures
correct R.P.M. and sets up shift. Operator
sets two dials—one for work diameter, the

other for desired surface speed. A speed
indicator always shows the R.P.M. in en-
gagement.

3. Flip of a lever gives free spindle in a
jiffy. And there is a generous 3-1/16” or
3-9/16” hole through the spindle.

4.. Hydraulic brake and clutch are self-ad-
justing for wear. Being under automatic
machine control regardless of load, operator
needs not supply power for engagement.

APRON—THE CONTROL CENTER OPERATORS GO FOR

1. Provided with four-way, hydraulic, var-
iable speed power rapid traverse. Both
carriage and cross slide traverse may be
engaged simultaneously. Infinitely variable
speed feature permits such extremely close
control that manual handwheel traverse is
virtually eliminated.

2. Apron and cross feed handwheels auto-
matically disengage during traverse as a

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THE BED—SOLID AS GIBRALTER

1. All four bed ways flame hardened and
precision ground to keep them factory-fresh
for years to come.

2. Triangular bridge type girth construc-
tion provides stability needed for heavy
duty work. Center section of bed designed
in such a manner that chips automatically
flow through openings in the rear to chip
pan for extra-easy removal.

3. With chip pan set to rear and low work
center height, operator can get conveniently
near the spindle to change centers, chucks,
work pieces and so forth.

4. Longer machines equipped with travel-
ing rod supports which are automatically
picked up and dropped off by apron.

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THIS TAILSTOCK MEANS BUSINESS

1. Either single speed or two speed range
type available with dead or anti-friction
center a Sufficient mass, rigidity and
spindle size (5-3/4” or 6-1/2” diameter) to
support the Rte of cuts.

2. Work piece expansion, due to heat, ab-
sorbed by heavy duty springs in tailstock.
3. Handwheel located at front for operator
convenience when changing work pieces.
4. Movement along bed manually or by
power. This combination satisfies all turn-
ing conditions.

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safety feature. A single jaw clutch in each
mechanism causes feed pick-up at the same
point after any traverse movement.

3. Positive, cam controlled feed frictions.
Application is such that machine never
loses its chip under the heaviest of cuts.
4. All controls located to permit operation
from a stand-up position—no stooping or
stretching necessary.

EXTRA EQUIPMENT— EXTRA PRODUCTION

1. Additional equipment in considerable
variety is available for the Series 80 line.
Consider, by all means, the advantages of
the “Air-Gage Tracer”, a means by which
thousands of users have reduced costs sub-
stantially.

2. Ask for descriptive Booklet 1603 which
not only describes the basic machine but
the commonly used items of additional
equipment and includes full specifications.

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COMPLETE AUTOMATIC LUBRICATION

1. Headstock, end gearing and gear box
served by single system of the filtered, com-
bination mist-splash type.

2. Apron lubrication system of the cir-
cuited, metered and filtered type also pro-
vides oil to carriage guide ways and cross
slide bearings. There is ample lubrication
during both power and manual longitudi-
nal and cross feed.

3. Tailstock has its own lubrication system.

MACHINE CONTROL—THE EASY WAY

1. Series 80 controlled by a three-position lever at the apron.
A duplicate lever close to the headstock is provided for setup
purposes. With this lever, work rotation may be started or
stopped and jogging may be accomplished.

2. Shifting, an operation performed many times each day, is
at fingertouch ease and speed. Hydraulic power does the work
of clutching, braking, gear shifting and jogging.

SUPERVISION IN A JIFFY

1. At a quick glance, supervisor may check (a) work diameter
setting, (b) S.F.P.M. setting and (c) H.P. consumption. This
makes it possible easily and quickly for him to assure full pro-
ductiveness of the machine and the operator at all times.

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heat damage to carbide tipped tools

SIMONDS PLATE MOUNTED WHEELS

(OPEN STRUCTURE)

with NEW VS BOND

Simonds GC Electrolon (green silicon carbide )
grinding wheels are made with very open structure
by a new method to produce the desired voids or
pore spaces . . . for cooler, faster grinding.
The new V9 vitrified bond is a chemically designed glass
bond more controllable for more uniform grinding action.
Furnished plate-mounted for all grinders. Typical
specifications for carbide tool grinding: GC60-H12-V9
for roughing; GC120-H12-V9 for finishing.
CXIx4

POLLO
Ky 2 CALL YOUR SIMONDS DISTRIBUTOR MADEIN USA.

Proven products
& Dependable know-how
Cue Quick supply
SIMONDS ABRASIVE COMPANY
Tacony & Fraley Sts., + Philadelphia 37, Pa.
Division of Simonds Saw and Steel Co.

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IN CANADA: SIMONDS CANADA SAW CO., LTD., GRINDING WHEELS DIVISION, BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO

High- :

temperature
alloys
for the
jet age...

has been given new impetus by Vanadium Corporation through the development of a production

process which makes Vancoram Ferrocolumbium ideal for these metals. The columbium content is especially high, while
undesirable elements are kept at levels well within accepted standards

THERMOCOL* (Exothermic Ferrocolumbium) is a special product that permits large amounts of alloy to be added to the

ladle without excessive temperature loss, and without contact between the alloy and the furnace slag —thus assuring higher,

more consistent recoverics in the steel. Write for more facts about the unusual advantages of using Vancoram Ferrocolum-

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Producers of alloys, metals and chemicals var a) CO RPORATION
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May 11, 1959

Correct Lubrication in Action...

manufacturer

ethic

Here in Norma-Hoffmann's Gauging Control Room, outer ring race
diameter of a roller bearing is checked to within millionths of an inch
bile mrekel late Mm ol-telalale Mulelalhcelaitie-lausoh M(olale Mi ol-t-lam oleelullal-tal mmm le

velopment and manufacture of precision types of anti-friction bearings

a
Complete Engineering Program Mobi i
Proved Petroleum Products

rolls up °23,530 saving!

‘In a growth company, we cannot afford to delay tomorrow's
decisions while we stamp out today’s brush fires. What plagues
those of us in management are the myriad, small unknown-to-us

problems that soar production costs, affect competitive position.
This is where Mobil is helping us reduce manufacturing expense
and improve production. Our 1958 records show that we saved

Mr. Robertson’s words underscore the importance
of Correct Lubrication to any profit-minded manu-
facturer. At Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corporation
Mobil lubrication engineers work closely with an
extremely cost-conscious maintenance department.
Downtime, parts replacements and maintenance costs
have been cut—$23,530 saved in 1958 alone. Some of
these savings are detailed below.

For example: Sticking valves on one grinder were
a constant problem. Cause of the trouble was a mys-
tery. Mobil’s representative sent a sample of lubri-

Erratic, stick-slip operation of three grinders caused
poor size holding. Mobil engineers found trouble
was caused by deposits on valves and use of in-
correct competitive oil. A correct way and hydraulic
oil was installed. Greater production, fewer wheel
dressings, less scrap and reduction in valve-cleaning
costs saved $8,640.

over three times as much as we spent with Mobil

last year . . . a most profitable relationship!”

R. O. Redes

Vice-President— Manufacturing
Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corporation, Stamford, Conn.

cant from the machine’s reservoir to the Mobil labo-
ratory. Analysis report led to cause of trouble—a
lead sheathed cable submerged in the oil reservoir
was contaminating oil. This detective work on the
part of Mobil restored continuous production, saved
$5,850 in maintenance costs.

This kind of practical engineering help is just a
part of a Mobil program of Correct Lubrication. For
complete details on how Mobil can improve your
profits call your nearest Mobil representative. You'll
find—You’re Miles Ahead with Mobil!

To keep 16 of Norma’s Multiple Spindle Bar ma-
chines functioning properly required a weekly 40-
minute production interruption on each one to
supply lubricant for tool slides. Mobil engineer
studied procedure . . . suggested a simple lubrication
system modification. Application time was reduced
75% ... $7,040 saved on production and application.

rrect Lubrication

Another reason Youre Miles Ahead with Mobil!

New Gardner-Denver HAF compressor (left) now supplies all air for a large plant. HAC (right

was retained as a stand-by unit.

How to modernize your plant
with a planned compressed air system

IN INDUSTRY—SPEEDING THE PACE,

the Gardner-Denver specialist is an
integral part of the team. He works
side by side with engineers and de-
signers, helping to solve their problems,
for at Gardner-Denver there’s no sub-
stitute for men—our 100-year philoso-
phy of growth

In a sweeping modernization of its compressed air system, a large
Midwest foundry recently replaced several small, power-eating
compressors with one large Gardner-Denver HAF. The new unit
is 23 & 1314 x 14, delivering 1750 cfm. Now the plant has a planned
compressed air system—resulting in considerable power saving,
and efficient air flow throughout the plant.

Even though the new HAF supplies all the air for normal plant
operations, a Gardner-Denver HAC with a capacity of 750 cfm
was retained as a stand-by unit. Other steps in the modernization
included installing a new air receiver and a new, larger 8” air line.

It’ll pay you to take a close look at your compressed air. You
may find modernization with a planned system a big cost-saver.
A Gardner-Denver compressed air specialist will gladly look at
your entire system—your compressor installation, your distribu-
tion system, your air uses and your maintenance of air tools. He
can recommend the best solution to any compressed air problems
you may have.

=n
a EQUIPMENT TODAY FOR THE CHALLENGE OF TOMORROW

Sing ° 3
R- DENVER

MEEEB Gardner-Denver Company, Quincy, Illinois
In Canada: Gardner-Denver Company (Canada), Ltd., 14 Curity Avenue, Toronto 16, Ontario

STEEL

ad -\ a a=W ea lole (=) Meal-lale(—s
These high- pro Natcos are ready.”

. says Dictaphone Corporation

(complete story other side)

Five parts for the cost of one!

Fast changeover too!

These 7 standard Natcos do it for Dictaphone!

Costs toppled 81°, savings exceeded $1.00 per part
when Dictaphone Corporation, Bridgeport, Conn.,
switched from gang drill production to this line of
seven high-production H-6 Natcos. Standards, not
specials. They quickly convert when models change;
and replacement parts for old models can be run on the
same line with minimum time for changeover.
Dictaphone’s part is a magnesium main frame for its
Time-Master dictating machine. It calls for drilling

Under the cover of
the Time-Master *,
.. . profits in 97 holes.

* Registered trademark of Dictaphone Corporation

97 holes and performing 150 secondary operations—
reaming, tapping, counterboring and countersinking
on most of them. The seven multi-spindle Natcos
handle all but 16 of these operations.

Besides increasing production 81 per cent, the seven
Natcos eliminate skipped and creeping holes, and
maintain close tolerances. Natco tooling locates the
magnesium parts without warping stresses.

On the Natco H-6, the slip plate is the key to flexi-
bility. For example, Dictaphone transferred four
Natcos from other assignments, simply by fitting them
with new slip spindle plates and, of course, new
fixtures. Three new Natcos filled out the line.

Natco H-6 and other multi-spindle drilling machines
are available in models from 1 hp with 10 spindles
to 50 hp with up to 72 spindles. Write today for com-
plete details or see your Natco representative.

NATIONAL AUTOMATIC TOOL COMPANY, INC., RICHMOND, IND.

You could dock the largest freighter at our new plant!

Deep water frontage on Virginia’s busy Hampton Roads offers indus-

trial advantages and living advantages in depth. You’re central to the IRGINIA’S
whole Atlantic Coast. A hundred ship lines link you with world ports. HAMPTON ROADS
You enjoy superb, long-season boating, swimming, fishing.

Vepco serves this area with a generating capability of over 1,700,000
kilowatts, due to exceed 2,000,000 kilowatts by 1961. And Vepco knows
this area intimately. For confidential deep-water site-finding help, write
or phone

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50 VIRGINIA ELECTRIC and POWER COMPANY
Serving the Top-of-the-South ...in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina
Clark P. Spellman, Mgr., Area Development, Electric Bldg., Richmond 9, Va., MI 9-1411

May 11, 1959

From General Electric...

HEAT

G-E GAS OR ELECTRIC BELL FURNACES
GIVE BRIGHT FINISHES AT LOWER COST

Your investment in a General Electric gas or electric bell furnace
will pay off in maximum flexibility and minimum spoilage.

And here’s an example of what we mean by minimum
spoilage. The electric bell furnace pictured below
produced perfect wire on the first heat after start up,
and has now operated for a full year without spoilage.

The gas-fired bell furnace on the right below was
purchased to supplement a continuous pusher furnace.
The flexibility provided by “batch” operation of the
bell furnace produced real savings in time and money
on small loads that require different temperatures and
heat treatments.

General Electric bell furnaces can handle many
jobs for you... a bell furnace is inherently capable
of working many shapes and sizes. Operation is simple.
Your new General Electric bell furnace can be con-
trolled easily for quick changes of heating cycles and
temperatures. Bell furnaces are available in a wide

variety of job-tested sizes for you to select from. A
complete line of gas atmosphere producers and con-
trol equipment is also available. General Electric
bell furnaces produce quality work finishes because
of the high volume circulation of atmosphere which
provides a uniformity of heating. The metal retort
contains and controls the protective atmosphere for
cleaner, brighter work.

Call your General Electric heating specialist now.
He’ll show you how your investment in a gas or elec-
tric bell furnace system will pay for itself. Use the
table below to see how you can use a bell furnace in
your business.

Contact your nearby General Electric Apparatus
Sales Office, or write Section 721-23, General Elec-
tric Company, Schenectady 5, New York.

GENERAL @@ ELECTRIC

Applications

Castings
Forgings
Wire - Coils
Wire - Spools
Tube - Coils
Strip - Coils
Fabrications

Aluminum and Alloys

Copper and Alloys

lron and Alloys

Stainless Steel Alloys

Magnesium and Alloys

Nickel and Alloys

Silver and Alloys

Titanium and Alloys

Gas or electric bell furnaces from This electric bell furnace, for example, This gas-fired bell furnace was purchased
General Electric, symbolized by the produced bright, perfect wire on its from G.E. to provide supplementary
illustration at the left, can handle initial run, and has now run one full batch furnace capacity to handle special
all jobs shown in the table above. year without a pound of spoilage. loads of copper wire at lowest cost.

Torsion springs for Crawford Door Co.’s
Marvel-Lift garage doors are coiled from Pitts-

How Pittsburgh Steel’s Wire Makes...

Springs That ‘Rate’

Crawford Door Co. Depends on Uniformity of Pittsburgh Steel Wire

SABsce
So

burgh Steel Co.’s Oil Tempered MB Wire, from
wire .168 inch to .468 inch in diameter,

For Precise Engineering of Marvel-Lift Garage, Industrial Doors

Torsion springs which operate Craw-
ford Door Company’s garage and
industrial doors have to “‘rate.’’
Here, rate means the force stored
up in the spring to supply power for
smooth, efficient, finger-tip raising
and lowering.

The rate built into any spring—
from a 42-inch long spring on a

single car Marvel-Lift residential
garage door to a 12-foot long spring
on an industrial door—depends on
uniformity of wire diameter.

Lack of uniformity throws off
engineering calculations and
spoils spring performance. Let
Elliott Koepfgen, chief engineer

for Crawford Door, explain how
uniformity of Oil Tempered MB
Wire supplied by Pittsburgh
Steel Co. helps him design tor-
sion springs to meet pre-deter-
mined rates:

“Each of our springs is made to
meet a definite rate. This rate is the

torque which can be exerted in one
turn of the spring. It provides the
force stored up in the spring to oper-
ate the doors. By calculating the
diameter of the wire, the number of
coils and the number of turns the
spring is turned back against itself,
we can design a spring with the rate
we know is necessary to lift a door
of a certain weight and height.

“Uniform diameter is a must since
variations would drastically affect
spring performance. Uniformity
helps us design efficient springs which
will last the life of the door. If we
overbuild the spring we run up pro-
duction costs. If we underbuild, we
get failures in service and customer
dissatisfaction.

**Pittsburgh Steel supplies us
Oil Tempered MB Wire we can
count on to be so uniform that
we can treat wire diameter as a
known factor in our engineering
calculations.’’

Here’s how it works in two typical
designs: for an eight-foot high, 128-
pound door in a single car residential
garage, Mr. Koepfgen specified a
spring made from .263-inch diameter
wire. The wire was coiled into a
14.5-pound spring 42% inches long
with 160 coils. Because the wire was
uniform in diameter, each spring
made to these specifications had a
rate of 60 when the springs were
turned back on themselves 7 turns
each.

Or take a large industrial door ap-
plication. For a specially engineered
door 12 feet high and weighing 654
pounds, Mr. Koepfgen specified a
spring made of .468 wire. The spring
was 78% inches long, weighed 234

Installation on garage door. Spring
is turned back on itself the calculated
number of times and mounted on tubu-
lar shaft running width of door. Cables
fastened to drums at each side of shaft
raise or lower doors. When door is
lowered, door weight winds up spring,
storing power to be used in raising the
door. Lift is applied to both sides of
door so it raises evenly, gliding upward
in absolutely level position.

Oil Tempered MB Wire from Pittsburgh Steel Co.’s wire mills is checked at
Crawford Door plant by M. J. Duffy, plant manager, left, and W. D. Williams,

Pittsburgh Steel Co. salesman.

pounds and had a rate of 271 when
the spring was turned back 74 turns.
Because of uniformity in wire diame-
ter, the spring and door combination
worked perfectly after installation.

e Buys 23 gages—Crawford Door
Co. relies on Pittsburgh Steel Co. for
oil tempered wire in 23 gages, rang-
ing from .168 inch in diameter for
springs 26 inches long to wire .468
inch in diameter, used to coil springs
up to 14 feet long.

Uniformity of diameter isn’t the
only requirement. Crawford Door
also insists upon, and gets from
Pittsburgh Steel Co., wire with these
qualities:

1. Fatigue strength—Springs

must have long life without taking
a set since garage doors are expected
to last indefinitely even in busy places
like gasoline service stations.

2. Coilability—Automatic coil-
ing machines can’t operate efficiently
or economically unless the wire runs
through the coilers smoothly. So
Crawford wants a good surface free
from defects.

3. Proper Temper—Oil temper-
ing and heat treating at the wire
mills of Pittsburgh Steel produce wire
free from soft and hard spots so that
wire can be coiled without bulges
which affect performance and shorten
spring life.

Plant Manager M. J. Duffy says
Pittsburgh Steel supplies wire in
shipment after shipment which
‘‘gives consistently good results with-
out slowing production or piling up
rejects.”

Whatever your requirements for
manufacturers’ wire, whether you’re
making bobby pins or springs, you'll
benefit from the skill and mill facili-
ties which produce wire tailor-made
to this customer’s specifications. A
mill-trained representative is as close
as your telephone to help you solve
your wire problems or show you how
Pittsburgh Steel Co. wire can help
reduce costs while improving your
product. Call a Pittsburgh man
today in the nearest district office.

Pittsburgh Steel Company

Grant Building °

Pittsburgh 30, Pa.

Atlanta Cleveland

Chicago Dayton

District Sales Offices
Detroit
Houston

Los Angeles Pittsburgh
New York Tulsa

Philadelphia Warren, Ohio

Automatic Transmission Manufacturer Specifies

Annealing furnace at the Shelby mill. Ostuco tubing can be bright or soft annealed, stress relieved, normalized or heat treated.

As a leading producer of quality transmission com-
ponents, we can’t leave anything to chance. Our
design requirements, materials specifications and
manufacturing processes are under the most strin-
gent quality control standards. And we demand as
much of our vendors.

“One sure way we have found to eliminate
the unpredictable is to specify Ostuco Seamless
Tubing. We know from experience we can rely on

the precision annealing and unvarying quality of
Ostuco tubing that slashes reject rates, helps us
produce parts in quantity for profit...

If you want to eliminate the unpredictable in
your own plant, then it’s time you called your local
Ohio Seamless representative. He’s listed in the
Yellow Pages. Or contact the plant at Shelby, Ohio
—Birthplace of the Seamless Steel Tube Industry

in America.
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The cathode ray oscilloscope is one of science’s and industry's most percéptive instruments for determining uni-

formity of operation. The pattern reproduced here is a harmonically modulated sine wave of exact uniformity

Uniformity is

Just as the input of an oscilloscope can be controlled
to produce repetitive patterns, so can consistently
uniform metal parts be produced with Malleable iron
because of modern, scientific controls. The unique
method by which all Malleable castings are made and
the exacting techniques employed by Malleable found-
ries assure Malleable users of castings that are uni-
form, part after part, regardless of size or shape. This
uniformity, combined with unparalleled physical and

mechanical properties, ideally suits Malleable castings
for modern America’s quality products.

For information or service, call on one of the progres-
sive firms that identify themselves with this symbol—
MEMBER

MALLEABLE

If you wish, you may inquire direct to the Malleable Castings Council,
Union Commerce Building, Cleveland 14, Ohio, for information.

Better Products at Lower Cost Result
From Malleable Uniformity Controls

Uniform quality — whether for five or
five million pieces — is essential to main-
tain product quality and increase manu-
facturing efficiency. With accelerating

frequency, Malleable castings contribute
their unique uniformity in critical appli-
cations where durable, reliable compo-
nents are necessary.

Key to Uniformity is Control

Malleable iron is produced under closely
controlled manufacturing techniques.
From charge composition and molding
sand properties, through final inspec-

Internal Uniformity

This versatile engineering material is
achieved through converting the base
white iron into tough Malleable iron by
a controlled heat treating pro ‘ess. Mall-

External Uniformity

Fundamental to the casting process is
the ability to produce a given shape, time
after time, in either small or large quanti-
ties. Metal can be placed exactly where
itis needed . . . eliminated where it is not.
Good design — achieved through close
cooperation between the customer and

tion, every critical factor is held constant
by using the most modern techniques of
metal analysis, process control and
inspection.

eable’s internal structure exhibits excel-
lent uniformity, an important factor in
assuring the dependable performance of
intricately designed components.

the foundry — can assure the necessary
tolerances and the lowest possible fin-
ished part cost. Modern techniques of
production and inspection are used to
insure top quality, dimensionally accu-
rate castings.

The life of every motorist rides in complete safety on Malleable wheel hubs of unerring uniformity.

Uniformity Proven by Use

The final test of any part is how well it

stands up in actual service. Under con-
tinuous cyclic and shock loading, the
millions of Malleable wheel hubs, which
are in service on the front end of every
American-made car, have compiled an
enviable record of proven uniformity.
Another dramatic example of Malleable’s
uniformity is proved in the old adage “A
chain is only as strong as its weakest

link.”’ Miles of Malleable chain, carrying
tremendous loads year after year without
failure, demonstrate the uniformity of
every cast link.

New techniques for controlling every
element of Malleable production are the
result of intensive research done by Mall-
eable foundries in their continuing search
for ways to make Malleable even more
versatile and indispensable to industry.

More Information Available

Your copy of Data Unit 103—Uniform-
ity —is available from any member of
the Malleable Castings Council. If you

May 11, 1999

prefer, write direct to Malleable Castings
Council, Union Commerce Building,
Cleveland 14, Ohio.

These companies are members of the

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CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Mall. Castings Co., New Haven 6
Eastern Malleable Iron Co., Naugatuck

New Haven Malleable Iron Co., New Haven 4

DELAWARE
Eastern Malleable Iron Co., Wilmington 99

ILLINOIS
Central Fdry. Div., Gen. Motors, Danville
Chicago Malleable Castings Co., Chicago 43
Moline Malleable tron Co., St. Charles
National Mall. and Steel Castings Co.,

Cicero 50
Peoria Malleable Castings Co., Peoria 1
Wagner Castings Company, Decatur

INDIANA

Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis 6

Muncie Malleable Foundry Co., Muncie
Terre Haute Mall. & Mfg. Corp., Terre Haute

MASSACHUSETTS
Belcher Malleable Iron Co., Easton

MICHIGAN

Albion Malleable tron Co., Albion

Auto Specialties Mfg. Co., Saint Joseph
Cadillac Malleable Iron Co., Cadillac
Central Fdry. Div., Gen. Motors, Saginaw

MINNESOTA
Northern Malleable Iron Co., St. Paul 6

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Laconia Malleable Iron Co., Laconia

NEW JERSEY
Meeker Foundry Company, Newark 4

NEW YORK
Acme Steel & Mall. Iron Works, Buffalo 7
Frazer & Jones Company Division

Eastern Malleable Iron Co., Solvay
Oriskany Malleable Iron Co., Inc., Oriskany
Westmoreland Mail. Iron Co., Westmoreland

OHIO

American Malleable Castings Co., Marion

Canton Malileable Iron Co., Canton 5

Central Fdry. Div., Gen. Motors, Defiance

Dayton Mall. Iron Co., Ironton Div., Ironton

Dayton Mail. Iron Co., Ohio Mall. Div.,
Columbus 16

Maumee Malleable Castings Co., Toledo 5

National Mall. and Steel Castings Co.,

Cleveland 6

PENNSYLVANIA

Buck Iron Company, Inc., Philadelphia 22
Erie Malleable tron Co., Erie

Lancaster Malleable Castings Co., Lancaster
Lehigh Foundries Company, Easton
Meadville Malleable Iron Co., Meadville
Pennsylvania Malleable tron Corp., Lancaster

TEXAS
Texas Foundries, Inc., Lufkin

WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia Mall. lron Co., Point Pleasant

WISCONSIN

Badger Malleable & Mfg. Co., S. Milwaukee

Belle City Malleable Iron Co., Racine

Chain Belt Company, Milwaukee 1

Federal Malleable Company, West Allis 14

Kirsh Foundry Inc., Beaver Dam

Lakeside Malleable Castings Co., Racine

Milwaukee Malleable & Grey Iron Works,
Milwaukee 46

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May II, 1959

Protecting downcomers with a
heat-resistant concrete lining made with
Atlas Lumnite Cement

A heat-resistant concrete lining, being gunited in place, solves the problem

of abrasion in this blast-furnace downcomer system. Made with Lumnite
calcium-aluminate cement and aggregates, this smooth, jointless concrete lining
will withstand the abrasive attack of particles in the gas stream —

extending the life of the steel structure.

In new installations or repairs, monolithic linings are easily and economically
placed — by guniting, casting or troweling. Unit downtime is reduced because
concrete reaches service strength in 24 hours.

Other applications in blast-furnace systems include foundation pads, blast main
linings, stove domes and other areas where resistance to heat and
corrosion are required.

For convenience, castables bonded with Lumnite cement are available from leading
manufacturers of refractories. These are packaged mixtures, ready for use

by adding only water. For more information, write Universal Atlas,

100 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York.

USS," "Atias"' and ''Lumnite”’ are registered trademarks

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Division of
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put into operation at Lindberg Steel Treating Company,
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nicians. This accomplishment was no sudden inspiration,

but was made possible by Lindberg’s long years of ex-
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For almost 80 years, Morton Manufacturing Company of
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This ultra-modern turning and boring mill is 27 feet x 22
feet x 40 feet high, and weighs 525,000 pounds. Load capacity
is 120,000 pounds. Driven with 210 horse-power, it is the
first machine of its type wherein the work remains stationary.

Because of the herculean task this machine must perform,
each component must be capable of precise performance
under extreme loads. Morton wisely selected Acipco cen-
trifugally spun steel tubing for the gigantic quill which
houses and guides the rotary spindle. This tube is 24” in
diameter, 3” in wall thickness and 17'6” long.

Acripeco centrifugally spun tubes have a dense, non-direc-
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Metalworking Outlook

May 11, 1959

The Case of the Vanishing Taxes

Acton Chance, metalworking’s answer to Richard
Diamond, is back in the pages of STEEL this week.
He’s reporting on the nation’s disappearing taxes.
In competitive bidding between foreign and U. S.
firms on government contracts, the U. S. com-
panies get a 6 per cent break. Another 6 per
cent differential is available to a firm in a labor
surplus area. But much government work still
goes abroad—in many cases, at a net loss to the
U. S. Mr. Chance turns up one case where the
loss—to be made up out of your pockets and
ours—exceeded $30,000 (Page 100).

Economic Bellwethers Lead Upward March

Screw machines are expected to whir at a $485 million clip this year. That
would give the screw machine products industry a year equal to 1957 and
$85 million better than 1958. The National Screw Machine Products Asso-
ciation predicts a volume in excess of $500 million next year. This is sig-
nificant since this industry’s sales trends usually precede the trend of metal-
working business by about three months . . . March orders for gears rose
17.2 per cent above the February level to the highest volume since May,
1957, reports American Gear Manufacturers Association.

Steel Wage Talks Get Underway

While David McDonald and R. C. Cooper

led their bargaining teams into the year’s

first steel wage talks last week (Page 99),

A. R. Maxwell Jr., president, Pittsburgh

Steel Co., was laying it on the line to

his firm’s employees. “The company can

afford a strike no more than its employees

can,” he said, since “a strike costs Pitts-

burgh $100,000 for each day it lasts.” VETALWORKI
Don’t expect the USW to strike one com- JUTLOOK ME
pany and not the rest; it'll probably pursue its policy of not working with-

out a contract.

Moonlighting Declines
The trend toward multiple jobholding reversed last year, reports Commerce
Department. About 3.1 million workers held two or more jobs in July, 1958.
That’s 500,000 fewer than a year earlier. Farm workers were the largest

moonlighting group.

Steel Payroll Hits Record
The steel industry’s March payroll climbed to a record $385 million—more
than $51 million above the February total. The average hourly payroll cost

Technical Outlook—Page 143 Market Outlook—Page 195

METALWORKING OUTLOOK

also advanced to a record $3.336. Fringe benefits cost the industry an addi-
tional 33.2 cents per manhour. More than 103,000 workers have been added
to the steel industry’s payroll since May, 1958—the recession low point.

Machine Tool Builders See Recession Clouds Lifting

Expect this year’s new orders for ma-
chine tools to near the $500 million mark
(vs. $374 million last year). That’s the
opinion of most builders questioned by
Sree at the spring meeting of the Na-
tional Machine Tool Builders Association
(Page 106). Francis J. Trecker, presi-
dent, Kearney & Trecker Corp. (pic-
tured), has reason to be optimistic. A
multiplant corporation has informed K&T
it will probably need about 60 of the
firm’s new Milwaukee-Matics in the next
few years (Page 149).

Seven Routes to Sales Gains

Production executives aren’t the only ones seeking to boost efficiency today;
marketing managers are worried, too. The National Industrial Conference
Board reports a majority of 131 manufacturing firms surveyed consider in-
efficiency to be their most pressing sales problem. Companies are trying
these remedies: |. Tightening controls on salesmen’s activities. 2. Setting
up training courses, conferences, and clinics. 3. Hiring more men. 4. Es-
tablishing standards to evaluate performance. 5. Improving bonuses. 6. Re-
distributing sales strength. 7. Trying new advertising approaches.

How to Combat Employee Fatigue

The man on the right has a common
industrial ailment—fatigue. But it’s
not due to the oversize wrench he’s
carrying. It’s probably because he’s
bored with his job. Psychological
fatigue is one of the biggest drains
on productivity. And it’s extremely
hard to conquer. But there are ap-
proaches that can take you a long
way toward a solution (Page 114).

Firm Wins Damage Suit Against Strikers

Schacht Steel Construction Inc., Hillside, N. J., was awarded $5133 dam-
ages because a union broke a no-strike clause in its contract. A federal
judge decided that Local 545 of the International Association of Bridge,
Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers violated the no-strike provision by
causing a 11/4, day work stoppage when Schacht fired a machine tool op-
erator for refusing to run a new type automatic electric welder without a
helper. The judge said the question of supplying a helper was arbitrable
under the law.

WY LLY SS IV

May 11, 1959

Who'll Get Competition from the Seaway?

stXEN

Indicative of the foreign competition
being felt after the St. Lawrence Sea-
way opened this month is this list of
metalworking goods from England that
arrived at Cleveland on Prinz Willem
III, the first ship to come through the
seaway: A lubrication system, musical
instruments, electrical measuring in-
struments, anvil blocks, vertical diesel
engines, gas water heaters, parts for high speed threading machines, alumi-
num castings.

Why the Revolution in Car Buying Habits?

Sputniks and missiles have had a greater effect on the American car market
than any other recent factor, claims Louis Cheskin, president, Color Re-
search Institute, Chicago, in his new book, Why People Buy. He says the
Russian satellites made us feel frivolous and impractical. When the Russian
scientist commented that they built satellites while Americans developed
fender fins, it hit us where it hurts. Example of the impact: The public’s
changeabout in its liking for gaudy, functionless ornamentation. Most de-
corative trim will be gone from autos by 1961, he predicts. The new book
goes on sale soon.

the Automotive Scene

Ford Motor Co. will make parts in Detroit for its new small car, the Falcon.
But the car will probably be assembled in Lorain, Ohio . . . Willys Motors
Inc. is making a new play for the passenger car market with a dressed-up
version of its Jeep utility wagon. Called the Maverick Special, it lists for
$1995 without freight and local charges . . . U. S. car producers have their
assembly lines geared for 3,272,400 units in °59’s first half, signaling a 12-
month total of 5.95 million to 6.2 million units, indicates Ward’s Automotive

Reports.

Used Machinery Sales Start Climbing

February sales of used machinery
were the highest for any month
since April, 1957, reports Ma-
chinery Dealers National Asso-
ciation. The long term outlook
is bright (Page 107). A 500
plant survey by Research Asso-
ciates, Detroit, shows a projected
annual market of $650 million.

Aluminum Gets Foot in Door of West German Building

Building with aluminum has shown sharp increases recently in West Ger-
many, reports Alcoa’s D. D. LaVorene. “Curtain walls and windows of

METALWORKING OUTLOOK

aluminum will make their way more strongly in Germany,” says W. F. Wild-
schutz, managing director, Aluminum-Zentrale E.V., the German aluminum
association. Per capita consumption of aluminum in West Germany is ex-
pected to hit close to 20 lb in 1961 vs. 10 Ib in 1956. In the U. S., con-

sumption is 25 lb per person.

Government Reports First Nuclear Production Data

The market for atomic energy products exceeded $100 million in 1957, re-
ports the Commerce Department in its first survey of the nuclear industry.
Breakdown: Reactor vessels and tanks—$11 million; accessory instrumenta-
tion for reactor control—$9.5 million; heat exchangers—$8.3 million; pumps
—$6.2 million; valves—$7.8 million; radiation detection and monitoring de-

vices—$17.5 million.

Lathemaker Moves Against Obsolescence

Here is a lathe that can be adapted to z
meet changing production requirements

and improving technology. It’s the new ss
Clearing-Axelson Blue Chip that features

a welded steel headstock and bed for the

rigidity needed to machine high strength

alloys with carbide and ceramic cutters.

Available with any size or type of bed,

it can be adapted to power speed selec-

tion and perhaps numerical control later

(Page 144).

Bethlehem, GM Report Profit Gains

Bethlehem Steel Corp. had first quarter net income of $49.5 million, up from
$24.8 million a year earlier but below the $57.6 million reported in 1958's
last period. Bethlehem expects the industry operating rate to average 95
per cent in the second quarter and 60 per cent in the third quarter . . . Gen-
eral Motors Corp. reports net income of $293 million in the first quarter

vs. $185 million in the year-earlier period.

Straws in the Wind

Small businesses got 31 per cent more government contracts during 1959's
first quarter than they did in the year-earlier period . . . Inland Steel Co.
says it can’t get as many workers as it needs at its big Indiana Harbor
Works; it has resorted to field recruiting for the first time since 1957
National Steel Corp. plans to finance its $300 million expansion through
the sale of $80 million worth of first mortgage bonds due in 1989 . . . About
155 million Ib of plastic will be formed into sheets this year (vs. 140 million
last year), predicts Society of the Plastics Industry . . . One oddity coming
out of hearings on Senator O’Mahoney’s “Price Notification” bill: David
McDonald took a stand against it while Walter Reuther supports it. The
bill is not expected to become law.

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Labor Bill—Only a Start!

The three year parade of several hundred witnesses before Sen. John L.
McClellan’s Labor Rackets Committee at long last has resulted in the passage
of labor legislation (the Kennedy-Ervin Bill) by the Senate.

Witnesses related endless stories of the misuse of funds, corruption, political
graft, gangsterism, and the irresponsible use of tremendous power and influence.

The Senate bill—yet to pass the test in the House—plugs some of the loop-
holes left in the Taft-Hartley Act (passed 12 years ago).

Among other things, it requires unions to make yearly financial reports to
the secretary of labor and union members; to hold democratic elections; to keep
racketeers out of office; and to report on loans to officers. It bars picketing to
force an employer to recognize a union if he has already recognized another union.

Even if the Kennedy-Ervin Bill succeeds in the House in its present form, it
will leave much to be desired in clearing up some of the vicious labor practices,
such as the secondary boycott, uncovered by the McClellan Committee.

And it will not go far enough in placing the control in the hands of union
membership where it belongs. As evidence of the need, an independent survey
indicates that many members of the United Steelworkers are fed up with the
spiral of prices and taxes accompanying each wage increase.

Yet USW President Dave McDonald is asking the steel industry for higher

wages and other concessions that do not make sense to the rank and file.

As Harold J. Ruttenberg (former research director of the USW and now
president of the Stardrill-Keystone Co.) said last week: “What the steel unions
need more than higher wages is full time work and steady pay the year around.”

So far, no union leader has been willing to exercise true statesmanship in
providing what members really want. So it is up to Congress to enact legislation
that will be fair to the workingman, to management, and to the public.

The watered down Senate bill is only a start!

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Steel, Union Far Apart as Talks Open

WHAT HAPPENS when the irre-
sistible Mr. McDonald meets the
immovable Mr. Cooper?

That’s what newsmen wondered
when they crowded into New
York’s Hotel Roosevelt last Tues-
day for the opening of contract
talks between the steel industry and
its union. After the first day’s ses-
sion, they were still wondering.
This much was clear:

e Both sides want a speedy, strike-
free settlement that’s noninflation-
ary and fair to everybody—indus-
try, stockholders, employees, cus-
tomers, and the public.

e Neither side has retreated an
inch from previously announced,
seemingly irreconcilable positions.

As 162 negotiators for labor and
management moved into the Roose-
velt’s ornate Palm Terrace, two
men stood out: David J. McDonald,
president of the United Steelwork-
ers, and R. Conrad Cooper, execu-
tive vice president-personnel serv-
ices of U. S. Steel Corp.

Drawn—Mr. Mc-
Donald declared that the USW
sees “deficiencies” in programs
adopted in 1956—problems related
to grievance procedure, seniority,

e Battle Lines

rates of pay, weekend premiums,
and other benefits. Insurance and
pension programs require “further
substantial improvement,” he as-
serted, and the SUB (supplemental
unemployment benefits) program
has “many inadequacies.” He em-
phasized: 1. The need for “sub-
stantial improvement” in wages. 2.
The need for greater employment.

Mr. Cooper, leader of the indus-
try’s bargaining team, answered by
restating the companies’ position:
“The one and only sure way we
know of to accomplish this result
(a noninflationary _ settlement)
would be to continue present wages
and other benefits, without change.
for one year beyond June 30, 1959.”

¢ Industry’s Stand — R. Heath
Larry, a U. S. Steel vice president,
declared: 1. Rapid increases in em-
ployment costs are a_ principal
cause of inflation. 2. Steelworkers
are better off than most manufac-
turing workers. 3. Their gains have
outstripped increases in productiv-
ity. 4. They’re pricing themselves
out of markets here and abroad.
5. Wage increases can’t be met out
of profits.

Arthur J. Goldberg, general coun-

sel of the union, argued that steel-
workers deserve higher wages be-
cause of higher manhour output.

® White House Warning — Both
Messrs. McDonald and Cooper ad-
dressed themselves to the question of
government intervention. Asked
about President Eisenhower’s plea
for “statesmanship” and warning
that the U. S. “cannot stand still
and do nothing,” Mr. McDonald
referred to his prepared remarks:
“It is up to us to conduct ourselves
in such a way as to reach an ac-
commodation of our various inter-
ests which will be fair.” Said Mr.
Cooper: “We would like to do the
job ourselves. It’s our responsibil-
ity and we'll discharge it.”

After the first week’s meetings
between the USW and the 12 par-
ticipating companies, the talks will
probably recess. When they’re re-
sumed later this month, the indus-
try’s four man team (Messrs.
Cooper, Larry, J. H. Morse of Beth-
lehem Steel Co., and H. C. Lumb
of Republic Steel Corp.) will
knuckle down to some hard _bar-
gaining with the union’s big four
(Messrs. McDonald, Goldberg,
Howard Hague, and I. W. Abel).

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(and their employees) that didn’t win the job
I TRIED to keep my eyes on a_ disappearing taxes I’m talking _ sel, Bureau of Yards & Docks, U. S.

portrait of George Washington di- about are the ones we’re no longer Navy, says: “Maybe those who

recting the battle of Yorktown, but
they kept drifting to the breastwork
on display at the receptionist’s desk.

This was the office of a U. S.
official, and I, Acton Chance, pri-
vate investigator, must observe de-
corum or I wouldn’t get my first
interview in my first government
case,

It all started only yesterday. I
had let the phone ring until I fin-
ished my 4 o'clock Dixie cup of
bourbon.

“Mr. Chance, I’m a government
official and want you to investigate
a matter for us. We liked your
technique in the Case of the Van-
ishing Jobs (Steer, Apr. 6, p. 99).
This problem is similar. Call it
the Case of the Vanishing Taxes.
Phone (censored). He’s waiting to
vouch for me. Then ring Operator
35 to get me back.”

The phone clicked, leaving my
mouth open to emit the bourbon
fumes. I checked. I called back.

“Chance, we're losing tax rev-
enues.”

I mumbled about profits being
off, about fudging on deductions.

“We know all about those. The

getting from companies and people
that do government work. We want
you to find what’s wrong.”

I took the case. I even took a
date with that receptionist. From
her, from U. S., and industrial of-
ficials, I finally had my facts. This

is my report.

In competitive bidding among
foreign and U. S. firms on govern-
ment contracts, the U. S. companies
get a 6 per cent break. The low-
est American bid may be 6 per cent
above the foreigner’s. Under the
Buy American Act, the U. S. firm
wins. Another 6 per cent differ-
ential is available to a company in
an area designated labor surplus by
the U. S.

The basic and first 6 per cent
differential has the loss of tax rev-
enue as one of its considerations.
But that’s not the real reason for
the differential setup. Originally,
the Buy American concept was an-
ti-depression in nature. From 1934
to 1954, the differential was 25 per
cent. It was lowered to 6 per cent
five years ago by Executive Order.

William H. Speck, associate coun-

wrote the Executive Order on the
6 per cent figure considered the loss
of tax revenues, but in procurement
we don’t take them into account.”

And U. S._ procurement of-
ficers can’t. Their directives are
clear, and they have no choice but
to give contracts to companies
abroad if bids are low enough.

But the accompanying work sheet
gives a typical case of how the gov-
ernment loses taxes even when the
winning foreign bid is far below the
American. In this case alone, we
suffered a net loss in revenues of
$30,000. What’s more, the govern-
ment also lost on direct income
taxes from the suppliers of goods
and services all the way back. The
U. S. also lost on social security,
excise, and other indirect taxes.

As I finished putting my report
into code to be transmitted to my
client, I thought that this loss to
the government is coming out of
your pockets and mine. I shook
my head. It was 30 minutes be-
fore my 4 o'clock bourbon, but |
filled a Dixie cup to the brim any-

way.

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The Facts As | Found Them

ACTON CHANCE—
Metalworking’s Private

Domestic Company Foreign Company

BIDS ON NAVY WINS SHIP PLATE
SHIP PLATE CONTRACT CONTRACT

SAVES NAVY

IS UNDERBID $37,000

WITH LOW BID

DIRECT TAXES LOST: U.S. INCOME TAX:

$67,000 None

(Plus Other Indirect Taxes)

Net Loss to U.S. $30,000

Guess Who Pays Deficit?

An extra copy of this article is available until supply is exthausted Write Editorial Service, STEEL, Penton Bldg., Cleveland 13, Ohio

May 11, 1959

TVA Ups Tempo in
Buy American Fight

PRESSURE on the Eisenhower ad-
ministration in the “Buy American”
battle is reaching lid-popping pro
portions.

Tennessee Valley Authority’s lat
est request for bids on an estimated
$50-million-plus worth of new gen-
erating equipment may provide the
test. Here’s why:

© Half Foreign, Half Domestic—On
Apr. 10, TVA invited six firms to
bid on 16 turbogenerators for de-
livery starting Sept. 1, 1962. Three
of the companies are foreign; three
are American—Allis-Chalmers Mfg.
Co., General Electric Co., and West-
inghouse Electric Corp.

By the middle of last week, none
of the American firms had submit-
ted bids—they’re due in by May 26.
It’s rumored that they will not sub-
mit bids in a move to spotlight
the situation.

© Background of Hassle—Early this
year TVA bought a 500,000 kw
turbogenerator from C. A. Parsons
Ltd., England, one of the foreign
firms invited to bid again. (The
others: English Electric Co. and
Brown Boveri Corp. of Switzerland.)
TVA told the American builders
that it would pay 20 per cent more
for the equipment to keep the work
at home. But Parsons’ price was 50
per cent below that of GE and
Westinghouse.

In March, GE and the National
Electrical Manufacturers Association
petitioned the Office of Civil & De-
fense Mobilization not to honor bids
on heavy, electric power producing
equipment from foreign companies.

The domestic equipment builders
need business badly.

They contend that the low priced
foreign competition may hurt their
industry so that it could not produce
equipment needed in an emergency.

e No Decision Yet—A ruling on
the petition has been expected “mo-
mentarily” for weeks from the
OCDM. But the problem is not
sasily resolved. Foreign competition
is giving the administration a new
headache almost every day. “Making

an exception in this case,” says one

102

source, “is almost certain to bring
in a whole new batch of industries
wrapping themselves in national se-
curity in their tariff requests.”

One thing seems almost sure: The
foreign firms will get the order even
if the American manufacturers sub-
mit bids—unless the OCDM de-
cides not to honor the foreign bids.
A differential on the order of 30
per cent would seem almost impos-
sible to overcome. (IUE President
James Carey urged that the three
U. S. companies make “realistic”
bids to get the jobs.)

Big Steel

C. F. Hood retires

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST steel
producer got a new chief last Tues-
day. Walter F. Munford, 58, re-
placed retiring Clifford F. Hood,
65, as president and chief adminis-
trative officer of U. S. Steel Corp.
Roger M. Blough continues as
chairman and chief executive of-
ficer.

Mr. Munford was executive vice
president-engineering and _ research.
He worked in American Steel
& Wire Div. mills during sum-
mer vacations while attending
Worcester Polytechnical Institute
and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. In 1923, he started
full-time employment with the di-

© Complicating TVA Problen —
The bids asked for are not commit-
ments to buy. TVA estimates it'll
need 900,000 kw in new generat-
ing capacity each year to take care
of its growth. It’s now appealing
to Congress to sell revenue bonds
in the open market to finance the
expansion (a similar appeal failed
last year).

One Capitol Hill source says
that orders for turbine and de-
livery dates won’t be determined
until financing arrangements have
been completed.

Has New President

W. F. Munford steps up

vision as an open hearth helper.
He became superintendent of the
open hearth department at New-
burgh Works, Cleveland, in 1927.
He moved up through the ranks to
become president of AS&W in 1953,
and assistant executive vice presi-
dent-operations for the corporation
in 1956.

Married in 1924, he has two sons.
He’s a member of the American
Iron & Steel Institute and Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity. He’s a Mason.

Mr. Hood, a 40 year veteran of
the steel industry and president of
U. S. Steel since 1953, stepped
down upon reaching (in February)
the corporation’s normal retirement

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age. (This surprised some industry
observers who expected him to hold
the post until after this year’s labor
negotiations were completed.) He
will continue as a member of the
board and executive committee of
the corporation.

A former Illinois farm boy, Mr.
Hood earned an electrical engineer-
ing degree at the University of II-
linois and began his career with
U. S. Steel in 1917 as an oper-
ating clerk in the electrical cable
plant of AS&W. He became vice
president-operations of AS&W_ in
1935 and its president three years
later. In 1951, he became execu-
tive vice president-operations for
the corporation and was elected
president on Nov. 25, 1952.

Wages Cloud Ore Situation

“Can we continue to expand our
iron ore operations in this country,
or will we have to expand faster in
Canada and South America to
maintain our strong competitive
situation?” asked Walter A. Ster-
ling, president, Cleveland-Cliffs
Iron Co., Cleveland.

Mr. Sterling’s answer: “If labor
costs increase, we must limit any
further expansion to taconite and
jasper operations in the Lake Su-
perior area and Canada . . . and
to foreign direct shipping ores.”

Wages in steel are considerably
higher than they are in any other
basic industry. Underground min-
ing jobs have an even higher aver-
age than steel’s. Mr. Sterling de-
clares: “I feel that steelworkers
should see that they are pricing
underground ores out of competi-
tion.

“We have come a long way in
partially offsetting increased labor
costs,” he continues, “through re-
ducing overhead and_ improving
production methods. But the pro-
ductivity of labor has not increased
commensurate with our expendi-
tures to improve things. Further
increases in labor without an ade-
quate increase in ore prices may
force us to curtail production from
underground mines.”

Mr. Sterling emphasized the
growing threat of foreign competi
tion now that the St. Lawrence Sea-
way has opened. Last year, 25 per
cent of the ore consumed in the
U. S. was from foreign mines.

May 11, 1959

Vanadium-Alloys
Finishes Expansion

A $3.5 MILLION expansion of steel
producton, finishing, and delivery
facilities has been completed by
Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co., La-
trobe, Pa.

The program includes a new
vacuum melting furnace; a con-
tinuous, controlled atmosphere an-
nealing furnace; and two rolling
mills (a 16 in. and combination
10 and 12 in.) at the Latrobe
plant. Also completed is a 2000
ton, vertical, hydraulic forging press
at the firm’s Colonial Steel Co.
Div., Monaca, Pa. Auxiliary heat-
ing and handling equipment and
test and inspection facilities have
been installed at both sites. The
new buildings cover 97,000 sq ft.

® Furnace Outstanding—The con-
sumable electrode, vacuum melting
furnace (capacity: 4 million lb an-
nually) features flexibility of ingot
size (diameters: 9 to 24 in;
weights: 500 to 8500 Ib). Uni-
formity of arc control is maintained.

Its vacuum pumping system is
highly efficient. Pressure is kept
below 5 microns—equivalent to a
vacuum containing but | atom in a
volume that contains 152,000 atoms
at normal pressure. Other furnaces
run at 50 to 100 microns.

The furnace was designed by
Vanadium-Alloys and built by Con-
solidated Electrodynamics Corp.,
Rochester, N. Y. It uses inter-
changeable copper ingot molds
which are expected to last 100 to
500 heats. Cost: $2000 to $4000
each.

¢ Not for Tools—Designed prin-
cipally to make bearing steels and
high alloy material for aircraft and
missiles, the furnace will not pro-
duce steels for dies or cutting tools.
Dr. George A. Roberts, vice persi-
dent, technology, says the notion
that all tool steels will be vacuum
melted within a few years is er-
roneous. He doesn’t think users
will pay a premium for properties
they don’t really need.

