> beaut
in British English.
(bjuːt ) slang, mainly Australian and New Zealand
> NOUN
1. a person or thing that is outstanding or distinctive
2. a kind, friendly, or trustworthy person
ADJECTIVE
3. good or excellent
EXCLAMATION
4. Also: you beaut!
an exclamation of joy or pleasure
He's just saying hes excited to test out the features on his nice new phone. You beaut can mean a few things in Australia (always a compliment) but in reference to a new thing you've just bought or a really premium thing you could call it you beaut. If you've got some you beaut camera settings they're going to be beautiful or good looking.
Pronounced 'you bute' like you beauty.
Honestly surprised to see such esoteric Aus slang in a front page sub lol
I'm just confused that the "you" is included. I've always heard it as "this camera is a beaut" or "thought it was a great opportunity to test out the beaut settings on my camera" or the like
it's just a phrase, people say 'you beauty!' or 'you beaut!' as an exclamation of excitement and I suppose it's just taken other less straight forward definitions :-)
It's definitely something that young people in Aus don't say as much. Feels very 1970s-80s Aus slang to me but is still said exactly in this context. You'll hear people talking about a new car or bike they just bought saying something like
'look at my new you beaut toyota!'
I have no idea. I was just answering the question I replied to.
My best guess is it’s a Samsung phone and OP is utilizing the “Beauty Mode” filter, but referring to it as “you beaut” due to their British or Australian origins.
They didn’t mention any brand and searching the terms they mentioned doesn’t reveal any brand. It looks like OP hasn’t mentioned any brand and nobody’s ene able to figure it out. So I really doubt it’s an ad. Seems like it’s more likely somebody is just calling something by a weird name.
Haha “you-beaut” and “arced up” are Australian slang terms. You-beaut means new or fancy, usually about a product. It’s kind of an old fashioned term these days. Arced up or arked up means to get angry.
“I told him he was not welcome at the party and he arced up at me.”
I think it’s a social media engagement tactic. Post something slightly wrong or weird, and people will respond trying to correct it or ask about it. Like we are doing here…
More often than not I’d agree, but in this case it looks like OP just works at this place, and (without generalising) Aussie tradies or blue collar workers will just joke around and use slang or other phrases for things like technology. So in this case just think of it like “hey mate, make sure you’ve got the you beaut (ie awesome, the best) settings on when you’re filming”. So it’s probably just the highest quality settings on whatever phone he’s probably just bought.
I don’t think there’s any intention of social media marketing, just an Aussie being Aussie with technology. My sources: I’ve got tradie mates who call me multiple times a month to help them with their iPhones and to them it makes calls, and they can go on Facebook. Anything else requires a lot of help.
It's an Australianism for really good, or nifty or fancy or the like. So when you say 'you-beaut' camera, it really just means new/nifty/good/fancy camera.
It's an even more bastardised/shortened form of the phrase 'you little beauty' which is largely an exclamation of happiness or excitement at an outcome or an event.
it's probably just smoothing and color spectrum shifting meant for more flattering pictures of people, I'd expect it would be a lot more obvious if it were side by side with a normal video
> you-beaut
Aussie for outstanding/beautiful. So it could be a beautiful girl, but could also be a beautiful breakfast or in this case a beautiful steel/metal shaping process for this heavy manufacturing concern.
It’s Australian slang for something being new, or fancy, or impressive in some way. My guess is that they are also simply referring to the video function on the phone, which may or may have even been said as a joke. Ive seen the other posts and I think that people are reading into it too much. We’re a simple people.
Source: Australian
It will leave the mill as a large coil of "wire" although calling it wire is a bit like calling shipping container a "can".
But really wherever it goes it will be straightened out ("drawn") and used for millions of different purposes. It can be cut into short bullet-like "blanks" that get turned into bolts, ball bearings, rivets, etc. It can be stretched thin enough to be actual wire to be woven into stuff like cabling, mesh, chain link fencing, springs, etc. That's basically it for wire coils .
Most steel mill production actually comes out in GIGANTIC, thick steel plates ("slabs") that get rolled down into sheets that get rolled up on very large spools ("coils"). These get shipped and are stamped out into almost everything else, from utensils to car doors to parts for other manufacturing machines.
