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  Dan Brown June 3, 2010 at 12:37am

  I hope that everyone had a great Memorial Day , with lots of beer , brats , and bouncing gahungas ( 'scuse me ladies , but it IS summer , and old sailors , ESPECIALLY molders , do like to see the latest and smallest fashions) .My day was spent with my nephews widow , trying to keep her spirits up . Not only was her husband killed on a motorcycle about this time last year , but she was to go under the knife (again) today , Wednesday the 3rd . Seems that some of the hardware they put into her right leg after the wreck is harboring an infection , which keeps coming back .
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  Dan Brown May 31, 2010 at 9:04pm

  Unfortunately , I got transferred before the HYIC got his little furnace on line , so I don't know how this played out . I do know that you could ship out a whole lot more 30 pound pigs than you could 105mm empty boxes .
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  Dan Brown May 31, 2010 at 8:56pm

  How many of this weird assortment of blind , crippled , and crazy , sick , lame , and lazy Molders (and "wantabe" molders) ever got the chance to pour PURE SILVER ? I did , on the old KLONDIKE . Now this ain't no bullshit guys, it really happened . I had taken some time off the ship , and went down to the salvage yard at NavSta , which was one of my favoritest places on the base . The HYIC (Head Yardie In Charge) was showing me how they lectroliticly salvaged silver from photo chemicals. It came off the stainless steek plates in big flakes , and after it "dried" they would put it into big wooden boxes that had held artillery rounds . When they got a boxcar full , they shipped it back East for further processing. There must have been two tons of it (99.8 percent pure silver) just stacked in the yard . As the HYIC and I talked , I saw that he had a lift-coil induction furnace sitting in the yard , not 30 feet from that stack of silver. When I asked him why he didn't set that little lift-coil up , melt the silver down , and ship it out as ingots , he told me that it had never been done before , and he wasn't sure that it would work . I invited him to bring a test "lot" aboard the KLONDIKE , and we'd try it . Three days later he showed up with 6 boxes of flake silver , about 300 pounds. I used new #50 crucible , and we pigged about 300 pounds of pure silver . Pretty ? You betcha. When we were done , he let me keep the heel that was in the crucible , but before I could get it off the ship - it disapeared.
  
  
  
  
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  Craig Lami May 31, 2010 at 11:09am

  If any of you molders want mugs and shirts etc, with sailor slogans on them, I found a great site to check out. It's http://shop.cafepress.com/sailor?page=1
  Have a safe and happy Memorial Day.
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  Craig Lami May 30, 2010 at 8:29am

  We all know that veterans are the greatest bunch of people in the world along with the current active duty military. For those that don't agree, we need to remind them that we are the ones that gave them the right to be such @$$holes.
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  Wendell E. Holmes May 29, 2010 at 3:06pm

  any body know of ronnie gaylord ?molder holmes
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  Roxanne (Davis) Spendlove May 24, 2010 at 9:47am

  I agree brother and sister molders, leave your politics at the door. i too read this site for a smile and familiar stories, ones that make me say, they weren't the only ones who had to put up with that $%^&$#(!!!!. Memorial day is coming, be safe.
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  Craig Lami May 23, 2010 at 7:02pm

  I agree entirely. I made a similar comment a few months ago.
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  JIM COWAN May 21, 2010 at 10:07pm

  BZ DAN......YOU SAID IT ALL..THANKS
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  Wendell E. Holmes May 21, 2010 at 7:42pm

  r some reason us older molders are still here ml holmes