West Canada Gets Mill

of Western Can-
ada’s first iron and steel smelter will

Construction

Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co.’s new vac-
uum melting furnace

start immediately at Kimberley,
B. C. It will mark the first stage
of an integrated iron and steel op-
eration by Consolidated Mining &
Smelting Co. of Canada, Montreal,
Que., for the production of pig
iron, steel ingots, and rolled steel
products. Planned annual capac-
ity: Over 100,000 tons. Cost:
More than $20 million.

Large reserves of iron tailings,
coal, limestone, and hydroelectric
power in the area provide an ideal
climate for electrothermic iron and
steel production.

The initial installation includes
sintering and furnace feed facilities
(annual capacity: 100,000 tons of
steel) and one electric furnace (an-
nual capacity: 36,500 tons of pig
iron). Production is scheduled for
early 1961.

The company plans to add a sec
ond large furnace, oxygen blown
converters for steel ingot produc
tion, and fabricating facilities in the
near future.

103

Why Companies Failed in 1958

Cause

Incompetence

Lack of experience
Neglect

Fraud

Disaster

Cause unknown

Total
Number of foilures
Average liabilities

ource: Dun & Bradstreet Inc

BUSINESS FAILURES reached a
postwar high of 14,964 (with liabil-
ities of $728 million) in recession-
troubled 1958. Failures among
manufacturers increased for the
second consecutive year, says Dun
& Bradstreet Inc.

The shock of the economy’s
downturn was felt in the first half
when casualties climbed 14 per cent
above those in the 1957 period. In
the second half, the rate of increase
was down to 4 per cent.

e Trend Turns Down—The down
trend stretched over into the first
quarter of this year—3697 busi
nesses, with liabilities of $197 mil
lion, closed. Compared with 1958's
lirst quarter, it means an 8 per
cent decline in number of failures,
a 2 per cent decline in dollar lia
bilities.

Dun & Bradstreet’s figures do
not include all business closings,
but only those firms involved in
actions likely to end in losses to
creditors

e New Firms Hardest Hit—Busi
nesses in their first five years ol
operation still dominate the casualty
list, accounting for 57 per cent of
all casualties. But the rate among
firms over ten years old is also up—

104

from 11 per cent of the total in
1948 to 21 per cent in 1958.

Geographically, most failures last
year involved businesses in large
industrial cities and were concen-
trated in four regions: New Eng-
land, Middle Atlantic, South At-
lantic, and East North Central
States.

In relation to the operating busi-
ness population, the failure rate
remained moderate—56 per 10,000
enterprises. That compares with 70
per 10,000 in 1939 and the record
154 per 10,000 in 1932.

AEC Offers Safe Isotope

The Atomic Energy Commission
is offering | million curies of triti
Demand
for the gas (an isotope of hydro

um io industrial users.

gen) has been on the uptrend the
last two years.

Tritium has a half-life of 12.5
years and emits low energy beta
particles with no hazard of pene-
trating gamma radiation. The beta
particles emitted are identical to the
electrons which bombard the screen
of a television set.

It’s being used to make luminous
instrument dials, runway markers,
emergency exit signs, and darkroom

lamps. New applications being de-

veloped: Experimental fluorescent
light tubes which require no start-
ers or transformers and tracer de-
vices for oil well stimulation and
refinery operations.

Licensed users may buy it from
the AEC’s Oak Ridge, Tenn., Na-

tional Laboratory at $2 per curie.

Uranium Output Climbs

Domestic production of uranium
last year jumped to 24,837,325 Ib
of U308 concentrate (vs. 16,964,262
lb in °57), reports the Atomic
Energy Commission.

Twenty-three producing mills
were in operation vs. 16 in 1957.

Production by states: Colorado,
eight mills produced 5.8 million
lb; Utah, four mills turned out 7.8
million lb; New Mexico, six mills
produced 7.2 million Ib; five mills
in Arizona, Washington, South Da-
kota, and Wyoming produced 4 mil-
lion |b.

Cans: New Aluminum Target

Aluminum cans may capture 20
per cent of the metal container
market within ten years, predicts
R. F. Newcomb, vice president,
commercial development, Canco
Div., American Can Co., New
York. Economics and_ problems
arising from the use of a light gage
metal are major hurdles.

Mr. Newcomb reports soldering
problems suggest that seamless proc-
esses, such as extrusion, drawing,
and ironing, are most suitable for
aluminum cans. Prices approach
those of tin plate on a gage for
gage basis, but the light metal con-
tainers must be heavier gage to re-
sist buckling and paneling.

Gas Group Cites Progress

The Liquefied Petroleum Gas As-
sociation cited three major advances
in 1958 at its 28th annual meet-
ing and show in Chicago: 1. Re-
duction of freight rates on L-P gas
(up to $250 per tank car, or 36 per
cent). 2. A new code, offering one
set of standards for all types of
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When to Replace Your Equipment

“ONE of the greatest hidden risks
in production operations is the high
cost of keeping equipment that is
useful but no longer profitable,”
says Jones & Lamson Machine Co.,
Springfield, Vt.

The company has developed a
capital goods replacement formula
which could help you avoid that
risk and also help you make de-
cisions.

e The Kernel—The formula puts a
proposed replacement project in
terms of avoidable costs which
would be incurred by postponing an
equipment purchase for one, five,
or ten years. It projects costs or
savings over the life of new equip-
ment and allows for additonal costs
created by inflation. Built into the

computation are provisions for in-
creases in labor and other costs, as
well as estimated new equipment
prices for the related periods.

¢ Simplified Forms—The operation
of the formula is shown in the ex-
hibits below. In the replacement
data sample, the descriptions, ages,
and worths of old and new ma-
chines are detailed. All avoidable
costs or savings are listed in the
cost comparison section. Compu-
tations of avoidable costs and
evaluation ratios are contained in
the exhibit to the right.

Though not shown, two tables
are used with the formula which
project indexes of past trends. One
projects wage and material cost fac-
tors, and the other projects replace-

ment cost factors for metalworking
machinery. Both are based on Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics reports.

e Aids Comparison Making—With
the tables, you can rate one replace-
ment against another by establish-
ing the ratio of avoidable costs to
the cost of new equipment. Cau-
tion: The ratio should be drawn
for several periods. A project may
show a high ratio for one year, but
over another period, the ratio may
shift to favor a different project.
The company says the formula
cuts through limitations and fal-
lacies found in many commonly
used formulas. It does not analyze
a replacement project in terms of
the rate of return on investment,
the time it will take to return the

Sample Replacement Data

Old Equipment

New Equipment

4 Engine Lathes
Name of Machine

Without Bar Equipment*

2 Turret Lathes
with Hydraulic Drive
& Bar Equipment**

14” x 30”—712 HP
Year manufactured 1939
Year acquired 1939
Original cost $25,464
Present book value $ 0
$ 400

Type, size, & horsepower

Present market value

Estimated life of usefulness

Cost Comparison (One Year)

Ram—5-21/2—20 HP
1959

1959 Avoidable costs

$54,000

15 Years

From current cost comparison

(From Line 12)

Avoidable costs

From current cost comparison
$17,200 times number of years

Factor for projected

Avoidable Costs or
(Savings

increase
in labor & material cost
$17,200 times 27.63% (1)
$17,200 times 62.90% (1)

Factor for projected increase

Avoidable Costs Incurred
By Postponing Replacement

For For For
10

5
Years (2 Years (2

in cost of new equipment
$54,000 times 38.0% (1)
$54,000 times 76.3% (1)

. Direct labor $15,000 20,520

. Indirect labor . my re 2,000
i EE Ss ous beside inane ; 4,500
. Spoilage in manufacture .. ; 1,000

41,202

Total avoidable costs incurred $17,200 $128,472 $241,220

1) Jones & Lamson projections based on

. Maintenance—ordinary . : 100 ecti
. Bureau of Labor Stotistics reports

. Maintenance—repair Re ae” 400

: (600) 2) Beyond first year
. Perishable tools ..
. Taxes & insurance (1,600)

(3,600) Proposed investment in new

. Depreciation equipment
11. Other (list):

12. Total avoidable costs for one year

$54,000

Ratio of avoidable costs to costs of
new equipment (For rating one replacement
project against another) 31.9%

$17,200

**One operator only~runs both machines 237.9%

*One operator—each machine.

May 11, 1959

investment, or the period needed
to obtain a favorable cash flow.
Such concepts, Jones & Lamson
says, ignore the avoidable costs
which would mount if a replace-
ment decision is delayed.

Jones & Lamson has four-page
forms available which include the
two samples reproduced on Page
105, the projection of indexes, and
instructions which could help you
solve replacement problems.

Machine Tool Sales Pick Up

Builders are optimistic. They expect the uptrend to continue.
But losses in the world market are still a recovery brake

MACHINE TOOL builders now can
smile when you ask: “How’s busi-
ness?” Their industry has fought
its way off the recession floor, and
all bets are for a “fair” year in
1959—a considerable improvement
over a dismal 1958.

At the spring meeting of the Na-
tional Machine Tool Builders As-
sociation, members seemed to be
convinced that a real upturn has
taken place. Estimates of this
year’s new orders ran $500 million,
up from 1958’s $374 million.

Standard machine builders _re-
flect most of the optimism. The
makers of specials, who rely heavily
on automotive dollars, still feel the
pinch. Automotive programs are
mostly seldom and small. Even
the few dollars that do come out
of the automotive industry are be-
ing spread thinner; tool and die

‘hal ite i.

HERE'S A PREVIEW OF TOMORROW'S city transportation.
Northrop Corp.'s Gyro-Glide (above) would be constructed
a four-car train would be 230 ft
long, carry 256 passengers, and weigh about 57 tons
fully loaded. At right is the airlinerlike monorail system

primarily of aluminum;

106

shops and other small special equip-
ment makers have turned to ma-
chine tool bidding as a way out ol
their private recession.

e Loss of position in the world
market is the industry’s biggest
single problem.

Domestic builders find it in-
creasingly tougher to compete in
the world machine tool market (and
that includes the U. S.). The wage
differential, often 4 to | in favor of
foreign builders, is the main de-
terrent.

The problem is not confined to
machine tools. Ralph J. Kraut, as-
sociation president, told members:
“The Americans are pricing them-
selves out of the market. If present
trends continue, the U. S. will no
longer be the world’s leading manu-
facturing nation.”

Mr. Kraut, also president of Gid-
dings & Lewis Machine Tool Co.,

es,

Fond du Lac, Wis., cited: “In 1957,
the builders in England and Ger-
many did more total machine tool
business than we did. In 1958,
it’s probable that each one of them
outproduced us.”

To solve, or more likely alleviate,
the problem, Mr. Kraut says the
first step is to halt inflation. He
also challenges industry to convince
labor that productivity must get
ahead, and stay ahead, of wages.

Finally, machine tool builders are
unanimous in their condemnation
of depreciation policies.

e “Realistic and adequate deprecia-
tion reforms are a must if our indus-
try and our economy are to prosper
in the brutally competitive interna-
tional business struggle we face.”

That’s the way N. M. Forsythe,
president, National Automatic Tool
Co. Inc., Richmond, Ind., and chair-
man of the association’s taxa-
tion and renegotiation committee,
summed up the writeoff crisis.
Pointing at the more liberal al-
lowances permitted by nearly every
other government, Mr. Forsythe says
the U. S. system acts as a “power-
ful brake on plant improvement
and modernization.”

The industry hopes to whip this
problem by, first, educating the
public on the inadequacies of the
present system and showing the
consequences, and, second, by
acquainting the congressmen with
the need for a more liberal policy.

Many builders believe such an
approach can help the U. S. com-
pete here and abroad.

designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for Seattle’s Century
21 Exposition which will open May 10, 1961.
the exposition will ride the monorail to the scene from
downtown Seattle
three “‘airtrains'’): $5 million

Visitors to

in 94 seconds. Estimated cost (with

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ales of Used
Machinery

Heading Up

SALES OF used machinery are up.
The February sales index (latest
available) from Machinery Dealers
National Association stood at 148
(1947 - 49 100), the highest
monthly volume since April, 1957.
Last year, 40,000 to 43,000 units
were sold. Value: At least $200
each.

The long term outlook is bright.
A survey of 500 plants by Research
Associates, Detroit, shows: 1. A
projected annual market of $650
million. 2. An average plant expen-
diture of almost $20,000 on used
and rebuilt tools every two years.
3. One-third of all tools in opera-
tion were bought second hand.

The most optimistic report comes
from Detroit Machinery Exchange,
Detroit. Its sales are triple year
ago levels. The firm’s success may
be affected by the surplus of used
tools in its area. Many tool and
die shops were forced out of busi-
ness last year.

R. Douglas Williams, Williams
Machinery Co., Newark, N. J.,
thinks sales may be up 6 per cent.
Much of the planned capital ex-
penditures by manufacturers will
be for replacement of facilities rath-
er than for expansion. Mr. Williams
points out that used tool sales us-
ually follow new machinery order

trends by 30 to 60 days.

e Recession Blues—All is not rosy.
A New York company remains in
a slump because it can’t get items
like heavy hammers and large press-
es for customers. In the red in
1957, the firm’s business dropped
another 25 per cent last year de-
spite stringent cost cutting. It re-
ports about a 15 per cent improve-
ment this year. A spokesman com-
plains that some customers are “a
little difficult about high priced
merchandise.” However, he admits
they’re more receptive than they
were last year.

May 11, 1959

1947 1949 195!

(1947-49 equals 100)

*Estimated by STEEL.
Note: Index is in terms of dollar volume.

Another New Yorker reports sales
are 10 per cent better this year
than last. But he had a 40 per
cent decline in 1958 from 1957.

e Plenty of Shoppers—Galbreath
Machinery Co., Pittsburgh, says
inquiries are coming in better than
they did in late 1958. Sales are
up 25 per cent so far this year. The
firm contemplates a return to its
prerecession level, although early
1959 inquiries included a lot of price
shoppers. With new equipment
available for quick delivery, prices
are competitive.

In Chicago, Interstate Machinery
Co. Inc. recorded a 30 per cent
boost in sales during the early
months of this year, compared with
the same period in *58. The mar-
ket is particularly active in equip-
ment built since 1949. The com-
pany says structural, fabricating,
and stamping machinery is bringing
good prices—“up slightly from last
year’s.” It has no trouble finding
buyers.

Horse trading is going on in such
heavy equipment categories as used
rolling mill equipment, says Albert
Curry & Co. Inc., Pittsburgh. (Used
machinery is a sideline to its new
rolling mill line.) Most dealers
say prices are firmer this year than
last. In some cases, higher costs of
reconditioning old tools have helped

push prices of such equipment up.

® Role for Used Equipment—The
used machinery dealers’ special
province is his ability to deliver
immediately, says R. K. Vinson, ex-
ecutive secretary of the 225 mem-
ber MDNA. Good used tools are
not hard to find.

Used machinery is often pur-
chased for short production runs.
The manufacturer can resell the
tool at a big saving.

e Buying Tips—Used tools come
in three types: 1. As is. 2. Recon-
ditioned. 3. Rebuilt. MDNA mem-
bers respect an industry code of
ethics which guarantees rebuilt
machines, says Mr. Vinson. It in-
cludes the right to return the ma-
chine within 30 days if it does not
operate as represented by the dealer.
“As is” tools carry no guarantee.

Reconditioned machines are op
erated under power, cleaned, and
painted. All broken parts are dis-
assembled and tested under power.
Worn out and broken parts are re
placed, and compensations are made
for excessive wear.

Most dealers specialize in one
or more types of equipment. Some
do their own rebuilding. Others
use specialists. Company employ
ment averages about 25, although
some firms may have 500.

investment, or the period needed
to obtain a favorable cash flow.
Such concepts, Jones & Lamson
says, ignore the avoidable costs
which would mount if a_ replace-
ment decision is delayed.

Jones & Lamson has four-page
forms available which include the
two samples reproduced on Page
105, the projection of indexes, and
instructions which could help you
solve replacement problems.

Machine Tool Sales Pick Up

Builders are optimistic. They expect the uptrend to continue.
But losses in the world market are still a recovery brake

At the spring meeting of the Na-
tional Machine Tool Builders As-
sociation, members seemed to be
convinced that a reel upturn has
taken place. Estimates of this
year’s new orders ran $500 million,
up from 1958’s $374 million.

e Specials still lagging.

Standard machine builders re-
flect most of the optimism. The
makers of specials, who rely heavily
on automotive dollars, still feel the
pinch. Automotive programs are
mostly seldom and small. Even
the few dollars that do come out
of the automotive industry are be-
ing spread thinner; tool and die

Med

HERE’S A PREVIEW OF TOMORROW'S city transportation.
Northrop Corp.'s Gyro-Glide (above) would be constructed
primarily of aluminum; a four-car train would be 230 ft
long, carry 256 passengers, and weigh about 57 tons
fully loaded. At right is the airlinerlike monorail system

106

shops and other small special equip-
ment makers have turned to ma-
chine tool bidding as a way out o!
their private recession.

¢ Loss of position in the world
market is the industry’s biggest
single problem.

Domestic builders find
creasingly tougher to compete in
the world machine tool market (and
that includes the U. S.)._ The wage
differential, often 4 to 1 in favor of
foreign builders, is the main de-
terrent.

Mr. Kraut, also president of Gid-
dings & Lewis Machine Tool Co.,

it in-

in 94 seconds.

Fond du Lac, Wis., cited: “In 1957,
the builders in England and Ger-
many did more total machine tool
business than we did. In 1958,
it’s probable that each one of them
outproduced us.”

Finally, machine tool builders are
unanimous in their condemnation
of depreciation policies.

e “Realistic and adequate deprecia-
tion reforms are a must if our indus-
try and our economy are to prosper
in the brutally competitive interna-
tional business struggle we face.”

Many builders believe such an
approach can help the U. S. com-
pete here and abroad.

Visitors to

Estimated cost (with

STEEL

Machinery
Heading Up

trends by 30 to 60 days.

© Recession Blues—All is not rosy.
A New York company remains in
a slump because it can’t get items
like heavy hammers and large press-
es for customers. In the red in
1957, the firm’s business dropped
another 25 per cent last year de-
spite stringent cost cutting. It re-
ports about a 15 per cent improve-
ment this year. A spokesman com-
plains that some customers are “a
little difficult about high priced
merchandise.” However, he admits
they’re more receptive than they
were last year.

May 11, 1959

1947 1949 195!

(1947-49 equals 100)

*Estimated by STEEL.
Note: Index is in terms of dollar volume.

Another New Yorker reports sales
are 10 per cent better this year
than last. But he had a 40 per
cent decline in 1958 from 1957.

In Chicago, Interstate Machinery
Co. Inc. recorded a 30 per cent
boost in sales during the early
months of this year, compared with
the same period in ’58. The mar-
ket is particularly active in equip-
ment built since 1949. The com-
pany says structural, fabricating,
and stamping machinery is bringing
good prices—“up slightly from last
year’s.” It has no trouble finding
buyers.

push prices of such equipment up

¢ Role for Used Equipment—The
used machinery dealers’ special
province is his ability to deliver
immediately, says R. K. Vinson, ex-
ecutive secretary of the 225 mem-
ber MDNA. Good used tools are
not hard to find.

Used machinery is often pur-
chased for short production runs.
The manufacturer can resell the
tool at a big saving.

Reconditioned machines are op
erated under power, cleaned, and
painted. All broken parts are dis
assembled and tested under power.
Worn out and broken parts are re
placed, and compensations are made
for excessive wear.

Most dealers specialize in one
or more types of equipment. Some
do their own rebuilding. Others
use specialists. Company employ
ment averages about 25, although
some firms may have 500.

WINDOWS OF WASHINGTON

Vinson Attacks Aircraft Industry

Per Cent Profit Government
on Own Invested Furnished
Capital Property

(in millions
Boeing $101
Douglas 77
Fairchild 26
Grumman 25
Lockheed 84

Martin 38
North American 92

THE AIRCRAFT industry is taking its lumps from
three Congressional committees these days. The figures
above illustrate what leading “antiprofiteering” legis-
lators are telling their fellow members on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Carl Vinson (D., Ga.), chairman, House Armed
Services Committee, indicated that profits of the air-
craft industry are “unconscionable” by this measuring
stick. He testified before the House Ways & Means
Committee, holding hearings on the administration’s
request to extend the Renegotiation Act for 27 months
alter it expires June 30.

Barron Grief of the Aircraft Industries Association
replied to Representative Vinson: Profit on defense
contracts is being predetermined by the Renegotiation
Board. To prove his case, Mr. Grief reported Boeing’s
ratio of earnings to sales before federal income taxes
changed only 0.01 per cent from 1952 to 1954 after
renegotiation. Before renegotiation, the fluctuation was
a decline of 0.54 per cent from 1952 to 1953.

Rep. Thomas Curtis (R., Mo.) told the committee
that the industry has no chance to build up its capital
contribution as long as the board refuses to allow
greater profits.

108

Prewitt Complains of Subcontracting

The Government Procurement Subcommittee of Sen.
George Smathers (D., Fla.) has finished hearing
small firms complain of their inability te gain major
component subcontracts from the big missile primes.

A smaller member of the industry took on his big
brother before the Smathers’ committee: “The weapon
system concept has been troublesome and discouraging
to small business concerns such as mine,” charges
Richard Prewitt, president, Prewitt Aircraft Co. He
thinks “increased costs, duplication of effort and equip-
ment, and increased delivery time” result when the
big primes get the right to control all the funds for a
project.

Hokanson Cites Case History

Rep. F. Edward Hebert’s (D., La.) Special Inves-
tigations Subcommittee is checking the value to the
defense effort of the weapon system concept (prin-
cipally the Air Force’s mode of giving the complete
contract for an advanced weapon to one contractor or
a group of “associate” contractors).

Most damning was this step-by-step recital by Carl
Hokanson, a small air conditioning manufacturer:
1. A big prime requested a quote on Mar. 1, 1956, for
a special air conditioner for military aircraft. 2. On
Mar. 15, the firm returned its quote with a complete
design concept and cost breakdown. 3. A purchase
order was received May 1. 4. The first unit was
delivered Sept. 19. 5. After learning the unit was
to be redesigned, Mr. Hokanson requested the op-
portunity to bid on the new specifications early in
1958. 6. In the summer, the company learned the
prime was going to build its own air conditioners.
7. Late in the year it heard the new units were not
meeting Air Force performance expectations, 8. In
February, 1959, the same prime asked for quotes on five
more air conditioners. 9. Mr. Hokanson submitted
quotes and an engineering concept again in March.
10. Knowing that 70 units were to be built, he asked
if he would get the order for the other 65. The
company’s reply, in Mr. Hokanson’s words: “Only
five would be purchased. Two would meet an
emergency requirement of the Air Force. Three would
be used as samples for the company’s own production
department in building the balance of their require-
ment.”

Renegotiation Is the Key

Testimony like that forces Congress to hold
on to the Renegotiation Act despite strong views of
nonaircraft manufacturing firms, represented by the
Machinery & Allied Products Institute. Without con-
sideration of the facts of the aircraft industry’s case,
it is sad but true that all industry is, in a sense,
being made to pay for the aircraft companies’ high
percentage of government furnished property.

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Gabriel Starts Rocket Fuel Plant

Gabriel Sees Auto Market Growth

Gabriel Sells Ward Auto Products Div.

HEADLINES like those in the in-
dustrial press show that Gabriel Co.,
Cleveland, is going through the bit-
tersweet process of changing its
corporate personality.

The established maker of shock
absorbers for the auto industry has
some young ideas about diversifying
for the growth opportunities of the
scientific sixties.

® Gabriel is no longer tied to the
fortunes of one market.

Years of experience in producing
direct acting automobile shock ab-
sorbers taught the company that:
Long run consumer demand makes
the production of basic auto com-
ponents profitable if you stay on
top. But the feast and famine cycle
of the car captive is too much like
living on a roller coaster. As late as
1957, Gabriel derived 90 per cent
of its sales from autodom. Its first
big steps out of this market brought
its sales dependence on cars down
to 70 per cent in 1958. This year,
going full tilt into rocket technol-
ogy, the firm hopes to have a 50-
50 split in income from auto and
nonauto markets.

e Its key move was getting into
electronics.

Gabriel’s fortunes stood at low
ebb in the early 1940s, until Presi-
dent John H. Briggs undertook the
company’s initial mixing of product
lines with the acquisition of a flex-
ible metal hose and coupling facil-
ity and another plant to produce
automotive, and later television,

May 11, 1959

antennas. The product base was
broadened even more in 1951 when
the firm bought a producer of pis-
ton rings and auto heaters; but the
annual report still reflected rain or
shine in autodom. The shape of
things to come was decided the
same “year when Gabriel acquired
Workshop Associates, Needham
Heights, Mass., an engineering and
production company, a_war-born
electronics firm.

As the electronics division of
Gabriel, the Needham plant has
grown from a marginal producer
of high frequency antennas to a
major supplier of parabolic micro-
wave antennas for television, FM
radio, continental radar defense net-
work, and missile tracking.

After buying the Bohanan Mfg.
Co., Los Angeles, in January, 1958,
Gabriel moved the new division to
Compton, Calif., and began build-
ing aircraft release devices for
bombs, missiles, and fuel tanks.
With encouraging backlogs mount-
ing in the aircraft and electronics
plants, Gabriel acquired the Talco
Engineering Co., Mesa, Ariz., a de-
signer and producer of solid fueled,
moderate thrust rockets and ballistic
devices.

Gabriel is starting a new subsid-
iary, Rocket Power Inc., next door
to the Talco plant, to produce solid
propellents for its rockets.

Gabriel is not as far out of its
realm as it appears. It can oversee

the space and missile work of its
divisions as mainly extended appli-
cations of hydraulics and _ piston
type thrusters.

Bohanan produces cartridge op-
erated, quick disconnect systems;
Talco makes ballistic pilot ejection
devices (as in North American’s
X-15 rocket plane), and other
equipment requiring emergency ex-
plosive power. Although both
branches are heavily dependent on
defense business, commercial ap-
plications are in the works. Talco,
for example, is a pioneer in explo-
sive forming of metals, a process
with great commercial potential.

e “Digestion” and soul searching
will decide the future.

“We think we’re in a position of
growth and profit potential in every
part of the business,” says Robert
T. Hood, vice president and treas-
urer. “We have achieved the pri-
mary purpose of lessening our de-
pendence on the auto industry, but
have retained all that’s good in the
car business.” Will there be more
acquisitions, more diversification?
“We're still digesting these, and are
not looking at anyone at present.
But we do expect growth in the
present product picture.”

The new divisions are already
adding a healthy glow to Gabriel’s
prospects. Order backlogs are well
above last year’s. Sales in the first
quarter, normally the lowest of the
year, jumped from $4.3 million (in
1958) to $6.7 million; earnings rose
from $16,040 to $224,850.

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Few men suffer physical fatigue in indus-
try today. But, psychological fatigue has
taken its place. It can—and does—slash
productivity just as much, psychologists
report. Management hasn’t learned how to
overcome it. Result: Millions of dollars
go down the inefficiency drain. Needed:
Concentration by industry on “people re-
search.”

POOR VISIBILITY

If your lighting system is five years old,
chances are it’s obsolete. By upgrading it,
you may easily boost worker efficiency 5
per cent or more. And you'll probably cur-
tail accidents, slash reject volume, height-
en morale, and improve your plant’s ap-
pearance. New installations frequently
pay for themselves in a year or less.

The man on the left has the most common
ailment in industry today. Psychologists
say he’s “suffering from a degree of in-
difference to the assigned task.” That
means he works because he has to, not be-
cause he wants to. How do you get him
to want to? Several approaches have been
tried successfully (see right), but much
research in this field is still needed.

Combat These Productivity Killers

“LESS THAN 1 per cent of the
federal government’s research and
development money goes into re-
search on people. And the govern-
ment is at least ten years ahead of
industry.”

That’s how Dr. Erwin K. Taylor
of Personnel Research & Develop-
ment Corp., Cleveland management
consulting firm, points up the des-
perate need for industry to take a
closer look at the makeup of its
employees.

“Companies put millions of dol-
lars into designing better processes
but seldom put any money into re-
search on motivating employees to
get the most out of those processes,”
declares Dr. Taylor.

¢ Fatigue is probably the biggest
hole in industry’s productivity
basin.

Mechanization has virtually rid
industry of physical fatigue. But a
psychological brand that’s even
harder to conquer has taken its
place.

The odds are that most of your
production workers are bored with
their jobs. Result: Below par prod-
uctivity. What can you do?

“There are no sure answers,”
says Dr. Taylor. “Not enough re-
search has been done in the field.”
But he suggests five approaches
that can take you a long way to-
ward a solution:

e The first line supervisor can
often identify the causes of em-
ployee fatigue.

He alone is close enough to the
situation. But often management
places much more emphasis on a
foreman’s knowledge of the opera-
tions performed in his department
than on his ability to motivate
workers. Says Dr. Taylor: Fore-
men need sensitivity training in the
understanding of people more than
they do in the job mechanics phase
if they are to be of top caliber.
Management often becomes so pro-
duction-oriented that it forgets pro-
duction depends on people. Many
supervisors can only spend about
10 per cent of their time on the mo-
tivational aspects of their jobs, says
Dr. Taylor. Raising the percen-

May 11, 1959

tage can hike productivity.

Companies often hire people who
are overqualified for the jobs as-
signed them. Result: With no
challenge, they become bored and
quit, or their productivity declines.
A telephone company study of
switchboard operators disclosed that
the girls who learned fastest left
soonest. Dr. Taylor says over 75
per cent of employee turnover re-
sults from placing overqualified
workers on routine jobs. “For a
job that makes few demands, you
need a person who indulges in a
great deal of reverie and fantasy,”
he reports.

¢ Another solution: Give employees
more short range goals.

A Detroit Edison Co. experiment
proves that point. The job: Sort-
ing bills. The old method: Several
thousand bills were dumped on a
worker’s desk at one time. Low
productivity and many errors re-
sulted. The new method: Only a
few hundred bills are deposited
each time. Result: Higher pro-
ductivity and few mistakes. Rea-
son: “The employee is given a
goal he’s sure he can reach. He
was overwhelmed by the task
the old way,” reports Dr. Taylor.

The same held true on another
operation. The job: Assembling
heaters. The old method: The
worker put completed heaters on a
conveyor which carried them out
of his sight. New method: Com-
pleted heaters are stacked where the
worker sees tangible evidence of his
efforts.

¢ Industry needs _ professionally
trained personnel men.

“One of industry’s big problems
is that managers are poorly trained
in the motivation of people,” as-
serts Dr. Taylor. “The human be-
ing is much more complex than
most highly automated lines. But,
while only highly skilled and fully
trained men are permitted to han-
dle the line, totaly untrained men
often handle the people,” he says.

That results in poor selection, place-
ment, and motivation, he believes.

“A set percentage of your com-
pany’s R&D budget should go for
‘people research,” believes Dr.
Taylor. It should be done by spe-
cialists who are counterparts of
your physicists and research engi-
neers, he says.

¢ Nonmonetary incentives some-
times overcome job dissatisfaction
and psychological fatigue.

Music systems, coffee breaks,
properly timed rest periods, and
other such benefits usually result
in higher productivity. “But be
careful,” warns Dr. Taylor. “Ex-
amine the costs and consequences
of any such measures before you

proceed.”

e Music can relieve worker tension.
“Our installation has been effec-
tive in the field of employee mo-
rale . . . has increased production
reduced fatigue among our
operators,” reports C. L. Saxe, presi-
dent, Thermo Products Inc., Al-
bany, N. Y.

At Lever Bros. Co., New York,
typing errors were reduced 38.6 per
cent after a music system was in-
stalled. Productivity among IBM
key punch operators climbed 18.6
per cent at Mississippi Power &
Light Co., Jackson, Miss.

Other benefits attributed to music:
1. Drafting room productivity in-
creased 20 per cent at Fischer Lime
& Cement Co., Memphis, Tenn. 2.
Clerical absences dropped 5 per
cent at National Gypsum Co.,

Buffalo.

e Adequate lighting is essential to
good productivity.
Lighting can be an important

production tool. Erickson Tool Co.,
Cleveland, hiked worker efficiency
10 per cent, cut minor accidents
in half, and decreased rejects about
5 per cent in one department, more
than 10 per cent in another—all as
the result of a new lighting sys-
tem.

¢ An extra copy of this article is avail-
able until supply is exhausted. Write
Editorial Service, Street, Penton Bldg..
Cleveland 13, Ohio.

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- “H.B.M., Model 75
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other machine we’ve
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This statement by Mr. John Gruber, Plant

Foreman of George Hantscho and Company, Inc.,

Mount Vernon, New York, manufacturers of printing equipment,

sums up their experience since installing the Bullard 4” H.B.M., Model 75, in June 1957.

He further states “our presses and paperfold-
ing machines are made to order and each job
varies from the one before it. Because of this,
we can't use assembly line or mass production
techniques.”

“The only mass production we have is the ma-

chining of holes in cast iron, up to as many as
105 in a side frame. Since we've been using our

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MIRRORS OF MOTORDOM

Why GM Reorganizes Central Foundry

Autodom wonders whether the consolidation of General
Motors Corp.’s Central Foundry and Fabricast divisions
means the company is deviating from its decentralization
philosophy. The answer is no. The biggest reason for the
move is to combine Central’s casting experience with
Fabricast’s aluminum knowhow as GM seeks more uses
for the light metal. Central’s general manager, James H.
Smith, right, will head the combined operation.

GENERAL MOTORS CORP. has
integrated its Fabricast Div. into
Central Foundry Div., Saginaw,
Mich. The merger, unusual under
GM’s decentralization philosophy,
places iron and aluminum casting
facilities under a single head. It
has also given rise to speculation
in autodom’s metalworking quar-
ters as to why the move was made
and whether it will be followed by
more unification.

© Why—Referring to the consolida-
tion, John Gordon, GM’s president,
says: “These two divisions are being
consolidated to capitalize to the full-
est on their facilities and organiza-
tion in the fields of cast iron and
aluminum.” Detroit takes that to
mean GM plans to use more alu-
minum and, to do so, it expects to
make use of gray iron experience
and facilities. Four bits of informa-
tion lead to this conclusion.

1. Important to Central Foundry
is the fact that, since 1950, the
corporation has been operating a
molten metal pilot plant at Fabri-
cast’s Jones Mills location, under
an aluminum contract with Rey-
nolds Metals Co., Richmond, Va.
Experience gained there can be put

(Material in this department is protected by copyright,

May 11, 1959

to use by the Saginaw division,
as well as give Central Foundry
a predictable supply of molten metal
for aluminum castings.

2. The company is well along in
developing aluminum engines. One
will be out this fall in Chevrolet’s
light car, the Corsair. A water
cooled job is expected by 1962. In
addition, the adoption of a trans-
axle by GM will call for a com-
bined transmission-differential hous-
ing, probably of aluminum.

3. GM’s Detroit Diesel Div. al-
ready has announced it can convert
its machining and assembly lines
to handle gray iron or aluminum.
Metalmen suspect the same switch
could be made by other divisions.

4. In what may turn out to be
one of 1958’s most important
speeches to foundrymen, Dr. Robert
F. Thomson and Darl F. Caris
laid out GM’s future position
when they told the Gray Iron
Founders’ Society that industry must
find ways to improve gray iron
castings, to diversify, or include
aluminum casting facilities in their
foundries. By consolidating Fabri-
cast and Central Foundry, GM is
taking a page from its own book.

Putting those tidbits together,

Saginaw, Mich.

Danville, tl.

Defiance, Ohio

Bedford, Ind.
(Fabricast)

Jones Mills, Ark.
(Fabricast)

Typical Operations

Malleable iron wheel hubs,
differential carriers, spring
hangers.

Pearlitic malieable rocker-
arms, crankshafts, trans-
mission parts, diesel pistons.

Gray iron brake cylinders,
electric motor frames,
pump: housings, manifolds,
and transmission cases.

Malleable iron pulleys,
brake shoes, door hinges

Gray iron blocks and
heads, flywheel housings
ond flywheels, camshafts,
bearing caps, and transmis-
sion cases.

Castings (aluminum die-
castings; sand, permanent
and semipermanent moid,
ond shell) for automotive
and appliance parts. Over
100 products.

Heat resistant aluminum
alloy investment castings
for gas turbine parts.

Some 15 to 20 aluminum
die and permanent mold
castings for automotive
use. Operates under molten
metal contract with Rey-
nolds Metals Co.

and its use in any form without permission is prohibited.)

Detroit won’t be surprised to see
Central Foundry casting aluminum
blocks for B-O-P cars. Initially, it
may use some of its own alu-
minum casting facilities. Ultimately,
it will probably make use of Fabri-
cast’s diecasting knowhow and mol-
ten metal supply to turn out 65
lb aluminum castings.

@ Why Not — Other less credible
rumors stemming from the consol-
idation are that Brown-Lipe-Chapin
Div., Syracuse, N. Y., will be added
to Central Foundry, and that as
GM standardizes more, it will tend
to consolidate more of its manufac-
turing facilities.

Brown-Lipe-Chapin’s casting fa-
cilities are devoted mainly to zinc
diecasting. It also has stamping,
plating, and anodizing lines, to
make hub caps, wheel discs, bumper
guards, grilles, and other decora-
tive parts. There seems to be little
reason to bring these facilities into
Central Foundry’s setup.

As for standardization, it’s true
that GM has combined three bodies
into a single adaptable shell. It’s
expected to standardize more body
components in the future. It’s also
reported that the corporation would
like to use a single transaxle design
for all car lines with the possible
exception of Chevrolet. And it is
likely that the first water cooled
aluminum block will be used for
several car lines.

© Still Mixed—This does not mean,
however, that GM will consolidate
all engine and transmission manu-
facturing into one or two plants.
It has sizable investments in these
divisional facilities. No matter how
popular aluminum engines become,
there will continue to be a demand
for gray iron blocks for trucks and
certain car lines. These engines are
so different it’s difficult to use a
single block and almost impossible
to standardize heads, valve train
components, cams, and crankshafts.
Car divisions already are slightly
miffed at losing some of their
autonomy in body _ designing.
They'd be most unwilling to give up
major components like engines.

Chrysler and GM Earnings

First quarter reports show Chrys-
ler Corp. sales are 29 per cent ahead
of those in the first three months

of 1958. General Motors Corp.
says sales are up 18 per cent from
a year ago.

Chrysler earned $15.2 million
($1.75 a share) on sales of $691
million this first quarter vs. a $15.1
million loss during the like 1958
period. L. L. Colbert, president,
reports the company has sold 218,-
114 vehicles vs. 185,888 units the
year before. Quarterly capital ex-
penditures amounted to $13 million,
compared with $12 million spent
last year.

GM’s quarterly net income is
$293 million on sales of $3.2 bil-
lion. Comparable figures for 1958
are $185 million earnings on $2.7
billion sales. The company’s total
vehicle sales from U. S. plants are
914,705 units vs. 780,941 last year.
Worldwide sales of cars and trucks

are 1.13 million vs. 981,963.

¢ Chrysler Plans—Continuing _ its
overseas development (STEEL, May
4, p. 55), Lynn A. Townsend,
Chrysler’s group vice president, in-
ternational operations, announces
the company plans to _ build
trucks in Argentina. The program,
amounting to a $15 million invest-
ment, is a joint effort of Chrysler
International §. A. and a distribu-
tor, Fevre y Bassett in San Justo.

The distributor has a 500,000 sq

U. S. Auto Output

Passenger Only

1959 1958
545,757 489,515
February 478,484 392,112
March 576,085 357,049
April .. 578,8254 316,503
4 Mo. Totals 2,179,151 999,179

January

May 349,474
June ; 337,355
July 321,053
180,324
130,426
261,696
514,099
593,920
4,243,526

August
September
October
November
December
Total

Week Ended 1959 1958

Apr. 4 133,878 64,318
Apr. 1] 133,202 84,997
Apr. 18 . 135,934 73,219
Apr. 25 133,987 58,664
May 2. 119,034 78.434
May 9 . . 125,000* 78,506

Source: Ward’s Automotive Reports
Preliminary *Estimated by STEEL

ft assembly plant with a 20,000 unit
annual capacity. Chrysler plans to
stock it with equipment and _tool-
ing, so that within four years the
company will be able to produce
70 per cent of its truck parts locally.

¢ GM Plans—Fisher Body Div. an-
nounces expansion of its Lansing
and Pontiac, Mich., plants. The
Lansing programs call for a 380,-
000 sq ft addition to facilities used
to assemble bodies for Oldsmobile,
Chevrolet, and Pontiac convertibles.
Employment is 5300. The job will
be finished by September.

In Pontiac, Fisher will add 50,-
000 sq ft to its 1.35 million sq ft
plant and rearrange equipment so
all Pontiac body styles can be built
in the plant. At present, converti-
ble and station wagon bodies are
built elsewhere. A new body shop
and dual assembly line are part of
the modernization.

NADA Gives Import Details

Big Three carmakers can breathe
a bit easier now. One of the last
worrisome theories about small car
buying habits has been pretty well
squashed by the National Auto-
mobile Dealers Association survey
on import car buyers. The theory
is that many of these import buyers
would continue to want foreign cars
even when U. S. small cars become
available.

Paul E. Herzog, NADA research
director, claims it isn’t so. His
survey indicates that 60 per cent of
those persons who own _ imports
wouldn’t have bought them if simi-
lar domestic cars had been on the
market. Not only that, but only
6 per cent of the persons ques-
tioned claimed they bought the im-
ports mainly for prestige purposes.
Most of those who did were in the
less than $3000 income bracket. Mr.
Herzog admits that this particular
claim may be questionable since
few will openly admit buying any-
thing for prestige.

Other survey conclusions: 88 per
cent of the import owners bought
because the smaller cars are cheaper
to operate. Only 47 per cent felt
that a lower original price was the
prime reason for purchasing, but
62 per cent claim that lower an-
nual depreciation was an important
factor influencing their decision to
buy.

STEEL

At major automotive plant:

One Wean “Flying Press”
replaces two conventional presses

This manufacturer used to produce transmission
vanes on two conventional presses. Using seven-
stage dies, these machines delivered the formed
vanes at a combined rate of 308 parts per minute.
One specially designed Wean “Flying Press” now
turns out the same part at 350 SPM, freeing the
conventional presses for other work and reducing
to one set the expensive dies needed. In addition, a
tailor-made nest stacker now makes handling of the
vanes a simple task. The firm estimates savings in
operation and maintenance costs at upwards of
50%: a valuable bonus to increased production.

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THE BUSINESS TREND

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
INDEX

(1947-1949 =100)

LATEST
WEEK

PREVIOUS
WEEK

MONTH
[Xere)

YEAR

NX eje)
Li}

Based upon and weighted as follows:

Steel Output, 35%; Electric Power Output, 32%;
Freight Carloadings, 22%; Auto Assemblies, 11%
Chen sheet ee eee eneeeee sas

JAN.

*Week ended May 20.

FEB. MAR MAY JUNE | JULY

Construction Is Ahead of Schedule

CONSTRUCTION analysts are
erasing their estimates for 1959 and
sharpening their pencils to make
new ones as this record breaking
industry continues to set the pace
for the general economy.

Both contract awards and work
put in place are getting off to a
faster start than experts had antici-
pated. In the first four months
of this year, construction put in
place ran 13 per cent ahead of the
corresponding period of 1958, lat-
est government figures show. Con-
tract awards, many of which are not
reflected in construction activity un-
til several months later, are doing
even better. They were 18 per
cent higher in the first quarter than
they were in last year’s first period,
says F. W. Dodge Corp.

e Slowing Down? — Government
figures hint that work put in place
is beginning to slow down. Season-
ally adjusted, the annual rate of
total construction activity in the
first four months is: January,
$54.468 billion; February, $54.444
billion; March, $54.528 billion; and
April, $53.940 billion. Those fig-
ures compare with the 1958 esti-
mated total of $48.115 billion and
the government’s forecast of $52.3
billion for this vear. Even if some
softness does develop later this year,
it appears now that the forecast is
going to be short.

May 11, 1959

Despite the slight downturn, the
April total of $4.2 billion for work
put in place was a record for that
month. Both public and private
construction showed significant up-
turns from March’s figures, with res-
idential building leading the way.
Industrial building continued weak,
but this is a reflection of the reces-

sion. (The leadtime between the
award of a contract and work in
this category is considerably longer
than it is in lighter construction.)

e Bases for Strength—There are

several reasons for believing that

the forecasts will be exceeded.
First, a lot of momentum was

INDUSTRY

BAROMETERS OF BUSINESS

PRIOR
WEEK

LATEST
PERIOD*

Steel Ingot Production (1,000 net tons)? 2,668!
Electric Power Distributed (million kw-hr)
Bituminous Coal Output (1,000 tons)

Crude Oil Production (daily avg—1,000 bbl) ...
Construction Volume (ENR—millions) .....
Auto, Truck Output, U. S., Canada (Ward’s)

TRADE

Freight Carloadings (1,000 Cars)
Business Failures (Dun & Bradstreet)
Currency in Circulation (millions) *

Dept. Store Sales (changes from year ago)*

FINANCE

Bank Clearings (Dun & Bradstreet, millions)
Federal Gross Debt (billions)

Bond Volume, NYSE (millions)

Stocks Sales, NYSE (thousands of shares)
Loans and Investments (billions)

U. S. Govt. Obligations Held (billions)+#
PRICES

SreEL’s Finished Steel Price Index® ...
StreeEt’s Nonferrous Metal Price Index®

All Commodities?

$410.9
155,210!

*Dates on request. ‘Preliminary. Weekly capacities, net tons:
2,699,173 ‘Federal Reserve Board. *Member banks,
100. ®1936-39—100. 7Bureau of Labor Statistics Index, 1947-49—100

Federal Reserve

2,627
12,538
8,055
7,132
$314.3

| 171,280

647

304
| $31,332
+69

25,724
$285.6
$30.2
17,788
$95.5

$30.1

247.82
220.6
119.9
128.1

1959,
System

2,831.46;

1,334
11,25]
6,808
227

$485.6

| 105,776

533

329

| $30,518

+49

| $24,019

$275.1
$26.4
12,434
$92.1
$30.1

239.15
196.9
119.3

125.6

1958,

61935-39

BUSINESS TREND

CONSTRUCT 1ON AWARDS

TOTAL IN AAILLIONS OF DOLLARS

INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES & MACHINERY

NEW ORDER INDEX* JULY, 1948 — 100
1958

a
ai

yas
SIMONDS

INDUSTRIAL

Building (Seasonally adjusted)
1959 1958 1959 1958 19
1,839.7 1,530.2 fan. +s. see, 186
1,777.4 1,478. i at gewis oan

. 221

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Totals
F. W. Dodge Corp
Charts copyright, 1959,

*Seasonally adjusted.
Amer. Supply & Machinery Mfrs

picked up in building during the
first four months of the year. The
difference between cumulative totals
for 1959 vs. 1958 is too great to be
accounted for by the recession.
(Construction dipped in early 1958
but not nearly as much as the gen-
eral economy did.)

Second, contract awards are main-
taining the high level established
late in 1958, assuring the industry
of a sufficient backlog to keep it
busy for several months even if con-
tracts begin to dip later this year.
(See graph above. )

Third, housing starts have shown
only the slightest signs of declining.
During the first quarter, the an-
nual rate was well above 1.3 million.
F. W. Dodge revised its original es-
timate of this year’s market from
1.2 million to 1.3 million starts.

Fourth, industrial construction is
finally beginning to accelerate from
its recession low. One of the im-
pressive features of the weekly con-
tract reports from Engineering
News-Record has been the steady
improvement in this segment. Total
value for the first four months is
27 per cent ahead of the correspond-
ing figure for 1958. The backlog
of fabricated structural steel orders
has been increasing since the first
of the year.

H. C. Turner Jr., president of
Turner Construction Co., New York,
points out that this upturn may
not have much influence on work
put in place in 1959, but it should
put some backbone into 1960 work.
“Another thing to keep in mind is
that much of your capital expendi-
tures this year are going into
modernization, not new construction.
However, industrial building plans
may pick up before the year is
over—maybe in the last quarter.”

© Costs Going Up—While building
costs have held fairly stable for the
last few months, there is much
doubt that they can resist the up-
ward movement for long. F. W.
Dodge figures building costs have
gone up only | per cent in the last
six months, but they will edge up
another 4 per cent in the next year.

“The 1941 building dollar is now
worth 39 cents,” says a Dodge of-
ficial. “That means the buyer must
put up $2.56 to do the work $1
did before. Twelve months from
now the buyer will have to increase
the amount to $2.66.”

Stocks Build Up Slowly

Inventory buildup has been less
than some economists expected.
Since the low point was reached

STEEL

GEAR SALES INDEX

1947-49 — 100

1957 1956

American Gear Mfrs. Assn.

FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT ORDERS

1947-49 = 100

Foundry Equipment Mfrs. Assn

te ik

last December, manufacturers have
added only $1.1 billion to stocks
(seasonally adjusted) through
March, show the latest Commerce
Department figures. Most of the
addition (about $900 million) has
been in durable goods industries.

Reason: During the same period,
manufacturers increased shipments
by about $1 billion and upped their
rate of new orders by $1.6 billion.
So they are using up materials near-
ly as fast as they can get them.

The big change in inventories is
expected to come during the second
quarter as steel, copper, aluminum,
and other nonferrous metals users
lay in stocks for an uncertain third
quarter. But with new orders com-
ing in at such a rapid rate, it is
doubtful that the stock buildup
will be much out of proportion to
requirements.

Index Levels Near Record

STEEL’s industrial producton in-
dex is maintaining its high level,
but it isn’t making any headway
recordwise. At a preliminary 168
1947-49=100) for the week ended
May 2, it is | point under the rec-
ord. During the last nine weeks,
the index has fluctuated within a
range of only 3 points.

May 11, 1959

Steel production has about hit its
ceiling for the first half. At 94.5
cent of capacity, output was sched-
uled at close to 2,676,000 net tons
for ingots and castings in the week
ended May 10.

Auto output was cut back sharply
during the last week in April as
General Motors Corp. closed some
facilities for spring inventory. This
will be the pattern for the next few
weeks, although over-all production
will remain well over the 500,000-
unit-a-month rate. (Ward’s Auto-
motive Reports says the current
rate of production projects to about
6 million units for 1959.)

Output of electricity is at the
turning point between the late win-
ter dip and the spring upturn. The
improvement will be small for a
while, but at about 12.6. billion
kw-hr a week, the industry is sur-
passing the corresponding 1958 fig-
ures by about I! or 12 per cent.

The big plus in the immediate fu-
ture will be in freight carloadings.
Strength will come from three
sources: Iron ore loadings, coal ship-
ments, and miscellaneous freight.
If the other three elements in the
index do no worse than hold at
present levels, carloadings may move
the index up a notch or two by

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124 STEEL

MEN OF INDUSTRY

F. W. LAVERTY
Clark Bros. president

F. W. Laverty was appointed presi-
dent of Clark Bros. Co., Olean,
N. Y. He was executive vice presi-
dent. He succeeds J. N. MacKen-
drick, now chairman, replacing
C. Paul Clark, who was made hon-

orary chairman.