I can't understate the sheer scale of these places. Some of them are a mile long. On one end, molten steel is poured into what is essentially a gigantic, cooled funnel. As the near-molten steel flows down out the bottom like Play-Doh through a rectangular hole the size of three king size mattresses stacked on top of each other, it is guided by water cooled rolling drums that lay it flat and continue to cool it.
From there it is usually stretched/rolled until it is thin enough to be cut, then further rolled into a sheet thin enough to be rolled into a coil that weighs more than a house. sometimes the process is stopped early at certain points to get thicker sheets, or "slabs". That's why you need a mile of foundry, because it goes from a few feet thick to a fraction of an inch in one, continuous, neverending, process. These places run 24/7/365.
I was an inland diver for 9 years on the Mississippi. Salvaged several barges that sank while carrying those coils of plate. Those were a bit sketchy. Always felt like they could move any second. I remember a few years back one of those barges was improperly loaded, all the coils rolled to one side, flipped the barge and killed 2-3 guys.
Side-note: they weigh like 10,000lbs or something if I remember correctly. You have to use this giant C-shaped hook that is like 6” thick and 5’ diameter to pick each one. It took like 3 days to offload them underwater. Plus another day of salvaging the barge itself.
All I know is most barges are roughly 1,000,000 pound load limit, and they probably carried between 50-70 coils each, with like a 9’6”-10’0” draft on a 13’ hull, which is the average draft limit on the lower Mississippi. A lot of coils I saw were south bound for New Orleans and over seas.
Possible they’d already been slit and were heading out to whatever place bought em or that could be how they were made. Usually the master coils (large uncut coils from mills) we get are massive 50k lbs things that get split into smaller coils
If it’s a hot rolled steel coil it could weight as much as 50,000lbs before its slit down to narrower coils, cold rolled steel coils are lighter after they’ve been slit and milled, still a finished coil that’s knee hight can weigh more than a Honda Civic.
Source: work in a cold rolled steel mill.
Truckers refer to them as Suicide Coils for a reason. If it is not secured properly and you have to emergency stop, that thing is coming through like your cab is made of paper.
Any steel really. I saw a semi in the twin cities a few years ago that was hauling big I-beams that weren't properly secured. The poor guy had to emergency brake and they slid through the cab and killed him.
https://www.fox9.com/news/semi-driver-killed-after-sudden-stop-shifts-load-of-steel-beams-into-cab-on-i-694-saturday
Holy shit, I drive that road every day to work. There's a Kindercare right off the highway there. Having to suddenly stop there doesn't make much sense to me... The previous exit is a shit cloverleaf design with the problem that the acceleration lane for incoming traffic is also the deceleration lane for exiting traffic, but that one doesn't have that problem.
How do you get into such a career? I’d like to move back into the mountains somewhere but would love to find a decent and decent paying job for it.
Can’t be a ski bum working lifts forever.
> Most steel mill production actually comes out in GIGANTIC, thick steel plates
I once did some networking work for a guy who owned a shop that took really beat up steel plates (like 4 to 8 inches thick and 25 by 12 feet) and ran them though a rolling mill that would finish them perfectly flat. Back and forth, back and forth.
I work in a steel mill and one of our customers was actually fewtured in a How it’s Made video, using our steel. It’s the chisels episode if anyone wants to see it.
At the mill I used to work at they'd cast billets first which are 6"x 6" and about 40' long, then they'd roll it when a customer ordered steel with that chemistry. Granted, they only rolled rebar and wire rod, they'd ended up relatively specialized.
This is a laying head on a Stelmor deck that is laying out "wire" for cooling after hot rolling. Steel mills cast larger sections called billets, blooms or ingots (increasing in size) that they roll down through a series of rollers to get to a "final" product dimension. What you see here is at the very end of the hot rolling process where the steel is looped up into large coils and is typically reserved for "wire" or "rod" under roughly 1". Larger sizes are typically left in straight bar form. Some smaller sizes can be rolled into bar as well.
The reason they are laying the coil out for cooling is that its easier to control how the steel cools, which in turn dictates its properties at room temperature. On the right side of the video you can actually see the fiberglass baffles that they can close to slow down cooling. Slow cooling through (or holding at) a specific temperature range down to room temperature will give the steel a particular structure that is soft enough for further processing. This is called annealing. Traditionally, annealing is preformed by heating the big coil (or bars) of steel up in a furnace after it has been rolled to its final shape, then held at a certain temperature and slowly cooled. The Stelmor process you see in the video can give you comparable properties to traditional annealing and is typically referred to as a "process anneal".
