I recently read a book called Electric Arc To The Past, a time travel novel based in the 1970’s in and around Rotherham and the Templeborough Electric Melting Shop. It was fascinating to see the actual melting shop that was so vividly described in the book. Thanks for posting this amazing bit of history. 👍

What a remarkably well preserved film! Capturing this on film would have been a challenge.

As a present day Melter on a 150t EAF I really enjoyed this video. The transition from Open Hearth to Electric Arc was very interesting to watch. The control panel with the old switches and MW gauges brought back some memories too.

Great to see this film with my father Tom Kilpatrick appearing near the beginning, a couple of his colleagues I knew, and then speaking at around 20 minutes in. I had never seen this and the same goes for my brothers, even the eldest who worked for United Steels in their very early computing facilities.

@gardenogauge

28 күн бұрын

@@daviddkilpatrick excellent, for that alone I'm glad I uploaded it!

Excellent video. It had never occurred to me that a steel works would not have an associated blast furnace. I was quite taken aback by that!!

@AluminumOxide

22 күн бұрын

Open hearth furnaces can take 100% scrap as well as a mix of scrap and molten iron.

My Mum n Dads house @ 16:02 haha. Whata gem this doco is, takes me back to the 70''s. I remember having to sign a waiver on my school trip to the arc furnace saying if i died it wasn't BSC's fault and i stood 30ft from the arc on a gantry, probably the same gantry the guy is filming from and witnessed its scary power up close.

Great stuff! My grandad worked at Steelo's in the 60s and my brother is an electrical engineer at Liberty who worked on the new VAR furnace at Stocksbridge.

@gardenogauge

4 күн бұрын

@@antonycharnock2993 who's your brother? I was part of the commissioning team for the two VAR furnaces that went in about 10 years ago

Arc furnaces get so high tech these days, its easy to forget they're not a modern invention. By the way this is a breathtaking documentary, and seeing the Open Hearth furnace is amazing!

@gardenogauge

27 күн бұрын

@@AluminumOxide absolutely! All these iron making switching over to EAF and talking of it being new technology! Plants producing steel in 1 million+ tons a year and above have been going on for 60 years

Can we use them with Solar and wind power?

@gardenogauge

24 күн бұрын

@@spex357 yup