William Hallam was made sales
manager, National Electric Div.,
Pittsburgh, H. K. Porter Company
Inc. He was St. Paul district sales
manager.

R. W. Burgeson was elected pres-
ident, Hoefer Mfg. Co., Freeport,
Ill., succeeding G. F. Oliver, now
chairman.

William E. Hunter was made gen-
eral sales manager, Gonset Div.,
Young Spring & Wire Corp., Bur-
bank, Calif.

B. R. McBath was made general
manager of Worthington Corp.’s
Plainfield, N. J., Div., responsible
for engineering, manufacturing, and
sales. He succeeds K. W. Horsman,
resigned. Joseph Goldsten was made
manager of engineering for the divi-
sion to succeed W. L. Gaya, as-
signed to the headquarters engineer-
ing staff at Harrison, N. J. Charles
D. Wood was made district office
manager at Boston for Worthington
to succeed Richard M. Cleveland,
retired.

Robert W. Ross was made Great
Lakes regional sales manager for
Standard Conveyor Co., St. Paul.

Joseph A. Rzezutko was made pro-

duction manager, Detroit plant,

American Metal Products Co.

May 11, 1959

JOSEPH E. ADAMS
White Motor executive post

Joseph E. Adams was appointed to
the new post of executive vice pres-
ident-manufacturing and develop-
ment at White Motor Co., Cleve-
land. He was vice president-man-
ufacturing.

Cecil Heilman was elected vice
president - manufacturing, Diebold
Inc., Canton, Ohio. He was works
manager of the Canton plants. He
now directs manufacturing at Die-
bold’s Canton and Malvern, Ohio,
plants; at Record Files Inc., and
K. F. Cline, Dickson, Tenn., both
subsidiaries; and at Diebold of Can-
ada Ltd., Toronto, Ont.

Donald F. Brookland was elected
vice president for alloys, Tennessee
Products & Chemical Corp., Nash-
ville, Tenn., subsidiary of Merritt-
Chapman & Scott Corp. He suc-
ceeds Marcus Evans, transferred to
an administrative post at Nashville.
Mr. Brookland was vice president-
operations, Keokuk Electro Metals.

A. T. Richter was promoted from
Pittsburgh district sales manager to
assistant general sales manager,
Midvale-Heppenstall Co., Philadel-
phia.

G. E. Steiner was appointed presi-
dent, M. C. Jones Electronics Co.
Inc., Bristol, Conn., recently pur-
chased by Bendix Aviation Corp. He
was general manager of Bendix’s
Scintilla Div. Stanley T. Urbank,
one of the founders of the Jones
company and formerly chief execu-
tive officer, was named vice presi-
dent-general manager. M. C. Jones,
former president of the Jones firm,
will act as a consultant.

CECIL HEILMAN
Diebold mfg. v.p.

J. M. OLESEN
Lyon Metals exec. v.p.

J. M. Olesen was elected executive
vice president, Lyon Metal Prod-
ucts Inc., Aurora, Ill. He was vice
president-sales.

Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport,
Conn., elected as vice presidents
Joseph P. McNamara and Frank J.
Cunnane. Mr. McNamara, former-
ly assistant secretary and counsel,
is now vice president-personnel.
Mr. Cunnane, manager of the
Housatonic plant in Bridgeport,
continues to head this facility as
vice president and plant manager.

Sidney Metzger joined the manu-
facturing staff of Brush Beryllium
Co. at Elmore, Ohio, as rolling mill
superintendent, Alloy Div. For the
last nine years, he has been process
engineer with W. B. Driver Co.,
Newark, N. J.

Ernest E. Swartswelter was elected
vice chairman of Blaw-Knox Co.,
Pittsburgh. He was chairman of
Aetna-Standard Engineering Co.,
recently acquired by Blaw-Knox.

Lawrence B. Raskin was promoted
from vice president to president of
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service Inc.,
Toledo, Ohio. Harold Osburn was
named vice president.

Chain Belt Co. appointed Roland
V. Poisson Chicago district sales
manager. Former sales manager for
the company’s Roller Chain Div.
at Springfield, Mass., he is succeed-
ed by Joseph W. Cox. William E.
Kennedy succeeds Mr. Cox as
sprocket sales manager, Worcester,
Mass., plant. Mr. Poisson succeeds
G. A. Gunther, who assumes the

125

EDWARD Mcl. TITTMANN

new post of special account execu-
tive in the Chicago area

Edward McL. Tittmann and Robert
D. Bradford were elected executive
vice presidents, American Smelting
& Refining Co., New York. Charles
F. Barber and Forrest G. Hamrick
were elected vice presidents. Mr.
Bradford is president of Lake Asbes-
tos of Quebec Ltd., subsidiary, and
is in charge of the company’s Fed-
erated Metals Div. Mr. Tittmann is
chairman of Southern Peru Cop-
per Corp., owned by Asarco.

J. Douglas Darby was appointed
vice president and assistant to the
president, United States Steel Corp..,
Pittsburgh. He was an administra
tive vice president-commercial.

Ralph A. Castillo was appointed
general manager of Joseph T. Ry-
erson & Son Inc. at Houston. He
has been serving as Houston branch
he occupied

Aluminum
{yerson acquired

position

Steel &

manager, a
with Vinson
Co., from which

the plant last December.

J. DOUGLAS DARBY
U. S. Steel post

ROBERT D. BRADFORD
Asarco executive vice presidents

RALPH A. CASTILLO
Ryerson gen. mgr.

FRANK PACE JR.

EARL D. JOHNSON

General Dynamics chairman and president

Earl D. Johnson was elected presi-
dent, General Dynamics Corp.,
New York. Former executive vice
president, he succeeds Frank Pace
Jr., who was elected chairman, and
remains chief executive officer.
Carleton Shugg, general manager,
Electric Boat Div., Groton, Conn.,
and a senior vice president of the
corporation, was promoted to presi-
dent of the division. Dr. Frederic de
Hoffmann, general manager, Gen-
eral Atomic Div., San Diego, Calif.,
and a corporation vice president,
was promoted to president of the
division and a senior vice president
of the corporation. C. Rhoades
MacBride, General Dynamics’ vice
president - operations, was made
senior vice president-operations.

Gerard F. Hart succeeds Thorning
Wood, retired, as secretary of Gif-
ford-Wood Co., Hudson, N. Y.

Gardner D. Carpenter joined Mc-
Laughlin Co., Birmingham, Mich.,
as chief engineer. He was with Mt.
Clemens Metal Products Co., and
has been in fastening engineering

GARDNER D. CARPENTER
joins Mclaughlin Co.

for over 20 years. Previous assign-
ments were with Ford Motor Co.,
Fisher Body Div. of General Motors
Corp., and Chrysler Corp.

Tedford M. Hendrickson was named
power engineer for Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co., Youngstown,
succeeding Paul R. Duffey, retired.
Robert F. Doolittle was elected gen-
eral counsel and secretary to suc-
ceed Judge James E. Bennett, re-
tired. William J. Harnisch was
elected assistant secretary.

Fred D. Brown was made market-
ing manager for Westinghouse
Electric Corp.’s Arc Welding Dept.
He is at the department’s main
plant in Buffalo. He was manager
of the corporation’s Nuclear Ship
Section, a special group responsible
for liaison between all Westing-
house divisions and the staff of

Adm. H. G. Rickover.

Lee D. Nutter was named vice pres-
ident-marketing, Holly-General Co.,
division of Siegler Corp., Anaheim,
Calif. He had been with General

LEE D. NUTTER
Holly-General v.p.

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Harper Electric Furnace v.p.

AUGUST SUNNEN
Sunnen Products Ltd. pres.

Electric Co. for 22 years in a variety
of executive sales positions.

August Sunnen succeeds his father,
the late Gus Sunnen, as general
manager of Sunnen Products Ltd.,
Chatham, Ont. He was vice presi-
dent of Ramsden Mfg. Ltd., a per-
manent mold aluminum foundry
in London, Ont. He had previous
association with Sunnen Products
Co., St. Louis, parent firm.

William H. Smith was made plant
manager for Ford Motor Co.’s In-
dianapolis steering gear and cold
heading plant, Transmission &
Chassis Div. He succeeds R. T.
Thornton, now general manufac-
turing manager, Hardware & Ac-
cessories Div., Rawsonville, Mich.
Mr. Smith was manufacturing man-
ager at the Indianapoils plant.

Bernard A. Monaghan was elected
president, Vulcan Materials Co.,
Birmingham. Former executive vice
president, he succeeds Charles W.
Ireland, who was made chairman, a
post formerly held by A. C. Butt-
field.

128

RICHARD G. WALSH
Titeflex eng.-director

WILLIAM H. SMITH
Ford-Indianapolis post

HERBERT A. BOAS JR.
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GEORGE USTIN
Buchanan v.p.-eng.

George Ustin was named to the new
post of vice president - engineering,
Buchanan Electrical Products Corp.,
Hillside, N. J., subsidiary of Elastic
Stop Nut Corp. of America. He
joined Buchanan five years ago.
Previously he was general manager
of the cord set plant of the Hat-
field Wire & Cable Div., Conti-
nental Copper & Steel Industries.

Mel S. Nielsen was appointed west-
ern division manager, a new post,
for Truare Retaining Rings Div.,
Waldes Kohinoor Inc., with head-
quarters in Los Angeles. In addi-
tion to over-all responsibility for the
western territory, he will serve as
Truare sales engineer in southern
California, Arizona, New Mexico,
and parts of Nevada, succeeding
Ludwig L. Bluth, retired. Paul W.
Vapnek succeeds Mr. Nielsen as
sales engineer in northern Cali-
fornia, Washington, and Oregon,
with headquarters in San Francisco.

Donald H. Parrish was made San
Diego, Calif., works manager,
Stromberg - Carlson Div., General
Dynamics Corp.

Harper D. Roth was elected vice
president-marketing, Harper Elec-
tric Furnace Corp., Buffalo. He
was treasurer and is succeeded by
Warren J. Eberhardt, former assist-
ant treasurer.

Richard G. Walsh was appointed
director of engineering, Titeflex
Inc., Springfield, Mass. He was
manager of Engineering Test and
Design Engineering Depts., Aircraft
Engine Div., Ford Motor Co., in
Chicago. ‘Titeflex is a subsidiary of
Atlas Corp.

Herbert A. Boas Jr. was elected a
vice president of Budd Co., Phila-
delphia. He joined the company in
March of last year as director of
marketing and was also named a
member of the policy committee.
He continues to serve in both ca-
pacities. Prior to joining Budd, he
was with Sinclair Refining Co. and
with Sinclair Oil Corp.

Myron P. Roebuck was named vice
president-special products engineer-
ing, Canoga Div., Underwood
Corp., Van Nuys, Calif.

William S. Ivans Jr. was appointed
vice president, Cohu Electronics
Inc., San Diego, Calif.

John F. Doran was promoted to
chief industrial engineer at Chase
Metal Works, Waterbury, Conn.,
Chase Brass & Copper Co. Inc. He
replaces John H. Burns, now on the
staff of the vice president-sales.

Frank A. Guba fills the new post of
manager of marketing for Damas-
cus Tube Co., Greenville, Pa. He
has served the company as a con-
sultant on marketing for several
months. He previously was man-
ager-market research and develop-
ment of Carpenter Steel Co.’s Alloy
Tube Div.

OBITUARIES...

R. J. Skinner, 52, sales manager,
Rockford Machine Tool Co., Rock-
ford, IIl., died Apr. 26.

Ronald W. Thompson, 60, sales en-
gineer for Transue & Williams
Steel Forging Corp., died recently
in Miami Beach, Fla.

John Hendrickson, 61, chairman,
Welding Engineers Inc., Philadel-
phia, died May 1.

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J&L's $50 Million Project
At Cleveland to Cut Costs

JONES & LAUGHLIN Steel Corp.,
Pittsburgh, has launched a $50 mil-
lion program to improve its Cleve-
land Works, including construction
of two basic oxygen furnaces and a
large blast furnace. It follows closely
completion of a $90 million pro-
gram which doubled capacity for
cold rolled sheets and plates and
increased ingot capacity by about
80 per cent.

J&L’s capital expenditures at alli
its plants during the next three
years are expected to reach $234
million, including $165 million al-
ready budgeted. The funds will be
spent for ore beneficiation, sinter-
ing plants, coke ovens, a new blast
furnace, open hearth improvement,
precipitators for smoke control, a
new electrolytic line, and a continu-
ous annealing line for the produc-
tion of tin plate.

® Will Cut Costs—One of the pri-
mary objectives of the current pro-
gram is cost reduction, especially
in production of ingots. Says Avery
C. Adams, chairman and president:
“The basic oxygen process repre-
sents the only major technological
breakthrough at the ingot level in
the steel industry since before the
turn of the century . . . The best
open hearth practice results in a
production rate of 39 to 40 tons
per hour. Our basic oxygen fur-
naces (at Aliquippa, Pa.) produced
at the rate of 106 tons per hour in
April. On a ‘trick heat’ basis, we
have hit 160 tons per hour.”

e Basic Oxygen Furnaces — The
two new furnaces at Cleveland are
expected to produce 160 ton heats.
They will have a combined annual
rated capacity of 1.2 million tons
and will be constructed adjacent to
eight 175 ton stationary open
hearth furnaces which are to be de-
activated and partially dismantled.

Three 220 ton stationary open
hearth furnaces with a rated ca-
pacity of 720,000 tons of steel a year
will remain in operation. They have
been equipped with oxygen lances

May 11, 1959

and basic roofs to increase quality
and to speed production. Two new
large electric arc furnaces with a
rated annual capacity of 420,000
tons also will be operated. That
will bring the annual capacity of
the Cleveland Works to about 2.-
340,000 tons compared with 1,-
945,000 tons at present.

e Big Blast Furnace—The new
ironmaking facility to be con-
structed in the immediate vicinity
vt two other blast furnaces at the
works will have one of the largest
hearth diameters and one of the
largest working volumes in the
U. S. The 110 ft high stack will
have a diameter of 32 ft and a
working volume of 65,000 cu ft. It
will have a daily rated capacity of
2500 tons and will increase the
yearly rated ironmaking capacity
at the Cleveland Works from 866,-
000 to 1.8 million tons.

e Air Pollution Control—J. R.
Powell, manager, Cleveland Works,
says all steelmaking facilities will
incorporate the latest developments
for air pollution abatement. Upon
completion of the current program,
about $10 million will have been
expended since 1957 to minimize
pollution. Included are electrostatic
precipitators for the basic oxygen
furnaces, the three open hearth fur-
naces to remain in operation, and
the two electric furnaces; an ori-
fice scrubber for the new blast fur-
nace, and the recently installed
blast furnace slag pit.

Kaiser Boosts Production

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical
Corp., Oakland, Calif., opened a
new production line at its Ravens-
wood, W. Va., plant. An alumi-
num ingot casting station also will
go into operation, increasing the
plant’s annual production to 108,-
750 tons of primary aluminum.

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical
Sales Inc. has established a new
source of aluminum tube. The

company has contracted with Gen-
eral Tube Co., Torrance, Calif., a
subsidiary of General Aluminum
Corp., for the manufacture of weld-
ed aluminum furniture tube which
Kaiser will sell in the West.

Jerry Schmidt, president of Gen-
eral Aluminum, says a high speed
Yoder tube mill and New Rochelle
high frequency welding unit have
been installed to manufacture the
new line. The tube will be made
from Kaiser aluminum coiled sheet
or from reroll stock rolled and slit
at General Tube.

Stamping Div. to Expand

Eaton Mfg. Co. is expanding its
Stamping Div. at Cleveland. Cap-
ital expenditures: About $500,000.
Under the program, manufacturing
area of the plant will be increased
about 22,000 sq ft, or 10 per cent.
New equipment is being installed
to expand the anodized aluminum
and nickel-chrome plating facilities.

Revere Expands Foil Plant

Revere Copper & Brass Inc., New
York, plans to increase its alumi-
num foil production capacity by
expansion of its plant in Newport,
Ark. The addition to the building
and installation of new equipment
will increase plant capacity by
nearly 50 per cent, says J. M. Ken-
nedy, chairman.

Haynes Installs Press

Haynes Stellite Co. has construc-
ted a plant and installed a new
forging press and other equipment
at Kokomo, Ind., to process super-
alloys. Ingots will range from 1500
lb to 5 tons. All steps in alloymak-
ing (from melting raw materials to
producing finished sheets, plates,
bars, wire, and remelt shot) are
handled at the same plant. Haynes
is a division of Union Carbide

Corp., New York.

Expands Extrusion Plant

The U. S. Air Force has appro-
priated $2 million to finance the
major part of an expansion pro-
gram at Curtiss-Wright Corp.’s ex-
trusion plant at Northland Avenue
and Grider Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The company’s share of the cost

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tions and material thicknesses.

Contact your nearest Westinghouse welding
distributor or welding sales engineer. Or write:
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poration, Buffalo 5, New York. J-22001

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may run as high as $1 million. The

eq e c K 9 & plant is basically an Air Force in-
stallation operated by Curtiss.
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_— on a | ete) Pittsburgh Screw Renamed

Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Corp.,
Pittsburgh, changed its name to
Screw & Bolt Corp. of America.

Rockford Machine Tool Co.,
Rockford, Ill., acquired Maplewood
Machinery Co., Chicago, producer
of roll forming equipment, and
Ingels Elbow Machine Corp., Chi-
cago, maker of power and hand
tools for sheet metalwork. All manu-
facturing activities will be moved
to Rockford and operated as the

Maplewood Div.

Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.,

New York, acquired Reich Bros.

= Mfg. Co. Inc., Terre Haute, Ind.,
Courtesy RELIANCE ELECTRIC & ENGINEERING CO., Cleveland, 0. and will operate it as the Reichdrill

Div. The firm makes truck and

fem ge) . i see crawler mounted hydraulic rotary

blast hole drills, and drilling rigs.
from the Lakes st) the Sea wie The acquisition also included
: ~ ee UT aero : Reichdrill Mfg. Co. Ltd., Glasgow,
Scotland.
This 1300-pound URICK casting (a fan cooled motor
stator frame made to Navy specifications) will withstand National Supply Co., Pittsburgh,
extra stress and strain and has better corrosion resistance purchased Fluid Packed Pump Co.,
because it is Ductile Iron. URICK recommends and Los Nietos, Calif., maker of down-
successfully casts Ductile whenever greater tensile strength well pumping equipment for oil
and higher impact value are of prime consideration because sousiny wee. ‘The oroperty will be
it has most of the advantages of steel, yet because of ‘ ;
its high molten fluidity, it will take intricate shapes not
possible with other high strength metals. Other
advantages are—Ductile castability permits weight
reduction while maintaining required physical properties . . . Fosmein Preset Swed Com,
superior machinability reduces machining time and Fostoria, Ohio, Ch C
consequently results in longer tool life. There are other Sr a, eae Sen
advantages and economies to Ductile when recommended, I hiladelphia, and Zenith Engineer-
engineered, and cast by URICK, ask about them. ing Corp., Philadelphia, will merge
to form Fostoria Corp. Fostoria
*This fan cooled motor stator frame to US NAVY speci- makes industrial lighting units, elec-
fications is cast in 16 different sizes from 16” to 42”. < 5
trical infrared ovens, and _ sealless
Gend for Bulletin on pumps and through its subsidiary,
URICK’s Ductile . . . ask ° } Saiway Steel Scaffolds Inc., scaf-
Se ee ST URICK's ~ folds, bleachers, and allied items.
facilities,too!Remember, Jaa C(4=/s= Chempump makes sealless pumping
URICK starts with ‘U.’ ACR equipment. Zenith, an affiliate of
- Chempump, is an engineering de-

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ERIE, PENNSVLVANIA Van Norman Industries Inc., New
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American Pulley Co., Philadelphia.
C. F. Myers is president of both
firms. American Pulley makes
power transmission and material
handling equipment and _ pressed
metal specialties.

American Aluminum Co. and
Cochran Foil Corp. have merged
with Anaconda Aluminum Co.,
subsidiaries of Anaconda Co., New
York. Anaconda organized the
American Aluminum Co. in 1958
for the purpose of the merger.
That corporation is being dissolved.

Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.,
Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., a subsi-
diary of Anaconda Co., New York,
is purchasing Sequoia Wire & Cable
Co., Redwood, Calif., from Mandrel
Industries Inc. It will operate the
company as a wholly owned subsi-
diary for the manufacture of small
wire for use in aircraft, missiles,
and electronic controls. Mandrel
will continue to produce electronic
instruments and custom assemblies
at its Burbank, Calif., plant.

American Steel Foundries, Chi-
cago, will purchase South Bend
Lathe Works, South Bend, Ind.,
subject to approval of stockholders.
The company makes metalworking
lathes and other machine tools and
accessories. R. E. Frushour will
continue as chief executive officer

of the South Bend firm.

es ASSOCIATIONS

National Screw Machine Products
Association, Cleveland, elected these
officers: President, L. R. Schaffer,
Mechanical Art Works Inc., Newark,
N. J.; vice president, C. L. Kerr,
Kerr-Lakeside Industries, Cleveland;
and treasurer, R. G._ Herker,
Herker Screw Products Inc., Mil-
waukee. Orrin B. Werntz was re-
elected counsel and executive vice
president; Margaret S. Ballinger,
secretary.

American Zinc Institute, New
York, elected these officers: Presi-
dent, R. G. Kenly, New Jersey
Zine Co., that city; executive vice
president and secretary, J. L. Kim-
berley; treasurer, G. H. LeFevre,
U. S. Smelting, Refining & Min-

(Please turn to Page 140)

May II, 1959

1-25 PAYLOADER:

Bremen Gray Iron Foundry, Inc.,
Bremen, Ind., has been using
“PAYLOADER” tractor-shovels for
9 years and has developed an
efficient ““PAYLOADER” sand-han-
dling set-up.

According to General Manager,
H. J. Hueni, their Model H-25
with 1,500 hours of service is an
11 to 16-hour work horse each
night. It moves the castings and
sand (about 250 tons) from the
floor to the shake-out about 200
feet distant. On return trips, it
delivers sand (about 210 tons)
from muller to the 35 molding
stations,

Night Foreman, Gene Hawkins
says, ‘No getting around it, our
‘PAYLOADER’ units do lots of work
and require few repairs. The
Model H-25 has greatly improved
material-moving efficiency. Its
larger capacity, combined with
power-shift transmission and

power-steer, are the main reasons
it moves 25 to 30% more tonnage
an hour than our Model HA’s.”

More power—more traction
Backing up the increased carry
capacity (2,500 lbs.) and faster
cycles of the Model H-25 are
greater engine power, power-
transfer differential and 4,500 Ibs.
of bucket breakout force that
provide more reliable traction
and digging power .. . all ac-
complished while reducing the
turning radius to 6 feet.

If you want the most carry capac-
ity on the shortest-turning trac-
tor-shovel for sustained high out-
put, ask your Hough Distributor
to demonstrate a Model H-25.

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SPECTACULAR UNIFORMITY, EVEN ON HIGH-PRECISION SPECS —THAT’S THE HALLMARK OF A G.S. RUN

Being precise, almost to perfection, on a single
piece or even two or three isn’t much of a challenge
to any competent shop. Being precise in terms of
holding to really close tolerances on hundreds of
thousands of pieces on a production run is some-
thing else again. Yet that’s the kind of perform-
ance on which G.S. has built an unsurpassed
reputation.

We set G.S. standards high to begin with: and
we back them up with one of the finest plants of
its kind in the country—with the most efficient
machinery to be had—with first-class engineering
in both design and production—with quality con-

trol systems and equipment which aim at perfec-
tion. Because every man in our plant knows that
our standards brook no compromise, we've more
than once had to reject only five or six finished
Gears out of a production run of thousands.

If you value precision results on a production
basis, in Worm Gearing, Bevels, Helicals, Ratchets,
Zerols, Spirals, Clusters, Internals, Splines, Pinions
or any other Gearing of special or standard design
in sizes from 8 to 120 dp, from %” to 8” diameter,
G.S. belongs on your supplier team. Our engineers
are at your service to discuss development of new
projects, or better means to accomplish old ones.

Cal/ or write us today!

..With production-quantity Small Gearing...your source

should be...

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Systems + Business Machines * Check Signing & Protecting Machines «
Clippers for Barbers, Animal Shearing & Hedge Trimming « Cloth Cutting
Machines + Coin Changers & Counters »* Communication Equipment «
Control Mechanisms « Electric Fans + Electric Motors + Floor Polishers,
Sanders, Scrubbers, Sweepers * Food & Drink Mixers, Blenders » Home
Appliances + Lawn Sprinklers + Machine Tools + Meat Tenderizers,
Grinders, Slicers + Military Equipment + Motion Picture Cameras &
Projectors « Optical Instruments * Outboard Motors * Pneumatic Produc-
tion Tools «+ Radio & Radar Tuning Assemblies * Radio Anti-backlash
Gears « Range Finders » Record Changers » Sewing Machines « Steel
Strap Stretchers * Step Switches * Tapping, Drilling & Threading Equip-
ment « Telephone Dials + Television Sets * Thermostatic Controls «
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as well as Diametral and Circular Pitch Tables. Ask for your
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REDUCE
DRILLING
COSTS...

INCREASE
HOLE
ACCURACIES

. with your own standard twist drills sharpened to
SPIRAL POINT—Cincinnati’s new drill point geometry.
Now, drill PRECISION holes with Spiral Point—all the
way up to 1’ diameter.

Get accurate hole size . . . straighter, rounder, cleaner
holes . . . and you eliminate secondary operations. Main-
tain hole-positioning accuracy without costly guide
bushings or pre-centering. Get more holes per grind.

CONVERT

the twist drills in your plant to precision Spiral Points with
Cincinnati’s SPIROPOINT® DRILL SHARPENER. It
automatically applies this cost-saving geometry in a
matter of seconds.

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY on sizes to 1”

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ing Co., New York; and vice presi-
dents, T. A. Campbell, Anaconda
Sales Co., New York, H. D. Carus,

| Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co.,

LaSalle, Ill, and E. H. Snyder,
Combined Metals Reduction Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ductile Iron Society has been
organized by producers in the U. S.

| and Canada. Officers are: Presi-

| dent, R. S. Thompson, H. P.

Deuscher Co., Hamilton, Ohio; vice
president, William Beatty, Morris
Bean Co., Yellow Springs, Ohio;

| secretary and treasurer, R. K. Guise,
Huhn’s Bros. Co., Dayton, Ohio.

| James H. Lansing was named execu-

tive secretary. Mailing address of
the society is P. O. Box 858, Cleve-
land 22, Ohio.

American Society of Tool Engi-

| neers, Detroit, elected these officers:

President, Wayne Ewing, Arrow-
smith Tool & Die Co., Los Angeles;
treasurer, C. M. Smillie, C. M.
Smillie Co., Ferndale, Mich.; sec-
retary, H. Verne Loeppert, Boyd

| Wagner Co., Chicago; executive sec-
| retary, H. E. Conrad, Detroit; as-

sistant executive secretary, A. R.
Putnam, Detroit; and vice _presi-
dents, H. Dale Long, Scully-Jones

| & Co., Chicago, William Moreland,

F. E. Myers & Bro. Co., Ashland,
Ohio, D. A. Schrom, York Div.,
Borg-Warner Corp., York, Pa., and
P. R. Marsilius, Producto Machine
Co., Bridgeport, Conn.

American Welding Society, New
York, elected these officers: Presi-
dent, C. I. MacGuffie, Air Reduc-
tion Sales Co., New York; first vice

| president, R. D. Thomas Jr., Arcos
| Corp., Philadelphia; and vice presi-

dent, A. F. Chouinard, National
Cylinder Gas Co., Chicago.

pls), new puants

E. F. Houghton & Co., Phila-
delphia, opened its new warehouse
and office in Carrollton, Ga., and
is completing construction of an ad-
joining plant. Upon completion of
the installation of manufacturing
equipment, defoamers, wetting
agents, detergents, lubricants, metal-
working and heat treating products
will be produced locally.

STEEL

DIES TO WORK MICA
AS PRECISELY AS THIS

require the critical inspection that only the Kodak Contour Projector provides.

SPECIAL HIGH-PRECISION DIES are needed
to stamp out an intricate mica blank like
this, used for positioning electronic tube
elements.

Tolerances are on the order of
+0.0002”. In making such dies the firm
of Schneider and Marquard, Inc. (spec-
ialists in punches and dies for precision
mica products) was not satisfied with the
accuracy limitations of ordinary inspec-
tion methods, and turned to optical
inspection.

Even then, they found that only one
instrument could provide the extremely
precise degree of inspection needed, with
unparalleled accuracy on all parts of the
screen image. That instrument was the
Model 30 Kodak Contour Projector.

Accuracy, plus... With this large-
screen (30-inch) comparator you get a
projected image that’s as free from dis-
tortion as the science of optics will per-
mit—accuracy on every inch of the

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viewing screen, including the very edges.
You get a sharp, high-contrast image
that’s erect and unreversed at all mag-
nifications. Changes in magnification
can be made at the flick of a switch.
More refinements... You also get
efficient head-on surface illumination
and a full 16” throat clearance between
collimator lens and front mirror. This
clearance is constant at all magnifica-
tions, permits staging of large parts
without repositioning. The many other
advanced refinements, extreme optical
stability, and rugged construction of
the Model 30 Kodak Contour Projector
make it a leading choice for large-screen
precision micrometry or routine gaging.
Cut inspection costs...Along with
accuracy, optical gaging with Kodak
Contour Projectors offers you savings in
tool costs, increased inspection rates,
and the economies that result from a
minimum of operator training.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester 4, N. Y.
the KODAK CONTOUR PROJECTOR

May 11, 1959

You can use optical gaging almost
anywhere in your plant... receiving, as-
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toolroom. There are 6 Kodak Contour
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Metalworking Outlook—Page 91

Paciiy
Technical Outlook

COMPUTER CONTROLS FLAME CUT— Th c
British have a new oxyacetylene cutting machine
which is controlled by a computer to make more
accurate cuts in ship plates. Welding & Metal
Fabrication reports that at least two British ship-
yards plan to construct entire bulkheads before
cutting them with the computer-controlled ma-
chines to fit mating parts. The development is
said to practically eliminate problems with ac-
curate fitups.

CUTS PORCELAIN ENAMEL COST—A new
Virginia rutile (a constituent of porcelain enamel
frits) is a replacement for more expensive white
titanium dioxide, says Metal & Thermit Corp.,
Rahway, N. J. It modifies the whiteness of white
enamels less than older types of rutiles. If some
off-white can be tolerated, it can replace all of
the titania in enamels for hot water tanks, wash-
ing machines, and stove interiors.

LIGHTER STRUCTURALS TO FORE—Some
steel firms, aware of the trend to lighter, more
efficient construction needs, offer lighter struc-
turals for equipment makers. Dorsey Trailers Inc.,
Elba, Ala., uses such a structural made by Jones
& Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, for cross-sills.
The trailers can support more than six times
their own weight.

ANNEALING PROGRESS— Steel sheets are ex-
pected to be annealed more economically in a
direct fired gas furnace being developed. The
aim: Fuel savings over present radiant installa-
tions. Salem-Brosius Inc., Pittsburgh, is also
working on continuous fuel-fired annealing of
aluminum coils and induction annealing of non-
ferrous metals.

DIP PACKAGING—Two new, easily stripped
compounds are available. Parts are simply dipped
in a hot liquid (one is applied at 120° F; the
other at 350° F). Unlike versions based on
World War II formulas, the 350° F coating is
effective at 165° F; both are flexible at minus

Market Outlook—Page 195

May 11, 1959

65° F, an important factor in air transportation.
The 120° F film has a built-in fungicide and is
best suited for delicate instruments and optical
parts. The developer, Army’s Aberdeen Proving
Ground, Maryland, says the specifications are
available for civilian use.

ZINC FOR BETTER SOLDER—Tests have
shown that a solder composed of 30 per cent
zinc and 70 per cent tin is the best combination
for strength and corrosion resistance in joining
uranium to aluminum. Battelle Memorial Insti-
tute, Columbus, Ohio, used foils, plating, and
dipping before heating the elements for joining.

FOR SPACE AGE PRODUCTION— [on en-
gines for space vehicles will be produced by
Goodrich-High Voltage Astronautics Inc., Bur-
lington, Mass., a new firm. It was formed by
B. F. Goodrich Co. and High Voltage Engineer-
ing Corp.

CERAMICS LIGHTEN MOTORS— A better
ferrite developed by General Ceramics Corp.,
Keasbey, N. J., is said to improve the efficiency
of high frequency power inversion. Replacing a
conventional 60 cycle alternating current motor
with one that operates on 1000 cycles can cut
motor weight in half.

WHAT'S THE BEST CLEANER?— You can
find out in report PB 131964, available from the
Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C.
It contains data assembled by the Navy on vari-
ous cleaners and passivaters for use with corro-
sion resisting steels.

Rx FOR DUCTILE IRON— EM alloy 55 per-
mits magnesium recoveries up to 50 per cent
when making ductile iron, says Union Carbide
Metals Co., a division of Union Carbide Corp.,
New York. The new formula minimizes tem-
perature loss, pyrotechnics, and the inefficiencies
of tramp metals.

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Lathe Can Advance with Technology

Building block principle allows it to be updated. Welded
steel construction adds needed rigidity. Clearing says price
is competitive with units of conventional design

SOME manufacturers build planned
obsolescence into their products, but
Clearing Div. of U. S. Industries
Inc., Chicago, is building its new
Blue Chip lathes to last indefinite
ly.

Of rigid, welded steel construc
tion, the lathes are designed to use
carbide and ceramic cutting tools
to machine the high strength alloys
being developed. The headstock,
which contains the drive and op-
erating controls, is built as a sep
arate unit and can be assembled to
a bed of any size. It is also pos-
sible to replace the manual speed
selection with electropneumatic
controls

Here is a lathe that you can
modify as production requirements
change and modernize as new de-
velopments appear.

The company
two machines and has 12 more in
production. Paul M. Stanton, man-
ager of the Machine Tool Div., says
he will stock components so that
an assembly job is all that’s re-
quired when an order is received.

Clearing’s distribution and serv-
ice organizations are set up for the
Blue Chip line. Later this year,
the company’s west coast plant will

has already sold

start assembling models for distri-
bution in that area.

Clearing is a pioneer of welded
steel fabrication in the hydraulic
and mechanical press field. In 1958,
when U. S. Industries realigned
product lines within its divisions,
redesign of the Axelson lathe was
handed over to Clearing. That di-
vision soon established that welded
steel construction was the only prac-
tical way to achieve the degree of
rigidity it wanted.

The new Clearing-Axelson lathe
has 18 times greater rigidity than
equivalent cast iron construction,
says Mr. Stanton. The bed has
continuous reinforcement from end
to end; the pedestal, bed, and ways
are built as an integral unit. Fur-

Rigidity of the Clearing-Axelson lathe is increased by its welded steel headstock
and bed. Carbide or ceramic tooling can be used to machine the toughest alloys.
Beds of any size and type can be attached to the self-contained headstock

ther, the front wall of the bed
which takes most of the force of
the cutting loads has been extend-
ed to the floor. The chip pan ex-
tends considerably forward and
adds strength to the entire struc-
ture.

Ribs are placed inside the struc-
ture so that a series of pyramid
shapes are formed. The reinforc-
ing ribs also serve as the wall of
the chip disposal chutes in the bed.

The welded steel headstock is
built independently. A thick, wide
flange provides secure mounting to
the bed.

In a test to show STEEL editors
the rigidity of the machine, Clear-
ing engineers hoisted the tailstock
end of the lathe aboui a foot off
the floor and jiggled it while tak-
ing a cut on a 1045 steel forging.
74, in. in diameter. The tool was
taking a 5/16 in. bite out of the
forging while the work traveled at
about 300 sfpm.

When miked, variation in the 15
in. long cut was found to be about
0.002 in.

e Cast construction was used for
the quick-change gear box, tail-
stock, apron, and cross slide for
economy and appearance.

Those machine members are rel-
atively small in size and would re-
quire a multiplicity of small de-
tails to form the walls, ribs, and
bosses. It would not have been
economical for Clearing to fabri-
cate the parts in its weld shop.

The builder feels that judicious
use of castings is an economical
way to obtain styling effects. They
can dramatically embellish weld-
ments which are kept straight and
clean for ease and cost of fabrica-
tion.

¢ The lathe has 40 spindle speed
changes at closely spaced intervals
and 88 carriage and threading feeds.

Speeds up to 2000 rpm make it
possible to machine any material
with maximum efficiency. A 50
hp main motor delivers torque to
the spindle. Rough threading and
heavy interrupted cuts are easily
handled without perceptible chat-
ter.

Unitizing has been carried out
on every major component of the
headstock. Drive gearing, quick
change gear box, and electricals
may be removed as units to sim-

May II, 1959

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BUILT-IN CLUTCH

SPLITTER AND
TRANSMISSION

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HORSEPOWER METER

ELECTRICAL COMPARTMENT

CONTROL PANEL CAN
BE EASILY REPLACED BY
ELECTROPNEUMATIC SHIFT

QUICK CHANGE GEAR BOX

REMOVABLE COVER PLATE —~

Unitized design of the headstock allows easy accessibility of all components.
Drive gearing, quick change gear box, and electricals can be removed as units

Electrical controls are mounted in an enclosure at the rear of the headstock.
They can be easily reached for routine servicing

plify servicing. The feed gear box
is completely enclosed and _at-
taches to the front of the machine.
All electrical accessories are con-
tained in a common enclosure that
mounts in a recess in the headstock.

e Electropneumatic power shifting
can be added.

Standard gear shifting on the
Blue Chip is manual. A four po-
sition and a five position lever op-

erating in two ranges take care of
all speed changes. Power can be
added at any time since factory in-
stallation is not required.

Clearing also is working with
General Electric Co. on a numerical
control system that can be adapted
to the lathe.

* An extra copy of this article is avail-
able until supply is exhausted. Write
Editorial Service, Steet, Penton Bldg.,
Cleveland 13, Ohio.

Chemical Tames Corrosion
In Nitrogen Gas Generator

Sodium vanadate inhibits action of aqueous monoethano-

lamine. See table below for corrosion rates before and
after it was tested at Michigan Seamless plant

HERE’S help for heat treaters and
fabricators with corrosion problems
in nitrogen gas generators that use
monoethanolamine (also known as
MEA) to remove carbon dioxide
from furnace atmospheres.

Dow Chemical Co., Midland,
Mich., has confirmed the effective-
ness of sodium vanadate as a cor-
rosion inhibitor in aqueous MEA
solutions. For more than two years,
the chemical has controlled corro-
sion in a nitrogen gas generator at
Michigan Seamless Tube Co., South
Lyon, Mich.

The firm produces seamless pres-
sure, heat exchanger, and mechani-
cal tubing. Annealing is a funda-
mental part of the operation. The
furnaces must have an inert atmos-
phere free from carbon dioxide to
prevent scaling.

The atmosphere is produced in a
nitrogen gas generator that uses
MEA to remove carbon dioxide.
When the carbon dioxide is_re-
moved from the combustion gases,
corrosion products build up in the
MEA solution.

* Corrosion products attack many
parts of the closed circuit process.

Air, with a certain amount of
added natural gas, is used to make
up the fuel for the generator. The
gas travels into a combustion cham-
ber where nitrogen and carbon di-
oxide are the major combustion
products. It next moves into a heat
exchanger, and then ‘into an ab-
sorber where the MEA solution re-
moves the carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.

From there, the gas passes through
a refrigeration unit and finally into

146

a dryer that lowers the water con-
tent still more. The result is a dry
gas that provides a protective at-
mosphere for the tubing.

A second recirculating system is
for the MEA solution. A _reboiler
strips the solution from the carbon
dioxide, after which the MEA is
passed through heat exchangers. It
is then returned to the absorber
tank for re-use in removing carbon
dioxide.

¢ Michigan Seamless had a serious
corrosion problem for about three
years.

Piping failures were the most fre-
quent. After the generator had been
in operation only a few months,
some piping had to be replaced al-
most monthI|y—especially that
which carries rapidly circulating
MEA from the combustion cham-
ber.

The reboiler also corroded, par-
ticularly in the area of the com-
bustion chamber which is sur-
rounded by MEA solution. The out-
side of the fire chamber corroded
heavily, as did the interior of the
reboiler’s outer shell. The reboiler
had to be replaced long before its
usefulness would normally have
ended.

By 1955 (three years after the
installation), the problem had be-
come so crucial that serious thought
was being given to replacing all
parts affected by the MEA solu-
tion with stainless steel.

¢ Consulted on the problem, Dow
chemists thought they had the
answer.

Their idea was to put a quan-
tity of sodium vanadate into the
MEA solution. Since the chemical
had shown great promise as a cor-
rosion inhibitor in laboratory tests,
the hope was that it would be
equally effective in field tests.

Their reasoning traced back to a

Case History of Sodium Vanadate in Action

BEFORE

1 month
weight loss

Rich MEA
Lean MEA

13.0 grams
12.3 grams

Penetration
per year

98.9 mils
93.5 mils

AFTER

2 month
weight loss

0.0009 gram
0.0016 gram

Rich MEA
Lean MEA

3 month
weight loss

0.0016 gram
0.0017 gram

Rich MEA
Lean MEA

Penetration
per year

0.013 mil
0.024 mil

Penetration
per year

0.016 mil
0.018 mil

theory on how sodium vanadate
reacts with iron. Iron is assumed
to be normally covered with an
oxide film that has many pores or
cracks. Through these openings,
ferrous ions are given up to pass
into solution. When sodium vana-
date is present, the emerging fer-
rous ions are converted to ferric
ions. They react with water to
form an insoluble oxide that plugs
the pores, sealing the iron surface
against further reactions. So in this
case, the escape of ferrous ions is

inhibited.

¢ An initial step toward finding
the answer to the corrosion problem
was to get an accurate reading of
its extent.

Pipe nipples were used as speci-
mens. They were put into the lean
and rich MEA lines on Aug. 30,
1955, and left there one month.

SAFER X-RAY UNIT means faster operation.

Results: Weight loss on the lean
side was 12.3 grams, and penetra-
tion per year was rated at 93.5
mils. On the rich side, weight loss
was measured at 13.0 grams, and
penetration per year was established
at 98.8 mils.

Sodium vanadate was introduced
in the system Nov. 13, and two
sets of mild steel strips were in-
stalled at the same time. One set
was removed Jan. 14, 1956, reveal-
ing impressive results with the in-
hibitor. Rich side weight loss was
only 0.0009 gram and the lean side
weight loss was measured at 0.0016.
Penetration per year was 0.013 mil
on the rich side, and 0.024 on the
lean side.

In February, the other set of
strips was removed. Findings: Rich
side weight loss was 0.0016 gram,
and lean side weight loss was 0.0017
gram. This meant that the penetra-

This Picker unit is connected to a

television screen and an amplifier which enlarges and intensifies the image.
The radiographer is checking operation of a gear

May 11, 1959

tion per year was only 0.016 mil
for the rich side and 0.018 for the
lean side.

Weight loss and penetration, or-
iginally greater on the rich side
than on the lean side, were shown
to be larger on the lean side after
the inhibitor was added. The pre-
cise figures are insignificant, say
Dow chemists; what is important is
the pronounced trend toward cor-
rosion control that they indicate.

This is particularly true in the
case of Michigan Seamless. In the
first place, differences between lean
and rich side mixtures are not siz-
able. Also, corrosion is now so
minor that another reading might
well show that rich side losses were
again larger than lean side losses
and still insignificant.

© Dow chemists periodically ana-
lyze the inhibited MEA to make
sure the proper level of sodium
vanadate is being maintained.

The system is drained annually
and replaced with a new solution
which includes from 10 to 15 lb of
sodium vanadate.

“The result is that corrosion has
been well controlled for more than
two years,” says Edward Zywiec,
assistant to the chief engineer at
Michigan Seamless. “Considering
the problem we were up against,
the inhibitor has given us all the
help we have hoped for.”

Viewer Shows Inspectors
Maximum Passable Defects

Inspectors can be shown maxi-
mum passable defects with a three
dimensional viewed at Timken
Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio.

The technique is especially suited
for on-the-job training of inspec-
tors. The trainee rarely has the
opportunity to see all defects in
this category. Sets of standard
samples may be difficult to obtain.
They can rust, discolor, or be mis-
placed. With the viewer, all
trainees in all plants can be shown
one standard set.

Samples of defects in components
for bearings, cups, cones, cages, and
rollers are photographed in 3-D.

Positive transparencies — stripped
into a continuous roll are sent in
viewers to all plants for training
and quick reference.

Wide Use Predicted for
New Graphite Fabric

Resistance Heating

A PROCESS to
textile forms directly to graphite
with a purity exceeding 99.9 per
cent has been developed by Nation-
al Carbon Co., a division of Union

convert organic

Carbide Corp.

Only quantities
have been produced so far. They
are being tested and evaluated by
industrial and military personnel.

Graphitizing is accomplished by
electrically heating a fiber or fabric
5400° F.
The crystalline structure of the ma-
The graphite
formed is similar to the manufac-

experimental

such as rayon to about

terial is changed.
tured type used for electric furnace
reactor struc-
molds, and

electrodes, nuclear
tures, metallurgical

other industrial products.

e Nearly every segment of indus-
try eventually may benefit from the
development.

Lamps

That’s because graphite has a
combination of electrical,
chemical, mechanical properties.

At ordinary pressures, graphite
has no melting point, and sublimes
at extremely high temperatures
(about 6600° F). It gets stronger
at higher temperatures, and tensile
strength at 4500° F is about twice
that at room temperatures.

Above 750° F oxidation sets in.
The known properties are unaffect-
ed by liquid nitrogen at —320° F.

unique

© Graphite fibers and fabrics can
give electrical and thermal conduc-
tivity to such materials as plastics,
ceramics, and glass cloth.
Graphite textiles resist attack by
acids, alkalies, and organic com-
pounds (except highly oxidizing
types), and are unreactive with
many molten metals. Electrical and
thermal conductivity is good and

Reinforcing refractory
material

High temperature
heating elements
Vacuum tube grids,
infrared emitters
Static eliminators
and lamp filaments
Jet engine seals
Thermal or acoustical

insulation

Heat Resistance

they’re immune to thermal shock.

The material is being considered
for filtering hot nonoxidizing gases;
corrosive fuel handling; electro-
static precipitators, curtain walls,
and flame arresters.

Fiber resistance heating elements
can operate at high temperatures.
Possibilities include home panel
units.

¢ The material is being evaluated
as a reinforcing agent for high tem-
perature plastics and_ refractories,
especially for those subject to
thermal cycling.

Possible mechanical applications
include valve packing and gasket
materials for high temperature seals
as in jet engines. Conveyor belt-
ing for high temperature equip-
ment is another possibility.

Use as thermal or acoustical in-
sulation is also being explored.

STEEL

MACHINE TOPICS

New Machine Boosts Builder Sales

The special is being turned out in job lots, thanks to a warm
reaction from customers and potential customers.
ness will accelerate the company’s recovery

ONE of the surest ways to hoist a
company out of a recession rut is to
come up with a revolutionary prod-
uct that customers need.

The Milwaukee-Matic, the tape
controlled milling, drilling, and bor-
ing machine that changes its own
tools, is proving itself to be a re-
cession buster for Kearney & Treck-
er Corp., Milwaukee.

Francis J. Trecker, president, told
STEEL that the company’s new
business in the special machines
will be a major assist this year, but
it’s also accompanied by growing
volume in standard machine tools
that K&T builds. Production of
standards is slated to jump 52 per
cent from the first quarter to the
fourth quarter.

In the same period, production
of Milwaukee-Matics will follow a
planned pace. The rate will be at
least one a week by the yearend.

At the company’s special ma-
chine plant, on Milwaukee’s west
side, the new machines already are
moving down the production line.
The first lot of ten is nearly fin-
ished; one has been shipped to GE,
the control builder; and another is
set up in a demonstration area. The
second lot of ten machines has en-
tered the first production stages.

e Sales are based on estimated sav-
ings that sometimes seem fantastic.

Only a few weeks ago, K&T rep-
resentatives called on an_ aircraft
subcontractor in San Diego, Calif.
He showed them a part that he had
to produce regularly—a complex
job that swallowed up 65 hours of
machining. He figured the Mil-
waukee-Matic would do it in 4!/,
hours.

Such savings have resulted in 23
firm orders for the machines. (They
sell for about $140,000 each.) An

aircraft company signed up for five.

May 11, 1959

New busi-

The manufacturing vice president
of a large, multiplant corporation
told K&T officials that he figured
his company would need about 60
in the next few years.

To further the optimism in Mil-
waukee, letters of intent (usually
separated from orders only by
paperwork and red tape) are in on
at least 23 more machines. And in-
quiries continue to pour in.

Coupled with a general machine
tool recovery, the dollar volume in
Milwaukee-Matics should help K&T

back to a near record pace.

Split-Hair Positioning
At a press preview of a numer-
ically controlled positioning table

(STEEL, May 4, p. 98), executives
of American Tool Works, Cincin-
nati, came up with a demonstration
that had the controlmakers, Sperry
Corp. of Canada, Montreal, Que.,
nervous.

A dial indicator, graduated in ten-
thousandths of an inch, was put on
the saddle and zeroed against the
table. Then the tape was put in
action. It moved the table, a ten
thousandth at a time.

The demonstration worked. Key
to the precision: Hydraulic drive
for the table that precluded back-
lash, play, or windup in the system.

More on Tape Control

Sperry (Canada), the same com-
pany that tailored the control sys-
tem for American Tool Works, is
adding the control to two DeVlieg
jig mills for Pratt & Whitney Air
craft Corp.

K&T’s Francis J. Trecker: ‘The machine’s ability to change these tools automati-
cally, and to use them, has given us a sales success that will justify a production
schedule of at least one machine a week before the end of the year’’

149

ven Rookie Welders

an Use This Method

Fine wire, lower current and voltages add up to a new

technique called Dip Transfer.

The cycle shown at right is

repeated 100 to 200 times a second

A NEW technique, called Dip Trans-
fer, greatly simplifies carbon diox
ide shielded, semiautomatic weld-
ing.

Designed and marketed by Air
Reduction Sales Co., a division of
Air Reduction Co. Inc., New York,
the system relies on fine wire (0.045
in. or less), low voltage and cur-
rent (19 volts, 200 amperes), and
a small weld pool to produce spat-
terfree, strong welds in mild and
low alloy steels.

In unveiling its method at the
recent welding show in Chicago,
Airco pointed to these additional
advantages: 1. An unskilled per-
son can learn to operate the equip
ment satisfactorily in less than 30
minutes. 2. He can weld fillets or
butt joints on 16 gage metal in
any position—vertical, horizontal,
or overhead. 3. Spatter losses are
less than 5 per cent. 4. An opera-
tor can lay down 6 lb of weld metal
an hour. 5. The same equipment
can be-used for other conventional,

150

inert gas shielded techniques with
standard size wires.