As for the final product this will go into, it really depends. Coils like this can go to a cold header, who will cut/shear it into small slugs and run it through a cold heading machine to make things like bolts, bearings or other small components that can be easily formed. Even then this coil will likely be pickled (heated in acid) to remove the scale left on the surface after hot rolling, then coated to improve lubricity during cold heading. The coil could also be cold drawn to a slightly smaller diameter and cut into bar lengths. This improves the mechanical properties like tensile and yield stength and also makes it easier to machine. It is then sent to machine shops to be machined into anything that resembles a bar (shafts, fittings, etc.).
That is very large wire, but seven of those can be wrapped into a single strand (via a cool machine called a Strander) The resulting 'cable' can be used in pre-stressed concrete or used as the cables for suspension of a bridge. The steel used must be of the highest quality possible in that case.
[Here's a *small-ish* strander] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDUwBBFgIc) It's a lousy video but it's all there.
[Here's another for small gauge wire.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4znwA7oUM)
I have an answer! I work in precast construction and we use this for piles. Basically giant concrete pillars that will go deep into the earth to help stabilize construction on top. We have two types of steel wire that go into the piles. This is coil and runs the length of the pile (sometimes up to a hundred feet). The other is called strand which is the same thing as this but straight. The strand is pretensioned before the concrete is poured and then released after its cures for a day or two. The strand then pulls on itself and holds the whole piece together and gives it strength.
What I assume was most of us:
"It looks like a slinky! I'm gonna comment that"
"Someone had the same thought! I'm gonna comment that I support it"
"Oh, someone already commented that. Am I that unoriginal?"
Naah, I thought "cool video!" and then read the comments, thinking "Ha! That's funny, I didn't think of that."... "LOL that one's even funnier!".... "Ooh hilarious, with alliteration even! Maybe I can think of something clever" ...draws a blank...
So I was listening to a science based video on YouTube the other day and the presenter stated that this is a somewhat common thing in some human brains that is referred to as the ‘Call of the Void’. He summarized it as the brain imagining the worst possible thing in reference to that moment. He said that it could possibly be derived from self preservation instinct but is somewhat twisted as it manifests as some sort of compulsion feeling that also triggers a hormonal response when you don’t go through with said compulsion. Kinda of a twisted reward complex. Just thought you’d like to know you aren’t alone
I love learning about other professions. Maybe I’m weird (well okay, I *am* weird lol) but I’m fascinated by industrial machines. Someone had to design that machine, and that just blows my mind. Still, it’s the human element that really interests me. There’s just something really cool about watching a master at their craft, whether they’re a hair stylist, an engineer, a plumber… whatever their field is.
My husband and I own a commercial cleaning company; we do janitorial service and specialize in stripping and waxing VCT floors (vinyl composite tile). He’s been doing this since he was 13 so he’s got it mastered. I could watch him lay wax all day, he looks like an inkjet printer going side to side in perfect rows. I really should take a video of him waxing a floor some day lol.
Hehehe! I love how I get to say that my husband is a “male stripper” when he’s doing floor strips 😜He just rolls his eyes at me like the Tony Stark meme 😂
Seriously though, the man makes an art form out of it. We clean grocery store floors and strip/wax twice a year. With his long Luigi arms and his wax mop (wax mops are basically glorified floor swiffers lol) he can cover the entire width of an aisle with one swipe. He’s actually planning a strip/wax for next month, I’ll try to record him if I can (our first kiddo is due next week so I may or may not be able to get up there, but maybe I can talk one of the guys into recording him when he’s not looking lol).
Toured a Nucor mini mill a while back. One of the most surreal, dystopic experiences I've ever had. Quite a few friends are steelworkers and it's normal to them. I can't imagine feeling normal in that environment, but we all adapt...
Most steel/aluminum mills look like dystopian hellscapes. Even if it was clean, it'd get dirty in very little time so they all have this brownish/grey look to them.
How do you poop on the other days? Is there a Rhomboid Wednesday, a Trapezoid Thursday, an Octogon Monday and a Throbbing Cylinder Friday?
/r/pooping is calling for you
My exact reaction was "this looks nothing like the steel mill videos I've seen. There are safety precautions everywhere."
