? Has anyone else viewed the workplace videos, showing India workers in a foundry?
(Discussion on scrap metal from buying oldocomotive). The skip over the scrap supply portions, but feature a technician in a sand area for building molds, say, for making a GEAR, having dimensions like a large round table (2 meter diameter).
The worker, very fast, applies what appears to be primitive tools, but obviously gets all the sand down and surface shaped, using things like long pile on a swivel center, shaving and packing the sand.
Heck; I'd be very upright and concerned about accuracy, but the big wheel, gear, does go next into a big lathe for the next step, (of course after pouring the molten foundry metal.
Idea is here they would take Xena's 'seized' and deliberate ruined engine and just chuck the whole block, into foundry melt bucket.
But there are so many steps skipped in that description, like the part where the team extracts the whole engine / alternator set (crane?), and sets that down, before separating out, and possibly cutting up.
Also just the transportation of that bulk, to final foundry isn't trivial.
Such things could really cause a negative 'GO' outcome, being expense exceeding scrap value....?
Hmmm, there's got to be some possible book or two, at local Library, on the whole scrap industry, including steel shipped to India foundaries. That part, the shipping, is well established..
once you've gotten your metal portioned out into chunks.