Arewelding has always required
skillful control of an open arc. An
operator strikes an arc between an
electrode and the work to form a
puddle of weld metal. That’s where
skill, training, and experience count
heavily. Poor are control can bring
about cold welds, inclusions, skips,
spatter, and other problems.

Dip Transfer gets around the
need for such control by its dip and
break. Metal is melted by a wip-
ing action during a short circuit.
(It is not projected through an arc
stream.) Short circuits are caused
by the wire dipping into the weld
pool. The short circuit puts a load
on the power supply, creating a cur-
rent surge. Before the current
reaches its peak, the wire overheats
and melts into the weld pool. Con-

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ARC FORCE DEPRESSES POOL

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CONTACT RENEWED

tact is then broken (with an as-
sist from an electromagnetic pinch)
and a fairly high current arc is es-
tablished.

The make and break effect creates
a kind of steady pulsing which can
be varied by power supply adjust-
ments. As in regular consumable
electrode welding, wire feed is con-
trolled or regulated by current
level.

Inductance has a regulating ef-
fect on the arc cycle. Power sup-
plies must provide a constant or ris-
ing voltage under increasing loads
(called constant or rising poten-
tial). Current levels are below 200
amperes to keep the puddle small
and easy to manage.

The Airco welding gun has drive
rolls to pull the wire through the
long casing and avoid buckling
which sometimes occurs with push-
er feeds.

STEEL

PERSIONS OF GRAPHITE,
£, AND OTHER SOLIDS

COLLOIDAL DIS
MOLYBDENUM DISULFID

Colloidal graphite increases die life he-
cause of its stability at high temperatures,
excellent lubricating qualities, and its
ability to prevent adhesion and the scrub-
bing effect of hot metal. This cannot be
said of conventional petroleum com-
pounds which either decompose rapidly
at temperatures above 300°F or do not
possess the required lubricity necessary |
under good die casting procedures. It will |
not volatilize when in contact with the hot
metal and cause pock marks due to gas
formation. It will perform when present
in extremely thin films which will not
affect dimensions or cause discoloration
of the parts being cast. And since it does
not volatilize or otherwise be destroyed
in the casting process, it does not need
to be applied as often as other lubricants.
This fact alone has often increased pro-
duction as much as 25%. Investigate the |
use of an Acheson colloidal dispersion

in solving your die casting problem... |
It probably is the very answer you need. |

ACHESON (Col/bids Company

PORT HURON, MICHIGAN
A division of Acheson Industries, Inc.

Also Acheson Industries (Europe) Ltd. and affiliates, London, England

SUPERIOR CASTINGS, LONGER DIE LIFE
ATTRIBUTED TO ‘DAG’ DISPERSIONS

Die casters and molders are expressing a growing preference for Acheson ‘dag’
brand colloidal dispersions. The consistent high quality of these products and
the multiple benefits they offer have obsoleted most other mold cavity coatings.
As outlined below, Acheson dispersions greatly aid in the manufacture of more
uniformly sound castings having smoother surface finishes, facilitate metal flow
and parting, and consequently extend the effective service lives of the dies and
molds on which they are used.

Acheson ‘Prodag'®, spray-applied on permanent molds at Paragon Aluminum Corporation,
has given them consistently higher quality castings and fewer rejects.

Better surface finish with ‘Prodag’ permanent mold coating is just one of the
reasons why Paragon Aluminum Corporation, a Division of Detroit Harvester
Company located at Monroe, Michigan, switched to this Acheson product. After
four years of experimentation with other mold washes, Paragon chose ‘Prodag’ —
Acheson semi-colloidal graphite in water — and has used it constantly the past
seven years. The reasons for its choice are these; uniform consistency, excellent
heat-transfer quality, and its hard, smooth, tenacious film which resists flaking
and provides easier parting characteristics.

With about 95 per cent of its annual output of more than two million pounds of
castings going to the automotive industry, Paragon must insist upon quality.
‘Prodag’ helps to maintain this stan-
dard. These parts for convertible auto-
mobile tops are precision-molded from
both 355 and 319 aluminum alloy.
Molds are preheated before each day’s
run to 600°F and the casting cycle
maintains this temperature. The ‘Pro-
dag’ dilution ratio is 1 to 4 parts water
and is applied to the molds with a
commercial spray gun. Aside from oc-
casional touchup at points of greatest
wear, this coating lasts through the
entire run. Because of the physical
contours involved in these compara-
tively small, light castings, they re-
quire rapid cooling in certain areas to
insure uniform strength. The ‘Prodag’
coating — with its proven fast heat
transfer ability — allows the castings
to cool without breaks or pinholes. And
by parting more easily, the high-finish
castings which result have given Para-
gon Aluminum products wide accept-
ance in this demanding industry.

Typical parts cast at Paragon Aluminum
include these automobile convertible
top braces. More uniform strength,
better finish, and fewer rejects result
from this company's use of Acheson
‘Prodag’.

If you have a metal casting problem,
call in your Acheson Service Engineer.
Or if vou prefer. write direct for addi-
tional information contained in our Bul-
letin No. 425. Address Dept. S-59,

‘dag’ and ‘Prodag’ are trademarks registered in the
U.S. Patent Office by Acheson Industries, Inc.

Offices in: Boston ¢ Chicago © Cleveland © Dayton © Detroit * Los Angeles * Milwaukee
New York ¢ Phiiadelphia ¢ Pittsburgh ¢ Rochester ¢ St. Louis

May 11, 1959

PROGRESS IN STEELMAKING

Automations Taking Over
In the Blast Furnace

By J. E. ORAM

Industrial Engineering Section
General Electric Co.
Schenectady, N. Y

In the future, the blast furnace will be operated by a master control
system, an expert says. Automation will permit close control of
product quality. Pushbutton, paper tape, or punched card pro-
graming may be used; computers, given a charge material anal-
ysis, will determine the right amounts of raw materials to be put
into the furnace. Needed: Better understanding of the blast fur-
nace process and high speed equipment for recording and process-
ing data.

¢ Automation would permit con-
trol of product quality.

PROCESS control in the blast fur-
nace isn’t far away. Some opera-
tions are done automatically now, Automatic charging, programing,
after they’re initiated by an opera- computation of a chemically correct
tor. charge, and data logging are suc-

Goal: Make all operations auto- cessive steps toward complete auto-
matic, with each starting as the one mation. Each, while offering its
before it is finished. own benefits, is a logical step to-

AUTOMATIC

PROGRAMING CHARGING

[ HUMAN DATA
COMPUTING INTELLIGENCE LOGGING

MATERIAL
ANALYSIS

HOT BLAST
SLAG <

(RON <_<

Here’s how automatic controls may operate the blast furnace of the
future. Data collected from the furnace and charge material would
be interpreted and fed back into the process control to vary quality
or quantity of the product

ward control of the whole process,
not a random attempt to control an
isolated phase.

With operations in the process
tied together by a master control
system, closer control of product
quality would be assured.

The blast furnace process is closer
to complete automation than most
others in iron and steel making.
Example: The charging system has
progressed from crude hand meth-
ods to automatic systems used on
most modern, high capacity stacks.

Some basic elements of a modern
charging system are the balanced
skip hoist, the small and large bells,
and the stockline recorders. Also in-
cluded: An automatic coke meas-
uring and charging system, consist-
ing of shaker screens, weigh hoppers
with electrically operated gates, a
water charging system, and a scale
car, for charging ore and other raw
materials. Those elements are co-
ordinated by program control; the
preset program is established by
the furnace operator.

Automatic control has improved
blast furnace charging, but inflex-
ible operation of the scale car is
still a handicap. Weighing is sub-
ject to human error. The com-
pletely automated charging system
would include an automatic stock-
house system, where each material
would be weighed or measured.

When a skip comes to the pit,
program control would automati-
cally actuate the conveyor system
to load it with the right material.
The charge material would then
be hauled away and fed into the
furnace automatically.

The charging system, started and
stopped by the stockline recorders,
would maintain a preset burden
level in the furnace. Scale car oper-
ation and associated human error
would be eliminated.

¢ Programing and automatic charg-
ing equipment used is optional; un-
derstanding of the blast furnace
process is vital.

Pushbutton programing may be
adequate for the automated blast
furnace because of relatively in-
frequent changes in the charging

STEEL

SHORT TOOL LIFE due to chip weld, cratering
and burning, in many cases, has been traced
directly to lube oil dilution of cutting oil effec-

tiveness. Cleartex can end this problem forever.

Diluted cutting oil
shortens tool life drastically

Lubricating oil is probably leaking into the cutting oil
sumps of your automatic screw machines as you read
this. Current research proves that this is happening
in 70% of all the automatics in use today! And where
it happens, it shortens tool life by as much as 50% —
even 70%. On top of this, the cost of extra regrinds,
lost production during tool changes, and excessive scrap
production is putting a premium on screw machine
operation in too many shops.

Look for these symptoms. One sure sign of dilution is
the need for frequent refilling of the lube oil sump.
If you are using an ordinary lube oil, this dilution will
create two additional—and more costly—symptoms:
excessive scrap production and frequent regrinds. Now
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and lubrication. With Cleartex in all your sumps, you’ll
find cutting oil dilution will stop and screw machine
production cost will drop substantially.

LUBRICATION IS A MAJOR

Write today for your copy of Texaco’s helpful new
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May 11, 1959

Metallurgical Memo from General Electric

Why 242 different toolholders ?

Metallurgical Products Department reports on an
expanded new line of Lift-O-Matic toolholders . . .
242 sizes to speed changeovers on every job

Nobody needs to tell you what carbides have done for
metaleutting . . . or how Carboloy® disposable inserts
have led the way. But making inserts is only half the job;
the other half is to provide you with toolholders that
let you get full value from these miracle metals.

Carboloy Lift-O-Matic toolholders do this job. There are
now three types—positive rake, negative rake, and
tracer. All provide access to the clamp setscrew from
either top or bottom—together with a self-raising chip-

breaker clamp—for fastest possible indexing. All cut
your inventory needs by providing interchangeability
of parts. In addition, there is a full line of Carboloy
heavy-duty toolholders.

This expanded Lift-O-Matic toolholder line is stocked
by your local Authorized Carboloy Distributor—3 types,
9 styles, 242 sizes—plus the widest range of styles, sizes,
and grades of inserts in the industry. Call him (see the
Yellow Pages under “‘Carbides’’); or write: Metallurgical
Products Department of General Electric Company, 11141
E. 8 Mile Blvd., Detroit 32, Michigan.

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154

STEEL

quantities.

and processing.

by an operator.

tric furnace.

Coming: Automation of Steelmaking

Cost per ton of steel depends on the steelmaker’s
ability to make a high quality product in large

Automatic process control can boost output in iron
and steel making areas, as it has in metal rolling

Blast furnace automation is a logical start; some
operations are already automatic, after initiation

Process control will help in the sinter plant, open
hearth, soaking pit, oxygen converter, and elec-

program. Punched card equipment
or automatic reprograming, in re-
sponse to a process computer, may
be used.

Lack of understanding of complex
thermal and chemical reactions in
iron and steel making often hin-
ders development of automatic proc-
ess control. Steelmakers have de-
voted much of their research effort
to better understanding of the blast
furnace. Some of the more funda-
mental process equations may al-
ready be known, but more must be
learned before the blast furnace
product can be controlled auto-
matically.

¢ Periodic computation of the cor-
rect burden will make the furnace
more stable, efficient, and predict-
able.

Before long, we can expect to see
automatic computation of the charg-
ing program. The system would
be reprogramed periodically to main-
tain a chemically correct charge.
It’s possible now, with modern in-
dustrial computers.

Some steelmakers feel they have
enough knowledge to write the re-
quired equations and define chem-
ical relationships. Needed: A more
precise, mathematical definition of

May 11, 1959

present burden calculations.

How often computations would
be made would depend mostly on
the rate of change in raw material
composition. The computer would
require raw material analysis meth-
ods that could provide accurate data
in a hurry. Commercial equipment
isn’t available yet, but on-line x-ray
analysis instruments are being de-
veloped.

A chemically uniform charge
would improve stability, efficiency,
and predictability of the furnace,
but the process control loop is still
an open one, where functions are
initiated by a human operator.

Some of the easily identified local
feedback loops may be closed soon,
taking part of the human factor out
of the process. But first, complex
process relationships and their time
correlations must be better under-
stood. A careful correlation study,
designed to develop controlling
process equations, may supply the
answers.

Process data are often taken with
round chart or strip chart recorders.
They can’t be processed rapidly in

those forms. They lack accurate
time correlation of variables.

Many variables, not fully under-
stood, should be recorded to pre-
vent loss of significant information.
High speed data loggers, collecting
information on a large number of
variables on a frequent, periodic
basis, can record that type informa-
tion. They’re also used in deter-
ming production costs, maintaining
inventory control, and detecting ab-
normal conditions.

What's in the Works
For Wire Rope Users

SOME new things are in the mak-
ing for users of wire rope.

Here are some of the product de-
velopments of the research labora-
tory at Union Wire Rope Corp., a
Kansas City, Mo., subsidiary of
Armco Steel Corp.

e Higher strength balanced wire
ropes. High strength alone is not
the answer for maximum service,
the company declares. Needed are
specially designed balanced ropes.
Such ropes are undergoing field
tests. The plan is to make them
available for all uses.

e Improved plastic cores for wire
rope. Union Wire Rope is work-
ing on plastic cores for wire rope
for use in corrosive media. The
plastic, designed to replace fiber
cores, must have sufficient heat re-
sistance and compressive strength.

¢ Improved lubricants for wire
rope. The company is striving for
better lubricants where the rope
undergoes extreme pressures. Need-
ed is an economical lubricant that
has affinity for steel and gives long-
er rope service, both as a lubricant
and as a preventive against rust.

¢ Better prestressing techniques. It
is working to improve end anchor-
ages for prestressed concrete so that
fieldwork will be reduced.

e Several new complete lines of
slings. Hand braided slings with
plastic seized eyes are ready for
field use. Ultraflexible slings with
mechanical splices utilizing nonfer-
rous ferrules are proving interest-
ing to the company.

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ELIMINATES

SECONDARY OPERATIONS...

for Eagle Manufacturing Company

Direct Cost Reduced 48%*
Production Time Reduced 64%

As a part of a continuing contribution to all phases of cost
reduction, National Acme engineers initiated the develop-
ment work necessary to effect important savings for this
65 year old Wellsburg, W. Virginia company.

The aluminum nozzle body of their hydraulic pump
oilers formerly had been produced on a six spindle auto-
matic and two other machines performing secondary oper-
ations, Visionary machine tool engineering made possible
the application of spindle stopping and positioning on an
eight-spindle Acme-Gridley to complete the entire piece
in the primary set-up . . . and increase net production.

Advanced design and development such as this, to-
gether with wide open tooling zones, independently oper-
ated tool slides and the extreme accuracy and flexibility
of direct camming . . . makes possible the solution of ‘‘un-
usual” jobs an ‘‘every day”’ occurrence at National Acme.

Write or ask one of our representatives for the complete
story on the industry’s most modern approach to your
cost reduction problem.

The National
Acme Company
¢€ 189E. 131st Street
Cleveland 8, Ohio
Pioneer in Sales Offices: Newark 2, N.J.; Chicago 6, Ill.; Detroit 27, Mich.

Circumferential
Automation

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NATIONAL ACME'S
ZONE OF RESPONSIBILITY
INCLUDES ALL PHASES

OF COST REDUCTION

Check YOURS...Then Check National Acme

Direct Costs: these include direct dollar
savings as realized by the Eagle Manu-
facturing Company ...an “every day”
job for Acme-Gridleys.

Indirect Costs: effecting important sav-
ings in maintenance, downtime, scrap
reduction, tool costs, etc.

Product Redesign: teaming with your
design group to take full advantage of
Acme-Gridleys’ cost reducing capabilities.

Direct Material Costs: our engineers
provide important savings in this area by
constantly matching machines and tools to
modern metallurgical problems.

Make-or-Buy Reviews: in many cases
our Contract Division can assume your
production headaches and relieve you of
immediate capital investment.

Spot Modernization: pioneering in
modern tooling methods, and the flexi-
bility of Acme-Gridleys can provide
many "‘on-the-spot’’ savings.

seen LOO COLCA ttle

15 Operations
in 5.5 Seconds

Tips from Missilemakers
Can Cut Your Costs

Cutter with hula movement puts compound con-
tours in honeycombs. Rigid fillers aren’t needed.

Honeycomb is being brazed with a resistance
electric blanket. In one case, brazing and heat
treating time is down from 34 to 13/2 hours

Chemical milling cuts weight of missile fuel tanks.

COMPOUND CONTOURS can
be machined in honeycombs by a
method that does not require fillers,
says Martin Co., Baltimore. Both
male and female compound con-
tours can be produced.

Martin uses a standard, three axis
controlled cutting machine with a

newly designed portable head. A
modified stylus converts the cutting
to a five axis operation.

The stylus has five pickup points.
Rise, fall, and tilt are transmitted to
the cutter head from a wooden or
plaster model.

The head can tilt +10 degrees in

A modified stylus with five pickup points (left) converts a standard three axis

cutting machine to five axis operation.

The stylus rides the surface of the model

and transmits rise, fall, and tilt motions to the cutter head

158

two directions perpendicular to each
other. The center line and the end
of the cutter have a common focal
point.

Tracer controls are a combination
of pneumatic, hydraulic, and elec-
tronic components. Power is sup-
plied by a 12,000 rpm air motor.

Martin’s Carlton B. Jenkins is the
inventor.

¢ The resistance electric blanket is
being used in brazing honeycomb.

An electric blanket brazing fix-
ture with heating elements and a
cooling system has been developed.
Tools hold and apply pressure to
the component being brazed.

With precipitation hardening al-
loys, the brazing and heat treating
cycle takes 13!/ hours instead of
the 34 hours required by conven-
tional furnace brazing methods.

The blanket develops little heat
loss and is about 65 per cent ef-
ficient vs. 10 per cent for the braz-
ing furnace.

® Chemical milling techniques
mean significant weight savings in
ICBMs.

Eight aluminum panels (2014 al-
loy) lose 10 Ib each during fuel
tank manufacture. Forming usual-
ly requires sections of metal thicker
than structural requirements indi-
cate. It provides for material flow
during the forming process.

Martin predicts this process will
be extended to the fabrication of
high strength, heat resistant steel
structures.

Payoff Quick on Unit That
Saves Welding Powder

A vibratory feeder and a magnetic
grate can pay their way in two
weeks in reclaiming hard surfacing
welding powder.

Iron contaminated powder is
poured into the sieve. High speed
vibratory action of the feeder filters
the powder through the sieve.

The feeder tray then passes the
powder to the magnetic grate to
separate the iron from the powder.

Reclaimed welding powder is
clean and ready to use. Fine iron
accumulations are periodically re-
moved by lifting the covering grille
and wiping the tubes with a cloth.

The units are made by Eriez Mfg.
Co., Erie, Pa.

STEEL

- helping a best seller sell!

STAINLESS STRIP STEEL

on the high-style model of

GM’s no. 1 car—the beautiful Chevrolet Impala

Yes, every one of these 48 precisely-contoured stainless
steel parts is used on the exterior body trim of the 1959
Chevrolet Impala. Here you see beauty, brilliance and
strength that resist weather and wear without care for the
life of the car—selling and re-selling at every turn. @ We
are proud of Superior Stainless Strip Steel’s applications
in the fine automobiles of General Motors. Can we serve
your Stainless strip needs?

. way

Produced by

TeRNSTEDT Division

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Zy SUPERIOR STEEL DIVISION

OF
COPPERWELD STEEL COMPANY
CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA

For Export: Copperweld Stee! International Company, New York

Automatic Electric Company: Speedomax H controllers closely regulate temperature of annealing furnaces which are completely automatic except
for loading and unloading

Control of heating and cooling temperatures a problem?

Not at Automatic Electric Company, where Speedomax® H controllers are helping to anneal magnetic
properties into cores, armatures and heel pieces of quality relays and switches. These devices find wide
use in telephone, industrial and military equipment ... demand and get the best in production control. To
obtain optimum magnetic properties, these components are put through a continuous 5-zone Lindberg
furnace with heating and cooling temperatures closely controlled by Speedomax H. Rugged, compact and
completely reliable, Speedomax H is providing the same dependable control on numerous heat treat proc-
esses ... is helping produce both process economies and a quality product. Whatver your heat treating
process, it'll pay you to investigate Speedomax H! For details, contact your nearest L&N oflice or write

4957 Stenton Avenue, Philadelphia 44, Pa.

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Instruments Automatic Controls +» Furnaces

Transfer System Is Fast, Flexible

This automatic system mills, drills, chamfers, and taps
cast iron or aluminum cylinder heads in three sizes.
It processes 38 to 44 heads an hour, and can be changed

quickly from one head size or design to another.

Lift

and carry transfer method prevents scratching and scuff-

fing of machined surfaces.

The control system permits

full speed production, using two operators, or slow speed

operation, using only one.

NEED an automatic transfer and
machining system, adaptable to
parts of different sizes and mate-
rials? You may be interested in
the Cross Transfer-matic, made by
the Cross Co., Detroit.

The versatile unit machines the
ends of two, three, and four cylin-
der heads for two cycle, in line,
diesel engines. It processes cast
iron heads, 12 to 24 in. long and
will be adapted for aluminum parts.

e¢ The machine combines high out-
put with product flexibility. It can
be adapted quickly to a given head
size or design.

At top speed, it turns out 38 to
44 heads an hour, depending on
head size and the method chosen
for deep hole drilling at several sta-
tions. It face mills oil and fuel
hole bosses, or water outlet pads,
on three planes. It drills, cham-
fers, and taps all oil, fuel, and

FIXTURE

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DOWEL Pin

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. J FIXTURES IN POSITION FOR
PROCESSING 2-CYLINDER HEAD

FIXTURES IN POSITION FOR
PROCESSING 3-CYLINDER HEAD

& FIXTURES IN POSITION FOR

PROCESSING 4-CYLINDER HEAD
=

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Automatic transfer and machining line processes heads for two, three, and four

cylinder engines.
is changed

May 11, 1959

Fixtures and components are repositioned when head size

screw holes. It also air tests each
head for casting density.

Two single spindle, quill type
drill units chamfer oil gallery holes.
Each unit is mounted on a revolv-
ing drum plate and swivels auto-
matically from one hole to another
without reorienting the part.

Fixtures and components can be
repositioned to process any cylinder
head in 4 hours. Tierods that con-
nect fixtures to machine units are
relocated, and machine units are
advanced or withdrawn to accom-
modate the heads being processed.
Dowel pins, inserted manually into
locating holes on each side of the
fixture base, hold it in position.

At several stations using single
spindle drill units, air test mecha-
nisms, or tap heads, fixtures are
repositioned by a manually con-
trolled, hydraulic cylinder. Minor
changes of feed dogs and tools com-
plete the setup.

¢ Features incorporated in the sys-
tem to machine aluminum heads
are useful in processing cast iron
parts.

A central chip disposal, coolant,
and filtration system removes chips.
Optional woodpecker drilling mech-
anisms remove chips in deep hole
drilling and make for higher qual-
ity finishes.

A lift and carry transfer system
eliminates scratching and scuffing
of precision locating surfaces,
usually associated with other trans-
fer methods. It improves quality
control in machining cast iron parts
and will be even more important
in processing aluminum ones.

e The control system permits op-
eration at partial or full capacity
and allows more economical use of
manpower.

When the machine is operated
at partial capacity, the operator
loads parts until every station is
full, switches control location to the
unload station, and unloads parts
until the machine is empty.

PRE e. ch be

Partect performance for 100,000 hours at orange heat, in the
combustion chambers of diesel engines, is quite an achievement.
Yet it’s the record of tens of thousands of special combustion cups
of HASTELLOY alloy C in a well-known line of diesels.

The alloy was chosen for its unique high-temperature strength
and corrosion resistance and its outstanding ability to hold heat.

HAYNES
Alloys

These and other special properties are built into HAYNEs alloys
—to fit the particular needs of design and production engineers for
machinery parts that must meet the roughest service conditions.

If you are designing such a part, investigate HAYNEs alloys.
There are more than 15 to choose from. They include HAYNES
STELLITE cobalt-base alloys, HAYNEs iron-base alloys, HAYSTEL-
LITE cast tungsten carbide, and HAsTELLoy nickel-base alloys.
They are available as castings, forgings, completely fabricated
parts, or as sheet and bar stock. All parts can be furnished ma-
chined or ground to specified size and finish.

will do
the job!

toes

AaLLOoOws
HAYNES STELLITE COMPANY

Division of Union Carbide Corporation
Kokomo, Indiana

Address inquiries to Haynes Stellite Company, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.

The terms “Haynes,” “Haynes Stellite,” “Hastelloy,” “Haystellite,” and “Union Carbide” are registered trade-marks of Union Carbide Corporation.

TYPICAL “HAYNES" ALLOY PARTS THAT RESIST...

May 11, 1959

ABRASION. Ten times the life and
still no sign of wear, is the record
of this plastics-extrusion torpedo
nose made of HAYNES STELLITE al-
loy No. 3. This is one of many
HAYNEs wear-resistant alloys.

CORROSION. Baskets made of
HASTELLOY alloy C used for hold-
ing forgings during acid treatment,
are still good after 15 months of
service. Materials formerly used
were replaced every month.

HIGH TEMPERATURE. Turbine
wheels in the “hot” ends of diesel
engine turbochargers are invest-
ment-cast of HayNEs STELLITE al-
loy No. 31, for service at speeds up
to 50,000 rpm. at 1500 deg. F.

163

By C. BROWN & J. F. EINLOTH

Gearing Div

Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh

Throwaway Cutters

Save $15,596 a Year

A highly organized program at Westinghouse inte-

grates the new tools into the plant in three months

EXPENDABLE tooling, a big item
of expense in metalworking, is pro-
gram controlled at Westinghouse
Electric Corp.’s Gearing Div.

Analysis of our small-tool expense
account showed that expenditures
for brazed, single point tools and
their maintenance were large. A de-
tailed plan, simple but concise,
guided the gearing division through
the changeover to throwaways in
less than three months. It ulti-
mately provided the savings that
were sought.

Here are the six steps used to
change from brazed single point
tools to throwaway inserts:

1. Determine the feasibility of
changing to throwaways, from the
standpoint of cost and quality of
the work produced.

2. Determine the organization
required to implement the _pro-

gram.
3. Review cutting tool

systems.

present

4. Determine the area where the
program should be _ introduced.

5. Establish schedules for the
program.

6. Provide controls to insure the
continued success of the program.

Statistical and technical data
industrial engineering, aug-

mented by data furnished by pur-

from

164

chasing, revealed that a saving of
$0.155 per standard hour could be
realized on turning. Further, it was
shown that we could at least main-
tain our work quality.

Responsibilities were delegated.
The chairman’s duties included co-
ordinating and scheduling the pro-
gram, plus the task of issuing in-
terim and final reports.

An industrial engineer was re-
sponsible for planning, cost com-
parisons, cost analyses, program
procedure work, and final financial
and program writeups.

Our tool application engineer
was responsible for soliciting
(through purchasing) the assistance
of suppliers and for determining
which machined items and facilities
lent themselves to throwaways. He
was also responsible for initiating
all paperwork pertinent to procure-
ment of tools, tips, and spare parts,
the education of personnel, the ap-
plication of tools, recording of per-
formance, and policing of the pro-
gram. His was the only full time
job on the project.

e A thorough review of present
systems of tool buying, stocking,
use, maintenance, and disposal got
the program underway.

Tentative schedules (outlining
target dates for facilities to be sur-
veyed, equipped, and followed up)
were prepared.

As soon as the plan was ap-
proved, these steps were taken to
get it into action:

1. Three men were selected to
fill the committee jobs.

2. Venders were called in.

3. Supervisors were told about
the program.

4. A test area was chosen and
trial applications made.

5. Trial performance was meas-
ured and compared with estimates.

6. Steps 4 and 5 were repeated
as long as applications were justi-
fied.

7. A control system for the new
tooling method was established.

Numerous suppliers were con-
tacted. The one offering the great-
est application assistance (price and
quality being competitive) was
dealt with on an exclusive basis.
This eliminated confusion and re-
sulted in maximum use of the sup-
plier’s knowhow.

The new concept of tooling was
discussed with members of super-
vision during the second week. The
potential of the tool and the impor-
tance of a fair trial were stressed.
At this meeting, the test area was
selected and the introductory steps
started.

Four days after the initial study,
the first set of tools was put to
work. Results of this and later ap-
plications were carefully observed
and recorded by the tool engineer.
At the completion of this project,
over 200 throwaway toolholders
were working effectively.

e Six months after the start of the

STEEL

How lt Worked

estimate was.

Preliminary Estimate
(Based on 28,184 standard hours)

1, Assume all tools are brazed:
Number of tools dulled
Average standard hours per tool dulled

Cost of tools over a ten-regrind life

Original average cost
Grinding labor
Grinding wheels

Ten-regrind cost

Tool cost per grind
Tool cost per standard hour ($1.19 ~ 3.406)

Assume half the tools are throwaways:
Cost of 4,138 brazed tools dulled at $1.19 per edge ..

Cost of throwaway tools dulled
(at an estimated cost of 20 cents per
cutting edge, and allowing a tool life 150
per cent that of brazed tools because of
precision grinding.)

Total tool cost per standard hour

Estimated Annual Savings:

$0.155 per standard hour, at 110,000 standard hours a
year

Salvaged tool savings
Total estimated annual savings .. / etaicte Dit btek

Production Record
(Oct. 6 to Dec. 29, 1957)

Cost of brazed tools per standard hour win

Cost of throwaway tools per standard hour .

Total tool cost per standard hour

SAVINGS

$0.112 per standard hour, at 108,000 hours estimated
for the year eS a eer

Salvage tool savings
Waiting time savings

Special grinding savings

Total annual savings

Figuring that they could replace half their carbide tools with throw-
aways, Westinghouse production men estimated their savings. After
the new tools were in use, a cost study showed how close the

$0.3493

$4,924.22
$ 551.66

$0.1943

$17,050.00
1,030.86

$18,080.86

$0.1616
0.0757

$0.2373

$12,096.00
1,250.00

$15,596.00

May 11, 1959

program, a calculation of savings
showed a $15,596 annual return on
the three-month investment.

In addition to the cash savings
in tooling costs, we found that: Our
productivity was up because of the
precision grinding and quick index-
ing; our inventory of tools was re-
duced because throwaway holders
have a longer life than the brazed
shanks, and most of the inventory
is in the small tips; savings in over-
head accrued from the reduced need
for tool grinding capacity, as well
as stores handling and forms proc-
essing.

The control, designed to insure
the continued success of the pro-
gram, uses a working ratio between
the number of single point tools
maintained and the standard hour
incurred. This ratio is then com-
pared with the predetermined con-
trol ratio figure.

Ultrasonics Weld Foil,
Reduces Handling, Scrap

Ultrasonic vibrations are being
used to join aluminum foil ends
while the metal is traveling through
the mills. The welds are neat,
strong, and eliminate downtime,
says Aluminum Co. of America,
Pittsburgh.

One large user estimates that Al
coa’s product will save his firm up
to $100,000 a year by reducing han
dling and scrap.

One Alcoa mill has equipment to
splice foil up to 38 in. wide. Splicers
soon to be installed at other loca-
tions will handle greater widths.

e Method—Foil is joined by sub
jecting it to vibrations of 50,000
cps. The energy fractures the nat-
ural oxide film on the foil, and a
true metallurgical bond about 3/32
in. wide is formed. It is about as
strong as the parent metal.

The splice will not tear adjacent
layers of foil and will run smooth-
ly through coating or printing ma-
chines. It forms an excellent mois-
ture barrier.

The welding technique is a joint
development of Alcoa and Aero-
projects Inc., West Chester, Pa.
Aeroprojects markets its Sonoweld
line of metal joining equipment
through its subsidiary, Sonobond
Corp.

Giant Cast Steel [op For An Oil Explorer

If this 17,540 pound cast steel pipe cap were not used to set a
string of oil well casing, it could be mistaken for a gigantic spinning
top. Either way, here is visual proof of the diverse requirements for
industrial steel castings which are satisfied by the experienced en-
gineers, metallurgists and skilled foundrymen of Erie Forge & Steel
Corporation. From the open hearth melt through the machining opera-
tion to the shipping dock, close quality control is our prime concern.

Erie Forge & Steel for many years has been making Steel Cast-
ings for rolling mills, cement mills, blast furnaces, presses, forging
hammers, power turbines, ships, oil field production equipment and
heavy industrial machines.

You can depend upon us to meet your most severe steel casting
and forging requirements.

ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA

PRODUCTS

and equipment

Miniature Rotating Parts Balanced Easily

VIBRATION in miniature, high
speed, rotating parts or assemblies
can be eliminated easily without
skilled personnel by using a new
Gisholt bench type balancer, which
requires no special mounting. The
unit handles work such as minia-
ture armatures, aircraft and missile
gyros, small spindles, turbines, and
textile parts.

Unbalances causing work sup-
port movements’ greater than
0.000002 in., with the work rotat-
ing at any speed between 1000 and
3000 or between 4000 and 12,000
rpm, can be quickly and accurately
measured and located.

Accuracy is not affected by ex-
traneous vibrations or electromag-
netic disturbances, including those
set up by electrically self-driven as-
semblies.

The balancers are designed for
fast setup over a wide work range
and special tooling for any job is
simple and inexpensive. Optional
equipment includes special work

i ;
; '

CISHOLT

Rit

support fixtures for air or electri- control package for air driven parts.
cally self-driven parts; a photocell For more information, write Gis-
unit that can replace the standard holt Machine Co., 1245 E. Wash-
strobe lamp; and an automatic speed ington Ave., Madison 10, Wis.

Pressure Sensing Conveyor Eliminates Jackknifing

ACCUMULATED carton line pres-
sure, slug loading and carton jack-
knifing are minimized by the Rapi-
stan pressure sensing conveyor. The
A-P-C unit is a wheel conveyor
with a 4 in. belt replacing the cen-
ter load-bearing wheels of the
equipment.

Pressure sensing characteristics
of the conveyor result from an ef-
fective system of trigger wheels
linked with pressure wheels.
Through these wheels, optimum
belt pressure is delivered to cartons
of varying weight for movement.
Pressure is removed from the car-
tons when accumulation is required.

The trigger wheels and pressure
wheels combine to raise and lower
the belt so that motion can be im-
parted when the belt is raised to
come in contact with the bottom of
the carton. When the pressure

May 11, 1959

BEG Px AS Models of Cold Saws to
Meet Y our Requirements

WAGNER, WITH A COMPLETE LINE OF SEMI-AUTOMATIC, FULL AUTO-
MATIC, HIGH SPEED AND SPECIALIZED MODELS, COVERS THE ENTIRE
FIELD FOR MODERN COLD SAWING OF MACHINEABLE METALS

eee

WAGNER
Model WKA630

Here is a fully automatic hydraulic cold sawing machine that
gives peak production continuously.

ALBERT KLINGELHOFER MACHINE TOOL corp.

Kenilworth, New Jersey

Wad Wid

There's a Satisfied Customer back of most orders for

Diamond Perforated Metals

Naturally, we're always glad to make new friends and open up new ac-
counts but, more and more as time goes on, the greater part of our business
comes from concerns that have dealt with us before—some of them for nearly
half a century.

One Reason is because they have learned that Diamond Perforated Metal
Products are always reliable and our charges in line with competition of com-
parable quality. Another Reason is because our facilities are so complete,
and our stock of dies so extensive, that almost any demand for perforated
metal sheets, plates or parts can be taken care of promptly, accurately and

economically.
ALL inquiries receive prompt attention. Illustrated catalogs give helpful working data—show
many modern applications—enable you to select the best pattern for any purpose.

DIAMOND MANUFACTURING CO., WXOM!NS PENNA.

New Bulletin No. 47, describes DIAMONTEX Perforated Metal Lay-in Panels for Modern Acoustical Ceilings.

168

NEW PRODUCTS

and equipment

wheels are lowered, the belt drops
away from the carton which then
rests only on the gravity wheels
that make up most of the bed width
of the conveyor.

Accumulated cartons can be sep-
arated with fingertip pressure for
removal or insertion of a single car-
ton.

For more information, write Rap-
ids-Standard Co. Inc., 342 Rapistan
Bldg., Grand Rapids 2, Mich.

Cutting, Grinding Fluids

A WATER emulsifiable cutting
fluid and a synthetic grinding com-
pound have been introduced by
L. R. Kerns Co.

Said to be suitable for all cutting
operations, the SCF-3207 oil base
cutting fluid contains high percent-
ages of extreme pressure and anti-
weld additives. It will not cause
dermatitis and will not turn rancid.

The Kerns SGC-6560 grinding
and cutting compound has extreme
pressure properties and leaves an
oily film on the work. Transparent
and nondrying, it produces work
that appears clean, but provides
good rust protection and lubrication.
It will not dry out, will never
cause binding, or impair operation
of machines or machine parts.

For more information, write
L. R. Kerns Co., 2659 E. 95th St.,
Chicago 17, III.

Variable Speed Drive
Is Shaft Mounted

THE SHAFT mounted design of
the Sterling mechanical variable
speed drive is the most simplified
and most efficient method of
mounting, says the manufacturer.
It eliminates all intermediate trans-
mission elements, such as couplings
and sprockets.

The drive has been designed for
variable speed applications where
space limitations dictate that the
output shaft be at right angles to
the transmission. It is especially
adaptable to applications requiring
controlled speed in a light, compact
power drive.

Available in dripproof or totally

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were just going along for the ride!

ORIGINAL DESIGN RE-DESIGN rane of mounting cost anaemia a user of uelimeeds

springs asked for a complete design check. Redesigned by
A.S.C. engineers, required stresses were met by a slight change
in wire size, allowing a reduction in number of coils from 10 to 7.
This meant a saving of 70 pounds of material per thousand
springs. Because of the shorter length of wire, coiling and
grinding speeds were increased, heat-treating time reduced.
Saving to the customer—40%.

How about the springs you use? A consultation on your
specifications costs you nothing. Just contact any Division of
Associated Spring Corporation. For a handy reference to spring
action, write for ‘‘Spring Design and Selection—in brief.’’

10 coils—.120” wire 7 coils—.105” wire
130 lbs. of wire per 60 lbs. of wire per
1M springs 1M springs

Associated Spring Corporation General Offices: Bristol, Connecticut

Wallace Barnes Division, Bristol, Conn. and Syracuse, N. Y. Raymond Manufacturing Division, Corry, Penna. Seaboard Pacific Division, Gardena, Calif.
B-G-R Division, Plymouth and Ann Arbor, Mich. Ohio Division, Dayton, Ohio Cleveland Sales Office, Cleveland, Ohio
Gibson Division, Chicago 14, Ill. F. N. Manross and Sons Division, Bristol, Conn. Dunbar Brothers Division, Bristol, Conn.
Milwaukee Division, Milwaukee, Wis. San Francisco Sales Office, Saratoga, Calif. Wallace Barnes Steel Division, Bristol, Conn.

Canadian Subsidiary: Wallace Barnes Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Ont. and Montreal, Que. Puerto Rican Subsidiary: Associated Spring of Puerto Rico, Inc., Carolina, P.R.

May 11, 1959 169

Now... automation comes to shaping!

New 24” Automated Rock-
ford Hy-Draulic Shaper.

View with covers removed,
showing index and transfer p ;
units

COMPLETE AUTOMATIC
CYCLING ON

ROCKFORD

HY-DRAULIC SHAPER
PRODUCES CONTINUOUS
FLOW OF PARTS

FOR CONVEYOR-LINE
PRODUCTION ...

4 TOOLS MACHINE LEADING AND TRAILING EDGES SIMULTANEOUSLY

— > worK work F work woRK —>

Position 1 Tool Pneumatic
CONVEYOR and Pneumatic Downjeed Index CONVEYOR

Index t y
LINE —> Hydraulic —--> Gauge Stop —> 24 ‘ —)__and —_ roe LINE

Clamp Suvlasee Unclamp

Believed to be the first automatic shaper built, this standard 24” shaper
with special tool head and cross-rail has been adapted to conveyor-iine
operation by arranging completely automatic cycling, including loading
and unloading.

With this new method, many types of flat plates may be machined accu-
rately and efficiently at high production rates, saving costly cutting tools
and extra fixturing expense.

Four standard high speed steel tool bits with identical grinds are used to
finish one vertical and one angular surface of each of 2 pieces simul-
taneously, as shown in diagramatic sketch of the automatic cycle. The
machine features pneumatic index, hydraulic positioning and clamping,
and positive mechanical feed. Operation is continuous until machine is
stopped by operator, or automatic safety devices reject the cycle sequence.

This type of automatic machining has many variations, using Rockford
Hy-Draulic Shapers. If you have high output requirements for work which
lends itself to this type of machining, send us blueprints for estimates and
recommendations

ROCKFORD MACHINE TOOL CO.

2500 KISHWAUKEE STREET *© ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

NOW...

select from a complete
range of capacities
and speeds...1/8 to
2tons and 8to GOfpm.

LODESTAR FEATURES
INCLUDE:

®@ Safe, Heavy Duty
Performance

@ Lowest Headroom

@ Push Button Control

@ Fully Enclosed Components

@ Self-Adjusting Magnetic
Brake

@ Ultra-Modern Electric
Braking

@ CM-ALLOY Flexible
Link Chain

@ Minimum- Maintenance
Operation

@ Lifetime Lubrication

Request catalog

and name of

local stocking

distributor.

HOISTS

important
new models

of the

electric
hoist

NEW MODELS
in 1/2, 1 and
2 tons

LARGER CAPACITY and FASTER SPEEDS

... for speedier, lower cost
materials handling

@ Here’s your opportunity to slash
lifting and handling costs. Put these new
Lodestars to work where their
increased speeds and capacity match
your maximum requirements.

Many thousands already in service
demonstrate that you, too, can

benefit from more efficient handling,
lowered costs and increased
productivity.

CHISHOLM-MOORE HOIST DIVISION

Columbus McKinnon Chain Corporation
TONAWANDA, N.Y.

NEW YORK e CHICAGO e CLEVELAND

In Canada: McKinnon Columbus Chain Ltd.,
St. Catharines, Ont.

PRODUCTS

and equipment

enclosed constructions, the 14 to 3
hp units can be operated at 360
rpm to 5.2 rpm, and speed varia-
tions from 2:1 to 10:1.

For more information, write Ster-
ling Electric Motors, 5401 Tele-
graph Rd., Los Angeles 22, Calif.

Vacuum Furnace Has
Production Capacity

HEAT TREATING, brazing, sin-
tering, and testing of reactive met-
als and ceramics in the aircraft,
electronic, nuclear, and metalwork-
ing industries can be done in the
Model 2915 vacuum resistance fur-
nace.

The furnace can operate at tem-
peratures as high as 4400°F. It
can be operated under vacuum, or
under inert atmospheres. An extra
large heating unit provides rapid
heating (about 6 minutes) and
cooling (20 minutes).

The entire system is designed for
fail-safe operation. Vacuum valves
are air operated and _ interlocked,
and automatically shut off in case of
power failure. All valves stay closed
until the operator pushes a central
reset button and restarts the me-

woe

means you can get ALL 3 TEMPERS in
BRISTOL Extruded Heading Wire

RECESSING
ALL-PURPOSE, TEMPER,
sultable for difficult SCREW satisfies the
extruded rivets, any TEMPER, requirements when

. drilling, recessin
general heading. specially processed 9g g
are specitied.

for struck, slotted
and
roll threaded
screws.

Bristol offers three special tempers in cold heading wire and all of
these tempers possess uniform flow characteristics.

What’s more, you can get them in any of these five alloys: 87-13 .. . 90-10
... 85-15... 70-30... 65-35...as well as in nickel silver and silicon bronze.

What are your requirements?

Just call LUdlow 2-3161. The BRISTOL BRASS

CORPORATION
Since 1850, makers of Brass strip, rod and wire in Bristol, Connecticut
Bristol Brass has offices and warehouses in Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Dayton
Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse

AND FOR BRASS FORGINGS, TOO... ACCURATE BRASS CORP. (SUBSIDIARY OF THE BRISTOL BRASS CORP.), BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

May 11, 1959 173

PRODUCTS

and equipment

chanical pump. Furnace heat and
diffusion pump heat are cut off if
water fails.

For more information, write NRC
Equipment Corp., 160 Charlemont
St., Newton 61, Mass.

Vacuum Lifter Automates
Plate-Sheet Handling

SHEET and plate steel weighing
up to 4000 lb can be handled easily
with a self-contained vacuum grap-
ple.

The unit consists of a tubular
strong back which also acts as a
vacuum reservoir, an integral vacu-
um pump and motor, and rotatable
cup arms which are adjustable longi-
tudinally to accommodate various
sheet or plate lengths. Each of the
two arms carries two vacuum cups.

Job report courtesy of
Superior Welding Company, Decatur, Ill.

How to get more positive results
when Welding Stainless

WELD WITH i/ CO

STAINLESS ELECTRODES

These vessels—used for processing a chemical where utmost prod-
uct cleanliness is required—were made of 304 ELC Stainless
Plate and welded with Arcos Chromend 19-9 CB (347) electrodes. Interlocked controls provide a
The fabricator selected these electrodes for the ‘‘right’’ analysis to | safe-to-lift light to indicate ade-
resist corrosion and to assure a surface, including the weld areas : i :
apo quate vacuum. Instant release is
that would take a high polish both on the inside and outside to ,
make thorough cleaning easy. It's proof again that whatever the accomplished by means of a push-
job demands Arcos quality weld metal will meet all the required button operated solenoid valve
tests. ARCOS CORPORATION, 1500 South SOth St., Phila. 43, Pa. | which cuts off the vacuum supply
and uses the vacuum pump exhaust
to blow the plate or sheet loose.
For more’ information, write
Noble Co., 1860 Seventh St., Oak-
land, Calif.

Air Device Detects

Missing, Broken Drills

FOR USE with multiple or single
station automatic tooling machines,
the Sheffield drill detector spots
broken and missing drills before
damage can be done and supplies

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a signal for machine shutdown. When submerged arc welding

It is unaffected by dirt or coolant. |
. . : . | e
The continuous jet of air blowing | requirements are HIGHLY UNUSUAL!
against the drill helps to keep the
drill clean and free of chips. The
unit can also be used to detect bro-
ken reamers, taps, and other types of
tools.

The unit detects the presence or
absence of a drill or similar tools
by means of a stream of air flowing
against each drill as the drill enters
or is rejected from the workpiece.
The broken or missing drill causes
a pressure drop in the pneumatic cir-
cuit which initiates an electrical im-
pulse to operate signal lights and re-
lays.

For more information, write Au-
tometrology Div., Sheffield Corp.,
Dayton 1, Ohio.

Twin Mandrel Seamer Has
Automatic Welding Head

CONTINUOUS | arc, maximum
production, and operational utility
of one automatic welding head and
power source are accomplished in a
line of opposed double mandreled
seamers. Both holding and clamp-
ing mandrels utilize the same weld-
ing head.

use
ARCOSITE BONDED FLUX

The SS Angelo Petri—the first of its kind—is a new wine tanker
carrying 26 welded cargo tanks with a 2 million gallon bulk
capacity. Especially unusual was the use of submerged arc weld-
ing on both sides of the type 316 stainless-clad steel tanks.
ARCOSITE C-17 FLUX and Arcos CHROMENAR 25/20 bare wire
were used to assure proper physical, corrosion resistant proper-
ties, and joint soundness. To control dilution on the stainless side,
the clad side was automatically gouged slightly by carbon arc.
Write today for information on ARCOSITE BONDED FLUXES and
ARCOS STAINLESS and NICKEL ALLOY ELECTRODES. ARCOS

While the welding cycle is taking
CORPORATION, 1500 South 50th Street, Philadelphia 43, Penna.

place on one side of the fixture, the
next piece to be welded is being
loaded on the opposite side. Produc-
tion loss due to normal downtime
for loading and unloading is elimi-
nated.

For more information, write
Pandjiris Weldment Co. 5151
Northrup Ave., St. Louis 10, Mo.

Ultrasonic Cleaning Tank

THE LARGE capacity, Blackstone
ultrasonic cleaning tank has a high-
ly efficient transducer that is air
cooled and designed to radiate heat.
In continuous operation, it will not

May 11, 1959

PRODUCTS

CASTING | NE
TOOL FABRICATORS PATTERN MAKING W anil cuaabeaaut

MASS-CASTING

LAMINATING | overheat low flash, flammable, or
SPLINING mY | toxic solvents.

CORE FABRICATING ; | Four multiple element transducers
constructed from more than a
thousand separate magnetostrictive
strips operating at 20 kilocycles a
second operate the tank. The high
thermal stability of the nickel ele-
ments from which the transducer
is constructed makes it possible to
use solvents at temperatures up to

f ~=
EPOCAST* i
i For more information, write

QUALITY CONTROLLED FORMULATIONS 5 Blackstone Corp., Jamestown, N. Y.

“- oo”

TW See eee eee err Additive Stops Spottin
( furane plastics 4516 BRAZIL STREET © LOS ANGELES 39, CALIF. dies 9
INE ORPORATED SPOTTING and subsequent corro-

sion of all metals can be prevented
FOUNDRIES MACHINISTS ce
Registered trade with Entek 45.

VACUUM BAGGING

GEL COATING

It is a liquid additive for hot
* EPOCAST | Water rinses.

*EPIBOND f The product causes rinse water to
*PLASPREG ‘ = shed rapidly from the metal sur-
*CALCERITE face, resulting in faster drying and
-JET-KOTE re! spotless surfaces. At the same time,
*EPOFILM _— it leaves a strongly adsorbed, in-
visible film on the metal surface
which protects it from tarnishing
and corrosion for months.

Entek 45 may be used effective-
ly after plating, pickling, or chem-
ical processing of any kind.

For more information, write En-
thone Inc., subsidiary of American
Smelting & Refining Co., New Hav-

en, Conn.

Strapper Feeds from Coil

USING heavy duty steel strapping
directly from the coil, the BIR
stretcher eliminates waste, has a
ROTARY KNIVES high speed take-up, and provides
Complete line. We can furnish knives of correct | high residual tension.
analysis, including carbide, to slit any ferrous or The unit combines air powered
non-ferrous material. For quick, accurate set-up and tensioning and manual cutting in
clean, sharp cuts, specify ““Cowles”’, world’s largest
manufacturer of Rotary Slitting Knives. one tool.

COWLES TOOL COMPANY The stretcher is said to be light,

2050 WEST 110th STREET | easy to thread, and convenient to

CLEVELAND 2. OHIO Wri | operate. Predetermined tension is
J . ew,

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Now...at no increase in price
40” more HP... longer service life

with Gates Vulco Ropes

Gates brings you, through Specialized Research in V-Belts, another
important cost-saving advance:

Now —at no increase in price—the horsepower rating of Gates
Vulco Ropes has been increased 40%.

As replacements on standard drives, these V-Belts with 40%
more load carrying ability will give longer service. Longer life reduces
down-time, and cuts belt replacement costs.