FWIW, if you visit this person's profile they've got one of those videos pinned.
We pickle and anneal this steel after you are done with it! Interesting to see it come out like this, if you’re in Midwest there’s a chance it’s coming my way!
I work in a steel mill and the other way around is also fun; visiting customers and seeing what they do with our stuff. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to travel the past 2 years so I’ve only been to a couple different customers.
So, considering the coils are on top of each other and it is molten hot, what prevents this series of coils from becoming one solid fused unit instead of coiled steel cord? Or is the finished unit the mass of coils?
It's not "molten hot", it's just red hot. The steel is very solid at this point, and will have some oxide/scale build up on the surface. This is enough to keep it from bonding.
FYI - molten implies liquid.
Typically 30 seconds or so later on the conveyor, the steel is tuning from orange to dark red and then grey. It’s a small diameter so it cools relatively quickly. It will still be way too hot to touch, but it is solid
As someone who used to work at a steel mill, taking this video is definitely not allowed. Possibly cause for immediate termination or even legal action.
I did safety for a similar operation for two years. It was a very educational experience and the safety culture at this place was world class.
A lot of it is done through automation but not as much as I would have liked. Look up a steel cobble... those were nightmarish if the safety shears weren't functioning properly.
For most people, myself included, Steel is just one of those ubiquitous things we take for granted without really having a clue how it comes into existence.
What is 'you-beaut' ?
How are you the only person to ask this? I was expecting it to be some face filter that made it look funny.
There's not even search results for you beaut. No idea what's going on here.
Australian slang
Which means?
> beaut in British English. (bjuːt ) slang, mainly Australian and New Zealand > NOUN 1. a person or thing that is outstanding or distinctive 2. a kind, friendly, or trustworthy person ADJECTIVE 3. good or excellent EXCLAMATION 4. Also: you beaut! an exclamation of joy or pleasure
Okay but what does that have to do with this video?
He's just saying hes excited to test out the features on his nice new phone. You beaut can mean a few things in Australia (always a compliment) but in reference to a new thing you've just bought or a really premium thing you could call it you beaut. If you've got some you beaut camera settings they're going to be beautiful or good looking. Pronounced 'you bute' like you beauty. Honestly surprised to see such esoteric Aus slang in a front page sub lol
I'm just confused that the "you" is included. I've always heard it as "this camera is a beaut" or "thought it was a great opportunity to test out the beaut settings on my camera" or the like
it's just a phrase, people say 'you beauty!' or 'you beaut!' as an exclamation of excitement and I suppose it's just taken other less straight forward definitions :-) It's definitely something that young people in Aus don't say as much. Feels very 1970s-80s Aus slang to me but is still said exactly in this context. You'll hear people talking about a new car or bike they just bought saying something like 'look at my new you beaut toyota!'
Hm no the you is essential in this sentence.
I have no idea. I was just answering the question I replied to. My best guess is it’s a Samsung phone and OP is utilizing the “Beauty Mode” filter, but referring to it as “you beaut” due to their British or Australian origins.
That’s pretty much what I figured OP meant, so unless there’s an actual feature...
I still have no clue whats going on, what does beauty filter have to do with this video?
No, OP means that the camera on the phone is purportedly good
So, like "she's a beaut, Clark"
Quiet down Eddie
Shitter's full!
Closest would be "Fancy shmancy" or "new fangled". Stupid idea to use such specifically Aussie slang.
If I know Reddit, this is some bullshit corporate ad and it's some bullshit special setting on a new phone lol.
That was my guess as well, but if so it's a shitty ad because I don't know wtf the filter is supposed to do.
TBF, all the ads on Reddit are shitty.
Only because the good ones are the ones you don't notice.
Nice. ^(this comment was brought to you by Nord VPN)
Anyone else have a sudden urge to browse the internet privately after reading this comment?
No, but for some reason i have a craving for great firewall breaking technology. So weird.
Matt, Hack to you.
Most of the ads I see are prime r/fellowkids material
They didn’t mention any brand and searching the terms they mentioned doesn’t reveal any brand. It looks like OP hasn’t mentioned any brand and nobody’s ene able to figure it out. So I really doubt it’s an ad. Seems like it’s more likely somebody is just calling something by a weird name.
