Modeling a foundry

[Anonymous]

So why is it that nobody seems to know how to model a foundry? You can't just plant a building with a clear story and stick a smokestack next to it and call it a foundry. Fact is, most all foundries don't even have smokestacks. The most common furnace is the cupola or vertical shaft furnace. They are varied and easy to model and extend out and above the roof of the foundry. Old foundries have open top cupolas and newer ones have a closeable cap and downcomer pipe to a bag house. The bag house is also easy to model. They need a constant supply of coke and scrap iron on steel brought in by rail, so a well modeled foundry is fun to operate. I believe there should be some education here on how a foundry operates so modelers can build a realistic foundry.

Larry

[jrbarney]

LTGeiste,
Welcome to the MR Forums !
If someone did a keyword search on foundries at the Index of Magazines, to which the below is a link:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=foundry&MAG=ANY
they would find 6 article citations.
If your foundry had a drop forge, you would also need some sound effects.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[ndbprr]

I have suggested that the Walthers blast furnace makes a better cupola furnace in a foundry than a blast furnace and replicates very well what you want to do if you can find one at this point.

[jrbarney]

QUOTE: Originally posted by LTGeiste


. . . . I believe there should be some education here on how a foundry operates so modelers can build a realistic foundry.

Larry

Larry,
If you have a lot of knowledge about foundries, you could start a mini-tutorial as a new thread.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[dragonriversteel]

Hello Larry,

I model a HO scale steel mill complex,based on my own design. With a blast furnace,EAF,coke oven,rolling mill,and as soon as I can find a suitable sorce of sheet metal a BOF building. There's two more guys on this forum that model steel also.

Shoot me an E-mail and we 'll talk more...also Yahoo has a steel modeling group forum,that I and one of the steelies guys on this forum belong to.

Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Making HO scale steel by the ton!!!!

[exPalaceDog]

QUOTE: Originally posted by LTGeiste


So why is it that nobody seems to know how to model a foundry? You can't just plant a building with a clear story and stick a smokestack next to it and call it a foundry. Fact is, most all foundries don't even have smokestacks. The most common furnace is the cupola or vertical shaft furnace. They are varied and easy to model and extend out and above the roof of the foundry. Old foundries have open top cupolas and newer ones have a closeable cap and downcomer pipe to a bag house. The bag house is also easy to model. They need a constant supply of coke and scrap iron on steel brought in by rail, so a well modeled foundry is fun to operate. I believe there should be some education here on how a foundry operates so modelers can build a realistic foundry.

Larry

Don't forget that foundries recieve molding sand. And maybe lumber for patterns.

Have fun

[ndbprr]

Foundries make castings. They can be steel, iron, brass, copper, aluminum stainless steel or other metals so raw materials are called for in the form of scrap - never ore that I know of or have seen. Foundry sand can range from normal sand color through black. Most molds today are made from styrofoam or the equivalent so don't forget deliveries of styrofoam. they are dying breed today because polution controls have forced most of them out of business. A typical casting house and furnace occupies less tha a city block but add an office building, warehouse, scrap pile, alloying agents, sand storage (reusable) and maintenance and it can mushroom as your space permits. Basically the furnace is a miniblast furnace without the stoves and typically does not use preheated air. Foundires do not make strip, structural shapes or merchant iron ( angles, channels etc.)

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by exPalaceDog

Originally posted by LTGeiste



Don't forget that foundries recieve molding sand. And maybe lumber for patterns.

]I must build a sand drier building. My foundry is getting bigger !

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