And.as the tag tells you: Belts labeled “Gates Vulco Rope” or
“Gates Hi-Power” are identical in construction and can be used inter-
changeably in matched sets.

Available Now
from your nearby Gates Distributor

Today, all Vulco Ropes in Gates distributor and warehouse stocks
have the new higher horsepower rating.

See the Yellow Pages of your phone book for your nearest Gates
V-Belt distributor.

Designing NEW Drives?
For new drives, Gates now offers you the new Super HC V-Belts and
Sheaves — the most advanced concept in power transmission in 25 years.

The Super HC Drive is far more compact... takes up to 50% less space.
Costs less, too. You save as much as 20% over present V-Belt drives. Ask
your nearby Gates distributor for Handbook DH-900 entitled, “The Mod-
ern Way to Design V-Belt Drives.”

_——e

The Gates Rubber Company Rane, Golente World’s Largest Maker of V-Belts

Gates Rubber of Canada Ltd., Brantford, Ontario

TPA-412

-Belts

May 11, 1959

It takes a lot of Grit

“jitterbug”

to keep industry growing

performs in factories

O, vital sanding machines are widely used in furniture factories,
by metal fabricators, and in automotive shops — wherever

product surfaces are slick finished or polished.

The combination of motion and the cutting action of the coated
abrasive produces the satin finish on fine furniture. .

the glisten and sparkle on your automobile or toaster. And American
ingenuity continues to put the “jitterbug” to work on many odd

tasks—from smoothing taped wallboard joints to removing paint.

Product and methods research has brought leadership in coated
abrasives to Behr-Manning -- and it has brought increased production
and lower costs to industry and their customers. That is why
Behr-Manning supplies an extraordinary variety of coated abrasives
tailored to fit practically every standard machine and need —

for industry and the home craftsmen.

In one year, Behr-Manning makes more than 180,000,000 sheets
of sandpaper and over 20,000,000 abrasive belts — plus millions

of discs, rolls, and other coated abrasive specialties.

The sign of the Bear means a better product ...and better production d oe

BEHR-MANNING Co.

TROY, NEW YORK—A DIVISION OF NORTON COMPANY
BEHR-MANNING PRODUCTS: Coated Abrasives . Sharpening Stones . Pressure-Sensitive Tapes WNORTONP

NORTON PRODUCTS: Abrasives « Grinding Wheels «¢ Grinding Machines «+ Refractories «+ Electrochemicals ®
In Canada: Behr-Manning (Canada) Ltd., Brantford For Export: Norton Behr-Manning Overseas Inc., Troy, N. Y., U.S.A. ABRASIVES

May 11, 1959

Pouring silicon bronze at
The H M Harper Company
Metals Division

PRODUCTS

and equipment

applied by pressing the throttle, re-
ducing operator fatigue. The tools
are available for 34 in. and 11, in.
steel strapping.

For more information, write Acme
Steel Co., 135th Street and Perry
Avenue, Chicago 27, Ill.

Rocker Arm Type Welder

FEATURES of the Alphil rocker
arm welder include a heavy duty
heat selector with a full load ca-
pacity, an extra heavy rear switch
rod, standard electrode holders, and
Morse tapers.

Available in capacities from 7!/y
to 75 kva, the units are completely
water cooled. The standard model
has a maximum spacing of 12 in.
between the arms. Special models

are available for 48 in. throat depth
and adjustable lower swivel arm
with a maximum spacing of 28 in.
between the arms.

Timer and contactor are optional
features, and modifications in arm
length and swivel drop can be made
as required.

For more information, write Al-
phil Spot Welder Mfg. Corp., 1058
Pacific St., Brooklyn 38, N. Y.

Radial Drills Have
Wide Range, Capacity

YOU CAN swing a workpiece more
than 4 ft high and 5 ft in diameter
under the Johansson |, 2, and 3 hp
radial drills.

By rotating the ram, either of

180 STEEL

two work stations can be used. The
rear work platform is for handling
tall pieces.

Shorter parts can be handled on
an adjustable table at the front of
the machine.

The sliding radial arm can be
moved to within 5 in. of the col-
umn or out to drill to the center

of a 5 ft circle. Automatic locks
and power elevation allow the drill
heads to be locked in any position
radially and horizontally.

A direct gear drive provides eight
spindle speeds, ranging from 60 to
2400 rpm.

For more information, write I. O.

Johansson Co., Skokie, IIl.

Electric Clutch-Sheave
Fits Standard Motors

EQUIPMENT builders and indus-
trial users now can get the advan-
tage of electric no-load starting with-
out the cost usually incurred to
adapt standard electric clutches to
primary shafts. The Electro-Sheave,
a combined electric clutch and
sheave assembly, installs directly on
all standard NEMA electric motor-
shafts.

The units engage or release at
any speed.

If inching or jogging is desired,
several starts are possible in less
than one revolution of the clutch
without what is considered normal
wear and tear on motors, controls,
or machinery.

Release is instantaneous and the
load is braked without plugging the
motor.

The clutch, ball-bearing sheave,

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Corrosion-resistance starts here

ARE YOU
FASTENING CORROSION
INTO YOUR PRODUCT?

Have you ever stopped to think about the
important job your fastenings must do?
They must “hold it together”—whether
you apply them in production or in main-
tenance. More than any other component
—your fastenings should be corrosion-
resistant to resist the extremes in heat,
fumes, chemicals, moisture and
weathering.

It is here that HARPER’S thirty-five
years specialized experience in corrosion-
resistant fastenings can serve you.
HARPER produces its own metals in its
Metals Division. Stainless Steels, Silicon
Bronze, Naval Bronze, Brass, Copper,
Aluminum and Titanium are cold and
hot-headed into standard and non-
standard EVERLASTING FASTENINGS
in its Bolt Division. For you, HARPER
maintains the broadest standard product
line in the industry—plus the facilities
and “know-how” to produce your custom
sizes and shapes.

Corrosion-resistance is our business—it
is not a by-product or an after-thought.
Be sure— specify HARPER EVERLAST-
ING FASTENINGS in the size, shape and
metal you need.

HARPER DISTRIBUTORS everywhere
maintain complete stocks for immediate
delivery. See your Yellow Pages.

THE H.M.HARPER COMPANY

8200 LEHIGH AVENUE e MORTON GROVE, ILLINOIS

| Are you
drilling
holes in
your
MONEY

@ POCKET?

NOT when

| you use
U.S. DRILL
HEADS!
©

That’s because Adjustable U. S. Drill
Heads are designed and built for profit-
making performance!

Positive all-gear drive... Shaved
gears for smooth, quiet opera-
tion .. . High factor of safety in
design for greater reliability . . .
Anti-friction bearing mounting
of shafts and spindles for perma-
nent alignment ... Double Duty

tools—when your drilling ma-
chine has a reversing spindle, you
can drill and tap the same hole
pattern with one head.

Write for Catalog AD-57. Or, send spe-
Standard Adjustable style is made

cifications of your requirements. No ob- ix. eddies gine A seamed
, ; fe ve) head ideally suited for high pro-
ligation, oj course. duction and flexibility.

Adjustable and Fixed Center Multiple Drilling Heads.

DR | LL - Individual Lead Screw Multiple Tapping Heads.
HEAD M@ UNITED STATES DRILL HEAD CO.

BURNS STREET + CINCINNATI 4, OHIO

W PRODUCTS

and equipment

and shaft extension sleeve all fit as
a single package onto motorshafts.
Actuation of the clutch field attracts
and locks the armature, which picks
up motor rotation and transmits it
to the pulley. When the clutch is
disengaged, the sheave runs freely
on antifriction bearings.

For more information, write War-
ner Electric Brake & Clutch Co.,
Beloit, Wis.

Low Headroom Hoist

LOW HEADROOM requirements
can be met with the Robbins &
Myers Type F3 electric hoists, avail-
able in capacities from 11% through
74 tons. (Example: The 5-ton
model requires only 24 in.)

Each hoist is powered by a 7!/
hp, 30 minute, 55°C rise, totally
enclosed motor with weatherproof
brake.

Extra large diameter cable drums
permit increased lift and reduce the
effect of bending fatigue in the
hoisting cable. A _ four-position,
weight operated limit switch pro-
tects both the hoist and the op-
erator. When the hook _ block
reaches maximum safe height, the
motor is automatically reversed,
lowering the lock to a safe position.

For more information, write
Hoist & Crane Div., Robbins &
Myers Inc., Springfield, Ohio.

Rotary Table Provides
Precise Angular Spacing

PRECISE angular spacing is assured
with an I]-in. rotary table (Model
2) which reads to | second and has
an over-all performance accuracy of
+2 seconds throughout the entire
360 degrees.

Accuracy is achieved through the

ANOTHER NEW USE
FOR BYERS
AMBALLOY STEEL

AMBALLOY TAKES ON TOUGHEST TERRAINS

From scraper blades to landing gear mechanisms—wherever
the service is severe—steel users are switching to Amballoy to
satisfy tough specs. Manufacturers of powerful earth moving equip-
ment have to be keen judges of quality materials. Careful metal
selection for vital parts is a must. That’s why Amballoy’s high strength
and abrasion resistance get such important consideration for this
punishing service. And Byers’ ability to roll exacting, intricately
shaped sections to demanding scraper blade requirements opens up
additional areas of product improvement.

Amballoy’s range of applications is broad. The Byers metallurgist
can match the special qualities of our electric furnace steels to your
critical parts requirements. He knows his metals. Why not call him?
Contact: A. M. Byers Company, Clark Building, Pittsburgh 22, Pa.

Gorging this sod-buster’s mouth is a test for scraper _ personalized quality steels from a technically competent source
blade durability. High-strength Amballoy passes this B)

punishing test with excellent resistance to abrasion, cor- A. M. BYE RS co M PA a Y
rosion, shock and fatigue stress. _ aS

EYELET, SLITTER
& WIRE
MACHINERY

COLD HEADING
MACHINERY

meh A=
PRESSES

ROLLING MILL
MACHINERY

THE WATERBURY FARREL FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO.
DIVISION OF TEXTRON INC.
Waterbury, Connecticut * U.S.A.
Sales Offices: Chicago * Cleveland ® Los Angeles ® Millburn, N. J

Na PRODUCTS

and equipment

use of a nondisengageable, thread-
ground worm in combination with
accurately spaced teeth of its mating
gear.

Accurate in either horizontal or
vertical position, the rotary table is
ideal for precision spacing applica-
tions on jig borers and jig grinders.
An additional vernier permits nor-
mal reading even in the vertical
position. The table can be used in
conjunction with its companion
unit, the Model 2 Sine Plate.

For more information, write
Moore Special Tool Co. Inc., 800
Union Ave., Bridgeport 7, Conn.

Machine Coats Structurals

APPLYING mill type protective
coatings (pigmented and _ unpig-
mented) on pipes, tubes, bars, an-
gles, and other structural shapes is
simplified with the cone spray
coater.

Heat and pressure, not air, atom-
ize the coating. A timed spray cycle
and synchronously adjustable spray
heads reduce overspray to the point
where direct recirculation to the feed
system is not required.

No circulation means no loss of
solvent, no premature oxidation of
coating material, and no contamina-
tion of feed system by mill scale and
dirt. Solvent is never added to ad-
just viscosity and the machine
doesn’t have to be flushed out after
using.

For more information, write the
Cleanola Co., 1116 William Flinn
Highway, Glenshaw, Pa.

4-Slide Machine Has
Space Saving Design

FLOOR SPACE requirement for
the No. S-1-F combination press
and 4-slide forming machine is only
53 by 57 in., a reduction of more

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May 11, 1959

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2. Excellent machinability for
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3. Can be induction hardened
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4. Optimum fatigue resistance

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GENERAL OFFICES:
Gateway Center, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
Branch Offices in Principal Cities
Works: Ambridge, Pa.
Chicago, Ill., Newark, N.J.—Putnam, Conn,

WYCKOFF STEEL PRODUCTS * Carbon, Alloy and Leaded

Steels * Turned and Polished Shafting * Turned and Ground

Shafting * Large Squares * Wide Flats up to 12%” x 2%”

and 14” x 1%” * All types of Furnace Treated Steels
including Carbon Corrected Steels

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“Scorcu-Brite” Brand Finishing Material is anewly
developed Nylon web, impregnated with microscopic
working materials—completely unlike any other finish-
ing material you have ever seen. It is lightweight, flexible,
and available in a range of sizes in sheet, roll and
section forms. It can be used in any metal cleaning or
finishing operation to obtain finer end finishes with
greater surface uniformity. (Another similar product
in the “Scorcu-Brite” family, introduced in February
1958, has already revolutionized floor maintenance
through its ability to slash costs.)

STEEL PICKLING: Diagram shows howa wide load-
ing of “Scotcu-Brite” replaces ordinary scrubbing
brushes. Its superior action cleans more effectively
and breaks up scale to speed the pickling process;

makes possible a far better finish with a shorter time

cycle or less acid.

FINISHING LINES: Used in production operations
for final finishing on any metal,““Scotcu-Brire”’ can up-
grade final product quality and appearance by providing
a perfectly uniform satin-type finish—at very low cost.
It enables fabricators to match perfectly a mill finish
applied with “Scorcu-Brite”’, or to apply their own
satin finish over any mill-supplied finish. And “‘Scotcu-
Brite” finishes cool, never discolors, never distorts.

You are equipped to use “Scorcu-BriTE” now!
Material is approximately 14” thick, may be purchased
ready-cut or in sheet form for wide-shaft and other
existing equipment applications. Five to eight sections

TUiinnesora Jfinine ano JVJAnuracturinG COMPANY

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on any metal

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of its lightness, only 14 hp per inch of wheel width is
needed to drive. Greatest effectiveness is achieved
with very light pressure—the material does the work.

MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO.,
Dept. XW-59
900 Bush Ave., St. Paul 6, Minn.
Ask for
FREE DEMONSTRATION a Please call to arrange a demonstration of your new
Scotcu-Brite”’ Finishing Material.

; ; LJ Please send free booklet and descriptive material.
New “Scorcu-Brite” Material is so totally dif-
ferent from any other finishing material, and the
results are also so different, that the only way to
really judge it is by seeing it in action on your own
line. We'll be glad to arrange a demonstration at

your convenience. Just clip and mail the coupon. COMPANY

ADDRESS———

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Centrifugally cast Thermalloy tube burst at 77,500 psi

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Wrought tube burst at 70,100 psi

Burst tests prove
7,400 psi superiority of
centrifugally cast

Thermalloy tubes

Hydrostatic pressure tests by Electro-Alloys established the rupture of a
centrifugally cast Thermalloy tube section at 77,500 psi. Under the same
conditions, wrought tubes of comparable section and analysis burst at
70,100 psi. These tests were conducted at room temperatures. Tensile tests
show this strength margin increases substantially at the higher operating
temperatures (1200°-2200° I The Thermallov tube was tested as cast

without machining the inside or outside diameter

Thermalloy is a group of heat-resistant alloys developed for use in the
range of 1200°-2200° F. The greater strength of the Thermalloy centri-
fugally cast tubes makes them ideal for use in radiant tubes, retorts, rolls or
other heat-resistant designs employing tubes. For further data, call your rep-

resentative, or write Electro-Allovs Division, 1025 Taylor St., Elyria, Ohio.

AMERICAN
| Brake Shoe
COMPANY

ELECTRO-ALLOYS DIVISION « Elyria, Ohio

EW PRODUCTS

4 and equipment

than 1000 sq in., compared with the
previous model.

Designed primarily to stamp and
form ribbon metal in one operation,
the machine will also form wire
with a maximum feed length of 8 in.
It can handle wire up to 3/32 in. in
diameter and ribbon metal up to
114 in. wide. The machine is
mounted on a welded steel pedestal
base for maximum strength and
rigidity. To achieve minimum
floor space, the variable speed motor
drive is positioned directly in back
of the machine, instead of on the
end.

For more information, write A. H.
Nilson Machine Co., 600 Bridgeport
Ave., Shelton, Conn.

Special Press Coins
Sintered Metal Contacts

THE PRIMARY purpose of the
Elmes 1000-ton hydraulic coining
press is single-action coining of sin-
tered metallic compounds which re-
quire extremely high unit pressures.

An intermediate moving platen
(die holder) is used to provide
straight-through ejection of the
coined contact. The intermediate

platen can be adapted to serve as
a second or floating platen as is
normally required for double-action
pressing of powdered metals.

All main press components are
of steel construction. Heavy tierods
assure over-all rigidity with a mini-
mum of deflection. Ease of opera-
tion, as well as maintenance sim-
plicity, is engineered into the design.

For more information, write

May 11, 1959

HIGH PRESSURE
LOW COST

This 8 pound Meehanite Metal casting made for the Joy Manufacturing
Co. by Hamilton Foundry is a fourth stage air compressor cylinder. Pres-
sures build up to 6,000 p.s.i. and require a high strength, pressure tight
and wear resisting casting. Alloyed Meehanite®, oil quenched and tem-
pered, raised Brinell hardness of the cylinder wall to 275-300, and in-
creased tensile strength to 60,000 p.s.i. Meehanite was chosen for this
casting because controlled structure and small uniform flake graphite pro-
duce pressure tight castings of uniform density and strength.

Manufacturing costs drop when uniform, high quality castings go through
production. In this case, Meehanite castings from Hamilton Foundry give
Joy tight control on finished parts costs by combining dimensional accuracy,
uniform machinability, a low rejection rate, and delivery on schedule. Pres-
sure tightness, long service life and fine surface finish insure Joy’s repu-
tation for product quality.

When new and unusual design problems arise in the selection of metal
and the casting of parts, you will find that the skill and integrity of your
foundry is your best insurance that specifications—and delivery schedules
—will be met.

GRAY IRON * ALLOYED IRON * MEEHANITE@® * DUCTILE (NODULAR) IRON © NI-RESIST * DUCTILE NI-RESIST * NI-HARD

The Hamilton Foundry & Machine Co., 1551 Lincoln Ave.. Hamilton, Ohio * TW 5-7491

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and equipment

SHEPARD NILES
El Engineering Div., Americ
HOISTS oe
Ave., Cincinnati 29, Ohio.

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AUTOMATIC and continuous feed,

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in YOUR pla nt with the right hoist | is provided by the Model 700 Feed-
| all.

It has an electric control with

variable speed from 10 to 20 strokes
a minute.

The machine feeds sliding parts
1% to | in. in diameter from | to 4
in. long; headed work of the same
diameter, !/, to 3 in. long. Hopper

FLOOR-OPERATED HOIST capacity is 1!/, cu ft.
Operator primarily occupied with Cab operator moves loads at high Many flexible features, including
Seer rant: nee SOUR: See Leak, at speeds, can quickly spot material for automatic bank control devices, are

seeiiecenibienee apie available without special design.
. — An overload safety system is built
WHICH Shepard Niles hoist fits your plant's needs . . . a | in to protect moving parts from
floor-operated hoist where the operator is freed for other duties | damage.
or a cab-operated hoist where the operator is engaged full time ae See ee me eS
moving loads through the air? Shepard Niles manufactures both Il Inc. 38399 diene Rd Wil.
types in capacities from | to 20 tons. ahi, Ohio. ; i

Send for the descriptive bulletins on both Cab and Floor Oper-

ated Hoists . . . or ask that a Shepard Niles representative .
call — there's NO OBLIGATION. Plastic Protects Metal

SMOOTH and wrinkled metal fin-
ishes, stainless steel, polished alu-
minum, nameplates, glass and plas-
tic surfaces can be protected during
CRANES Overhead Building manufacture, storage, and_ transit

Top Running @ Inner Running * Yas 7 5) °
asin . : with Strip- >. It’s a milky colored,
cg hag America’s Most Complete Line trip-Kote It's genie ky
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Since 1903 dries to a transparent, tough film.
It contains no inflammable solvents.

Coverage is 500 sq tt per gallon

m4 E PAR 0D NILES for a 0.04 in. dried film.

CRANE AND HOIST CORPORATION For more information, write
Chemical Consulting Service, 3711

2395 Schuyler Ave., Montour Falls, N. Y. S. Clement Ave., Milwaukee 7, Wis.

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Accurate measurement of ingredients and periodic analysis insure the correct chemistry for the many different alloys produced at General Steel.

METALLURGICAL SERVICE...
EXPERT ANALYSIS AND COUNSEL

Write for folder: How General Steel
Castings Can Improve Product Design
and Performance. General Steel Cast-
ings, Station 230 Granite City, Illinois.

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Optimum design in cast steel struc-
tures for your products can be
gained only through application of
a complete range of services. One of
these is our metallurgical service
consisting of expert counsel and
accurate control of steel analysis...
another area in which General Steel
is well equipped and staffed.

This expert metallurgical counsel
and the facilities of each of our

laboratories are available for solv-
ing metallurgical problems for
customers.

A vast backlog of knowledge and
experience is available to you. Let
us work with you from the “raw-
idea’’ stage...in this way you
benefit from our complete services
from creative analysis and engineer-
ing to follow-through of perform-
ance in the field.

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ectiterature

Write directly to the company for a copy

Fire Extinguishers Compared

A folder, “A Guide to Fire Extinguish-
ers,” contains a table which compares
various types of extinguishers and the
comparative effectiveness of extinguishing
agents according to Underwriters’ Labora-
tory ratings. Fire Equipment Div., Ansul
Chemical Co., Marinette, Wis.

Machine Tool Replacement
“Avoidable Costs” outlines a formula
for machine tool and capital equipment re-

placement. Jones & Lamson Machine Co.,
Springfield, Vt.

Aluminum Finishing Manual

A booklet discusses different problems
concerning the finishing of aluminum as
well as methods and materials for tak-
ing care of these problems. Frederick
Gumm Chemical Co. Inc., 538 Forest St.,
Kearny, N. J.

New Concepts in Recording

A 16-page booklet describes various
methods of recording and identifies and
defines those circumstances under which
direct writing recording systems provide
maximum benefit to industrial users.
Brush Instruments Div., Clevite Corp.,
E. 37th Street & Perkins Avenue, Cleve-
land 14, Ohio.

Luminous Wall Heating

“Instantaneous Heat,” 48 pages, de-
scribes a new combustion system for gas-
fired, infrared heat treating furnaces. A. F.
Holden Co., Detroit, Mich.

Packaging Guide

“How To Pack It,” a 32-page booklet,
gives information on selection of corru-
gated packaging. Both standard and special
designs are described. Hinde & Dauch
Div., West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.,
Sandusky, Ohio.

Galvanized Steel Buyers’ Guide

“Industrial Procurement — Galvanized
Steel Sheets,” 16 pages, describes the sig-
nificant factors governing selection, pur-
chase, and maintenance of galvanized
steel sheets for industrial use. Principal
producers are listed. American Zinc In-
stitute Inc., 60 E. 42nd St., New York
17, N.Y.

Diesel Engines

Bulletins BU-540 and MS-1328 show de-
sign, construction, and mechanical ad-
vantages of two new powerplants, the
21000 and the 16000 diesel engines. Allis-
Chalmers Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Investment Casting Data

A design guide has been compiled by
the Investment Casters Society to pro-
vide pertinent information to designers
and potential users of investment cast-
ings. Picco Industries, 1729 N. Chico
Ave., El Monte, Calif.

STEEL

4-HIGH 6-STAND CONTINUOUS
HOT STRIP MILL

UNITED ENGINEERING AND FOUNDRY COMPANY

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
Plants of Pittsburgh, Vandergrift, Youngstown, Canton, Wilmington
SUBSIDIARIES: Adamson United Company, Akron, Ohio; Stedman Foundry and
Machine Co., Inc., Aurora, Indiana

Designers and Builders of Ferrous and Nonferrous Rolling Mills, Mill Rolls, Auxiliary Mill and
Processing Equipment, Presses and other heavy machinery. Manufacturers of Iron, Nodular
Iron and Steel Castings and Weldments.

cy aa

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on Carpenter Stainless
No. 20 and No. 20Cb

forms, sizes and shapes
for most corrosion problems

@ Besides keeping our warehouses fully stocked with all forms of
Carpenter Stainless No. 20 and 20Cb, we maintain fast, modern
facilities to make up and speed your orders to you... no matter
what your deadline. Our service teams are geared to handle your
most urgent delivery needs.

Available from stock in sheet, plate, pipe, tubing, strip, bars, wire
and billets, Carpenter Stainless No. 20 and 20Cb are as easily fabri-
cated as ordinary stainless steels. You get long-life control of
sulphuric acid and other severe corrodents in a hurry when you
order Stainless No. 20 and 20Cb. One installation of this Super-
Stainless will outlast most other corrosion-resistant alloys...
economically. Contact our nearest office or authorized distributor
(located in over 40 cities, coast to coast). Write on your company
letterhead for technical bulletin 108A. The Carpenter Steel Com-
pany, Alloy Tube Division, Union, N. J.

your master key to cost-saving
corrosion control

Stainless No. 20 & 20Ch
Carpenter Stainless No. 20 bars, strip, wire and billets are available
also from The Carpenter Steel Company, Reading, Pa.

STEEL

Metalworking Outlook—Page 91

Paciiy
Market Outlook

May 11, 1959

Inventory Buildup Is Slower than Expected

STEEL SHIPMENTS will exceed consumption
by more than a million tons this month, but the
inventory buildup isn’t progressing as rapidly as
expected. If the United Steelworkers hit the bricks
on July 1, more than a few consumers will be
seriously threatened. If the walkout lasts more
than three or four weeks, some may have to
close their doors.

UPTURN BOOSTS CONSUMPTION—M ain
reason for inventory deficiencies is the suddenness
of the recovery. Metalworking executives had no
idea that their sales would improve so rapidly.
Each time they’ve stepped up production, they’ve
had to raise their inventory objectives. But since
they underestimated second quarter requirements,
they’ve had to divert steel purchased for stock
to immediate use.

AUTOMAKERS ON SPOT— Although they can
normally get what they want from the steel
companies, automakers seem apprehensive about
their inventories. Ford Motor Co. and American
Motors Corp., after repeatedly boosting produc-
tion schedules, are in the market for extra ton-
nage. Chrysler Corp. wants its inventory at 45
days by the end of May and 90 days on July 1.
Ford, currently at 30 days, has similar objectives.
One of the smaller companies has a 40 day sup-
ply and thinks it will be lucky if it can push
its stocks up to 70 days by the end of June.

SHIPMENTS LAG— To compound the inven-
tory crisis, steelmakers are behind schedule on
shipments of flat-rolled products and _ heavy
plates. Consumers face delays of three or four
weeks on cold-rolled, hot-rolled, and galvanized
sheets. A Chicago mill is telling customers that
it’s a month behind on plates and can’t possibly
keep all its second quarter commitments.

MORE TROUBLE AHEAD?— In the next four
weeks, when pressure for deliveries is greatest,
shipments may be hindered by a shortage of trucks
and freight cars, plus labor unrest and wildcat
strikes if contract negotiations appear deadlocked.

RUSH TO SERVICE CENTERS—Refusal by steel
producers to accept any more orders for June de-
livery has triggered a run on service center

stocks. An eastern warehouse recently shipped
60,000 Ib of bars to a firm that normally buys
from mills. First quarter sales of distributors
were 25 per cent ahead of 1958 figures, and
additional gains of 10 to 15 per cent are ex-
pected in the second quarter. For the most part,
service centers will supply their regular custom-
ers when steel gets tight. They’re in no position
to backstop the mills.

THIRD QUARTER BRIGHTENS— It’s increas-
ingly apparent that there’s more to the steel in-
dustry’s revival than the artificial stimulus that
strike hedging provides. Plates, galvanized sheets,
and tin mill products will be in strong demand
even if a strike is averted.

INGOT RATE HOLDS— Last week, steelmak-
ers operated their furnaces at 94.5 per cent of
capacity (unchanged from the previous week’s
rate) and produced 2,676,000 net tons of steel for
ingots and castings.

WHERE TO FIND MARKETS & PRICES

News Prices News Prices
Bars, Merchant 198 207 Nonferrous Met. 220 222

Reinforcing . 198 208 Wh) ants 204 213

Boiler Tubes . :
Canada 201
Clad Steel
Coke
Coal Chemicals.
Charts:
Finished Steel
Ingot Rate .
Scrap Prices.
Comparisons ..
Containers
Contracts Placed
Contracts Pend.
Electrodes
Fasteners
Ferroalloys ...
Fluorspar
Footnotes
Imported Steel
Ingot Rates .
Metal Powder.

Pig Iron ..
Piling ....
Plates ... ‘
Plating Material
Prestressed
Strand
Price Indexes
Producers’ Key.
R.R. Materials.
Refractories ..
Scrap
Semifinished
Service Centers
SONS on cass
Silicon Steel ..
Stainless Steel.

Structurals ...
Tin Mill Prod..
Tool Steel ...
Tubular Goods.
Wire

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199
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207
207
223

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209
211
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207
209
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appear in subsequent issues.

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plore the possibilities of stainless
steel for their fire extinguishers,
they called on Chicago Steel Service
for metallurgical help and assist-
ance on production procedures.
The House of Stainless first ana-
lyzed the need. Came up with a
grade of stainless steel with selected
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Kildare Avenue at 45th Street, Chicago 32, Illinois « Mailing Address: Box 6308, Chicago 80, Illinois

Milwaukee District Office: 757 N. Broadway, Milwaukee 2, Wisc. Telephone BRoadway 3-7874

Sales Representatives at Bloomington and Rockford, Ill.; Indianapolis and South Bend, Ind.;
Davenport, lowa; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Appleton, Wis.

YOUR DEPENDABLE SOURCE FOR BOTH CARBON AND STAINLESS STEEL

Distributors Back Steelmen

The American Steel Warehouse Association agrees that pro-
ductivity or prices must go up if labor is granted a wage
boost. Inflation condemned at Chicago meeting

STRONG support for the steel in-
dustry in its fight to hold the line
on prices and wages was voted at
the 50th annual meeting of the
American Steel Warehouse Associa-
tion at Chicago last week.

A resolution declaring inflation
is one of the gravest dangers facing
the nation was adopted by the as-
sociation’s board. It was held that
steelmakers cannot absorb _ in-
creased labor costs without produc-
tivity advances or price increases.

Similarly, the steel service cen-
ters can’t absorb higher material
costs. They'll have to raise prices
if their bill from the mill goes
up. The effects would immediately
be felt by the distributors’ 500,-
000 customers, it was said.

The incoming president of the
association, George L. Stewart, vice
president, Warehouse Div., Jones
& Laughlin Steel Corp., believes
the steel industry will fight a wage
boost at this time. Other promi-
nent members of the association
think in a like vein, indicating they
anticipate a strike this summer.

Most warehouses are reported ade-
quately stocked to care for regular
customers’ needs through the sum-
mer (see STEEL, May 4, p. 39).

Emphasis at the business sessions
of the four day meeting was on
management problems steel distrib-
utors will face in the next 50 years.
Featured speakers included: Dr.
Charles H. Malik, president, 13th
General Assembly, United Nations;
Dr. John Van De Water, Uni-
versity of California; Desmond Bar-
ry, Galveston Truck Line, Galves-
ton, Tex.; Edward L. Ryerson, re-
tired chairman, Inland Steel Co.;
Clayton P. Fisher Jr., General Elec-
tric Co.

Distributors ...
Prices, Page 212

Distributors report a substantial
influx of orders for a wide range
of products. This is due to the
inability of mills to accept any ad-
ditional business in most products
for second quarter delivery. Some
purchases are being made to fill

NEWLY ELECTED officers of the American Steel Warehouse Association: (left to
right) C. L. Hardy, president of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc., Chicago, chairman

of the executive committee;
Lyndhurst, N. J., vice president;

Ralph W. Shaw Jr., president of A. R. Purdy Co.,
William F. Colclough, president of Cincinnati

Steel Products Co., Cincinnati, vice president; George L. Stewart, vice president
of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Warehouse Div., Indianapolis, president; W. R.
Winter, president of Williams Hardware Co., Minneapolis, vice president; and
Robert G. Welch, Cleveland, executive vice president

May 11, 1959

gaps made by delayed mill ship-
ments.

Steel service centers have sub-
stantial inventories of all products
with the exception of sheets which
are tight. Second quarter ship-
ments are expected to range from
15 to 20 per cent higher than in
the first quarter.

Imports are not affecting the Seat-
tle market but are a serious problem
in the Portland, Oreg., area. Rein-
forcing bars lead the imports in
volume at that point. Some Jap-
anese plates and sheets also have
been landed on the West Coast. The
established domestic firms are hold-
ing the price line, but some price
cutting is attributed to fly-by-night
concerns.

Baker Steel & Tube Co., a sub-
sidiary of Earle M. Jorgensen Co.,
Los Angeles, has opened a service
center at 1255 22nd St., San Fran-
cisco, Calif., stocking steel and
aluminum tubular products.

Sheets, Strip...

Sheet & Strip Prices, Pages 208 & 209

Sheets and strip are tight. Prac-
tically all mills are booked well
into the third quarter, and many
are losing ground in making de-
liveries. Automakers are seeking
additional tonnages for May and
June delivery, but their prospects
of getting them are dim. Carry-
over into next quarter will average
at least one month.

Consumption is running ahead of
expectations. As a result some con-
sumers are straining every effort to
build up stocks, even though de-
liveries run into the third quar-
ter, and there is a_ possibility of
higher prices on such shipments.
A portion of forward buying is being
done to get a priority on rolling
schedules in case of a summer shut-
down. July-August will bring some
easing in consumption as_ usual,
but in case of a strike, July orders
would move back to September.
Most third quarter orders are ar-
ranged for shipment that month.

Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel
Corp. reports flat-rolled galvanized
products solidly booked to Septem-
ber. Fabricators on the West
Coast are scrambling for supplies
as distributors report shortages.
Japanese galvanized material, avail-

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able in good quantity, is priced
above domestic.

“Almost wants gal-
vanized sheets now,” says a spokes-
man for Granite City Steel Co.,
Granite City, Ill. The mills of this
firm, as well as many others, con-
tinue to operate at capacity, but
are unable to meet demands fully.
Leadtime on sheets is 45 days be-
fore the first of the month sched-
uled for delivery. Granite City is
making only corrugated galvanized
but is preparing to mill flat.

everyone

Reinforcing Bars...

Reinforcing Bar Prices, Page 208

Demand for reinforcing bars is
heavier.

Although still under pressure,
prices for fabricated bars in New
England are somewhat steadier ex-
cept for bridge tonnage. Compe-
tition for highway structures is in-
tense. Suppliers are generally meet-
ing delivery promises but are find-
ing this more difficult.

Effort is being made in the Pa-
cific Northwest to expedite current

in furnace lining...

Plicast
Monolithic
Castables

better
4 ways

Study was made using special and ordinary lin-
ings in a car type annealing furnace operating at

an inside temperature of 1800° F. Plicast LWI
Insulating Castable and fire brick were compared
to determine the hourly heat loss and heat stor-
age capacity for each square foot of furnace wall.

] Heat loss 33% less . . . heat storage capacity 91% less
with Plicast. Outcome of the test illustrated to

the right shows savings gained using lighter

two-component

Cost of operating furnace much less with Plicast. In
this test $1,380 (14%) was saved in fifty
weeks operating a car type furnace witha
wall area of 300 square feet 8 hours daily,

5 days a week.

Less material and maintenance needed with Plicast.
These results were obtained with one-third
less refractory material in the walls and arch.

Larger furnace capacity with Plicast. The thinner
walls added 6 inches in width, 3 inches in

wall poured with
LWI Castable backed with block insulation.

Plicast

PLICAST
Heat storage: 3,650 btu/sq. ft.
3,650 btu =3.6 cu. ft. gas
or: .025 gal. oil

Heat loss: 180 btu/sq. ft
(still air at 70° F.)
180 btu=.180 cu. ft. gas
or: .0012 gal. oil

FIRE BRICK
Heat storage: 42,000 btu/sq. ft.
2,000 btu=42 cu. ft. gas
or: .29 gal. oil

Heat loss: 270 btu/sq. ft.
(still air at 70° F.)
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commitments in view of the strike
threat. Backlogs are fairly com-
fortable in that area. Several major
reinforcing bar projects are sched-
uled for placement before July 1.

Steel Bars...
Bar Prices, Page 207

A few mills producing hot-rolled
bars can still enter tonnage for
second quarter delivery but only
on certain sizes and in relatively
small amounts. The tight situation
has stimulated buying for July.
Producers anticipate good operations
for that month if there isn’t a steel
strike.

Fastener manufacturers and cold
drawers are especially interested in
future positions, as compared with
most other consuming lines. Cold
drawn steel can be had for this
quarter where converters can draw
on hot stock inventories. In many
instances, this limits greatly the
range of tonnage that can be han-
dled in this quarter.

Bar producers in the Los Angeles
district are booked solidly through
May and are accepting orders for
delivery through the third quar-
ter.

Plates...

Plate Prices, Page 207

Plate demand is strong with sup-
plies limited. Mills are virtually
booked solidly for the second quar-
ter and are cautious in making
third quarter promises. One mid-
western mill, for instance, has a
one month carryover on plates and
says prospects are dim for an im-
provement by midyear.

Another mill has notified its plate
customers that it is one month in
arrears in making deliveries. Its
problem, however, is the result of a
construction program which inter-
feres with obtaining maximum pro-
duction on its plate mill.

Structural fabricators, tank shops,
and pipe lines are consuming large
tonnages. Freight car builders con-
tinue to step up their needs, al-
though a leveling off is expected
soon as equipment orders appear
to have passed their peak, at least
for the time being. Ship require-
ments are tapering, although still
involving a heavy tonnage.

Clad and head order backlogs
are light. Orders for clad plates
have not kept pace with carbon

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and alloy grades in forward cover-
ing. Despite longer processing,
clad material can be shipped in six
to eight weeks; pressed and spun
heads, in four to six weeks.

The general contract has been
placed for a ballistic missile instal-
lation near Spokane, Wash., in-
volving large storage vessels (500
tons or more of plates).

Stainless Steel...

Stainless Steel Prices, Page 211

Production of stainless and heat
resisting steel ingots in the first
quarter, 1959, totaled 346,167 net
tons, reports the American Iron &
Steel Institute. In the preceding
quarter 300,522 tons were _pro-
duced, and in the first quarter,
1958, output was only 167,821 net
tons.

The total in the first three
months this year was the largest
for any quarter since the closing
three month period in 1956 when
360,823 tons were produced.

In all of 1958 production was
892,984 tons vs. 1,000,357 in 1957
and 1,200,569 in 1956.

Calstrip Steel Corp., Los Angeles,
has started production of stainless
steel strip. It will be rolled on a
Sendzimir mill in widths up to 13
in. in a thickness range of 0.008
to 0.075 in. The company also
rolls strip in low carbon and
spring steels.

Tubular Goods ...

Tubular Goods Prices, Page 211

Most users of seamless pipe, in-
cluding utilities, are covered through
June, and some letdown in third
quarter bookings is expected. Dis-
tributors are not placing forward
orders for buttweld pipe in heavy
volume because availability of ton-
nages for shipment within ten days
retards the building of inventory.
Consumption and spot ordering are
heavier for construction.

Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem,
Pa., will fabricate 21,000 linear ft
of 30 in. caisson pipe for the founda-
tions of the Prudential Tower,
Boston.

Demand for oil country goods
remains strong. For the fourth
consecutive week, rotary drilling op-
erations in the U. S. set a 1959
high, according to a weekly survey
by the Hughes Tool Co., Houston.
The firm counted 2108 rigs in op-

May 11, 1959

eration, an increase of 27 over the
previous week. Texas drilling also
continues upward, with 770 rigs
running vs. 760 the previous week.
The national figure represents a
gain of 317 rigs over the last week
in April a year ago.

Wire...

Wire Prices, Pages 209 & 210

Wire products generally are closed
out for the second quarter. Some
third quarier business is being ac-
cepted. Mills in New England will
ship most second quarter tonnage

without carryovers, and in most in-
stances users of industrial grades
will have accumulated close to a
60 day inventory.

Producers are meeting this moder-
ately heavier demand without ex-
tension in deliveries beyond the
usual leadtime in most instances.
Wire mills are operating 10 to 15
points under the steel industry av-
erage.

Demand for stainless steel wire is
described as booming. Manufac-
turers wire is holding up well,
primarily because auto production
is strong.

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Shipments of steel pails totaled
5,448,946 units in February, an in-
crease of 9 per cent above January
shipments and 19 per cent above
the February, 1958, total, reports
the Bureau of the Census. Ship-
ments during the first two months
of the year totaled 10,457,214 units
against 9,993,095 units in the same
period last year.

Movement of steel shipping bar-
rels and drums in February com-
prised 2,561,711 units, a drop of 2
per cent from the preceding month,
but an increase of 11 per cent over
the February, 1958, total. Cumu-
lative total for the first two months
of 5,166,306 units compared with
4,894,099 units in the correspond-
ing period of 1958.

Tool Steel...

Tool Steel Prices, Page 211

Shipments of high speed and
tool steel (excluding hollow drill
steel) increased to 9584 tons in
March from 7646 tons in February,
reports the American Iron & Steel
Institute, New York. That com-
pares with 5773 tons in March,
1958.

The March, 1959, total was the
highest for any month since the
10,132 tons in the same month two
years ago.

Cumulative shipments in the first
quarter were 24,778 tons compared
with 17,951 tons in the like period
a year ago and 28,771 tons two
years ago.

Ferroalloys .. .
Ferroalloy Prices, Page 214

Union Carbide Metals Co., a di-
vision of Union Carbide Corp., New
York, has made a revision in charge
chrome grades and prices. Prices
are per pound of contained chro-
mium for carload lots of lump ma-
terial in bulk: Charge chrome |
(maximum 63 per cent Cr, 6 per
cent C, and 7 per cent Si), 22.0c;
charge chrome 2 (50-59 per cent
Cr, maximum 8 per cent C, and 6
per cent Si), 23.0c; refined chrome
1 (30-59 per cent Cr, maximum 5
per cent C, and 2 per cent Si),
25.0c; and refined chrome 2 (50-59
per cent Cr, maximum 5 per cent
C, and 12 per cent Si), 24.0c.

STEEL

Opens Merchant Bar Mill

Alaska Steel Mills Inc., Fair-
banks, Alaska, will place its mer-
chant bar mill at Seattle in pro-
duction May 15. Output of the
mill will include reinforcing steel
and merchant carbon bars.

Rails, Cars...

Track Material Prices, Page 210

Railroads are buying new equip-
ment at a pretty fair clip now that
an increasing volume of freight traf-
fic is in sight. The buying, super-
imposed on an already tight mar-
ket, is affecting light plates and light
structurals for freight cars. Rails
and track accessories are also be-
ing purchased more freely.

Canada...

Consolidated Mining & Smelting
Co. of Canada Ltd. is completing
arrangements for construction of a
steel plant at Kimberly, B. C., to
cost $20 million. Plans call for
production of pig iron to start early
in 1961 with initial annual ca-
pacity of 36,500 tons. When com-
pleted, production will include steel
ingots, billets, and rolled steel prod-
ucts with output of 100,000 tons
yearly.

For the week ended Apr. 25, pro-
duction of steel ingots in Canada
amounted to 114,826 tons (94.6 per
cent of capacity) against 112,822
tons (92.9 per cent) in the pre-
ceding week.

Ryerson Tries a New
Warehouse Price Plan

A new system of warehouse steel
pricing is being tried by Joseph T.
Ryerson & Son Ine.’s Pittsburgh
facility. It involves a new method
of figuring the schedule of quality
extras and discounts based on ac-
tual item costs.

In some cases, prices are ad-
vanced; in others, they’re reduced.
The net effect: A pricing structure
that more accurately reflects costs
on each item and size.

The new plan, described at the
American Steel Warehouse Associ-
ation’s annual meeting last week
(Page 197), grew out of an exten-
sive cost study based on distribution
cost analysis. It became effective
May 1—but only at the firm’s Pitts-

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other districts will probably depend
on how it works out there.

Quantity extras and discounts are
not new in the warehouse indus-
try; they’ve been in vogue since
the early 1920s.

Structural Shapes...

Structural Shape Prices, Page 207

Leading structural shape mills
are booked up completely for the
quarter on wide flange beams and
have little left in the standard sec-
tions. So buying for third quarter
delivery is being accelerated.

Fabricators are slow to order
beyond jobs in hand. Requirements
of jobs vary, and it is difficult to
buy accurately for inventory. Struc-
tural awards are not quite as
numerous as they were a month
ago but continue to account for
substantial tonnage. Competition
among fabricators has whittled quo-
tations down to uncomfortably low
levels—another reason advance buy-
ing is at a minimum.

There is a considerable tonnage,
notably bridges, on which New
England shops are not covered.
They are entering plain material
orders for third quarter delivery
for specified work. A shutdown of
structural mills for an extended
period would result in a shortage
of some sizes and shapes within
a few weeks.

Fabricators on the West Coast
take a gloomy view of the second
half. Threat of a midsummer shut-
down has prompted advancement of
several major projects, resulting in
a number of rush jobs on which
contractors desire delivery by July
1. So some see little new work in
the last two quarters.

STRUCTURAL SHAPES...

STRUCTURAL STEEL PLACED

725 tons, Clear, Alaska, Air Force project, re-
ported to Gate City Steel Inc., Boise, Idaho;
Baker & Ford, Bellingham, Wash., general
contractors.

240 tons, substation projects, various sites, to
Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Seattle,
by Bonneville Power Administration, Port-
land, Oreg.

150 tons, wide flange, General Supply Office,
Navy, Philadelphia, to Bethlehem Steel Co.,
Bethlehem, Pa.

STRUCTURAL STEEL PENDING

14,000 tons, transmission tower; bids to Bon-
neville Power Administration, Portland, Oreg.

2218 tons, transmission line projects, King,
Kittitas, Chelan, and Douglas’ counties,
Washington; bids to Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration, Portland, Oreg., May 11 and
26, and June 9 and 23, respectively.

1245 tons, intake gates and stoplogs, Tusca-

May 11, 1959

rora powerplant; bids May 21, f.o.b. Ni-
agara Falls, N, Y., to Power Authority,
State of New York, N. Y.

1120 tons, three radar towers; bids to U. 8S.
Engineer, Seattle, advanced to May 12 from
May 5.

1090 tons, gates and structures, dam, Snake
River; bids in to U. S. Engineer, Walla
Walla, Wash., May 6.

700 tons, Atlas ballistic missile project, near
Spokane, Wash.; general contract to S
Patti Construction Co., MacDonald Construc-
tion Co., C. H. Leavell & Co., St. Louis,
joint second low bid $6,859,000, to U. S. En-
gineer, Seattle.

680 tons (also 150 tons of reinforcing), Wash-
ington state, two span Yakima County; John
E. Alexander, Seattle, general contractor

600 tons, Idaho state law enforcement build-
ing, Boise, Idaho; R. E. Rice Construction
Co., Boise, low base, $1,859,417.

125 tons, warehouse and cold storage building,
Wenatchee, Wash.; bids in

REINFORCING BARS...

REINFORCING BARS PLACED

470 tons, First Hill apartment, Seattle, to Mer
cer Steel Co., Seattle; Teufel Construction
Co., Seattle, general contractor.

190 tons, Washington state King County span,
to Northwest Steel Rolling Mills Inc., Seat-
tle; Northwest Construction Co., Seattle,
general contractor.

120 tons, Westward Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska,
and high school, Granger, Wash., to Beth
lehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Seattle

REINFORCING BARS PENDING

1350 tons, ballistic missile project near Spo-
kane, Wash.; general contract to S, Patti
Construction Co. and associates, St. Louis

300 tons, Washington state, two spans, King
County; general contract to Ostruske-Murphy
Inc., Tacoma, Wash

260 tons, Idaho state highway projects; bids
to Boise, May 19.

250 tons, Washington state, two girder spans,
King County; bids to Olympia, May 19

PLATES...

PLATES PLACED

425 tons, carbon hull, General Supply Office
Navy, Philadelphia, to Phoenix Steel Corp.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

PLATES PENDING

500 tons or more, fuel storage facilities, bal-
listic missile project near Spokane, Wash.;
general contract awarded

200 tons, 500,000-gal elevated tank, AFB,
Minot, N. Dak.; bids May 20, U. 8S. Engi-
neer, Omaha, Nebr.

200 tons or more, two steel water tanks, 1.3
million gal capacity; bids to Kent, Wash.,
May 14

100 tons, grade Hy-80; bids May 11, Navy
Purchasing Office, Washington

100 tons, 200,000-gal elevated tank NAS
Whidbey Island, Wash.; bids May 20, pub-
ic works officer, Navy, Seattle

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CAST IRON PIPE PENDING

1400 tons, Kent County, District No. 93, Mer-
cer Island, Wash.; bids in

396 tons, King County, District No. 49, Wash
ington; bids in

172 tons, King County, District No. 68, Wash-
ington; bids in

85 tons; bids in to Omak

RAILS, CARS...

RAILROAD CARS PLACED

Wash May 1

Seaboard Air Line, 1000 box cars, costing
about $11.3 million, with 700 going to the
Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Co.’s plant at
Bessemer, Ala., and 300 to the Magor Car
Corp., New York

Northern Pacific Railway, fifty, 50 ton refrig
erator cars, to Pacific Car & Foundry Co.,
Renton, Wash.

Northern Pacific, 599 freight cars, including
99 seventy-ton covered hopper cars (74 have
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Pig Iron...

Pig Iron Prices, Page 212

Shipments of foundry iron this
the heaviest reported
this year. Most gray iron and mal-
leable foundries are melting on a
five-day week schedule. They gen-
erally do not have substantial stocks
and are taking shipments in line
with operations. Foundries turning

month are

out railroad and automotive cast-
ings are especially active.

The movement of pig iron west
on the Great Lakes from Buffalo
is picking up steadily with num-
erous sailings booked for May and
June. The movement is consider-
ably than at this time a

year Present prospects

heavier
ago. are
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Iron Ore...

Iron Ore Prices, Page 213

Stocks of iron in the U. S.
and Canada at the end of March
totaled 44,940,239 tons, reports the
Iron Ore Association,
At the end of March

a year ago, the total was 53,051,633

ore

American
Cleveland.

tons.

Consumption of iron during the
month totaled 12,071,858 VS.
7,361,414 the like month of
1958. The cumulative total to the
end of March was reported at 32,

22.253.550 tons

tons
in

375,501 tons against
in the first quarter of last year.
At the end of March, 236 of 276

blast furnaces were in operation
224 in the U. S. and 12 in Can-
ada). At the same time a year ago,
active stacks numbered 169 (158 in
the U. S. and 11 in Canada).
Receipts of iron ore and ore ag-
glomerates totaled 10,047,216 gross
tons in the first quarter of this
year, compared with 8,363,924 tons
in the like period a year ago.
Receipts this year have included
4,759,903 tons of U. S. ores (326,-

762 Lake Superior and 4,433,141
other); 404,885 tons of Canadian
(193,716 Lake Superior and 211,-
169 other); and 4,882,428 tons of
foreign ores.

