Cores, molds, pours & slag-offs: two days at Navistar-Waukesha.
Modern Casting › Vol. 86 Nbr. 9, September 1996
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Cores, molds, pours & slag-offs: two days at Navistar-Waukesha.
This editor's fourth working sojourn provides firsthand experience inside this large ductile iron foundry and machining center.
Monday 4:22 a.m. The alarm shouts me from my sleep at my parents' house in Brookfield, Wisconsin. After responding quickly to the buzzing alarm, I change into t-shirt, jeans and pull on the safety shoes. I guess it's too early even for my parents' gray-bearded black lab, who doesn't hear me shuffling down the steps and out the door amidst his snores. Outside, the early morning darkness is filled with a chorus of birds, and I start the car and turn on the heater (it seems odd to be doing this in June) as I begin the 15-min drive west into Waukesha for my two-day visit at Navistar-Waukesha Manufacturing Facility. The ductile iron foundry and machining center will be my fourth working foundry visit since early 1992. 5:09 a.m. As I turn onto Perk...See the full content of this document
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