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  Craig Lami September 2, 2009 at 12:53am

  I found it amazing that the civilian foundries gon't use silica sand any more. Now the ones I've talked to are using olivine with Petro Bond binders.
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  Dennis Pennington September 2, 2009 at 12:46am

  How about that CO2 and PUNB sand? that was some hard stuff to break up and no re-using it either
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  aldo crose September 1, 2009 at 8:23pm

  roxanne, go down to page 19 of this section and yo9u will see the last photo of shop 81-A on the puget sound.
  Norman johnson put it in.
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  Roxanne (Davis) Spendlove September 1, 2009 at 3:12pm

  gleason, do you know the foundry picture on the web page is 81a, sound? i can't make out who the people are, not sure who put it there and what the year was. rox
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  Roland Cardin August 29, 2009 at 9:14am

  Some of you mention using bug juice on the pouring deck. We used Petrobond sand on the Frontier and it kept the deck rust free. It also was dust free so the foundry always was easy to keep clean. I remember some Captain giving a tour of the ship telling the group we didnt do much work as the reason it was clean. Bull, I wish he could have visited when we did an Iron or Steel heat. Sometimes 40 mold waiting to be poured.
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  John Gleason August 28, 2009 at 7:02pm

  LOL Foxy Roxy I rember that one lol
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  Roxanne (Davis) Spendlove August 28, 2009 at 4:05pm

  i remeber once on the sound, we were pouring several rows and my job was degassing and skimming. i thought cooling off the degassing rod by holding under cold water was a good idea. boy was that buck tooth, coke bottle wearing glasses LPO mad. i was new and it sounded like popcorn microwaving when i went to degass the second heat.
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  Roxanne (Davis) Spendlove August 28, 2009 at 3:40pm

  steven, did you get my request for those pictures? and that we will be going thru frisco next year for our 20th
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  Roxanne (Davis) Spendlove August 28, 2009 at 3:38pm

  i remember the nick name but don't think i was there. was it ricky, cuz for k guy who married that hooker? i don't think i ever saw dozier work. all he did was read the newspaper and gripe about getting underway. do you remember the turltles we bought in france. we had to bury them at sea and hide em during zone inspections. i miss the beaches.
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  Steve Clark August 28, 2009 at 2:28pm

  Hey Rox
  
  I don't know if you were in the foundry on the Yellowstone when this happend. Do you remember during a steel pour, Jeff Dozier was skimming and yelled out to a bunch of the boot camps that were watching us, "someone get me some f*** ing slax " and then one of them walked up to him in the middle of the pour and tried to hand him some pants from a fire suit? I was pouring that heat and I almost fell over laughing. I think I might have even pissed myself. What was that guys name, I remember calling him Slax for a long time after that.