Shipments of Lake Superior iron
ore totaled 2,978,023 tons in April,
compared with only 62,560 tons in
April a year ago. Of this year’s
shipments, 2,910,070 tons were from
U. S. ports and 67,953 tons from
Canadian ports.

lron Ore Statistics—March, 1959

Stocks on

hand at furnace yards and docks at end of month

(Gross tons)

U.S. Ores
ace Yards L.. Superior
3,221,262
5,874,402
5,949,406

6,656,993

At U. 8. Furr
Easterr
Pitts.-Youngstown
Cleveland-Detroit
Chicago
Southern (a)
Western

Total

At U. S
Lake
Other

Total U. 8S. Stocks

Stocks

Total U. 8.-C

21,702,063

Docks
Erie 3,007,515
24,709,578
1,302,794

26,012,372

Canadiar

inada

Other
199,064
43,870
114,509
(a)
1,952,969
964.606

3,275,018

—Canadian Ores—
L. Superior Other
100,182 1,027,025
392,666 1,479,294
139, 226

(a)

Foreign
Ores
,281,696
3,398,391
365,592
(a)
2,178,853

Total
8,829,229
11,188,623
6,830,385
6,656,993
4,131,822
964,606
38,601,658

632,074 224,532

,193 ,569,403
(a)
171,061
,769,178
,940,239

(a)
»224,532
70,329
294,861

23,267
,792
5,059

4,562,929 10,

Consumption in U. 8S. and Canada During March, 1959
(Gross tons)

U. S. Ores
Superior
859,833
2,229,405
1,342,753
2,361,099

Southerr (a)

Westerr
In U. 8

Blast

Steel

Districts i.
Eastern

Pitts.-Youngstowr
Cleveland-Detroit

In U.S

Chicago

5,057,445
197,268

1,538,377

furnaces
furnaces
(1
Miscellaneous (2)
Total U. §
In Canada
Blast

Steel

Sintering
6,793,090
254,036

6,104

63,386

furnaces

furnaces
Sintering (1)
Miscellaneous

Total Canada

Total U. S.-Canada

292 -9R
323,526

7,116,616

1. Iror
for }
Data fron

sumed in

ot listed

ore cor

irposes I (a)

American Iron Ore Association

sintering plants not

Data included

Other
235,256
138,782

31,075

1,010,610
89,228
545,831
4,621
1,650,290

1,650,290

at mine sit 2

—Canadian Ores—
L. Superior Other
23,738 262,490
128,913 409,263
85,093 56,533

Foreign
Ores
1,058,467

606,240
156,591
(a)
281,533

Total
,439,784
3,512,603
,672,045
2,361,099
853,230
673,480

198,148
560
39,036

659,051
594,124
849,656

,372,967
890,036
3,244,617
ae sa shies nieve a aud 4,621
237,744 728,286 2,102,831 ,512,241
91,038 ,390
17,430

,538

426,464
30,430
102,722

oe 5, 896
18,799
119,358 6,896
847,644 2,109,

109,837

347,581

Sold to nonreporting companies

in other districts

DISTRICT INGOT RATES

(Percentage of Capacity

Week Ended
May 10 Change
97.5 4*

Engaged)

Pittsburgh
Chicago 1*
Eastern 1
Youngstowr

Wheeling

Cleveland

Buffalo

Birminghan

Western
National Rate

INGOT PRODUCTION#
Week Ended Week Month

INDEX
(1947-49
NET TONS

(In thousands)

100)

*Change from

+tEstimated

Weekly capacity
1959; 2,699,173 ir

preceding week’s revised r

2,831,331
1957

(net
1958;

tons):
2,559,490 in

American Iron & Steel Institute

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Price Indexes and Composites

(1947. 49=100

FINISHED STEEL PRICE INDEX (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

1959 — By Weeks

1954 1955 1956 1957

May 5, 1959

186.7

Week Ago

186.7

AVERAGE PRICES OF STEEL (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Week Ended May 5

Prices include mill base prices and typical extras and deductions. Units
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Black, Buttweld (100

Reinforcing

C.F., Carbon
2 eS eee
C.F., Stainless, 302

Car, 33 ‘ .o%
62.000
6.350
6.167 >
302
0.560 us

0.680
H.R
WwW
Mo
1.400 ,
Galv., Buttweld (100
- SORE ee, ee
agen Line (100 ft) ..... 199
10.775 Casing, Oil Well, Carbon
(100 ft) .. e408
Casing, Oil Well, Alloy
(100 ft) . a .

303 201.080
ane 0.543

6.675 213

315

1958

JAN. FEB.) MAR. APR. MAY | JUNE JULY| AUG.) SEPT. OCT. | NOV bt

Month Ago

186.7

April Avg

186.7

Year Ago

181.6

Tubes, Boiler (100

Tubing, Mechanical,
bon (100 ft) A ;

Tubing, Mechanical, Stain-
less, 304 (100 ft)

Tin Plate, Hot-dipped, 1.25
lb (95 Ib base box)

Tin Plate, Electrolytic,
0.25 Ib (95 Ib base box)

ft)
Car-

51.200 Black Plate, Canmaking
Quality (95 Ib base box)
Wire, Drawn, Carbon
Wire, Drawn, Stainless,
430 (ib) rece
Bale Ties (bundles) ..
Nails, Wire, 8d Common
Wire, Barbed (80-rod spool)
Woven Wire Fence (20-rod
roll)

900
27.005
205.608
10.100

8.800

STEEL's FINISHED STEEL PRICE INDEX*
May 6 Week
1959 Ago
247.82 247.82
6.713 6.713

5 Yr
Ago
189.74
5.140

Month
Ago
247.82

6.713

Year
Ago
239.15

6.479

Index (1935-39 avg—100)

Index in cents per lb

STEEL's ARITHMETICAL COMPOSITES*

Finished Steel, NT ....... $149.96
No. 2 Fdry, Pig Iron, GT 66.49
Basic Pig Iron, GT .... 65.99
Malleable Pig Iron, GT 67.
Steelmaking Scrap, GT

$149.96
66.49
65.99
67.27

34.33

$149.96
66.49
65.99
67.27

36.17

$145.42
66.49
65.99
67.27
32.00

7
af

33.67

19, 1949
130

*For explanation of weighted index see STEEL, Sept

of arithmetical price composite, STEEL, Sept. 1, 1952, p

Comparison of Prices

Comparative prices

May 6
1959

Week 5 Yr
Ago
15
15
405
20
10
10
.38
10

Month
Ago
5.675
5.675
5.975
7.65*
5.50
5.50
5.77

5.30

FINISHED STEEL Year
H.R., Pittsburgh
Se ee

, H.R., deld., Philadelphia
C.F., Pittsburgh

Shapes, Std., Pittsburgh

Shapes, Std., Chicago ......

Shapes, deld., Philadelphia. .

Plates, Pittsburgh

Plates, Chicago jae aoe

Plates, Coatesville, Pa. ....

Plates, Sparrows Point, Md.

Plates, Claymont, Del.

H.R., Pittsburgh
EL. 3t.». CRBABO 52...
C.R., Pittsburgh

ao
orang 93
ce

mn onen

RAY
cron en

ee ee

PRAM
eet
_~ > >

Sheets, Galv., Pittsburgh

Strip, Pittsburgh

Strip, Chicago

Strip, Pittsburgh

Strip, Chicago

Strip, Detroit

Wire, Basic, Pittsburgh

Nails, Wire, Pittsburgh .... .95
Tin plate(1.50 lb)box, Pitts. $10.65 $

onan

TOO

a3 3 =]

8.¢
10.65

*Including 0.35c for special quality

SEMIFINISHED STEEL

forging, Pitts. (NT) $99.50
et res 6.40

$99.50
6.40

Billets,
Wire rods 4-%”

$99.50
6.40

$96.00
6.15

by districts in cents per pound except as otherwise noted.

Delivered prices based on nearest production point
Year
Ago
$67.00
66.00
70.41

66.50

May 6
1959
$67.00
66.00
70.41
66.50

Month
Ago
$67.
66
70.4

5 Yr
Ago
$57.00
56.00

59.66

Week
Ago
$67.00
66.00
70.41
66.50

PIG IRON, Gross Ton

Bessemer, Pitts
Basic, Valley
Basic, deld., Phila.

No, Fdry, NevilleIsland, Pa.
No Fdry,
No. Fdry, deld., Phila
No Fdry, Birm.

No Fdry (Birm.)deld., Cin
Malleable, Valley

Malleable, Chicago
Ferromanganese,

56.50
66.50 56.50
70.91

62.50

66.5
70.§
62.!

70.:

66.50
70.91

62.50
70.20

66.50

66.50
70.91
62.50

70.20

Chicago
60.16
52.88

70.20 60.43

66.50 66.50 56.50

66.50 66.50 66.50 56.50

net ton 245.00 245.00 245.00 200.00

t74-76% Mn, Duquesne, Pa

SCRAP, Gross Ton (Including broker's commission)
$36.50
34

37.50

No. 1 50
No. 1
No. 1
No. 1 Heavy
No. 1 Heavy
No. 1
Rails,
No. 1 Cast,

Heavy Melt, Pittsburgh $34.5
Heavy Melt, E. Pa

Melt, Chicago

Melt, Valley

Melt, Cleve.

Melt, Buffalo
Chicago

$31
34.50
30.00

00
50 23.00
Heavy 30.50

50 33.50 29.50

30.50 26.50

50 26.50 25.50

41.00

38.50

Heavy
Rerolling, 419.00
38.50

Chicago

COKE, Net Ton

Beehive, 5.00 $15.25

25 18.25

2.00 30.50

$14
16

Furn., Connlsvl 7
Beehive, Fdry., Connisvl 75

Oven, Fadry., Milwaukee

25.25

May 11, 1959

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St | D H Mill prices as reported to STEEL, May 6, cents per pound except as otherwise noted. Changes shown in italics.
ee rices Code number following mill point indicates producing company. Key to producers, page 208; footnotes, page 210

SEMIFINISHED LosAngeles B3 ....7.20 Ashland,Ky.(15) A10 ...5.30 Alton,IIl. Li .......5.875 Minnequa,Colo. C10
Minnequa,Colo. C10 ....6.65 Atlanta All ..........5.50 Atlanta(9) All Ree Niles,Calif. Pl
INGOTS, Carbon, Forging (NT) Monessen.Pa. P7 ..... Bessemer, Ala. 30 Bessemer,Ala.(9) T2 6 Pittsburgh J5
Munhall,Pa. U5 ......$76.00 N.Tonawanda,N.Y. B11. Clairton, Pa. a Birmingham(9) C15 ..5.6 Portland, Oreg 4
Pittsburg,Calif. C11 Claymont, Del. C22 .. Buffalo(9) R2 .. ...5.675 SanFrancisco S87
ee a Portsmouth.O. P12 Cleveland J5, R2 Canton,O. (23) R2 ....6.15 Seattle B3
Economy,Pa. B14 ae Roebling.N.J. R5.. Coatesville,Pa. L7 Clairton,Pa.(9) U5 ..65.
Farrell,Pa. S3 ... 82. S.Chicago.Ill. R2, W14.. Conshohocken, Pa. Cleveland'(9) R2 ....5.675 BAR SHAPES, Hot-Rolled Alloy
Lowellville.O. S33 SparrowsPoint,Md. B2 . Ecorse, Mich. G5 Ecorse, Mich.(9) G5 ....5. Aliquippa,Pa. J5
Midland,Pa. C18 “"g9. Sterling, Ill.(1) N15... Fairfield,Ala. T2 Emeryville,Calif. J7 ...6. Clairton,.Pa. U5
Munhall.Pa. U5 ’ "99. Sterling.II. N15 ; Farrell,Pa. S3 ; Fairfield,Ala.(9) T2 ..5.675 Gary,Ind. U5
Sharon,Pa. $3 Struthers,O. Y1 .... Fontana,Calif. (30) Fairless, Pa.(9) US ....5. 25 Houston S5
BILLETS, BLOOMS & SLABS Worcester,Mass. A7 ... Gary.Ind. U5 cceeee Fontana,Calif.(9) K1 . .6.3 KansasCity,Mo. S5
. : Geneva. Utah oo Gary,Ind.(9) U5 os Pittsburgh J5
Carbon, Rerolling (NT) STRUCTURALS GraniteCity,IN. G4 Houston(9) S5 -925 Youngstown U5
sek ho” gg oo" 5 ae te Carbon Steel Std. Shapes a pe ove .c prompt hag s7i nell A iediied
essemer,Pa. US ... .80.00 . = louston S& - oO. Johnstown,Pa.(9) B2 . , C.F. leade
Buffalo R2 Lo oe ae * . Ind.Harbor,Ind. 1-2, ¥1.5.30 Joliet,I. P22 75 (including leaded extra)
A ’ Aliquippa,Pa. J5 ; : :
Clairton,Pa. US ......80.00 atlanta All ; Johnstown,.Pa. B2 ... 5.30 KansasCity,Mo.(9) S65. .5.92 Carbon
Ensley, Ala. T2 ..+.+--80.00 Bessemer, Ala. T2 Saas: Lackawanna,N Y. 2 ..5. Lackawannai9) B2 5 LosAngeles P2, S30
pond tony oN * ee pepe Bethlehem,Pa. B2 etiam E6 oe De Laee ~ tage ee: I : ; Alloy
ana,Cé .. 90.8 j . d a. . C oars Massillon.O. 23) « =
Gary Ind. US ae ae Munhall.Pa. Ué f Midland. Pa. (23) Ambridge.Pa. W18 . 10.175
Johnstown Pa. B2 ie "80.00 Clairton, Pa. U5. eae ée Newport,Ky AS 5.3 Milton Pa M18 5 RE 3eaverFalls,Pa. Mi2 10.175
Lackawanna,N.Y. B: hanna be Pittsburgh J5 5.30 Minnequa.Colo. C10 5 Camden,N.J. P13 10.36
Munhall.Pa. | U5_ fay ga Ka Riverdale,Il. Al ') 15.30 Niles,Culif. Pi Chicago W18 AO. 178
Owensboro.Ky. G8 ....8 peel me. Ue cee Seattle B3 ..6.20 N.T’wan'a.N.Y.(23)Bl1 Elyria,O. WS 10.175
8.Chicago. Ill. R2 "| 80. Seeeeaet Utah C11 Shuron.Pa. S3 5.39 Owensboro.Ky.(9) G8 Monaca,Pa. 817 10.175
S.Duquesne.Pa. ( ov sg Se S.Chicago.Il. US, W14..5.30 Pittsburg,Calif.(9) C11 Neoware. Nc. Wis eo
Sterling.Il. N15. Ma a. SparrowsPoint,Md. B2 ..5.30 Pittsburghi9) J5 SpringCity, Fa. Ks shine
Youngstown R2 ‘ Joliet, Ill. "p22

Sterling. Tl. N15 5.30 Portland.Oreg. O4
Carbon, Forging (NT) KansasCity,Mo. 85 arcana a wi0 Se aha ge td
Bessemer,Pa. U5 $99.5 Lackawanna,N.Y. B2 Matin eaius +3 ie - 5.30 § — rey pl ap ‘
Buffalo R2 “"°%99.50 LosAngeles B3 Witinanniek. 72 % -30 S.Ch’c’go(9)R2,U5,W14 9.009 Bars, Cold-Finished Carbon
Canton.O. R2 102 Minnequa.Colo. : cumewe C24)" HS a pa Duquesne, Fa. (9) at . Ambridge,Pa. W18 7.65
Clairton,Pa. US 99.59 Munhall.Pa. .....5.50 PLATES, Carbon Abras. Resi §.SanFran — “<"w BeaverFalls,Pa. M12,R2.7.65
Conshohocken,Pa. A3..104.50 Niles.Calif. P1 25 Claymont,Del. C22 pein = te Birmingham C15 25
Ensley, Ala. T2 99.5 Phoenixville, Pa. . 5.05 Fontana,Calif. K1 Steriine a df mo = @ Buffalo B5 7.70
Fairfield,Ala. T2 . 99.5 Portland, Oreg. 3-25 Geneva,Utah Cll pros ak ae , = @-7, Camden.N.J. P13 8.10
Farrell,Pa. S3 wo os Seattle B3 . 3.25 Houston $5 Ponewanes 2: ) , Carnegie,Pa. C12
Fontana.Calif. S.Chicago, Ill. U5, 5.50 Johnstown.Pa. B2 forrance.Cal Chicago W18
Gary.Ind. U5 aie 8.SanFrancisco : 3.15 SparrowsPoint.Md. B2
Geneva,Utah Cll pipealea staat ‘ )
Houston S5 : : Women Wve. W6 5.5 Poo fe bie ii 13.55 BARS, Hot-Rolled Alloy Detroit S41
Johnstown.Pa. B2 99. ees Y ; Aliquippa,Pa. J5 Donora, Pa as

Lackawanna,N.Y. 2. .99.% Wide Flange PLATES, H.S., L.A. Bethlehem.Pa. B2 ; 795 Elyria,O. W
LosAngeles B3 9.4 3ethlehem, Pa. ..5.55 Aliquippa,Pa. J5 .95 Bridgeport,Conn : FranklinP 8 i th
Midland.Pa. C18 99.49 Clairton,Pa. 5.50 Ashland.Ky. 4 95 Buffalo R2
Munhall,Pa. Ué ...-99.50 Fontana,Calif. K 3.45 Bessemer.Ala. T2 95 Canton.O
Owensboro, Ky § 99.50 JIndianaHarbor,Ind. I- Clairton. Pa ) 95 Clairton, Pa
Seattle B3 --+ 109. Lackawanna,N.Y. B2 . Claymont, De! 95 Detroit S41
Sharon,Pa. S3 .. 99.5 Munhall, Pa U5 es Cleveland J5 t 95 Economy,Pa
S8.Chicago R2, U5, -99.5 Phoenixville Pa. Coatesville, Pa 7 95 Ecorse. Mich
8. Duquesne, Pa. eee S.Chicago. Ill. Conshohocken.Pa. A3 5 Fairless Pa
S.SanFrancisco .. 108 Sterling. Ml. NIS. 3 Economy.Pa. 614 5 Farrell,Pa. 8: \
Warren,O. C17 ........99. Weirton,W.Va. W6 Ecorse,Mich G! 795 Fontana.Calif. } M

Alloy, Forging Alloy Std. Shapes Fairfield, Ala, Gary, Ind
Bethlehem,Pa. B2 ..$119.00 Aliquippa,Pa. Scalpel Houston
Bridgeport,Conn. C32.. Clairton, Pa. ee eg OAS
Buffalo R2 ps ayes Gary,Ind. US eee. 70
Canton.O. R2, T7 9. Houston S5 Ss oN Geneva,Utah Cil
Conshohocken, Pa. A3. .126. Munhall.Pa. U5 Houston 85
Detroit S41 ae 8.Chicago, Ill. U5. W14. .6.8 pe aco

; ohnstown, Pa
nn a ay: at H.S., L.A., Std. Shapes Munhall, Pa.
Fontana,Calif. K1 Aliquippa,Pa. J5 Pittsburgh J6
Gary.Ind. U5 Bessemer, Ala, Seattle BS ..
Houston 8&5 bk Bethlehem, Pa. Sha ron,Pa. S83
Ind.Harbor,Ind. Y1 Clairton,Pa. $-Culenge.
Johnstown,Pa. B2 , Fairfield, Ala. SparrowsPoint
Lackawanna,N.Y. B2.. rang aa : costar S. Duquesr :

LosAngeles B3 gidlote sary, ad p oe eo ener nee si Struthers Oo Y! 725 BARS, Cold-Finished Carbon
Lowellville,O. S3 ....11§ pean age Cll ..... 2 PLATES, Alloy Warren.O. Cli 4p her (Turned and Ground)
Massillon.O. R2 ouston SS. ; 3 * Youngstown U5 ).72 J a w
Midland, Pa ee ee Fo mpacnatnsg ten Cumberland,Md. (5) C19

sal. P: ohnstown,Pa. B2 slaymor ,
og KansasCity,Mo. 85 Coateerilie. a nie St sete
ahavan PK: Lackawanna,N.Y. B2 —agecen' ng 6 ert ; bridge, Pa Pa. M12,R:
S.Chicago R2,U5,W114. LosAngeles B3 Farrell, Pa Bon nea Pa B2. ee
i tuaeee ta Munhall,Pa. U5 a Panera.
Struthers, O. ai Seattle B3 wt eek a ee

Houston S5

“mz ‘ 8.Chicago,Il. U5
Warren,O. C -119. cs aaetamaiaes ; Ind. Harbor, Ind
Johnstown. Pa

ROUNDS, SEAMLESS TUBE (NT) Sterling,II]l. N15 "
Buffalo R2 ....$122.50 Struthers,O. Y1 Lowellville,O
> Munhall, Pa

pena 7 25 H.S., L.A., Wide Henge Newport,Ky. /
vieveland R2 ......122 Bethlehem,Pa. B2 8.10 Pittsburgh J5
SaRy 200s UN, 22.50 Ind.Harbor,Ind. I-2 3.05 Seattle B3
S.Chicago Tl. ; 22. Lackawanna,N.Y. B2 8 Sharon,Pa. S3
gute Se E ee. Munhall, Pa U5 ‘ 4 §.Chicago,IIl. US W14

arren,O. Cl é S8.Chicago,Il. U5 . 5 SparrowsPoint,Md. B2
SKELP Sterling,IIl. N15 ‘ 75 Youngstown Y1
Aliquippa,Pa. J5 . 5.05
Munhall,Pa. U5 <a ae Ol PILING FLOOR PLATES § Chicago Il!
Pittsburgh J5 ... ..5.05 BEARING PILES Cleveland J5 S. Duquesne.P
Warren,0O. R2 o 5.0: Bethlehem.Pa. B2 ......5.55 Conshohocken. } * 37% S. sank paneinca T
Youngstown R2, US 5.05 Ind.Harbor,Ind. I-2 ....5.£ be mace “> Hera: 4
WIRE RODS mee eg sagt Y. B2 ..5.55 5 roerenate tag ™ yungstown US
AlabamaCity,Ala. R2 5 Munhall,Pa. U5 ; yeh pectthe: ; Z 7
pees Pa JS S.Chicago,Iil, 1-2, US __! S.Chicago,IIl. U5 . 375 BAR SIZE ANGLES; H.R. Carbon
Alton II i... 5.60 STEEL SHEET PILING ppm Ingot tron no a
Bartonville, Ill. é : , Ashland c¢.1.(15) A10 {ous » §

- -Harbor,Ind. I-2 ....6.5¢ a) A ptember bees Py
Buffalo W12 ee ) ‘Ashland 1.¢.1.(15) A10 poems any la
ae ” Lackawanna,N.Y. L na(9)

Cleveland A7_. , Munhall. Pa : Cleveland c.l ackawanna

a,Pa. AT as valed : 7 . T Sterlt ng.Ill. N15
Donora, Pa 7 $.Chicago, Ill. 2 US 359 Warren,O. c.l. R2 Sterling. lll.(1)

Fairfield,Ala, T2 ee, y, -s ,

Houston S5 Pree. Weirton, W. Va. . 5 BARS Tonawanda N.Y

IndianaHarbor,Ind. i> 6:4 e ’ Narren.O
Johnstown,Pa. B2 ....6. BARS, Hot-Ro!led Carbon BAR SIZE ANGLES; S. Shapes Waukegar
Joliet,m. <A7 ett ie cca PLATES, Carbon Steel (Merchant Quality) Aliquippa,Pa. J5 .
KansasCity,Mo. S5 . 5.65 AlabamaCity,Ala. R2 ..5.30 Ala.City,Ala.(9) R2 ..5.675 Atlanta All

Kokomo,Ind. C16 ... 5. Aliquippa,Pa. J5 .....5.30 Aliquippa,Pa. (9) J5 5.675 Joliet.I. P22

2arraerarae
en enn an en Emm nen en en vn

*Grade A; add 0.05c_ for
Grade B

ON NOT ONE EH EK D OHH OW LEV
> a, J 7 107

PON

Warren.O. C17 it 3 5
Youngstowni9) R2, U5.6 Cleveland A7, C20
i Detroit B5, P17

sectads betas =

Hamm
Hartford,Conn
Harvey, Ill B
LosAngeles(4
LosAngeles(49)
) eid, Mass
ssillon,O

nonen en

|
I
Mon:

Newark

awCuastle
Pittsburgh J5
Plymouth, Mich
Putnam,Conn
Readville,Mass
8.Chicago, Ill
SpringCity.!
Struthers
Varren.O

ukegan, [il A7

nantic.Conn. J5 8.15

gstown F3, Y1 7.65

ne HA

LosAngeles
Lowellville O
Massillon.O
Midland. P
Owensboro
Pittsburgh
Sharon, Pa

S.Chicago

20 00 90 20 G0 Ge 00 G0

BARS & SMALL SHAPES, H.R.
High-Strength, Low-Alloy

Aliquippa, Pa.

Bessemer, Ala.

Bethlehem, Pa

‘iairton. Pa

20 90 20 G0 G0 Ge Se
a

IAAI DNNANS

May 11, 1959

BARS, Reinforcing, Billet
{To Fabricators)
AlabamaCity,Ala.
Atlanta All
Birmingham C15
Buffalo R2
Cleveland R2
Ecorse, Mich
Emeryville, Calif
Fairfield,Ala, T2
Fairless,Pa. US ...
Fontana,Calif. Kl .
Ft. Worth, Tex (4) ( 26)T4
Gary,Ind U5
Houston 85
Ind. Harbor, Ind
Johnstown, Pa
Joliet,IN. P22 ...
KansasCity,Mo. 8S
Kokomo,Ind. C16
Lackawanna,N.Y.
LosAngel B3
Madison, Ill. L1
Milton, Pa M18
Minnequa,Colo
Niles,Calif. P1
P ittsbure Calif
Pittsburgh J5 .
Portiand,Oreg. O4
SandSprings, Okla.
Seattle A24, B3
8.Chicago, Ill. R2
8. Duquesne, Pa
8.SanFrancisco
SparrowsPoint,Md
Sterling.Il1.(1) N15
Sterling,Ill. N15
Struthers,O Yi
Tonawanda,N.Y
Torrance,Calif. Cll .
Youngstown R2, U5
BARS, Reinforcing, Billet
(Fabricated; To Consumers)
Baltimore 3 .7.4
Boston B2, U RieRRaY *
[ne Se: wonuasvceat
Cleveland U8
Houston 85
Johnstown, Pa
KansasCity,Mo. 8:
Lackawanna,N.Y
Marion,O Pll
Newark,N.J U
Philadelphia U
Pittsburgh J5
SandSprings, Okla.
Seattle A24, B3
SparrowsPt.,Md
St.Paul U8 otis wis
Williamsport,Pa. 81¢
BARS, Wroughi Iron
Economy,Pa.(S.R.)B14 14.§
Economy,Pa.(D.R.)B14 18

R2..

on HN RD

cs ininins

ono

tn on on on

B12

cece 7
B2 p weietean
7

NOI

Economy (Staybolt) B14 19.00
McK.Rks.(S8.R.) L5

McK. Rks.(D.R.) L5- .
McK. Rks. (Staybolt) L5

BARS, Rail Steel
ChicagoHts.(3) C2,
ChicagoHts.(4) (44)
ChicagoHts.(4) C2...
Franklin,Pa. (3) F5.
Franklin,Pa. (4)F5
JerseyShore, Pa. (3)
Marion,O.(3) P11 ....
Tonawanda(3) B12
Tonawanda(4) B12

SHEETS

SHEETS, Hot-rolled Steel
(18 Gage and Heavier)
Lackawanna,N.Y. B2
Allenport,Pa. P7
Aliquippa,Pa,. J5 ..
Ashland,Ky.(8) A10
Cleveland J5, R2
Conshohocken, Pa
Detroit(8) Ml ........
Ecorse,Mich. G5
Fairfield,Ala. T2
Fairless, Pa.

Farrell,Pa. 83

Fontana, Calif

Gary,Ind U5
Geneva,Utah Cll
GraniteCity, M1. (8)

Ind. Harbor,Ind. I-2,
Irvin, Pa U5 .
Lackawanna,N.Y
Mansfield.O. E6
Munhall, Pa U5

New port, Ky

I-2
I-2

P ittsburg, Calif
Pittsburgh J5
Portsmouth,O
Riverdale, Ill

Sharon,Pa .
8.Chicago,Il. U 5,
SparrowsPoint,Md
Steubenville,O. W10
Varren,O R2 9%
Weirton,W.Va. W6 .5.10
Youngstown U5, Y1 5.10
SHEETS, H.R. (19 Ga. & Lighter)
Niles,O. M21, S83
SHEETS, H.R., Alloy
Gary,Ind. U5

Ind.Harbor, Ind.
Irvin,Pa TS . svesveve
Munhall,Pa. US .......
Newport, Ky ere
Youngstown U5, Y1 ...

5.10
5.10
5.10
.5.10

‘wi4.
B2

.6.275

8.40
.8.40
8.40
8.40
8.40
8.40

SHEETS, H.R.(14 Ga. & Heavier)
High- ae, Low- Alloy

Aliquippa,Pa. J5

Ashland, Ky.

Cleveland J5, R2

Conshohocken,Pa. A3 ..7

Ecorse,Mich. G5

Fairfield,Ala. T2

Fairless, Pa.

Farrell, Pa.

Fontana, Calif.

Gary,Ind, U5 rer

Ind.Harbor, — T-2

Irvin,Pa cocceee

Lackaw: anni 2(35)

Munhall,Pa.

Niles,O. 83 ee

Pittsburgh I5 o*

8.Chicago, Il. U5,

Sharon,Pa. 83 ...

SparrowsPoint (36).

Warren,O. R2

Weirton, W. Va.

Youngstown U5, Y1 .

SHEETS, Hot-Rolled Ingot
(18 Gage and Heavier)

Ashland,Ky(8) <A10

Cleveland R2

Warren,O.

SHEETS, Cold- Rolled pene 7

Cleveland R2 .

Middletown,O A10” ees ‘6.7

Warren,O. R2

SHEETS, Cold-Rolled Stoel
(Commercial Quality)
AlabamaCity,Ala. R2
Allenport, Pa.
Aliquippa, Pa. i
Cleveland J5, R2
Conshohocken, Pa.
Detroit M1 .
Ecorse, Mich. G5
Fairfield, Ala.
Fairless, Pa U5
Follansbee, W.Va.
Fontana, Calif.
Gary,Ind ID eeccses
GraniteCity,Ill. G4
Ind. Harbor, _ I-2
Irvin,Pa. U5
Lackawanna, N Y.
Mansfield,O. E6
Middletown,O. A10
Newport,Ky. A2
Pittsburg, Calif.
Pittsburgh J5.....
Portsmouth,O. P12
SparrowsPoint, Md.
Steubenville, O.
Warren,O
Weirton, W.Va
Yorkville,O
Youngstown

Iron

.5. 35

5
7.05

cil

B2.

SHEETS, Cold-Rolled,
High-Strength, Low-Alloy

Aliquippa, Pa.
Cleveland J5, R2
Ecorse,Mich. G5
Fairless, Pa.

J5 -9.275

-9.275
U5

Fontana, Calif.

Gary,Ind. U5 9.2
Ind. Harbor,Ind. I-2, Y1 9. 275
Lackawanna(37) B2
Pittsburgh J5... :
SparrowsPoint(38) B2. <
Warren,O.. BA ..ccccec®
Weirton, W. Va.

Youngstown Y1

SHEETS, Culvert

Ala.City, Ala.

R2.

Ashland,Ky. A10.7.225
Canton,O. R2....
Fairfield

Gary,Ind. U5 ..
GraniteCity,Ill.G4
Ind.Harbor I-2

Irvin,Pa. U5
Kokomo, Ind,
MartinsFry.

Ci6.
W10.

Pitts.,Calif. C11..
Pittsburgh J5 ...
SparrowsPt. B2

SHEETS, Culvert—Pure
Ind. Harbor, Ind.

Iron

I-2 7.475

SHEETS, Galvanized Steel
Hot-Dipped

AlabamaCity,Ala. R2
Ashland, Ky.
Canton,O. R2
Dover,O.
Fairfield, Ala.
Gary, Ind.
GraniteCity, Ill.
Ind. Harbor, Ind.
Irvin, Pa.
Kokomo, Ind.
MartinsFerry,O.

-6.875t
.6.875T
-6.875%
6.875t
-6.875T
-6.875t
. -6.975°
.6.875T
-6.875t

Al0

I-2
OB sccense
Cié6 ..

wi10

Middletown,O. A10

Pittsburg, Calif.
Pittsburgh J5
SparrowsPt.
Warren,O

Weirton, W.Va.

*Continuous
ous.

C11
.Md. B2.

and
tContinuous,

noncontinu-
tNoncon-

tinuous

SHEETS, Well Casing

Fontana,Calif. Kl ....7.325

SHEETS, Galvanized
High-Strength, Low-Alloy

Irvin,Pa. U5

Pittsburgh J5....

SparrowsPt. (39) B2. "10. 025

SHEETS, Galvannealed Steel

Canton,O. R2 ..ccecccdeate
Irvin,Pa. US .........%.2%8

SHEETS, Galvanized Ingot Iron
(Hot-Dipped Continvous)

Ashland,Ky. A110

Middletown,O, A10 ....

SHEETS, Electrogalvanized
Cleveland (28)

Niles, O. (28)

Weirton, W.Va.
Youngstown J5

SHEETS, Aluminum Coated

Butler,Pa. A10 (type 1) 9.525
Butler,Pa. A10 (type 2) 9.625

SHEETS, Enameling !ron
Ashland,Ky.

Cleveland R2

Fairfield, Ala.

Gary,Ind. U5

GraniteCity, Ill. sau’
Ind.Harbor,Ind. I-2, ¥1 6. 775
Irvin,Pa. US . 6.77
Middletown,O. A10-

Niles,O. M21, S3
Youngstown Yl

BLUED STOCK, 29 Gage
Dover,O. E6
Follansbee,W. Va.
Ind.Harbor,Ind. I-2
Mansfield,O. E6
Warren,O. R2 ..
Yorkville,O. W10-

SHEETS, Long Terne, Steel

(Commercial Quality)

Beec hBottom, W. Va.W10 7.225

zary,Ind. U5 ae 7.225
Mansfield, oO. E6 kis | 27.225
Middletown,O. A10 . 7.225
Niles,O. M21, S3 -7.225
Warren,O. - Sree
Weirton,W.Va. W6 -7.225
SHEETS, Long Terne, Ingot Iron
Middletown,O. A10 .7.625

Steel Co
Newport Steel Co
Wood Steel Co
llegheny Ludlum Steel
Alloy Metal Wire Div.,
H. K. Porter Co. Inc
American Shim Steel Co
American Steel & Wire
Div., U. S. Steel Corp
Anchor Drawn Steel Co
Angell Nail & Chaplet
Armco Stee! Corp
Atlantic Steel Co

Babcock & Wilcox Co

Bethlehem Steel Co

Beth. Pac. Coast Steel

Blair Strip Steel Co

Bliss & Laughlin Inc

Braeburn Alloy Steel

Brainard Steel Div.,

Sharon Steel Corp

E. & G. Brooke, Wick-

wire Spencer Steel Div.,

Colo. Fuel & Iron

suffalo Bolt Co. Div.,

Buffalo Eclipse Corp

Buffalo Steel Corp.

A M Byers Co

J. Bishop & Co
Calstrip Steel
Calumet Steel
Borg-Warner
Carpenter Steel
Colonial Steel Co.
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Columbia-Geneva Steel
Div., U. 8. Steel Corp
Columbia Steel & Shaft.
Columbia Tool Steel Co.
Compressed Steel Shaft.
Connors Steel Div.,
H. K. Porter Co. Inc

; Continental Steel Corp.
7 Copperweld Steel Co.

Crucible Steel Co.

C19 Cumberland Steel Co

C20 Cuyahoga Steel & Wire

Corp
Div.,
Corp
Co

2 Claymont Plant, Wick-
wire Spencer Steel Div.,
Colo. Fuel & Iron
Charter Wire inc
G. O. Carison Inc

~arpenter Steel of N. Eng.

Detroit Steel

Disston Div., H.

ter Co. Inc.

Driver-Harris Co

Dickson Weatherproof

Corp
K. Por-

nascus Tube Co
Vilbur B. Driver Co

fastern Gas&Fuel Assoc.

bastern Stainless Steel
iott Bros. Steel Co
re-Reeves Steel

& Pl

p
namel Prod iting

Firth Sterling Inc
Fitzsimmons Steel Co
Follansbee Steel Corp
Franklin Steel Div.,
Borg-Warner Corp
Moon Tube Co

t. Howard Steel & Wire
t. Wayne Metals Inc.

retz-

F
¥
F

Granite City Steel Co
Great Lakes Steel Corp
Greer Steel Co

Green River Steel Corp

Hanna Furnace Corp
Helical Tube Co

Igoe Bros. Inc

Inland Steel Co
Interlake Iron Corp
Ingersoll Steel Div.,
Borg-Warner Corp
Ivins Stee] Tube Works
Indiana Steel & Wire Co.

J1 Jackson Iron & Steel Co.
J3 Jessop Steel Co.

Key To Producers

J4 Johnson Steel & Wire Co.
Jones & Laughlin Steel
Joslyn Mfg. & Supply
Judson Steel Corp.
Jersey Shore Steel Co.

Kaiser Steel Corp
Keokuk Electro-Metals
Keystone Drawn Steel
Keystone Steel & Wire
Kenmore Metals Corp

Laclede Steel Co.
LaSalle Steel Co.
Latrobe Steel Co

Lone Star Steel Co.
Lukens Steel Co.
Leschen Wire Rope Div.,
H. K. Porter Co. Inc.

M1 McLouth
M4

Steel Corp.
Mahoning Valley Steel
Mercer Pipe Div., Saw-
hill Tubular Products
M8 Mid-States Steel & Wire
M12 Moltrup Steel Products
M14 McInnes Steel Co.
M16 Md, Fine & Specialty
Wire Co. Inc
M17 Metal Forming Corp.
M18 Milton Steel Div.,
Merritt-Chapman&Scott
M21 Mallory-Sharon
Metals Cerp
M22 Mill Strip Products Co.
Nl
N2
N3

National-Standard Co.

National Supply Co.

National Tube Div.,

U. 8. Steel Corp.

Nelsen Steel & Wire Co.

New England High

Carbon Wire Co.

NS Newman-Crosby Steel

N14 Northwest. Steel Rolling
Mills Inc

N15 Northwestern S.&W. Co

N20 Neville Ferro Alloy Co.

O04 Oregon Steel Mills

N5
N6

PacificStates Steel Corp.
Pacific Tube Co.

2 Phoenix Mfg.

& Ea bo

Cwm

Phoenix Steel Corp.,
Pilgrin Drawn Steel
Pittsburgh Coke&Chem.
Pittsburgh Steel Co.
Pollak Steel Co.
Portsmouth Div.,
Detroit Steel Corp.
Precision Drawn Steel
Pittsburgh Metallurgical
Page Steel & Wire Div.,
American Chain&Cable
Plymouth Steel Corp.
Pitts. Rolling Mills
Prod. Steel Strip Corp.
Co.

Phil. Steel & Wire Corp.

Republic Steel Corp.
Rhode Island Steel Corp.
Roebling’s Sons, John A.
Rome Strip Steel Co.
Reliance Div., Eaton Mfg.
Rome Mfg. Co.

Rodney Metals Inc.

Seneca Wire & Mfg. Co.
Sharon Steel Corp.
Sharon Tube Co.
Sheffield Div.,

Armco Steel Corp.
Shenango Furnace Co.
Simmons Co.

Simonds Saw & Steel Co.
Spencer Wire Corp
Standard Forgings Corp.
Standard Tube Co.
Stanley Works

7 Superior Drawn Steel Co.

Superior Steel Div.,
Copperweld Steel Co.
Sweet’s Steel Co.
Southern States Steel
Superior Tube Co.
Stainless Wekied Prod.
Specialty Wire Co. Inc.
Sierra Drawn Steel Corp.
Seneca Steel Service
Stainless & Strip Div.,
J&L Steel Corp.
Southern Elec. Stee! Co.
Seymour Mfg. Co.

$44 Screw & Bolt Corp. of

America

Tenn. Coal & Iron Div.,
U. S. Steel Corp.
Tenn. Products & Chem-
ical Corp.
Texas Steel Co.
Thomas Strip Div.,
Pittsburgh Steel Co.
Thompson Wire Co.
Timken Roller Bearing
Tonawanda Iron Div.,
Am. Rad. & Stan. San.

T13 Tube Methods Inc.

T19 Techalloy Co. Inc.

3 Union Wire Rope Corp.

4 Universal-Cyclops Steel

5 United States Steel Corp.

5 U. 8. Pipe & Foundry

J7 Ulbrich Stainless Steels

8 U.S. Steel Supply Div.,
U. S. Steel Corp.

U11 Union Carbide Metals Co.

U13 Union Steel Corp.

U
U
U
U
I
U

Vanadium-Alloys Steel
Vulcan-Kidd Steel
Div., H. K. Porter Co.

v2
V3

Wallace Barnes Steel

Div., Associated Spring

Corp.

W2 Wallingford Steel Co.

W3 Washburn Wire Co.

W4 Washington Steel Corp.

W6 Weirton Steel Co.

Ws Western Automatic
Machine Screw Co.

W9 Wheatland Tube Co.

W10 Wheeling Steel Corp.

W12 Wickwire Spencer Steel
Div., Colo. Fuel & Iron

W13 Wilson Steel & Wire Co.

W14 Wisconsin Steel Div.,
International Harvester

W15 Woodward Iron Co.

W18 Wyckoff Steel Co.

Y1 Youngstown Sheet & Tube

208

STEEL

STRIP

STRIP, Hot-Rolled Carbon

Ala.City,Ala.(27) R2...
Allenport,Pa. P7
Alton,Il. Li
Ashland,Ky. aid Pe ee
Atlanta All a
Bessemer, Ala. 2
Birmingham C15
Buffalo(27) R2......
Conshohocken, Pa.

Detroit M1

Ecorse,Mich. G5 .......
Fairfield,Ala. T2
Farrell,Pa. S3
Fontana,Calif.

oe OE © ae
Ind.Harbor,Ind. I-2, Y1 .
Johnstown,Pa.(25) B2..
Lackaw’na,N.Y.(25) B2.5.10
LosAngeles(25) B3
LosAngeles C1 ;
Minnequa,Colo. C10—
Riverdale,Ill, Al
SanFrancisco S7

STRIP, Cold-Rolled Alloy
Boston T6 .
Carnegie,Pa.
Cleveland A7 ...
Dover,O. G6 ....
Farrell,Pa. $3
FranklinPark,IIl.
Harrison,N.J. C18
Indianapolis S41
LosAngeles S41
Lowellville,O. S3
Pawtucket,R.I. N8
Riverdale,Ill. Al
Sharon,Pa, S3
Worcester, Mass.
Youngstown S41,

STRIP, Cold-Rolled
High-Strength, Low-Alloy
Cleveland A7 .........10.80
Dearborn,Mich, S3 -10.80

Dover,O. G6 ...
Farrell,Pa. S3
Ind.Harbor,Ind.
Sharon,Pa. S83

Warren,O. R2

Weirton,W.Va. W6 -10.80
Youngstown Y1 10.80

STRIP, Cold-Rolled me: Iron
Warren. O. R2 -8.17

STRIP, C.R. Electrogalvanized
Cleveland AZ. - 7.425
Dover,O. G6
Evanston, Il.
McKeesport, Pa. atte
Riverdale,Il], Al .... 7. 525°
Warren,O. B9, S3, T5.7.4
Worcester,Mass. A7
Youngstown S41

*Plus galvanizing extras.

STRIP, Galvanized
(Continuous)
Farrell,Pa, S3
Sharon,Pa. S83 ; ;
TIGHT — HOOP |
Atlanta All ..
Farrell,Pa. S83
Riverdale, Ill. Al
Sharon,Pa. S83
Youngstown U5

SILICON STEEL

C.R. COILS & CUT LENGTHS (2
Fully Processed
(Semiprocessed 1/2¢ lower)
BeechBottom,W.Va. W10
Brackenridge,Pa. A4
GraniteCity,Ill, G4
IndianaHarbor, Ind.
Mansfield,O. E6
Newport,Ky. A2
Niles,O. M21
Vandergrift,Pa. U5
Warren,O. R2
Zanesville,O. A10

1-3 ..

Vandergrift,Pa,
Mansfield.O. E6

Warren,O. R2 (Silicon Lowcore) ene
SHEETS (22 Ga., coils & cut lengths)

Fully Processed
(Semiprocessed '/.¢ lower)
BeechBottum,W.Va. W
Vandergrift,Pa. U5
Zanesville,O. A10

‘) 9.975911.

- 9.875°11.7

2 Ga.)

Dyna-
mo
14.65
14.65

Elec-
tric

rma-
ture Motor
11.70 12.40 13.35
12.40 13.55
12.00* 13.15°
11.90% 13.05° .
12.40 13.55 14.65
12.40* 13.55°14.65°
12.40 13.55
12.40 13.55
12.40 13.55
12.40 13.55

Field

30°
9.875°11.2
9.875 11.
9.875*11.
9.875°11.
9.875°11.
11.

14.65
14.65
14.65

Stator
8.10
8.10
8.10

1-72 T-65 1-58 T-52
17.85
17.85
17.85

16.30
16.30
16.30

ted.

16.80
16.80
16.80

C.R. COILS & CUT

1-73 1-66

LENGTHS (22 Ga.)
Brackenridge, Pa.
Butler.Pa. A10
Vandergrift,Pa. U5..
Warren,O. R2

*Semiprocessed.
semiprocessed %c lower.

WIRE

WIRE, Manufacturers Bright,

Seattle(25) B3
Seattle N14

Sharon, Pa.
S.Chicago W14
8.SanFrancisco(25)
SparrowsPoint, Md.
Torrance,Calif. C11
Warren,O. R2.....
Weirton, W.Va.
Youngstown U5

STRIP, Cold-Finished
Spring Steel (Annealed)
Baltimore T6 .
Boston T6 ....
Bristol,Conn. wi
Carnegie,Pa. S18
Cleveland A7 .....
Dearborn, Mich, $3
Detroit D2 ....
Dover,O. G6
Evanston, Ill.
Farrell,Pa. S3
Fostoria,O. S81

0.26- 0.61- ” _ T- 90 " 80

18.10 19.70
19.70
17. 10 18. 10 19.70

T-72
20.20 20.70 15.70TT
20.20 20.70 ...
20.20 20.70 15.70

15.70t

o
228

RRs:

+Fully processed only. {[Coils, annealed,

ttCoils only

Pi2
R5
R2

Portsmouth, 0.
Roebling.N.J.
§.Chicago, Ill

2 wwDG, wo§

cio
HAT

STRIP, Hot-Rolled Alloy

Carnegie,Pa. S18
Farrell,Pa, $3
Gary,Ind. U5
res
Ind. Harbor,Ind.
KansasCity, Mo,
LosAngeles B3
Lowellville, O. 83°
Newport,Ky. A2
Sharon,Pa. A2, §3
8.Chicago.Ill. Ww14
Youngstown U5, Y1

STRIP, Hot-Rolled
High-Strength, Low-Alloy

Ashland,Ky. A10
Bessemer,Ala. T2
Conshohocken, Pa.
Ecorse,Mich. G5
Fairfield,Ala. T2
Farrell,Pa, S3

Gary,Ind. U5

Ind. Harbor, Ind.
Lackawanna,N.Y.
LosAngeles(25) B3
Seattle(25) B3
Sharon,Pa. S3 ........
S.Chicago,Il. W14 :
S8.SanFrancisco(25) B3.8.:
SparrowsPoint,Md. B2.
Warren,O. R2.
Weirton, W.Va.
Youngstown U5,

We ..
Y1

STRIP, Hot-Rolled Ingot Iron

Ashland,Ky.(8) A10 ....5.3:
Warren,O. R2 5

STRIP, Cold-Rolled Carbon
Anderson,Ind. G6
Baltimore T6 ;
a are
SMEEOIO TAO ina cnes se
Cleveland A7, J5......
Dearborn,Mich. $3 a
Detroit D2, M1, P20 .
ROWED. (GE: soo pc cen
Evanston, Ill. M22
Farrell,Pa. S3 .
Follansbee, W. Va. ra
Fontana,Calif. K1
FranklinPark, Ill,
Ind. Harbor, Ind.
Indianapolis S41 .....
LosAngeles Cl, 841
McKeesport,Pa. E10 ..
NewBedford,Mass. R10.
NewBritain,Conn, S15.
NewCastle,Pa. B4, ES.
NewHaven,Conn. D2.
NewKensington,Pa., “
Pawtucket,R.I. R3 ....
Pawtucket,R.I. N8 ....
Philadelphia P24 ......
Pittsburgh J5 ........
Riverdale,Ill. Al
Rome,N.Y.(32) R6
Sharon,Pa. S83 :
Trenton,N.J. (31) R5
Wallingford,Conn. W2.
Warren,O. R2, T5
Worcester,Mass. A7
Youngstown 841, Y1

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FranklinPark, Ill,
Harrison,N.J. C18
Indianapolis S41
LosAngeles Cl

LosAngeles 841
NewBritain,Conn.
NewCastle,Pa. B4, H5
NewHaven,Conn.
NewKensington, Pa.
NewYork W3
Pawtucket,R.I.
Riverdale,Il]. Al
Rome,N.Y. (32)

Sharon,Pa. S3
rig a ae.
Wallingford,Conn.
Warren,O. T5 pate eas
Worcester, Mass. “AT, T6..
Youngstown S41 .........

Spring Steel aad
Bristol,Conn. W1
Buffalo W12
Fostoria,O. S1
FranklinPark, Ill.
Harrison,N.J. C18
NewYork W3
Palmer,Mass. W12
Trenton,N.J. R5
Worcester, Mass.
Youngstown 841

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TIN MILL PRODUCTS

TIN PLATE, Electrolytic (Base Box)
Aliquippa,Pa. J5

Fairfield, Ala.
Fairless,Pa.
Fontana,Calif.
Gary,tad. UG) .ccs.
GraniteCity,IIl. G4 .
IndianaHarbor, Ind, I-
Irvin,Pa. U5
Niles,O. R2 .
Pittsburg,Ca lif.
SparrowsPoint,Md. B2
Weirton,W.Va. W6
Yorkville.O. W10

“+

0.25 Ib 0.50 Ib
$9.10 $9.35
9.45
9.45
10.00
9.35
9.45
9.35

9.10 9.35
.10 9.35
75 10.00

10 9.35

9.10 9.35

20
9.20
9.75

10
9.20
9.10

ELECTROLYTIC TIN- at (20-2 a i pa sian! Ib)
0-27 7.9 i

IndianaHarbor.Ind. Y1
Niles,O. R2 (20-27 Ga.
Aliquippa,Pa. J5 (su3y Ga.)

TIN PLATE, American 1.25 1.50
b Ib
Aliquippa,Pa.J5 $10.40$10.65
Fairfield,Ala. T2 10.50 10.75
Fairless,Pa. U5 . 10.50 10.75
Fontana,Calif.K1 11.05 11.30
Gary,Ind. U5 ... 10.40 10.65
Ind.Harb. Y1 .. 10.40 10.65
Pitts.,Calif. C11. 11.05 11.30
Sp.Pt.,Md. B2.. 10.40 10.65
Weirton, W.Va.W6 10.40 10.65
Yorkville,O. W10 10.40 10.65

BLACK PLATE (Base Box)
Aliquippa,Pa. J5
Fairfield, Ala,
Fairless,Pa. U5
Fontana, Calif.
Gary,Ind.
GraniteCity, Ill.
Ind.Harbor,Ind.

G4. 8.
I-2, ¥1.

Irvin, Pa,

Niles,O. 2 Verrrre
Pittsburg Calif. ‘C11
SparrowsPoint, Md.
Weirton,W.Va. W6
Yorkville,O. W10

HOLLOWARE ENAMELING
Black Plate (29 Gage)
Aliquippa, Pa.
Gary,Ind. U5
GraniteCity, ml.
Ind. Harbor, Ind.
Irvin,Pa. U5
Yorkville,O.

AQ IAAA

aeernre?

MANUFACTURING TERNES
(Special Coated, Base Box)
Gary,Ind. U5 .. ..$10.05
Irvin,Pa. U5... -10.05

low Carbon
AlabamaCity,Ala.
Aliquippa,Pa. J5
Alton, Il. Li
Atlanta Al .
Bartonville, tl.
Buffalo W12
Chicago W13
Cleveland A7,
Crawfordsville
Donora,Pa
Duluth AZ :
Fairfield, Ala.
Fostoria,O. (24)
Houston S5 .
Jacksonville, Fla.
Johnstown, Pa
Joliet, Ill AT .
KansasCity,Mo
Kokomo,Ind. C16
LosAngeles B3
Minnequa,Colo
Monessen.Pa. P7, ‘
N.Tonawanda,N.Y. Bll .
Palmer,Mass. W12 ..
Pittsburg Calif. Cll
Portsmouth,O, P12
Rankin.Pa. A7 ......-
S.Chicago.Ill, R2
S.SanFrancisco C10
SparrowsPoint,Md
Sterling. I11.(1) N15
Sterling.Ill. N15
Struthers.O. Y1 ..
Waukegan, Ill. A7
Worcester,Mass. AT
WIRE, Cold Heading Carbon
Elyria,O. W8
WIRE, Gal'd.,
Bartonville, Ill.
Buffalo W12 ....
Cleveland
Donora,Pa
Duluth A7.
Johnstown,Pa.
KansasCity, Mo.
Minnequa,Colo. C10 ..
Monessen,Pa, P7, P16. .1:
Muncie,Ind. I-7 nae
NewHaven.Conn.
Palmer, Mass
Pittsburg Calif.
Portsmouth,0O.
Roebling,N.J. RS
SparrowsPt.,Md.
Struthers,O. Y1
Trenton.N.J. A7 ..-
Waukegan, Ill. A7
Worcester,Mass. A7
WIRE, Upholstery Spring
Aliquippa,Pa.
Alton, Ill. Li

3uffalo W12
Cieveland A7
Donora,Pa. A7
Duluth A7 ..
Johnstown,Pa
KansasCity, Mo.
LosAngeles B3 .
Minnequa,Colo, C
Monessen, Pa.
NewHaven,Conn.
Palmer,Mass. W2
Pittsburg, Calif. C11

weer

C20
Ind.

“M8
a

A7
A7

B2
U3

-10

8.00

C10 ..

§8.SanFrancisco or
B2

SparrowsPt., Md.
Struthers,O. Y1
Trenton.N.J. A7
Waukegan, Ill. A7 ..
Worcester,Mass. A7

WIRE, MB Spring, High-Carbon
Aliquippa,Pa. J5

Alton, II. L1
Bartonville, Ill
3uffalo W12
Cleveland A7
Donora,Pa. A7
Duluth A7 ..
Fostoria,O. S81
Johnstown,Pa.
KansasCity, Mo.
LosAngeles B3 aie
Milbury, Mass. (1% 2) N6..
Minnequa,Colo. C10 .
Monessen,Pa P7, Pig ..
Muncie Ind. I-7 ....
Palmer.Mass. W12 ...
Pittsburg.Calif. C 11
Portsmouth,O. P12
Rtoebling.N.J. R5
8.Chicago.Ill. R2
S.SanFrancisco C10
SparrowsPt.,Md. B2
Struthers,O. Y1
Trenton,N.J. A7
Waukegan. Ill. A7 ..
Wor’ster, Mass. A7,J4,T6

B2 ...
85, U3

10 05

WIRE, Fine & Weaving(8” Coils)
Alton, Til. Ll .16.50
Zartonville, Ill. .16.40
Chicago W13 16.30
Cleveland A7 16.30
Crawfordsville, Ind. 16.40
Fostoria,O. S81 16.30
Houston 85 ie ere | 55
Jacksonville, F la M8 .16.65
Johnstown Pa. B2 16.30
KansasCity,Mo. S5 16.55
Kokomo. Ind, C16 16.30
Minnequa,Colo. C10 16.55
Monessen,Pa. P16 .16.30
Muncie.Ind. I-7 .16.50
Palmer,Mass. W12 16.60
S.SanFrancisco C10 .17.15
Waukegan Ill. A7 16.30
Worcester,Maes. A7, 16.60
WIRE, Tire Bead
Bartonville, Ill. K4
Monessen,Pa. P16
Roebling,N.J. R5

ROPE WIRE
Zartonville, Ill. 1
Buffalo W12 1
Fostoria,O. S81 1
KansasCity,Mo 1
Johnstown, Pa. 1
Monessen, Pa 1
Muncie,Ind ° —
Palmer, Mass T12 aes 1a
1
1
1
1:
1

“M8

a Le
MAA

voang

mA Og

Na -1-1°

Portsmouth,O
Roebling.N.J.
St.Louis L&
SparrowsPt., Md.
Struthers,O. Yl .....
Worcester,Mass. J4 .
(A) Plow and Mild Plow;
add 0.25c for Improved Plow.

API ID PhP aS

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May 11, 1959

209

WIRE, Cold-Rolled Fiat i ee ae An'id Galv. (Full container) Longer than 6 in.:
Anderson.Ind. G6 35 Duluth A7 WIRE (16 gage) Stone Stone Hex Nuts, Reg. & Heavy % in. and smaller.. 3.0
Baltimore T6 ‘ 965 Fairfield,Ala. T2 ...... Ala.City,Ala.R2 17.85 19.40** Hot Pressed & Cold Punched: %, %, and 1 in. ..+11.0
Boston 265 Houston 85 she ince ‘ Aliq’ppa,Pa. J5 ..17.85 19.65 % in. and smaller. . 62.0 High Carbon, Heat Treated:
Buffalo W12.. “"""32.35 Jacksonville, Fla. ole Bartonville K4 ...17.95 19.80 % in. to 1% in., incl. 56.0 § jn, and shorter:
Chicago ee “"12.45 Johnstown,Pa. F — Cleveland A7 ..17.85 .... 1% in. and larger .. 51.5 & in. and smaller.. 20.0
Cleveland ‘ TT Ge. See Craw’ dville M8 17.95 19.80tt Hex Nuts, Semifinished, %, %, and 1 in. ..+ 5.0
Crawfordsville,Ind. M8 5 KansasCity,Mo . 10.8 Fostoria,O. S1 ..18.35 19.90¢ Heavy (Incl. Slotted): A ‘ "a ia
Sakis ar 5 Kokomo,Ind. C16 ......§ Houston 85 ...18.10 19.65%* % in. and smaller.. 62.0 Monger than 6 in. :
Tar Pa. 3 LosAngeles B3 ........ Jacksonville M8 17.9519.80tt % in. to 1% in. incl. 56.0 . in. and smaller. . + 19.0
Fostoria,O. 81 Minnequa,Colo. C10 .. 5 Johnstown B2 eS we 19.65§ 1% in. and larger 51.5 » %, and 1 in, ..+39.0
FranklinPark. I Pittsburg,Calif. C11 Kan.City, Mo. $5. 10 Hex Nuts, Finished (Incl. Flat Head Cap Screws:
Kokomo.Ind. C16 oan 8.Chicago,Ill. R2 ......§ Kokomo Cil6 .. iz. = 18. 80+ Slotted and Castellated) : % in, and smaller,
Massillon.O ‘ S.SanFrancisco C10 . Minnequa C10. .18.10 19.65** in. and smaller.. 6! 6 in. and shorter ..+ 85.0
Milwaukee C23 . 9 BF SparrowsPt Md. B2 4 7 P’Im’r, Mass.W12 18.15 19.70 . in., incl. 57. Setscrews, Square Head,
Monessen, Pa 35 Sterling,Il.(37) N15 ....9.54 Pitts.,Calif. C11.18.20 19.757 | in. and larger.. 5 Cup Point, Coarse Thread:
Palmer, Mass 42 9 6! S.SanFran. C10 18.20 19.75** Semifinished Hex Nuts, Reg. Through 1 in. diam:
Pawtucket,R.I. N 9! Coil No. 6500 Interim St’ling(37) N15 17.25 19.05t1 (Inel. Slotted) : 2 6 in. and shorter ..+ 5.0
Philadelphia P24 . 2.65 AlabamaCity,Ala, R2 .$9.! SparrowsPt. B2..17.95 19.75§ % in. and smaller.. 62.0 Longer than 6 in. .. + 29.0
Riverdale. II! 246 Attente All. ; 7, Waukegan A7 ..17.85 19.40t % in. to % in., incl. 65.0
Rome, N.Y i coach eee Bartonville,Ill. K4 .. yp Worcester AT ....1815 .... 3 im. to 2% in., incl. 87.0 RIVETS
Sharon,Pa. 8% te 3uffalo W12 oS. one eee. SiS
ihe Ot ..12.65 Chicago W13 ‘ WIRE, Merchant Quality CAP AND SETSCREWS F.o.b. Cleveland and/or
Warren,O. B9 . 2.35 Crawfordsville,Ind. M8 (6 to 8 gage) An'idGalv. (Base —. ° ey — a with ae
Worcester.Mass. A7.T6.12 6! _ 9.5 ch 2. . per cent o ist, f.o.b. mill) burgh, f.o.b. Chicago and/or
gala Dues AY ...-.., Aliquippa J6 \-1.865 9.3255 Hex Head Cap Screws, freight equalized with Bir-
NAILS, Stock . etches ate TS 5p ccumantesiati” 9.10 9.7755 COBrse or Fine Thread, mingham except where equal-
AlabamaCity,Ala. R2 Houston 85 Bartonville(48) K4..9.10 9.80 Bright: : artsoiir hg gpa 2
A liquipp r > esate a _ TR n¢ j Pate qe, © in. and shorter: Structural % in., larger 12.85
quly ‘ i Jacksonville, Fla M Buffalo W12 ....9.00 9.557 , = aed ar .
Atlanta : Tohnstown.Pa R2 5 iesand AT 9.00 in. and smaller.. 35.0 y% in. and smaller by 6 in.
j ‘ Jonhr 4 evel: ( a eee ° y 7 - ; 2 ‘ s . 5 a
Bartonville M 5 Joliet. AT... r, Crawfordsville M8 9.10 9. R0tt . %, and 1 in, .. 16.0 and shorter: 15.0%.
Chicago W13 3 KansasCity,Mo. S85 Donora,Pa. A7 ...9.00 9.55t
Cleveland A‘ 3 Kokomo,Ind. C16 . h9 «Duluth A7 ......9.00 9.55f PRESTRESSED STRAND
Crawfordsville,Ind. } 5 LosAngeles B3 j 9 Fairfield T2 ..... ry 00 9.55+ (High strength, stress relieved; 7 wire uncoated. Net prices
Donora, Pa . . 73 Minnequa,Colo, C10 Houston(48) S5 ..9.25 9.80** per 1000 rt, 40,000 Ib and over)
3 PittsburgCalif. C11 10.3 Jack' ville, Fla. MS 9.10 9.80tt — Diameter, Inches
S.Chicago,Ill. R2 Johnstown(48) B2 9.00 9.6758 1/4 5/16 6 1/
S.SanFrancisco C10 t Joliet,IN. AZ ....9.00 9.55+ Alton,IIl. i ...+ $28.95 $43.40 3 $95.10
SparrowsPt. Md. B2 7) Kans.City(48) S5.9.25 § Buffalo lan wasssens., a 5 é i 3. 95.10
Sterling, I.(37) N15 59 Kokomo(48) S16 ..9. 9.65+ Cleveland ete
LosAngeles B3 9.98 § KansasCity, Mo.
BALE TIES, Single Loop Monessen(48) P7 .. 65 9. 5§ Monessen,Pa
AlabamaCity,Ala. R2 12 Palmer, Mass 712.9.30 9.85+ NewHaven,Conn.
Atlanta All . ; Pitts.,Calif. C11 .9.95 10. Pittsburg, Calif.
Bartonville,Ill. K4 2) tankin,Pa, A7....§ 9.557 Pueblo Colo
Crawfordsville,Ind. MS. .: 8.Chicago R2 ...§ 9.55** Roebling,N.J. R5
Donora,Pa. A7 2 S.Sank C10. .9.95 10.50** Spa crewebeint, Md.
. Duluth A7 . / 5 pelt y (48)B2 9.10 9.775§ St. Louis L8 ......... ¢
x mit. Eee ‘’ Fairfield,Ala. T2 5179 St’ling(1)(48)N15 9.00 9.70§§ Waukegan,Ill. A7 ..... 28.95 43.40
ces ras ope ° Houston $5 . ‘ Struthers,O. Y1 ..9.00 9.65t
ester,Mass. 4 9 Jacksonville.Fla. } ) Worcester,Mass.A7 9.30 9.85 RAILWAY MATERIALS
Joliet,Ill, AZ . 5 4 imaseg
7 Based n zinc price of
*13.50 5c¢e §10c tLess P
than 10c, +#10.50c. ¢211.00c. Rolls.

(To Wholesalers; per cwt)
$10 KansasCity,)
Kokomo,Ind
NAILS, Cut (100 Ib keg) Minnequa,Colo
To Distributors (33) Pittsburg, Calif **Subject to zine equaliza- pnsjey, Ala ,
Wheeling,W.Va. W $1 S.SanFrancisco tion extras. §§11.50c Fairfield,Ala. T2
SparrowsPt Mc 32 4 Gary,Ind. U5 os ee wees
POLISHED STAPLES Sterling, Iil.(7) N1é 214 Huntington, W.Va. C15
AlabamaCity,Ala 4 : FASTENERS John stown, P a. B2

Galveston,Tex. D7

FENCE POSTS (Base discounts, shipments Lackawanna,N.Y. B2 eae 5.65
of one to four containers, per Minnequa,Colo. C10 ..... 5.78 5.65
ChicagoHts., Ill cent off list, f.o.b. mill) Steelton,Pa. B2 . 5 5.65
Duluth A7 . RT a ie — Williamsport,Pa, $19 6%
Franklin,Pa. F5 77 achine olts
rayne eae “> Full Size Body (cut thre TIE PLATES TRACK BOLTS, Untreated
Marion,O. P11 177 i and smaller: Fairfield Ala. a 75 Clevel und R2
Minnequa,Colo 71 1 3 nd shorter 5 G ury,Ind U5 soseeseQGle man
Tonawanda.N.Y 310 17 3 hru 6 i 5 Lackawanna,N 7. De. os 795 Leban
L ar 16 i ¢ Minnequa,Colo. C10 ...6.875 Minn
oe _ t 47 tesa De ORCI: ‘ Pittsburgh $4
pos Barbed eit in. tha 18 an Steelton,Pa. B2 |.....6.875 Seattle B3
iabamacCl d R 193** vere > wig ‘ T talk . er
ae 3: 5 0 r than ir . Torrance,Calif, C11 5 SCREW SPIKES
5 In. : JOINT BARS Lebanon,Pa. B2
= o- STANDARD TRACK SPIKES
3essemer, Pa . 5 Pairfield,Ala. T2 9.75
Ind H irbor ind. I-2 2 ,Y1 10.10
KansasCity,Mo. S5 ....10.10
Lebanon,Pa. B2 ... 10.10
St it Minnequa,Colo. C10 ...10.10
»] . le F g . Steelton, Y4ttahure
TIE WIRE, Automatic Baler Tah shnalnig~-elpase y 2 3 ir and rter . 5f i mera ~4 Ry oe ee ay = a
(14% Ga.)Mper 97 Ib Net Box) ‘Foy ty ae § 3% in. thru 6 in... & AXLES S.Chicago. Ili “Bao 36 10
vo Canringe Bolts cut thread)@ 1nd-Harbor,Ind. S13 ..9.125 Struthers,O. Y1 .......10.10
ull Siz sody (cut thread'& el sag 9 25 Youngstow 22
See + > " Johnstown,Pa. EI ..».9.125 Youngstown R2 ... 10.10
ndersize Body (rolled

Birmingham C1

Fairfield,Ala
ngu soseess Joliet, Il. U5
Jodie > Fk | a 1¢ lersize Body (roll ckawanna,N.Y. B2
ster,! ‘ ton RE iss thread } a ». C10

rece

et et et ee

Footnotes
2 smaller: (1) Chicago base, (25) Bar mill bands
6 in id shorter .. 48 (2) Angles, flats, bands Deld. in mill zone, 6.295c
Larger diameters and (3) Merchant Bar mill sizes
ger length .. 35.0 (4) Reinforcing Bonderized
a 5) 14 nder 17/16 in.; (| Youngstown base.
‘ Lag, Plow, Tap, > (5) 1% to under 7/16 in.; ingstc y
Sparrov ) N St 4 Ele b > ee 17/16 to under 115/16 in., (30) Sheared; for universal mill
Sterling I1.(7) N1 1! Fiten Uo Beit ire, and 6.70c; 115/16 to 8 in., add 0.45¢
itting Up Bolts inclusive, 7.05c. 31) Widths over % i 7.375¢
WOVEN FENCE, 9-15 G 4% in. and smaller: 5) Chicago or Birm. base for widt ths % in ry under
dg a 6 in nd shorter .. 48.0 ( Chicago base 2 cols, lower by 0.125 in. and thinner
Larger diameters ar 16 Ga. and heavier. 2 3% suffalo base.
aa ver a ergh _— o- , (9) Merchant quality; add 0.35: 33) To jobbers, deduct 20c
Hick Te . ne ‘ oo.* for special quality, 34) 9.60e for cut lengths.
igh Tensile Structural Bolts (10) Pittsburgh base 35) 72” and narrower,
semifinished hex head 11) Cleveland & Pitts e (36) 54” and narrower
s, heavy semifinished hex (12) Worcester, Mass., base. 37) Chicago base, 10 points
Bolts — High-carbor 3) Add 0.25c¢ for 1 i lower
ext > eo rok heavier. (3 13 Ga, & lighter; 60” &
heat treated Spec 94° : J
4-395 in e Gage 0.143 to 0.249 in.; narrower
y. La in bulk. Full for gage 0.142 and lighter, 3 48” and narrower.
Keg quantity) 5.80¢ ( Lighter than 0.(
5 in. diam ....... 50.0 (15) %” and thinne rr. and heavier, 0.2
in. diam ....... 47.0 j os Ib = 1 9.10c for - lenaths. n:
ie oes and 1 in. diam. 43.0 ‘lates only; in, & (42) Mill lengths o.b, mi
Coil No. 6500 Stand ‘ : s: \o* f aaa 1% ee : id — eee a. deld. in mill zone or within
to ) 16 89+ ’ aes = To dealers switching limits, 3
K ko mo.I In d . 4 ames NUTS 9) Chicago & Pitts. base 3) 9-14% Ga.
4 Minneqgua,Colo U. } 7 r 7 2 New Haven, Conn., base To fabricators
Bartonville ] } Pittsburg,Calif, C1l ... (Keg or case quantity and (22) Deld. San Francisco Bay phe aa :
Buffalo W12 . 30 ~Rankin,Pa. / STt over) area. 6-7 Ga.
Chicago W13 ... 9.! S.Chicago,Ill. R2_ ....187** Square Nuts, Reg. & Heavy: [5; Special quality 9) 3% in. and smaller rounds;
wfordsville,Ind. M 9.64 Sterling,IIL.(7) Nik 92 All sizes 56.90 ‘*2) + ue 0.05¢, finer than 9.65c, 3% in. and other
ceees tee 5 Ga

STEEL

SEAMLESS STANDARD PIPE. Threaded and Coupled

Size—Inches
List Per Ft

Aliquippa, Pa. J5 ...
Ambridge, Pa. N2..
Lorain, O. N3 .
Youngstown Yi

+12.25 +27. 25
ger 25

1 +12.25 +27.25

+12.25 + 27.25

58.5¢

5.82
Blk Galv*
+5.75 +22.5

+5.75 Pr

+5.75 +22.5
+5.75 + 22.5

Carload

Blk
+ 3.25
+ 3.25
+3.25
+3.25

+20
+20

discounts from list, %

“Galv*
+ 18,
+18.
+18,

4
$1.09
10.89

Blk Galv*
5 +1.75 +18.5
; +1.75 ms

5 +1.75 +18. 5
5 +1.75 +18.5

Carload discounts from list, %

ELECTRIC STANDARD PIPE, Threaded and Coupled

Youngstown R2 +12.25 +27.25 +5.75 +22.5 +1

+ 3.25

75 +18.

5 +1.75 +18.5

Carload

BUTTWELD STANDARD on Threaded

Size—Inches

and Coupled

same Per Ft ......
Pounds Per Ft

5. be
0.24

discounts from list, %

lay
8.5¢
0.85

11.5¢

r 0.57 .
Galv* Bik Galv* Bik Galv* Blk Galv* Galy*

+ 13
+15
+13

Aliquippa, Pa. J5
Alton, Ill. Li .
Benwood, W. Va.
Butler, Pa. F6

Etna, Pa, N2 ..
Fairless, Pa. N3°
Fontana, Cz

Indiana Harbor, Ind.
Lorain, O. N3 .......
Sharon, Pa. S4
Sharon, Pa, M6 .
Sparrows Pt., Md.
Wheatland, Pa. W9
Youngstown R2, Y1

+ 42.5
+41

+21
19.5

+34
+32 tases
+13
+15
+ 26
+14
+13

+13
+15
+13
+13

B2.

Size—Inches
List Per Ft ..
Pounds Per Ft

Aliquippa, Pa,
Alton, Ill, Li
Benwood,
Etna, Pa.
Fairless, Pa,
Fontana, Calif
Indiana Harbor,
Lorain, O. N3
Sharon, Pa. M6_
Sparrows Pt., Md
Wheatland, Pa. W9
Youngstown R2, Y1

wren Hen

tte

Tm Dh
w

Ind

te
209

tonmepre ~)
Promo uUrPw ty Sr
>]
ho-at

Be...

CON EN OND

ror

*Galvanized pipe discounts based on price of zinc at 11.00c, East St

Stainless Steel

Representative prices,

Clad Steel

cents per pound; subject to current lists extras

Carbon Base
10% 15%

Sheets
Carbon Base
0%

Forg-
ing
Billets

—Rerolling—- 20%
Stainless
302
304 neuen 686 ° 28.80
BOOM . gasncetacda Ge 3.75 36.95 40.15
316 K 42.20 46.25 50.25
316L 46.75 51.2 55.65
55.15 60.
34.50 37.75
40.80 44
24.60 26

Plotes Sheets
39.2%

40.00

41.25

31. 55 34.30

Inconel
Nickel
Nickel,
Monel

Low Cc urbon
Strip, Carbon Base
——Cold Rolled
1 Both Sides
C sopper® 3.15

*Deoxidi zed Production points:
New Castle, Ind. I-4; stainless-clad otitis
C22, Coatesville, Pa. L7, New Castle, Ind
ington, Pa. J3; nickel, inconel, monel-clad
ville L7; copper-clad strip, Carnegie, Pa

Tool Steel

Grade $ per lb

818

70.00
Steel
Corp. ;
Calstrip
New

59.00
Steel Corp.; American Steel & ire fe ae
Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co.; Arm Stee
Bethlehem Steel Co.; J, B yp & Co.; A. M
irison Inc.; Carpenter Steel Co.; Carpenter
Products; Crucible Steel Co. of America; D
Steel Corp.; Wilbur B. Driver Co.; Driver-Harris Co Eastern
Firth Sterling Inc.; Fort Wayne Metals Inc.; Green River Steel
Jessop Steel Co.; Indiana Steel & Wire Co.; Ingersoll Stee! Div
Ellwood Ivins Steel Tube Works Inc.; Jessop Steel Johnson
Steel & Wire Co. Inc.; Stainless & Strip Div., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; Joslyn Stain-
Steels, division of Joslyn Mfg. & Supply Co.; Latrobe Steel Co.; Lukens Stee! Co.; Mo $ per Ib
Maryland Fine & Specialty Wire Co. Inc.; McLouth Steel Corp Metal Forming Corp rr . T-1 1.840
Midvale-Heppenstal! Co.; National Standard Co.; National Tube Div., U. S. Steel Corp T-2 2.005
Pacific Tube Co.; Page Steel & Wire Div., American Chain & Cable Co. Inc.; Pittsburgh ; ws ‘ 2.105
Rolling Mills Inc.; Republic Steel Corp.; Riverside-Alloy Metal Div., H. K. Porter Com- 8.7 of os T 2.545
pany, Inc.; Rodney Metals Inc.; Sawhill Tubular Products Inc.; Sharon Steel Corp 2 T-5
Simonds Saw & Steel Co.; Specialty Wire Co. Inc.; Standard Tube Co.; Superior
Div., Copperweld Steel Co.; Superior Tube Co.; Swepco Tube Corp.; Techalloy
Timken Roller Bearing Co.; Trent Tube Co. , subsidiary of Crucible Steel Co. of America
Tube Methods Inc.; Ulbrich Stainless Steel Inc.; Union Steel Corp.; U. S. Steel Corp
Universal Cyclops Steel Corp.; Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co.; Wali Tube & Metal Products
Co.; Wallingford Steel, subsidiary, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.; Washington Siee! Corp. ;
Seymour Mfg. Co.

Producers Are: Allegheny Ludlum
Corp.; Anchor Drawn Steel Co
Babcock & Wilcox Co.;
Steel Corp a 2.5
England; Charter Wire
Dearborn Div Sharon
Stainless Steel Corp. ;
Corp., subsidiary of

3org-Warner Corp.;

division of

Grade $ per |b
Reg. Carbon (W-1).. 0.330 W-Cr Hot Work (H-12) 0.530
Spec. Carbon (W-1)... 0.385 W Hot Wk. (H-21) 1.425-1.44
Oil Hardening (O-1). 0.505 V-Cr Hot Work (H-13) 0.550
V-Cr Hot Work (H-11) 0.505 Hi-Carbon-Cr (D-11).. 0.955

amascus Tube

Co.;
Grade by Analysis (%)
Cr Vv c

less

Stee!

Co. Inc

include:

Ml14,

Tool
C12, C18,

steel
F2, J3,

prod ucers
L3,

May 11, 1959

F.o.b. furnace prices

Pig lron

No, 2
Foundry

Malle-
Basic able
District
Birmingham R2
Birmingham U6
Woodward,Ala. W15

Cincinnati, deld

Birmingham
62.00 2.50°*
2.50°*

62 0o* 50**

66.00
66.00
77.29

69.02

Boston,
Rochester,N.Y

Syracuse,N.Y 4

70.12

District

Chicago I-3 ; ne 66.00

8.Chicago,Ill. R2 66.00

$.Chic igo.Ill, W114 66.00
Milwaukee leld 69.02

Muskegon, Mich

Chicago
66.50
66.50
69.52
74.52

Distri«

2, AT

Ohio,

Cleveland
66.00

69.52

Cleveland R
Akror

Mid-Atlantic District
Birdsboro,Pa. B10 68.50
P 50

68.50

68.00
68.00 68
68.00
75.50
73.19
70.91

68.50

District
P6
(N&S sides
Aliquippa, deld 67
McKeesRocks,Pa. deld
lle, Homesteac
zy. Monaca
fford,Pa., del , 68.29

68.60

Pittsburgh
lleIsland, Pa 66.50

Pittsburgh

ey
95

wawrencey
Verona

Brackenri
Midland,Pa 66.00

Youngstown District

in dollars per gross ton,

Besse-
mer

reported to STEEL. Minimum delivered prices are approximate.

No. 2
Foundry

Malle-
able
66.50
66.50
68.50

Besse-
mer

67.00

Duluth I-3
Erie,Pa, I-3 .......
Everett,Mass, E1
Fontana,Calif. K1
Geneva,Utah Cll ....
GraniteCity,Ill. G4
Ironton,Utah Cll
Minnequa,Colo. C10
Rockwood.Tenn. T3
Toledo,Ohio I-3 ......
Cincinnati, deld.

68.90
69.00
66.50
66.50

*Phos. 0.70-0.90% ; Phos. . 30-0.69%, $63.
**Phos. 0.70-0.90%; Phos. 0.30-0.69%, $63.50
tPhos, 0.50% up; Phos. 0.30-0.49%, $63.50

PIG IRON DIFFERENTIALS

Silicon: Add 75 cents per ton for each 0.25% Si or percentage thereof
over base grade, 1.75-2.25%, except on low phos. iron on which base
is 1.75-2.00%

Manganese: Add 50 cents per ton for each 0.25%
or portion thereof.

manganese over 1%

BLAST FURNACE SILVERY PIG IRON, Gross Ton

(Base 6.01-6.50% silicon; add 75c for each 0.50% silicon or portion
thereof over the base grade within a range of 6.50 to 11.50%; starting
with silicon over 11.50% add $1.50 per ton for each 0.50% silicon or
portion thereof up to 14%; add $1 for each 0.50% Mn over 1%)
TR Tf a ec Pare eee cr eres
Buffalo H1

ELECTRIC FURNACE SILVERY IRON, Gross Ton

(Base 14.01-14.50% silicon; add $1 for each 0.5% Si to 18%;
each 0.50% Mn over 1%; $2 per gross ton premium for 0.045%
CalvertCity.Ky. P15 Fins Gia phi ein aes ai bk eee ate ble ee
NiagaraFalls,N.Y. P15 .
Keokuk,Iowa Open-hearth & ‘Fary,
Keokuk,Iowa O.H. & Fdry, 12%

allowed up to $9,

$1.25
max P)
$99.00
ee eeoa © awk 99.00
$9 freight allowed K2 103.50
Ib piglets, 16% Si, max fr’gt
je xk sees adeaGenen Sas we wae 106.50

LOW PHOSPHORUS PIG IRON, Gross Ton

Lyles,Tenn. T3 (Phos. 0.03% max)
Rockwood,Tenn. T3 (Phos 0.035% max)
Troy.N.Y. R2 (Phos. 0.035% max)
Philadelphia, deld

Cleveland A7 (Intermedi ate)
Duluth I-3 (Intermediate) (Phos
Erie,Pa. I-3 (Intermediate) (Phos
NevilleIsland,Pa, P6 (Intermediate)

a
S

Aas

pa at et i et

(Phos. 0.036-0.075% max)

0.036-0.075 % ) —
0.036-0.075% max)
(Phos. 0.036-0.075 %

Socoaooo
oooono

“I-}-1-1 0

max)

Steel Service Center Products

Representative prices, per pound, subject to extras

Washingtor 20
ta, Birm

Richmond
10 cents; Atlan

SHEETS
Cold-
Rolled

orfolk

cisco

Stainless
Type 302
Atl
Baltimore
ngham
Boston

Buffal

nta

3irmi

Miss
geles

Jackson
Ar
Mem phi
‘i Ww

Los
Tenn

ikee

Moline, Ill

New York

Norfolk, Va

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Ricl

mond, Va
Louis

St. Paul -
San Francisco. .
Seattle ..
South’ton,
Spokane

Conn
Washington

*Prices do
heavier;

3ase

not
TTas
quantities,
in Chicago,
in Seattle,

include gage extras; tprices include gage
annealed; t1% in. to 4 in. wide, inclusive;
2000 to 4999 Ib except as noted; cold-
New York, Boston, Seattle, 10,000 Ib
30,000 lb and over; 2—30,000 Ib;

ind

Ib except
lb, except

ngham,

cents
Ch

and

#net
finished
and in San Francisco,
-1000 to 4999 Ib;

f.o.b

201]
salt

ga, Hor

STRIP

Hot-

Rolled*
91

¢ 4

coating
price,

bars

Denver,
Spokane,

15 cents per 100 Ib except:
Philadelphia, Portland,

ise City
Boston

istor

delivery charges are
Los Angeles, New York,
Seattle, no charge.

BARS

wareho

Standard
Structural
Shapes

—_———P LATES-———_

Carbon Floor
9.29 11.21
10.50

10.90

11.96

10.75

10.66

10.20

10.53

10.44

10.40

11.08

10.46

10.60

10.10

11.03
11.302

10.86

10.34

H.R
Rounds
39

H.R. Alloy

C.F. Rds.t 4140tt®
3.24 +

9.45

8.99

85#
3.304

77
99

11. “05
10.50

10.05

extras;
1 in.
2000

e*% in.

2000 to 3999 lb; stainless sheets, 8000
products on West Coast, 2000 to 9999
and over.

tincludes 35-cent bar quality extras; §42 in. and under;
round C-1018

Ib and over except in Seattle,
2000 to 4999 lb; hot-rolled

5—1000 to 1999 Ib; 1°—2000 Ib

STEEL

Refractories

Fire Clay Brick (per 1000 pieces*)
High-Heat Duty: Ashland, Grahn, Hayward
Hitchens, Haldeman, Olive Hill, Ky., Athens
Troup, Tex., Beech Creek, Clearfield, Curwens-
ville, Lock Haven, Lumber, Orviston, West
Decatur, Winburne, Snow Shoe, Pa., Bessemer,
Ala., Farber, Mexico, St. Louis, Vandalia, Mo.,
Ironton, Oak Hill, Parrall, Portsmouth, Ohio,
Ottawa, Ili. Stevens Pottery, Ga., Canon City,
Colo., $140; Salina, Pa., $145; Niles, Ohio
$138; Cutler, Utah, $175.
Super-Duty: Ironton, Ohio, Vandalia, Mo..
Olive Hill, Ky., Clearfield, Salina, Winburne,
Snow Shoe, Pa., New Savage, Md., St.. Louis,
$185; Stevens Pottery, Ga., $195; Cutler, Utah,
$248.

Silica Brick (per 1000 pieces*)
Standard: Alexandria, Claysburg, Mt. Union,
Sproul, Pa., Ensley, Ala., Pt.. Matilda, Pa.,
Portsmouth, Ohio. Hawstone, Pa., St. Louis,
$158; Warren, Niles, Windham, Ohio, Hays,
Latrobe, Morrisville, Pa., $163% E. Chicago,
Ind., Joliet, Rockdale, Il., $168; Canon City,
Colo., $173; Lehi, Utah, $183; Los Angeles,
$185.

Super-Duty: Sproul,
Warren, Windham,

Hawstone, Pa., Niles,
Ohio, Leslie, Md., Athens,
Tex., $158; Morrisville, Hays, Latrobe, Pa.,
$163; E. Chicago, Ind., St. Louis, $168; Canon
City, Colo., $183; Curtner, Calif. $185.

Semisilica Brick (per 1000 pieces*)
Woodbridge, N. J., Canon City, Colo.,
Philadelphia, Clearfield, Pa., $145.

Ladle Brick (per 1000 pieces*)
Dry Pressed: Alsey, Ill., Chester, New Cumber
land, W. Va., Freeport, Johnstown, Merrill
Station, Vanport, Pa., Mexico, Vandalia, Mo.,
Wellsville, Irondale, New Salisbury, Ohio,
$96.75; Clearfield, Pa., Portsmouth, Ohio, $102.

$140;

High-Alumina Brick (per 1000 pieces*)
50 Per Cent: St. Louis, Mexico, Vandalia, Mo.,
Danville, Ill., $253; Philadelphia, $265; Clear-
field, Pa., $230; Orviston, Snow Shoe, Pa., $260.
60 Per Cent: St. Louis, Mexico, Vandalia, Mo.,
$310; Danville, Ill., $313; Clearfield, Orviston,
Snow Shoe, Pa., $320; Philadelphia, $325.
70 Per Cent: St. Louis, Mexico, Vandalia, Mo.,
$350; Danville, Ill., $353; Clearfield, Orviston,
Snow Shoe, Pa., $360; Philadelphia, $365.
Sleeves (per 1000)
Johnstown, Bridgeburg,
Louis, $188; Ottawa, IIL,
Nozzles (per 1000)
Johnstown, Bridgeburg, St.
Louis, $310.
Runners
Johnstown,

Reesdale, St. Charles,
Pa., St. $205.

Reesdale, Charles,
Pa., 8st.
(per 1000)
Reesdale, Bridgeburg, St. Charles,
Pa., $234.

Dolomite (per net ton)
Domestic, dead-burned, bulk, Billmeyer, Blue
Bell, Williams, Plymouth Meeting, York, Pa.,
Millville, W. Va., Bettsville, Millersville, Mar-
tin, Woodville, Gibsonburg, Narlo, Ohio,
$16.75; Thornton, McCook, Ill., $17; Dolly Sid-
ing, Bonne Terre, Mo., $15.60

Magnesite (per net ton)
Domestic, dead-burned, % in. grains
fines: Chewelah, Wash., Luning, Nev.,
% in. grains with fines: Baltimore, $73

with
$46;

*—9 in x 4% x 2.50 sts.

Fluorspar

Metallurgical grades, f.o.b
Ill., Ky., net tons, carloads,
content 72.5%, $37-$41; 70%, $36-$40; 60%,
$33-$36.50. Imported, net ton, f.o.b. cars
point of entry, duty paid, metallurgical grade;
European, $30-$33, contract; Mexican, all rail,
duty paid, $25; barge, Brownsville, Tex., $27.

point in
CaF,

shipping
effective

Aluminum:
Atomized,
drum, freight

Carlots

Metal Powder

(Per pound f.o.b.
point in ton lots for
100 mesh, except as

shipping Ton lots
minus Antimony
noted) 5000-Ib
Cents Bronze
lots
Copper:
Electrolytic
Reduced
"

domestic
98% Fe

Sponge Iron,
and foreign,

Minimum trucklots,
freight allowed east of
Mississippi River
100 mesh, 100 Ib Mini 50
bags .
100 mesh,
pails -
40 mesh, 100 lb
bags ... ‘ t Ib

100 Ib Nickel-Silver,

lots

lots
Electrolytic Iron,
Melting stock
Fe, irregular
ments of \%&

2.3 in... . 28

Ib lots
Solder

2 )

Tin
(In contract lots of 240 tons y
price is 22.75c)

7sten:
Annealed, 99.5% Fe Carbon
Unannealed (99 :
Fe) 36.00 mesh
Unannealed (99
Fe) (minus 325
mesh)
Flake (minus
16, plus 100 mesh)
Carbonyl Iron:
98.1-98.9%, 3 to 20 mi
crons, depending on pending on
grade, 93.00-290.00 in ind
standard 200-lb contain
ers; all minus 200 mesh

59.00 Chromium
Powder
29.00

*Plus

cost

scrafing
pendin on
Welding

500-Ib

500-lb lots 42

5000-1b

-52.40-56

2, Electrolytic
mesh

5000-Ib

Phosphor-Copper,

reduce

min, minus 65

2ss 1000 Ib
electroytic

grade

Electrodes

with
f.o.b.

allowed

nipple
plant

Threaded
unboxed,

GRAPHITE

——Inches
Diam Length

4.50-51
Per
100 Ib
$64.00

1
1

4.28
4.

Vie Cobot
8

53.00-57
5000-

Copper (atomized) 5000

Stainless Steel, 304
7 Stainless Steel, 316

5000-Ib lots 19.00-3

Ls ~ CARBON

nom. ** .
66
2.80 +4

60
2.95

v.00

metal De-

pending on composition De
mesh

grade

§Cutting
**De-

price of ore

Imported Steel

(Base per 100 lb, landed, duty paid, based on current ocean rates. Any increase in these

rates is for buyer’s account

Deformed

3ar Size
Structural
I-Beams

Bars, Intermediate, ASTM-A 305
Angles boa peta «
Angles ..

SN, Cas Bes 60.8 .s0 510565 ap

Sheets, C.R. (drawing quality)

Furring Channeis, C.R., 1000 ft,
Et. CP ee re tee or

Barbed Wire (f+)

Merchant Bars

Hot-Rolled Bands . ees ;

Wire Rods, Thomas Commercial No. 5 ;

Wire Rods, O.H. Cold Heading Quality No. 5

Bright Common Wire Nails ($) bid eis

tPer 82 Ib net reel. §Per 100-lb kegs, 20d nails

Source of shipment: Western continental European countries. )

North South
Atlantic Atlantic
$5.40 $5.40

x 0.30 Ib

and heavier.

Ores
Lake Superior Iron Ore

(Prices effective at start of the 1959 shipping
season, subject to later revision, gross ton
51.50% iron natural, rail of vessel, lower lake
ports. )
Mesabi bessemer
Mesabi nonbessemer
Old Range bessemer
Old Range nonbessemer
Open-hearth lump
High phos ok asics
The foregoing prices are based on upper lake
rail freight rates, lake vessel freight rates
handling and unloading charges, and taxes
thereon, which were in effect Jan. 1, 1959,
and increases or decreases after that date are
absorbed by the seller
Eastern Local Iron Ore
Cents per unit, deld. E. Pa
New Jersey, concentrates ‘
Foreign Iron Ore
Cents per unit, c.i.f. Atlantic ports
Swedish basic, 65% P esac es ‘
Brazilian iron ore, 68.5% .
Tungsten Ore
Net ton, unit
Foreign wolframite, good commercial
quality $10.75-11.00*
Domestic, milling
points 16.00-17.00

11.45

21.00
22.60

concentrates f.o.b

*Before duty. tNominal
Manganese Ore

Indian 91.5c-96.5¢

U. S. ports, duty for

nom. per long

Mn 46-48%,
buyer's

ton unit, c.if
account
Chrome Ore
ears New York
Charleston, S. C
delivery to

Philadel
plus ocean

Portland,

ton, f.o.b
3altimore
differential for
Tacoma, Wash
Indian and Rhodesian
$42.00-44.00t
38.00-40. 00F
29.00-31.00F
Transvaal
19.75-21.00
29.00-31.00

Gross
phia,
freight
Oreg.,

3
2.8:1

no ratio
South

44% no ratio

48% no ratio

African

Turkish

51.00-55. 007
Domestic
nearest

Rail
39.00

Molybdenum
concentrate per lb f Mo
unpacked . . .
Antimony Ore
Per short ton unit of Sb content, c.1.f

50-55 % : are

60-65%

Sulfide content
ra 92
mines, . $1.23

2aboard
$2.25-2.40
; 50-3.10
Vanadium Ore

Cents per Ib V,O.

Domestic ‘ ‘

+Nominal

Metallurgical Cok

Price per net ton

Beehive Ovens

Connellsville, Pa., furnace

Connellsville, Pa., foundry

Oven Foundry
ovens
deld

$14.75-15.25
18.00-18.50
Coke
Birmingham,
Cincinnati
Buffalo, ovens
Detroit. ovens
Pontiac, Mich.,
Mich.,
ovens
Mass., ovens
England, deld
Indianapolis, ovens
Ironton, Ohio, ovens
Cincinnati, deld
Kearney, N bo
Milwaukee ovens
Neville Island (Pittsburgh), P
Painesville, Ohio, ovens
Cleveland, deld
Philadelphia, ovens
St. Louis, ovens
St Paul
Chicago,
Swedeland, ovens
Terre Haute, Ind.,

*Within

Coal Chemicals

(Representative prices)
Cents per gal f.o.b. tank cars or tank
plant.
Pure
Xylene,
Creosote
Naphthalene, 78 deg
Toluene, one deg (del
Cents per lb, f.o.b
deld
Phenol, 90 per
Per net tion bulk
Ammonium sulfate

deld
deld

ovens

$5.15 freight zone from works

trucks

31.00
29.00
24.00
5.00
Rockies) .25.00
tank trucks,

benzene

industrial grade

east of
tank cars or
15.50
plant
$32.00

cent grade
f.o.b. cars or trucks
regular grade

May 11, 1959

91%

Ferroalloys

MANGANESE ALLOYS

Spiegeleisen: Carlot, per gross ton,

Neville

Standard Ferromanganese: (Mn 74-76%, C 7
$245, Johns
Neville Island, Pa

base price per net ton,

Duquesne, Sheridan

’. Va Ashtabula
Portland, Oreg

or fraction

inganese over 76%

(Mn 79-81%
Anaconda
for each 1%

each 1 below 79% fr

to nearest 0.1

Lpprox

Marietta,

or u

Great

High-Grade Low-Carbon Ferromanganese: (Mr

lump bulk mr

tained Mr

e ind 6.5

Si. Special

max. P
prices

1.25-1 s

ilk

trolytic Manganese Metal:

2000 Ib to r r

Silicomanganese
hil 1 {

1.54

TITANIUM ALLOYS

Ferrotitanium, Low-Carbon:
rl x

max S r

Ferrotitanium,

High-Carbon:

Ferrotitanium, Medium-Carbon
Contr F $290 per

CHROMIUM ALLOYS

Hich-Carbon

Ferrochrome: (
” f YT ned

t t Om le

Foundry Ferrochrome,
. Si 7

7-10 Cc 2

Islan ¢ 23% Mn, $105; 19-21% 0c + per Ib
< 16-19% Mn,

Add or subtract
thereof of con-

above 81%;

‘dium-Carbon Ferromanganese: (Mr

High-Carbon: (Cr 6:

foundry Ferrosilicon
Si 28-32%, C y max).
1 20.05c per Ib of alloy,
ton lot 22.50c; ton
Spot, add 0.25c

Delivered

Ferrochrome-Silicon: Cr 39-41%,
; max or Cr 33-36%, Si

max Carload, lump, bulk,
Palmerton ind 2” x down,

$100.50 9 > per lb contained Cr, 14.60c

Chromium Metal, Electrolytic:

grade (Cr 99.8%
O.: Shef max) Contract, carlot, packed, 2

lot $1.19. Delivered
nder 74%

Lump $253 per net
Falls,

Mont
subtract
ractions in
Ferrovanadium: Open-hearth
55%, Si 8% max, C 3% max)
quantity $3.20 per Ib of
vered Spot add 10c
55 or 70-75 si 2% max, C
High Speed Grade: (V
Ss 50 max, C 0.20

ax 0.07

Grainal No

Grainal: Vanadium
p illowed

No. 79. 50« frei

Grade:
0.06

Vanadium Oxide: Contract, less
cked, $1.38 per Ib
, € Spot 1d oC

80-85

SILICON ALLOYS

50° Ferrosilicon

er €

Low-Aluminum 50° Ferrosilicon:

x Add 1.45¢c to

65° Ferrosilicon: C

Ferrosilicon: Ca

90°) Ferrosilicon:

Silicon Metal:
Cc

max

Zirconium Alloy: (Zr
* 09.20 I x :

35-40°, Zirconium Alloy:

Fe S-12 Cc 0.50

100 Ib

Borosil:

x D, bulk Carbortam: (1

acked, Cc t

Delivere

Chrome: (Cr
8M x D,
carload

28.25c per Ib contained
one

contained Si, 0.75

min, metallic Dasis
about s” thick) $1.15 per Ib, ton
t Spot,

VANADIUM ALLOYS

grade
Contract,

contained

Special Grade:

1 $1.05 per Ib;

contained V.O

Calcium-Manganese-Silicon: (Ca

CALCIUM ALLOYS

16-20%, Mn

14-18% and Si 53-59%). Carload, lump, bulk
23c per lb of alloy, caload packed 24.25c, ton
lot 26.15¢
add 0.25c

Calcium-Silicon: (Ca

1.5-3%).
illoy,
less ton

carload
29.45c

Chromium

Ib each and containing 2 Ib of Cr).

less ton 27.15c Delivered Spot,

30-33%, Si 60-65%, Fe
Carload, lump, bulk 24c per Ib of
packed 25.65c, ton lot 27.95c,
Delivered. Spot, add 0.25c.

BRIQUETTED ALLOYS

Briquets: (Weighing approx 3%

Carload,

bulk 19.60c per Ib of briquet, in bags 20.70c;

3000 Ib to ec.l

in bags
22.80¢

Delivered

pallets 20.80c; 2000 Ib to c.l
21.90c; less than 2000 Ib in bags
Add 0.25c for notching.

Spot, add 0.25c.

Ferromanganese
3 lb and containing 2 lb of Mn)

14.8¢ per
3000 lb
bags
0.25c for

Silicomanganese Briquets:
3% lb and containing
Ib of Si) C.l

to c.l.,
17.2c; less ton

packec

2000 b to ec
Delivered.

Silicon
prox 5 ib
sizes, we
1ibofs
packed
2000 Ib

Delivered

Molybdic-Oxide Briquets:
f Mo each). $1.49 per lb

f.o.b. Lar

Titanium Briquets: Ti 98.27
falls, N. Y

Niagara

Ferrotungsten:
s

2.15 per

red

Briquets:

bags

Briquets: (Weighing approx
Carload, bulk
packed, bags 16c;
2000 Ib to e¢.l.,
Delivered Add
0.25c

lb of briquet; c.1.,
pallets 16c;
18.1¢c
notching. Spot, add
(Weighing approx
2 lb of Mn and approx
bulk 15.1¢ per Ib of briquet;
3000 Ib to c.1., pallets
bags 17.5 less ton
ntching. Spot,

i, bags 16.:

Add 25c for r

(Large size—weighir
and containing 2 lb of Si and
ghing approx 2 Ib and containing
Carload, bulk 8c per lb or briquet;
3000 Ib to c.l., pallets 9.6c;
zs 10.8¢ less ton 11.7c.
0.25¢

geloth, P

TUNGSTEN ALLOYS

(70-80 5000 lb

l nomi

Ferrecolumbium: (Cb

> 6.1

Ferrotantalum Columbium: (C 40%

Foundry

Graphidox

Simanal: (Approx

Ferromolybdenum:

Tor

approx,

x. an lus Ta 60 min, C
$3.05 per lb
ea

less ton

(Si Mn 5- , Zr 5-7%.
XxX irlot ulk 19.25¢ per lb of
j M 20.00c, ton lot

vered Spot idd

No.

Alloy:
C.1l. packed
9.95c les t

ills

-acked c
2000

5c; less than

Delivered

Ferrophosporus:

(55-75% ) Per lb of con-
200-lb container, f.o.b. Lange-
Washington : in all sizes

tt powdered

f.o.b.

Technical Molybdie-Oxide: Per lb of contained

ins 7; in bags, $1.46,

ishir

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Scrap Price Composite Declines

STEEL’s composite on No. 1 heavy melting drops 66 cents to
$33.67, lowest since May of last year. No improvement is
expected until conclusion of labor contract negotiations

Scrap Prices, Page 21%

e Pittsburgh — Prices on most
grades of scrap here have declined
in a dull market. Brokers see little
chance for improvement until the
steel labor situation is clarified.
Facing a possible strike on July 1,
mills are working off their inven-
tories and trying to conserve cash.
A local purchaser is buying small
tonnages of No. | heavy melting at
$35. Brokers for a mill on the
fringe of the district are offering
dealers only $34, delivered, for that
type material.

¢ Chicago — The scrap market is
static as far as steelmaking grades
are concerned, although local steel-
making operations are at 95.5 per
cent of capacity. Buying is negligi-
ble. To sustain operations, mills

are depending essentially on hot
metal from blast furnaces, indus-
trial scrap returned by steel con-
sumers under special arrangement,
and revert scrap.

Cast scrap prices are firmer as
demand from gray iron foundries
improves. Some grades are up $1
a ton.

e New York—Scrap trading con-
tinues quiet. Domestic demand is
spotty. A couple of ships are being
loaded here for export, but no new
business is noted from foreign buy-
ers. Prices are easy with brokers’
offerings off $2 a ton on No. 2
bundles at $15-$16. Prices on all
other grades are unchanged.

¢ Philadelphia — Scrap prices are

relatively steady here, primarily be-

cause there is so little business. Ex-
porters are taking a little tonnage,
but not enough to offset the lag in
domestic demand. Consensus in the
trade is that there will be little
change in the market into the third
quarter.

® Youngstown—A sale of No. 2
bundles at $24 a gross ton and No.
| heavy melting industrial scrap at
$39 here indicate the weak demand
for scrap. U. S. Steel Corp., which
had been charging up to 80 per cent
hot metal in its 14 open hearths,
with 8 hour heats, had a_ blast
furnace break-out. This knocks out
the furnace for a week or ten days
and will force more scrap use. Deal-
ers here see little likelihood of any
pickup in demand or price until
after the new steel pact is made.

¢ Buffalo — Dealers expect steel
mills to place new orders for scrap
around prevailing price levels for
May delivery. Dealers feel that
the market may become slower, but
prices aren’t expected to go much
lower right away.

Dealers are moving as much scrap

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STEELMAKING SCRAP PRICE COMPOSITE

Based on No. 1 heavy melting grade at Pittsburgh,
Chicago, and eastern Pennsylvania—Compiled by STEEL.

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$33.67 $34.33 $36.17 $34.96

as possible against current orders.
Mills also appear anxious to take
in material as fast as it becomes
available. When the last steel strike
was called here, hundreds of cars of
scrap were still en route to mills,
presenting a handling problem.

undertone of the
local market is soft, but the ab-
sence of orders has kept prices
from slipping lower for the moment.
Dealers think some long term Ca-
nadian orders have kept a_ floor
under the market and expect to see
this collapse by May 15. Chances
are prices will slide off at least $1.

The market for turnings is soft,
with dealers refusing to pay more
than $8 a gross ton. Cast iron
grades have held up_ reasonably
well. One order for cupola cast
is reported at $44, delivered.

® Detroit—The

e Cincinnati — Area mills entered
the market for May requirements,
and prices tumbled another $1 to
$2.50 a ton on principal steelmak-
ing grades. A local mill is buying
small tonnages as an inventory pre-
caution.

e St. Louis—Scrapyard receipts are
short. With mill buying limited,
the market is quiet. But the price
slide has halted, at least tempor-
arily. Machine shop and_ short
shovel turnings are listed at nom-
inal prices.

¢ Birmingham — Brokers continue
to have trouble filling orders at
present prices. Dealers are accep-
ting orders as long as new scrap

May 11, 1959

lasts, but only trickles are being
brought in. They refuse to sell
from inventories at present prices.

A railroad list closed last week
offered rerolling rails at $56.30 on
line, $3.30 more than last quota-
tions. But no takers were found in
the district.

(Please turn to Page 223)

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STEELMAKING SCRAP
COMPOSITE
$33.67
34.33
34.96
33.21
28.00
No. 1 heavy melting

Pittsburgh, Chicago
Pennsylvania

May
Apr.
Apr.
May
May

3ased

1954
on
grade it

eastern

PITTSBURGH

No. 1 heavy
No. 2 heavy
No. 1 dealer
No. 2 bundles
No. 1 busheling
No. 1 factory bundles
Machine shop turnings
Mixed borings, turnings
Short shovel turnings
Cast tron borings
Cut structurals

2 ft and under

i ft lengths 42.00-43.00
Heavy turnings 30.00-31.00
Punchings @ plate scrap 43.00-44.00
Fle furnace bundles. 42.00-43.00

34.00-35.00
32.00-33.00
38.00-39.00
24.00-25.00
$4.00-35.00
42.00-43.00
19.00-20.00
19.00-20.00
24.00-25.00
24.00-25.00

melting
melting
bundles

43.00-44.00

trt
Cast Iron Grades
45.00-46.00
45.00-46.00
32.00-33.00
46.00-47.00
51.00-52

No. 1 cupola

Stove plate

Unstripped motor bloc ks
Clean auto cast

Drop broken machinery

Railroad Scrap

37 .00-38.00
54.00-55.00
55.00-56.00
50.00-51.00
44.00-45.00

No. 1 R.R
Rails, 2 ft
Rails, 18 in
Random rails
Railroad specialties
Angles, splice bars 51.00-52.00
Rails, rerolling 61.00-62.00
Stainless Steel Scrap
bundles & solids. .225.00-230
18-8 turnings 120.00-125
430 bundles & 125.00-130
430 turnings 55. 00-65

heavy melt.
and under
and under

00
00
00
00

18-8

solids

CHICAGO

00
?.00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

melt indus. 34.00 35
hvy melt., dealer 31.00-%

heavy melting 28.00- 29
factory bundles. 37.00-38
dealer bundles 32.00-33
bundles 22.00-23
busheling, indus. 34.00-35
busheling, dealer 31.00-32
shop turnings 15.00-16
borings, turnings 17.00-18
shovel turnings 17.00-18
Cast iron borings 17.00-18
Cut structurals, 3 ft 40.00-41
Punchings & plate scrap 41.00-42

No. 1 hvy
No. 1
No

No, 1
No. 1
No

No. 1
No. 1
Mact
Mixed
Short

ine

Iron Grades

46.00-47 .00
43.00-44.00
38.00-39.00
53.00-54.00
53.00-54.00

Cast
No. 1 cupola
Stove plate
Unstripped motor blocks
Ciean auto cast
Drop broken machinery

Railroad Scrap
melt. 36.00-37.00
57.00-58.00
52.00-53.00
53.00-54.00
46.00-47 00
61.00-62.00
56.00-57.00

1 R.R. heavy
malleable

2 ft and
18 in. and
splice bars

under
under
Angles,
Axles
Rails, rerolling
Stainless Steel Scrap
215.00-220.00
115.00-120.00
120.00-125.00
55.00-60.00

bundles & solids
18-8 turnings
430 bundles &
430 turnings

18-8

solids. .

YOUNGSTOWN

35.00-36.00
26.00-27.00
35.00-36.00
35.00-36.00
23..00-24.00
7.00-18.00
00-23.00
2.00-23.00
00-39.00
00-39.00

heavy melting
heavy melting
busheling
bundles

No. 2 bundles

Machine shop turnings
Short s vel turnings.
Cast iron borings

Low phos

Electric furnace bundles

No. 1

Railroad Scrap

No. 1 R.R. heavy melt 00-39.00

Consumer
STEEL, May 6,

prices per
1959. Changes

CLEVELAND

melting 33.00-34.00
melting. . 24.00-25.00
bundles,. 37.00-38.00
33.00-34.00
24.00-25.00
33.00-34.00
14.00-15.00
20.00-21.00
20.00-21.00
20.00-21.00
35.00-36.00

1 heavy
2 heavy
1 factory
1 bundles
2 bundles
} 1 busheling
Machine shop turnings
Short shovel turnings
Mixed borings, turnings
Cast iron borings
Cut foundry steel
Cut
2 ft and
Low phos,
plate
Alloy free
turnings
Electric furnace "bundles

plates

structurals
under ...
punchings &

42.00-43.00
TTT rT 34.50-35.50

short shovel

22.00-23.00

34.50-35.50

Cast Iron Grades

47.00-48.00
38.00-39.00
38.00-39.00
44.00-45.00
33.00- 34 00
shoes ° 36.00-37.00
iuto cast 50.00-51.00
cast 37.00-38.00
machinery 50.00-51.00

No. 1 cupola

Charging box cast
Heavy breakable
Stove plate
Unstripped nm
Brake
Clean
Burnt
Drop

cast..

1otor blocks

broken
Railroad Scrap
R.R malleable 65.00-66.00
Rails, 2 ft and under.. 57.00-58.00
Rails, 18 in. and under 58 00-59 00
Rails, random lengths... 52.00-53.00
Cast steel 46.00 47 00
Railroad specialties 48.00-49.00
Uncut tires 42.00-43.00
Angles, splice bars 51.00-52.00
Rails, rerolling 58.00-59.00

Steel
prices

point)
215.00-220.00
110.00-115.00

Stainless
‘Brokers’ buying f.o.b
shipping
bundles
turnings
clips bundles,

18-8 solids

18-8

430
solids

430 turnings

115.00-125.00
15.00-55.00

LOUIS

(Brokers’ buying
1 heavy melting
2 heavy melting
1 bundles
2 bundles .
1 busheling
ine turnings
shovel turnings

prices)
34.00
31.00
37.00
23.00
37.00
16. 00+
18.00

Mach
Short

shop

Cast Iron Grades

50.00
42.00
40.00
41.00
50.00
45.50

No. 1 cupola
Charging box cast
Heavy breakable
Unstripped motor
Clean auto cast
Stove plate

cast

blocks

Railroad Scrap

38.00
49.00
42.50
54.00
44.00

heavy melt
and under
lengths

No. 1
Rails
Rails
Rails
Angles

R.R
18 in
random
rerolling
splice bars

BIRMINGHAM

30 00-31.00

5.00-26.00
30 00-31.00
21.00-22.00
30.00-31.00
14.00-15.00
22. 00-293.00
23.00-24.00
40.00-41.00
39.00-410.00
36.00-37.00

1 heavy melting
2 heavy melting

1 bundles

2 bundles

1 busheling

iron borings
turnings
turnings

Cast
Machine shop
Short shovel
Bars, crops and plates
Structurals & plates
Electric furnace bundles
Electric furnace:

2 ft and under

3 ft and under

35.00
34.00

34.00
33.00

Cast Iron Grades

53.00-54.00
53.00-54.00
29.00-30.00
40.00-41.00
39.00-40.00

No. 1 cupola
Stove plate
Charging box
Unstripped motor
No. 1 wheels

cast
blocks

Railroad Scrap

33.00-34.00
49.00-50.00
52.00-53.00
41.00-42.00
3.00-44.00

melt
under

No. 1
Rails,
Rails,
Rails,
Angles,

R.R. heavy
18 in. and
rerolling
random lengths
splice bars

gross ton,
shown in italics.

except as otherwise noted,

PHILADELPHIA
No. 1 33.00-34.00
No. 2
No, 1
No. 2
No. 1

heavy melting. .
heavy melting.
bundles

bundles
busheling
Electric furnace bundles
Mixed borings, turnings
Short shovel turnings. .
Machine shop turnings
Heavy turnings
Structurals & plate
Couplers, springs, wheels
Rail crops, 2 ft & under
Cast Iron Grades

3.00- 24. 00
19.00%
32.00-33.00
40.00-42.00
42.00-43.00
58.00-60.00

41.00
43.00
49.00-50.00
67.00-68.00

No, 1 cupola ses eee
Heavy breakable cast..
Drop broken machinery
Malleable

NEW YORK
(Brokers’
heavy melting
heavy melting
No. 1 bundles
No. bundles
Machine shop
Mixed borings
Short shovel
Low phos
& plates) 35.00
Cast Iron Grades
36.00-37.00
24.00-:
34.00-35

buying prices)
26.00-27.00
24.00-25.00
26.00-27.00
15.00-16.00
turnings 9.00-10.007
turnings 12.00-13.00

turnings 13.00-14.00

(structurals

No. 1
No, 2

-36.00

No. 1 cupola

Unstripped motor

Heavy breakable
Stainless Steel

blocks

18-8 sheets, clips,
solids . ; -
18-8 borings. turnings
410 sheets, clips, solids
sheets, clips, solids

.195.00-200.
85.00-90.
5. 00-60.
85.00-90.0

FFALO
1 heavy melting
2 heavy melting
1 bundles
2 bundles
No 1 busheling
Mixed borings, turnings
Machine shop turnings
Short shovel turnings
Cast iron borings
Low phos structurals and
plate, 2 ft and under 41.00-42
Cast Iron Grades
(F.o.b. shipping point)
cupola 46.00-47
machinery 50.00-51
Railroad Scrap

32.00-33

19 00-20
17.00-18
21.00-5

19.00-20

No. 1
No. 1

43.00-44
49.00-50
41.00-42

random lengths
3 ft and under
specialties

Rails,
Rails,
Railroad

CINCINNATI
(Brokers’ buying prices;
shipping point)
No. 1 heavy
No. 2 heavy
No. I bundles
No. 2 bundles
No. 1 busheling
Machine shop turnings
Mixed borings, turnings
Short shovel turnings 17.00-18
Cast iron borings . 16.50-17.5
Low phos., 18 in 40.00-41.00
Cast Iron Grades
No, 1 cupola 43.00-45.00
Heavy breakable cast.. 39.00-40.00
Charging box cast .. 38.00-39.00
Drop broken machinery 48.00-49.00
Railroad Scrap
heavy melt
and under
lengths

f.o.b

$1.50-32.5
26.50-27.!
31,50-32.:
20.00-21.
31.50-32.:
15.00-16
15.00-16

melting
melting

37.00-38.00
53.00-54.00
46.00-47 .00

No. 1
Rails,
Rails,

R.R
18 in.

random

HOUSTON
(Brokers’ buying prices;
1 heavy me'ting
2 heavy melting
1 bundles
2 bundles
Machine shop turnings
Short shovel turnings. .
Low phos. plates &
structurals
sast Iron Grades
see
Heavy breakable
Foundry malleable
Unstripped motor blocks
Railroad Scrap
melt

f.o.b. cars)
34.00
31.00
34.00
20.00
17.00
20.00

41.00

43.00
7.00-28.00+
37.00
35.00

No. 1

1 R.R. heavy 34.00

including

N 0.

brokers’ commission,

BOSTON
(Brokers’
No. 1 heavy melting...
2 heavy melting...
1 bundles
1 busheling .. :
M: achine shop turnings.
Short shovel turnings
No. 1 cast rer
Mixed cupola cast
No. 1 machinery cast..

DETROIT

( Brokers’
shipping
1 heavy melting...
2 heavy melting...
1 bundles
2 bundles ....

. 1 busheling .
Mac hine shop turnings
Mixed borings, turnings
Short shovel turnings

buying prices;
shipping point)

buying prices;
point)

as reported to

f.o.b.

26.00-27.00
22.00-23.00

10.00-11.00
33.00
33.00
34.00

f.o.b.

26.00-27.00
17.00-18.00
28.00-29.00
16.00-17.00
26.00-27.00

9.00-10.00
10.00-11.00
10.00-11.00

Cast Iron Grades

No. 1 cupola

Stove plate

Charging box cast
Heavy breakable
Unstripped motor blocks
Clean auto cast

SEATTLE

. 1 heavy melting

2 heavy melting .

1 bundles

2 bundles

Machine shop turnings.
Mixed borings, turnings
Electric furnace No. 1

39.00-40.00
30.00-31.00
31.00-32.00
31.00-32.00
19.00-20.00
43.00-44.00

Cast Iron Grades

No 1 cupola oe

Heavy breakable cast.

Unstripped motor blocks

Stove plate (f.o.b.
plant) °

LOS ANGELES

No. 1 heavy melting...
No. 2 heavy melting...
No. 1 bundles

No, 2 bundles
Machine shop turnings.
Shoveling turnings
Cast iron borings

Cut structurals and plate

1 ft and under

Cast Iron Grades

(F.0.b
1 cupola
Railroad

No. 1 R.R. heavy melt

SAN FRANCISCO

No. 1 heavy melting...
No. 2 heavy melting. .
No. 1 bundles

No. 2 bundles
Machine shop turnin
Mixed borings, turnings
Cast iron borings
Heavy turnings ......
Short shovel turnings.
Cut structurals, 3 ft

‘Suns

anipping point)

Cast Iron Grades

No. 1 cupola “i
Charging box cast
Stove plate

Heavy breakable cast..
Unstripped motor blocks
Clean auto cast

Drop broken machinery
No. 1 wheels
HAMILTON, ONT.
(Brokers’

No
No.

1 heavy melting...

2 heavy melting.

No. 1 bundles

No. 2 bundles

Mixed steel scrap -

Mixed borings, turnings
3usheling, new
Prepared
Unprepared........

Short steel turnings...

Cast Iron

No. 1 machinery cast..

+Nominal.

tF.o.b. Hamilton, Ont.

buying prices)

factory:

sradest

46.50-48.00

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NONFERROUS METALS

Stability Seen until Midyear

Expect a time of relative calm through June at least as the
market settles down to wait for contract talks. Sales should
be steady, prices firm. Earnings for quarter better

Nonferrous Metal Prices, Pages 222 & 223

METALMEN AGREE that you can
look for a more stable, less hectic
market over the rest of the second
quarter. They predict: Fewer price
changes, continuation of sales at
near present levels with perhaps
slightly less hedge buying, more
market conservatism as contract ne-
gotiations draw near.

Here’s a metal-by-metal rundown
on what to expect:

¢ Copper—Primary sales are strong
and should remain that way
through the quarter. Custom smelt-
er demand is spotty and will prob-
ably continue erratic over the next
seven weeks. A drying up of de-
mand caused the smelters to low-
er their price 0.5 cent to 32 cents
a pound on Apr. 30. That quota-
tion shouldn’t change in the near
future. It would take a major mar-
ket upheaval to bring any change
in the primary price.

If the government has any fur-
ther thoughts about disposing of
xkpile copper (see Steet, Apr.
, p. 156), it is keeping them
quiet. Informed Washington sourc-
es say the Office of Civil & De-
fense Mobilization has quietly can-
celed its plan although no public
announcement will be made to this
effect. Reason: It wants to leave
the door open to dispose of some of
the metal in case of a prolonged
strike.

st
Zi

© Lead-Zinc—Sales, which are fair,
should stay on a plateau for the rest
of the quarter. Some observers be-
lieve galvanizers will begin to ease
up on zine buying in early June in
anticipation of labor difficulties.
Everyone would be surprised if the
price changed before mid-
year. Lead, at 11.5 cents a pound,
is more vulnerable than zinc, but
it looks stable at the moment. You
may hear more outcries from Wash-

zinc

220

ington for additional remedial help
for the industry, but don’t iook for
anything to happen.

Further announcements of pro-
duction and export curtailments are
ALUMINUM FOIL
SHIPMENTS CONTINUE TO GAIN

There have been several
of them lately. The most recent
comes from American Zinc, Lead
& Smelting Co., which will cut
back zinc output (beginning July 1)
by 6000 to 7000 tons annually, and
from the Belgian producer, Katan-
ga, which will reduce zinc exports
by 5000 tons yearly, commencing

June I.

probable.

e Aluminum—Shipments are run-
ning about 40 per cent over last

years and should continue _ this
pace through the first half. A price
change is out of the question until
after labor talks which begin Aug.
1. Production is currently running
at 1,863,250 tons a year and will
remain at this level for the next
month or so—then probably go up
a little as some new production is
brought in.

First Quarter Profits Up

If you needed any clear cut docu-
mentation that the nonferrous in-
dustry bounced back in the first
quarter, profit statements now be-
ing released will give you all the
proof you need. Take a look at these
representative examples:

Ist Qtr Ist Qtr
1959 1958
COPPER

Kennecott
Anaconda -
Phelps Dodge ...

LEAD-ZINC
St. Joseph
American ZL&S
ALUMINUM

Alcoa... : 10,725,430
Reynolds 9,001,357
Kaiser 3,476,000

MILLS
Revere
Bridgeport
Calumet

$22,396,392
16,250,000
13,000,000

$11,651,594
6,130,898
6,800,000

2,060,972
361,719

2,424,296
165,831

11,458,810
9,910,345
6,419,000

2,491,375
2,154,000
1,360,135

1,211,562
565,000
396,001

Aluminum is the one nonferrous
industry where profits took an
across-the-board dip. More alumi-
num was sold than in the first quar-
ter of 1958 but producers got less
revenue per pound due to the price
drop that occurred on Apr. 1, 1958.
Also contributing to lower earnings
was some price weakness in fabri-
cated products and higher labor
costs.

Change
Aluminum 24.7 Aug 1, 1958
Copper 31.50-32 Apr. 30, 1959
Lead 3 Apr , 1959
Magnesium : : Aug 3, 1956
Nickel 74.00 Dec 5, 1956
Tir 102.50 May 3, 1959
Zine 11.00 Feb 5, 1959

Quotations in cents per pound based on:
Conn, Valley; LEAD, common grade, deld
TIN, Straits, deld. New York; NICKEI
unpacked; ALUMINUM, primary pig, 99.5
99.8%, Velasco, Tex

NONFERROUS PRICE RECORD

Last Previous

COPPER, mean of primary and secondary, deld.

electrolytic cathodes, 99.9%,

Apr Mar May, 1958
Avg Avg Avg
24.700 24.000
32.031 24.433
11.238 11.512
35.250 35.250
74.000 74.000
103.000 94.510
11.000 10.000

24.700
32.404
10.992
35.250
74.000
102.490
11.000

Louis; ZINC, prime western, E. St. Louis;
base size at refinery,
f.o.b. shipping point; MAGNESIUM, pig

THOSE MADE OF WEIRKOTE'’ ZINC

Laboratory salt-spray tests prove it. Leading manufacturers prove it. Experience proves
it. Primary window frames and storm and screen frames of Weirkote zinc-coated steel
last and last and last—literally shrug off the elements!

Weirkote will not give in to corrosion invasion because its zinc coat clings tightly to its
steel surface year after year. Reason? Zinc and steel are actually integrated by Weirkote’s
continuous process.

This extra protection pays off when it comes to fabricating Weirkote, too. You can crimp
it, twist it, torture it—work it to the limits of the steel itself—without chipping or
flaking its surface. And this pays off in your pocketbook: No more costly rejects, and
coating after fabrication can be eliminated. _

Whether you're talking profit or product, there’s a lot to be said for Weirkote zinc-coated
steel. Write today for a free booklet that tells all about it. Weirton Steel Company,
Dept. B-14, Weirton, West Virginia.

WEIRTON STEEL
COMPANY

WEIRTON, WEST VIRGINIA

a division of

Nonferrous Metals

Cents per pound, carlots except as otherwise
noted.

PRIMARY METALS AND ALLOYS

Aluminum: 99.5%, pigs, 24.70; ingots, 26.80,
30,000 Ib or more f.o.b shipping point
Freight allowed on 500 Ib or more

Aluminum Alloy: No. 13, 28.60; No. 43, 28.40;
No. 195, 29.40; No. 214, 30.20; No. 356, 28.60;
30 or 40 Ib ingots

Antimony: R.M.M. brand, 99.5%, 29.00; Lone
Star brand, 29.50, f.o0.b. Laredo, Tex., in
bulk. Foreign brands, 99.5%, 24.50-25.00, New
York, duty paid, 10,000 lb or more
Beryllium: 97% lump or beads, $71.50 per Ib
f.o.b. Cleveland or Reading, Pa

Beryllium Aluminum: 5% Be, $74.75 per Ib of
contained Be, with balance as Al at market
price, f.o.b. shipping point

Beryllium Copper: 3.75-4.75% Be, $43 per
Ib of contained Be, with balance as Cu at
market price on shipment date, f.o.b. shipping
point.

Bismuth: $2.25 per Ib, ton lots

Cadmium: Sticks and bars, $1.20 per lb deld
Cobalt: 97.99%, $1.75 per Ib for 500-lb keg
$177 per Ib for 100 Ib case; $1.82 per Ib un-
der 100 Ib

Columbium: Powder, $55-85 per Ib, nom
Copper: Electrolytic, 31.50 deld.; custom
smelters, 32.00; lake, 31.50 deld.; fire refined,
31.25 deld

Germanium: First reduction, less than 1 kg,
41.00 per gram; 1-10 kg, 37.00 per gram;
intrinsic grade, 35.00-37.00 per gram

Gold: U. 8S. Treasury, $35 per oz

Indium: 99.9%, $2.25 per troy oz

Iridium: $75-80 nom. per troy oz

Lead: Common, 11.30; chemical, 11.40; cor-
roding, 11.40, St. Louis, New York basis, add
0.20.

Lithium: 1 Ib or 2 Ib ingots, less than 100 Ib,
$11 per Ib; 100-500 Ib, $9.50 per Ib; 500 Ib or
more, $9 per Jb. All prices deld.
Magnesium: Pig, 35.25; ingot, 36.00 f.o.b
Velasco, Tex.; 12 in. sticks, 59.00 f.o.b.
Madison, Ill
Magnesium Alloys: AZ91A (diecasting), 40.75
deld.; AZ63A, AZ92A, AZ91C (sand casting),
40.75, f.0.b. Velasco, Tex
Mercury: Open market, spot, New York, $245-
249 per 76 Ib flask
Molybdenum: Unalloyed, turned extrusion,
3.75-5.75 in. round, $9.60 per lb in lots of
2500 Ib or more, f.o.b. Detroit.
Nickel: Electrolytic cathodes, sheets (4 x 4 in
and larger), unpacked, 74.00; 10-lb pigs, un-
packed, 78.25; ‘‘XX’’ nickel shot, 79.50; ‘‘F’’
nickel shot for addition to cast iron, 74.50;
F’’ nickel, 5 Ib ingots in kegs for addition
to cast iron, 75.50. Prices f.o.b. Port Col-
borne, Ont including import duty New
York basis, add 1.01. Nickel oxide sinter at
Buffalo, New York, or other established U. S
points of entry, contained nickel, 69.60.
Osmium: $70-100 per troy oz nom
Palladium: $18-20 per troy oz
Platinum: $77-80 per troy oz from refineries
Radium: $16-21.50 per mg radium content
depending on quantity
Rhodium: $122-125 per troy oz
Ruthenium: $55-60 per troy oz
Selenium: $7.00 per lb, commercial grade
Silver: Open market, 91.375 per troy oz
Sedium: Solid pack, c.l 19.50; 1.e.l 20.00
brick, c.l., 21.00; Le.l., 21.50; tank car, 17.00
Tantalum: Rod, $60 per Ib; sheet, $55 per Ib
Tellurium: $2.00-2.20 per Ib
Thallium: $7.50 per Ib
Tin: Straits, N. Y., spot and prompt, 102.50
Titanium: Sponge, 99.3 + % grade A-1, ductile
(0.3% Fe max.), $1.62-1.82; grade A-2 (0.5%
Fe max.), $1.70 per Ib
Tungsten: Powder, 98.8% carbon reduced
1000-Ib lots, $2.75-2.90 per Ib nom., f.o.b
shipping point; less than 1000 Ib, add 15.00;
99 + % hydrogen reduced, $3.30-3.80
Zinc: Prime Western, 11.00; brass special
11.25; intermediate, 11.50, East St. Louis
freight allowed over 0.50 per lb, New York
basis, add 0.50. High grade 2.00; special
high grade, 12.25 deld. Diecasting alloy ingot
No. 3, 13.50; No. 2, 14.00; No. 5, 13.75 deld
Zirconium: Reactor grade sponge, 100 Ib or
less, $7 per Ib; 100-500 Ib, $6.50 per lb; over
500 Ib, $6 per Ib
(Note: Chromium, mianganese, and silicon met-
als are listed in ferroalloy section.)

SECONDARY METALS AND
ALLOYS

Aluminum Ingot: Piston alloys, 23.875-25.25;
No. 12 foundry alloy (No. 2 grade), 21.75-
22.00; 5% silicon alloy, 0.60 Cu max., 24.75-
25.00; 13 alloy, 0.60 Cu max., 24.75-25.00; 195
alloy, 25.25-26.00; 108 alloy, 22.25-22.50. Steel
deoxidizing grades, notch bars, granulated or
shot: Grade 1, 23.75; grade 2, 22.50; grade 3
21.25; grade 4, 19.75.

Brass Ingot: Red brass No. 115, 30.25; tin
bronze, No. 225, 41.25; No. 245, 35.00; high
leaded tin bronze, No. 305, 34.50; No. 1 yellow,
No. 405, 24.75; manganese bronze, No. 421,
27.75.

Magnesium Alloy Ingot: AZ63A, 37.50; AZ91B
37.50; AZ91C, 41.25; AZ92A, 37.50.

NONFERROUS PRODUCTS
BERYLLIUM COPPER
(Base prices per Ib, plus mill extras, 2000 to
5000 Ib; nom. 1.9% Be alloy.) Strip, $1.91

f.o.b. Temple, Pa., or Reading, Pa.; rod,
bar, wire, $1.89, f.o.b. Temple, Pa.

COPPER WIRE
Bare, soft, f.o.b. eastern mills, 20,000-Ib lots
36.855; l.c.l, 37.48. Weatherproof, 20,000-Ib
lots, 37.42; 1.c.1., 38.17.

LEAD
(Prices to jobbers, f.o.b. Buffalo Cleveland
Pittsburgh.) Sheets, full rolls, 140 sq ft or
more, $17.50 per cwt; pipe, full coils, $17.50
per cwt; traps and bends, list prices plus 30%

TITANIUM
(Prices per lb, 10,000 Ib and over, f.o.b. mill.)
Sheet and strip, $7.50-17.00; sheared mill
plate, $5.25-10.00; wire, $5.75-10.00; forging
billets, $3.55-5.75; hot-rolled and forged bars
$4.25-7.50.
ZINC

(Prices per Ib, ¢.1., f.o.b. mill.) Sheets, 26.00:
ribbon zine in coils, 21.50; plates, 20.00

ZIRCONIUM
Plate, $12.50-19.20; H.R. strip, $12.50-22.90:
C.R. strip, $15.90-31.25; forged or H.R. bars,
$11.00-17.40
NICKEL, MONEL, INCONEL
**A’’ Nickel Monel
Sheets, C.R ‘ 126 106
Strip, C.R.
Plate, H.R .
Rod, Shapes, H.R
Seamless Tubes

Inconel

ALUMINUM

Sheets: 1100, 3003 and 5005 mill finish (30,000
Ib base; freight allowed)
Thickness

Range Flat Coiled

Inches Sheet Sheet
0.250-0.136 42.80-47.3 she
0.136-0.096 43.20-48.;
0.126-0.103
0.096-0.077
0.077-0.068
0.077-0.061
0.068-0.061
0.061-0.048
0.048-0.038
0.038-0.030
0.030-0.024
0.024-0.019

om eT 39.20-39.
43.80-50. 39.30-40.
44.30-52 ert
a er 39.50-40.
44.30-52.
44.90-54.
45.40-57.
45.70-62.00
46.20-53.70
46.90-56.80
0.019-0.017 47.70-54.10
0.017-0.015 48.60-55.00 43.80-45.
0.015-0.014 49.60 44.80-46
0.014-0.012 50.80 45.50
0.012-0.011 51.00 46.70
0.011-0.0095 53.50 48.10
0.0095-0.0085 54.60 49.60
0.0085-0.0075 56.20 50.80
0.0075-0.007 57.7 52.30
0.007-0.006 59.30 53.70

40.10-41
40.60-43
41.00-45
41.30-45.
42.40-44
43.00-44.

ALUMINUM (continued)

Plates and Circles: Thickness 0.250-3 in.
24-60 in. width or diam., 72-240 in. lengths.
Alloy Plate Base Circle Base

1100- eae 2. 47.20

0 48.30

50.20

50.90

51.70

errr TT tre 56.10

7075-T6* ’ 64.70

*24-48 in. width or diam., 72-180 in. lengths.

Serew Machine Stock: 30,000 Ib base.
Diam. (in.)or —Round——— ~——Hexagon*]
across flats* 2011-T3 2017-T4 2011-T3 2017-T4
0.125 76. 73.90 piece soa
89.10 76.60
68.50
68.50

51 : 90

51.90

*Selected sizes.

Forging Stock: Round, Class 1, random
lengths, diam., 0.375-8 in., ‘‘F’’ temper; 2014
42.20-55.00; 6061, 41.60-55.00; 7075, 61.60-
75.00; 7070, 66.60-80.00.

Pipe: ASA schedule 40, alloy 6063-T6 stand-
ard length, plain ends, 90,000 Ib base, dollars
per 100 ft. Nominal pipe sizes: % in., 18.85;
1 in., 29.75; 1% in., 40.30; 1% in., 48.15; 2
in., 58.30; 4 in., 160.20; 6 in., 287.55; 8 in.,
432.70.

Extruded Solid Shapes:
Alloy
Factor 6062-T6
9-11 2. 2 51.30-55.50
12-14
15-17
18-20

MAGNESIUM
Sheet and Plate: AZ31B standard grade, 0.32
in., 103.10; .081 in., 77.90; .125 in., 70.40; .188
in., 69.00; .250-2.0 in., 67.90. AZ31B spec
grades, .032 in., 171.30; .081 in., 108.80;
125 in., 98.10; .188 in., 95.70; .250-2.00 in.,
93.30. Tread plate, 60-192 in. lengths, 24-72 in.
widths; .125 in., 74.90; .188 in, 71.70-72.10;
.25-.75 in., 70.60-71.60. Tooling plate, 0.25-3.0
in., 73.00.

Extruded Solid Shapes:
Com. Grade
(AZ31C)
65.30-67.60
65.30-67.60
66.10-75.30
66.10-75.30

NONFERROUS SCRAP
DEALERS’ BUYING PRICES
(Cents per pound, New York in ton lots.)
Copper and Brass: No. 1 heavy copper and wire,
24.50-25.00; No. 2 heavy copper and wire,
22.50-23.00; light copper, 20.50-21.00; No. 1
composition red brass, 19.00-19.50; No. 1 com-

Spec. Grade
(AZ31B)
84.60-87.40
85.70-88.00
90.60-91.30

104.20-105.30

Factor

BRASS MILL PRICES

MILL PRODUCTS a

Copper pe we 52.86¢
Yellow Brass — 32.73da
Low Brass, 80% ....... 2% 51.17
Red Brass, 85% -- &2.21 52.23
Com, Bronze, 90% .. 3.§ 53.84
Manganese Bronze 56 50.14
Muntz Metal .. se o 46.16
Naval Brass ..... eee 46.61
Silicon Bronze ....... 30.67 59.86
Nickel Silver, 10% .. 33.82 66.15
Phos. Bronze .... 75.34 75.84

a. Cents per lb, f.0.b. mill; freight allowed on

SCRAP ALLOWANCES e

(Based on copper at 31.50c)
Rod Clean

Wire s avy Ends Turnings
nies 4 ; 27.500 26.750
48.78 7 63 18.750
51.77 . 23.2 3. 22.500
52.83 6 , 24. 23.500
54.44 : .12 .87 24.375
60.62 ee 9,12 8.87 18.375
eo eee 18.625
59.36 2 9.125 3. 18.375
60.21 8.38 27. 7 26.000
66.15 , % 12.625
75.84 28.625 25.750

500 Ib or more. b. Hot-rolled. ec. Cold-drawn.

d. Free cutting. e. Prices in cents per lb for less than 20,000 lb, f.o.b. shipping point. On lots
over 20,000 lb at one time, of any or all kinds of scrap, add 1 cent per Ib

STEEL

position turnings, 18.00-18.50; new brass clip-
Pings, 17.50-18.00; light brass, 13.00-13.50;
heavy yellow brass, 14.00-14.50; new brass rod
ends, 15.00-15.50; auto radiators, unsweated,
14.50-15.00; cocks and faucets, 15.50-16.00;
brass pipe, 15.50-16.00.

Lead: Soft scrap lead, 7.25-7.50; battery
plates, 2.00-2.25; linotype and stereotype, 8.75-
9.25; electrotype, 7.25-7.75; mixed babbitt,
9.50-10.00.

Monel: Clippings, 26.00-28.00; old sheets,
23.00-25.00; turnings, 20.00-21.00; rods, 26.00-
28.00.

Nickel:
anodes,

52.00-54.00; rolled
38.00-40.00; rod

Sheets and clips,
52.00-54.00; turnings,
ends, 52.00-54.00.

Zine: Old zinc, 3.25-3.50;
3.00-3.25; old diecast scrap, 1.

Aluminum: Old castings and sheets, 9.75-
10.25; clean borings and turnings, 6.25-6.75;
segregated low copper clips, 13.00-13.50; segre-
gated high copper clips, 13.00-13.50; mixed low
copper clips, 12.00-12.50; mixed high copper
clips, 11.00-11.50.

(Cents per pound, Chicago)
Aluminum: Old castings and sheets, 11.75-
2.25; clean borings and turnings, 9.50-10.00;
segregated low copper clips, 16.75-17.25; segre-
gated high copper clips, 15.75-16.25; mixed low
copper clips, 16.00-16.50; mixed high copper
clips, 15.25-15.75.

(Cents per pound, Cleveland)
Aluminum: Old castings and sheets, 10.50-
11.00; clean borings and turnings, 9.50-10.00;
segregated low copper clips, 14.50-15.00; seg-
regated high copper clips, 13.00-13.50; mixed
low copper clips, 13.50-14.00; mixed high cop-
pel clips, 12.50-13.00.

REFINERS’ BUYING

carlots,

new diecast scrap,
75-2.00.

PRICES
delivered refinery)
Heavy scrap, 0.020-in. and
heavier, not less than 1.5% Be, 57.50; light
scrap, 52.50; turnings and borings, 37.50.
Copper and Brass: No. 1 heavy copper and
i 27.00; No. 2 heavy copper and wire,

light copper, 23.50; refinery brass
copper) per dry copper content, 25.25.
INGOTMAKERS’ BUYING PRICES
Copper and Brass: No. 1 heavy copper and
wire, 27.00; No. 2 heavy copper and wire,
25.75; light copper, 23.50; No. 1 composition
borings, 20.50; No. 1 composition solids, 21.00;
heavy yellow brass solids, 15.00; yellow brass
turnings, 14.00; radiators, 16.00.

PLATING MATERIAL

freight

(Cents per pound,
Beryllium Copper:

(60%

(F.o.b. shipping point, allowed on

quantities)
ANODES
Cadmium: Special or patented shapes, $1.20.

Flat-rolled, 47.79; oval, 46.00, 5000-
Ib; electrodeposited, 40.50, 2000-5000
lb lots; cast, 43.00, 5000-10,000 lb quantities.
Nickel: Depolarized, less than 100 Ib, 114.25;
wire, 27.00; No. 2 heavy copper and wire,
26.00; light copper, 23.75; refinery brass
deduct 3 cents a Ib.
Tin: Bar or slab, less than
499 lb, 120.00; 500-999 Ib,
more, 119.00.

Zine: Balls,
20.75; ovals,

Copper:
10,000

200 Ib, 121.50; 200-
119.50; 1000 lb or

flat
ton

18.00; flats,

20.00,

tops,
lots.

18.00;

CHEMICALS
Cadmium Oxide: $1.30 per Ib in 100-lb drums.
Chromie Acid (flake): 100-2000 Ib, 31.00; 2000-
10,000 lb, 30.50; 10,000-20,000 lb, 30.00; 20,-
000 lb or more, 29.50.
Copper Cyanide: 100-200 lb, 65.90;
lb, 63.00; 1000-19,900 lb, 61.90.
Copper Sulphate: 100-1900 lb, 15.30; 2000-5900
Ib, 13.30; 6000-11,900 lb, 13.05; 12,000-22,900
Ib, 12.80; 23.000 lb or more, 12.30.
Nickel Chloride: 100 lb, 45.00; 200 Ib, 43.00;
300 Ib, 42.00; 400-4900 Ib, 40.00; 5000-9900 Ib,
38.00; 10,000 lb or more, 37.00.
Nickel Sulphate: 5000-22.999 Ib, 29.00; 23,000-
39,990 lb, 28.50; 40,000 lb or more, 28.00.
Sodium Cyanide (Cyanobrik): 200 lb, 20.80;
400-800 Ib, 19.80; 1000-19,800 lb, 18.80; 20,000
lb or more, 17.80.
Sodium Stannate: Less than 100 lb, 80.10; 100-
600 lb, 70.70; 700-1900 lb, 68.00; 2000-9900 Ib,
66.10; 10,000 Ib or more, 64.80.
Stannous Chloride (Anhydrous): 25 lb, 155.60;
100 lb, 150.70; 400 lb, 148.30; 800-19,900 Ib,
107.40; 20,000 lb or more, 101.30.
Stannous Sulphate: Less than 50 lb, 140.70;
50 Ib, 110.70; 100-1900 Ib, 108.70; 2000 lb or
more, 106.70.
Zine Cyanide:
57.00.

300-900

100-200 Ib, 59.00; 300-900 Ib,

May 11, 1959

(Concluded from Page 217)

@ Houston—The scrap market is
listless despite the fact that prices,
pegged to a May 15-June 15 mill
order, are comparatively high. With
the leading mill emphasizing that
it likely will buy no more scrap
before June 15, brokers are moving
slowly in filling their commitments.

withdrawn temporarily from the
market after a period of moderate
activity. Combined with lack of
new export business, the with-
drawal may herald a price change.
Current export commitments have

been filled.

© LosAngeles — Demand for steel-
making scrap remains steady. Mills
are buying only for immediate
needs; their inventories are high.

CLASSIFIED

We are interested in purchasing
SURPLUS STEEL and ALUMINUM
Sheet, strip, bars, tubing and pipe
M. R. BERLIN CO.
2900 W. PETERSON ROAD
CHICAGO 45, ILL.

Help Wanted

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Large manufacturer (approximately 2500 em-
ployees) of specialty steel products including
closed and open die heavy press forgings, forged
and rolled rings and flanges, desires graduate
mechanical engineer with 5 to 10 years’ experi-
ence in tool, die, jig, and fixture design to
head this engineering function. Salary com-
mensurate with ability. When applying
educational background, experience and
requirements. Reply Box 758, STEEL,
Bldg., Cleveland 13, Ohio.

Penton

EXPERIENCED SHEET PRODUCTION SUPER- |

INTENDENT. Immediate opening for superin-
tendent with background in aluminum strip and
sheet rolling. Prefer Mechanical Engineering De-
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Must
and auxiliary equipment. Modern
growing Mid-southern community.
aluminum production. In resume give
family, references, experience and salary
quirement. Enclose photograph. Reply Box
STEEL, Penton Bidg., Cleveland 13, Ohio.

installation in

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Must be a graduate with ability to qualify for
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Representatives Wanted

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Positions Wanted

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Burn off an eH finish from a reject as a last resort? Not at all gate Seeeten. Ingersoll

necessary. Oakite SrripPer S-A strips metals clean. That's true for Borg-Warner Industrial Cranes ...

multip le coats as well as single coat epoxy finishes. Look at STRIPPER Brainard Strapping Division of Shoren Stee!

Corporation
S-A’s record: Bristol Brass Gnenestion, The
¢ 4 3/16" thick coating built up from layers of epoxy Bullard Co., The

coating and wrappings of fiber glass was stripped Byers, A. M., Co.

from gun barrels by overnight soak in Stripper S-A

Everything tried previously had failed. Cadman, A. W., Mfg. Co.
Carlson, G. O., Inc.
Carpenter Steel Co., The Be diate
finish in matter of minutes. Carpenter Steel Co., The, Alloy Tube Division 194
Workholding spindles and racks laden with at least Cattie, Joseph P., & Brothers, Inc.
Chicago Steel Service Co.

Chisholm-Moore Hoist Division, Columbus
soak. Paint hooks formerly burned clean are now McKinnon Chain Corporation

soaked clean instead. Cincinnati Lathe & Tool Co.

Cincinnati Shaper Co., The

This powe rful strip per is safe for all metals —* zine and mag- Sek Gee: nekion ‘aac ehicanii
nesium. And it’s safe to the user, since it works cold... has no flash Crane & Engineering Co.

Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, The 84, 85, 89

point his rinses with weeneN. . . . 3 by Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, United States
Srriprer S-A is but one of a long list of superior strippers by Sieal Gainorction 49, 50, 51, 52

Oakite. Some are spec ially formulated for use on steel... aluminum Columbus Coated Fabrics Corporation
_ other metals. Some for re moving lacquers . . . tough synthetic Columbus McKinnon Chein Comperetion,
finishes. Still others are designed especially for removing paint from Genenetd Gael Gc. Gile Gauiien Site
Division
vertical surfaces. Whatever your paint- strip ping prob slem—Oakite
Cc Id Steel Co., Supe ‘Stee! Division 159
is bound to have the answer. Ask your local Oakite man or send meee jee! Co., Superior vs
3 * : ; ) p . Cowles Tool Co.
for paint-stripping bulletin F-7893. Oakite Products, Inc., 345 Radic iiemtied - tie
Rector Street, New York 6, N. Y.

it PA YS to ask Oakite Diamond Manufacturing Co.

DoAll Co., The
Dodge Manufacturing Commensthin

Dunbor Brothers Division, Associated Spring
Corporation

Dupont, Mathias

OAK F Eastman Kodak Co., Special Products Sales.. 141

Eaton Manufacturing Co., Dynamatic Division 53

Electric Controller & Mfg. Co., The, A Division
of The Square D Co. Inside Front Cover

— one Division, American Brake Shoe

Brass plated steel parts were stripped of their epoxy

10 coats were stripped to bare metal by a short

1909-1959
. ene feng & Steel Comneation
‘years’ leadership in industrial cleaning nae Geant Oe te.

Ex-Cell-O Corporation
Ex-Cell-O Corporation, Machinery Division

Fischer Special Mfg. Co.
Furane Plastics, Inc.

Gardner-Denver Co.
Gates Rubber Co.,
Gear Specialties, Inc.
General Electric Co.

3
General Electric Co., Metallurgical Products
Department 154

G | Motors C
Gear Division

General Refractories Co.

General Steel Castings

Gerlinger Carrier Co.

Gibson Division, Associated Spring Corporation 169
Greenlee Bros. & Co.

Harrington & King Perforating Co., Inc., The 200
Hayes, C. 1I., Inc.

Haynes Stellite Co., Division of Union Carbide
Corporation 162, 163

Hill Acme Co., The, Hill Division
Hough, Frank G., Co., The
Hyde Park Foundry & Machine Co.

Ingersoll Kalamazoo Division, Borg-Warner
Corporation

Inland Steel Co.

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Stainless
& Strip Division ‘

Kaiser Alumi & Ch
Kaiser Chemicals Division

Klingelhofer, Albert, Machine Tool
Corporation

| Sales,

Landis Machine Co.

Leeds & Northrup Co.

Lilly, Eli, & Co., Agricultural & Industrial
Products Division

Lindberg Engineering Co.

Link-Belt Co.

Lodge & Shipley Co., The

Magor Car Corporation
Malleable Castings Council
Manross, F. N., & Sons Division,
Associated Spring Cerporation
Marchant, Geo. F., Co.

Metallurgical Products Department of General
Electric Co.

Milwaukee Division, Associated Spring
Corporation

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. 186, 187
Monarch Machine Tool Co., The .

Morgan Construction Co.

Mueller Brass Co.

National Acme Co.
National Automatic Tool Co., Inc.

National Carbon Co., Division Union Carbide
Corporation ..25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

National Forge Co.

National Steel Corp

National Tube Division, United States ‘Steel
Corporation

Nebel Machine Tool Corporation

Norton Co. .

Norton Co., Sshitloniag Co. Division 178, 179

Oakite Products, Inc.

Ohio Division, Associated Spring Corporation 169

Ohio Ferro-Alloys Corporation

Ohio Seamless Tube Division of Copperweld
Steel Co.

Osborn Manufacturing Co.,

May 11, 1959

Pangb Corporati
Pannier Corporation, The
Partlow Corporation, The
Peterson Steels, Inc.
Pittsburgh Steel Co.
Plibrico Co.

Raymond Manufacturing Division, Associated
Spring Corporation

Republic Steel Corp

Rockford Machine Tool Co.

Roebling’s, John A., Sons Corporation, A
Subsidiary of The Colorado Fuel & Iron
Corporation

Ryerson, Joseph T.,

& Son, Inc.

Saginaw Steering Gear Division, General
Motors Corporation

Sampson, Ben
Sandvik Steel, Inc.

Seaboard Pacific Division, Associated Spring le

Corporation

Sharon Steel C
Division

Shepard Niles Crane & Hoist Corporation ....

Simonds Abrasive Co., Division of Simonds
Saw & Steel Co.

Simonds Gear & Mfg. Co.,

SKF Industries, Inc.

Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

Square D Co., The, The Electric Controller &
Mfg. Co. Division

Standard Screw Co.

at Steel Works Division, Baldwin-Lima-

ei Steel Division of Copperweld Steel Co.

Tennessee Coal & Iron Division, United States
Corporation

Texaco, Inc.

Inside Front Cover

226

Textron, Inc., The Waterbury Farrel Foundry
1

& Machine Co.
Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc.
Timken Roller Bearing Co., The, Steel & Tube
Division

Tinnerman Products, Inc.
T tor Corporati

Division

Ulbrich Stainless Steels

Union Carbide Corporation, Haynes Stellite
Division

Union Carbide C b
Division 25, 38. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,

United Engineering & Foundry Co.

United States Drill Head Co.

United States Steel Corporation, Subsidiaries

50, 51, 52,
. 49, 50, 51,

United States Steel Export Co.

United States Steel Supply Division, United
States Steel Corporation

Universal Atlas Cement Division, United
States Steel Corporation

Universal Cyclops Steel Corporation
Urick Foundry Co.

Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co.

Vi di Corporati of America
Van Huffel Tube Corporation
Vaughn Machinery Co., The
Veeder-Root, Inc.

Virginia Electric & alee Co.

Ward Steel Co.
Washburn Wire Co.

Waterbury Farrel Foundry & Machine Ca,
The, Division of Textron, Inc.

Wean Equipment Corporation
Weirton Steel Co. ee
Westinghouse Electric Raaneiettins
Wisconsin Motor Corporation
Wyckoff Steel Co.

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Classified Advertising, Page 223

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Physical tests at Standard in-
clude those for specia! proper-
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Here, the strength and ductil-
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for resistance to stress under
severe conditions of elevated
temperatures over a prolonged
period of time.

Charpy impact and transition
temperature determinations
have recently assumed import-
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susceptibility to fracture at tem-
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Quality control—a vital activity at
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Every conceivable shop and laboratory test required for modern
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lurgical technicians. Testing of incoming raw materials; physical
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Rotoblast cuts switching from a competitive barrel of about 12 cu. ft. capacity, the

firm now cleans loads three times as large in half the time. Today

man-hours tote box loads averaging 1900 Ibs. each are cleaned in 4-5 minute

cleaning cycles. As a result, the Rotoblast Barrel has cut 24 man-

per day from hours per day to 15 man-hours in the cleaning department and
greatly improved the quality of the work.

74 to 15 at How much time and money can Pangborn Rotoblast save you? It

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