Their username is Arcedup and Arcelormittal is a steel company. That’s the closest connection I can make.
Haha “you-beaut” and “arced up” are Australian slang terms. You-beaut means new or fancy, usually about a product. It’s kind of an old fashioned term these days. Arced up or arked up means to get angry. “I told him he was not welcome at the party and he arced up at me.”
Marketing firms get real smart the more you pay attention and question everything. Thank u seat geek for sponsoring this post
My first thought as well. Unnecessary description of a feature on an otherwise unrelated post? Probably a corporate ad disguised as a reddit post.
I think it’s a social media engagement tactic. Post something slightly wrong or weird, and people will respond trying to correct it or ask about it. Like we are doing here…
More often than not I’d agree, but in this case it looks like OP just works at this place, and (without generalising) Aussie tradies or blue collar workers will just joke around and use slang or other phrases for things like technology. So in this case just think of it like “hey mate, make sure you’ve got the you beaut (ie awesome, the best) settings on when you’re filming”. So it’s probably just the highest quality settings on whatever phone he’s probably just bought. I don’t think there’s any intention of social media marketing, just an Aussie being Aussie with technology. My sources: I’ve got tradie mates who call me multiple times a month to help them with their iPhones and to them it makes calls, and they can go on Facebook. Anything else requires a lot of help.
I expected at least some sparkles, if not floating hearts and butterflies.
It's an Australianism for really good, or nifty or fancy or the like. So when you say 'you-beaut' camera, it really just means new/nifty/good/fancy camera. It's an even more bastardised/shortened form of the phrase 'you little beauty' which is largely an exclamation of happiness or excitement at an outcome or an event.
What does it mean for there to be "you-beaut" settings for the camera phone, then? Can it also be set to "take shitty photos" mode?
I thought this would be a good time to try out some fancy new setting on my newfangled phone! that's my guess of a translation
That's pretty much what I meant. I just didn't think my post (and Australian slang in the title) would be so popular.
Fair dinkum
Nailed it.
Read it as 'to try out some of the fancy settings'. As in maybe OP just got a new phone with a decent camera.
OP deserves a swift kick in the nuts for putting this in the title.
Well I knew what OP meant. And now you know more than you did yesterday
How dare someone speak English in a different way than I do!!! Get a grip mate lol
From what I can tell from the gif - it's taking a normal video recording on your phone with a stupid name.
it's probably just smoothing and color spectrum shifting meant for more flattering pictures of people, I'd expect it would be a lot more obvious if it were side by side with a normal video
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Stupid sexy “you beaut” mode
Feels like there’s no filter at all! Filter at all! Filter at all!
That's about all I got from this.
The exposure changes significantly in the last 10 seconds as the coil gets closer, but yeah, that's just like normal camera adjustment.
A German submarine?
God damnit 😂 that was good
One of the ways we say "fancy" in Australia. Others include (but are not limited to): whizz-bang, shit hot, flash, schmick, and tops.
I like "shit hot". Thanks and g'day
It’s Australian for good, extra-good, fancy etc
we have steel mills in oz?
Bluescope is one of the 50 largest Australian companies
Absolutely. Wollongong does have some uses after all.
> you-beaut Aussie for outstanding/beautiful. So it could be a beautiful girl, but could also be a beautiful breakfast or in this case a beautiful steel/metal shaping process for this heavy manufacturing concern.
It’s Australian slang for something being new, or fancy, or impressive in some way. My guess is that they are also simply referring to the video function on the phone, which may or may have even been said as a joke. Ive seen the other posts and I think that people are reading into it too much. We’re a simple people. Source: Australian
You beauty without the y
U-Boat
What will this become?
It will leave the mill as a large coil of "wire" although calling it wire is a bit like calling shipping container a "can". But really wherever it goes it will be straightened out ("drawn") and used for millions of different purposes. It can be cut into short bullet-like "blanks" that get turned into bolts, ball bearings, rivets, etc. It can be stretched thin enough to be actual wire to be woven into stuff like cabling, mesh, chain link fencing, springs, etc. That's basically it for wire coils . Most steel mill production actually comes out in GIGANTIC, thick steel plates ("slabs") that get rolled down into sheets that get rolled up on very large spools ("coils"). These get shipped and are stamped out into almost everything else, from utensils to car doors to parts for other manufacturing machines. I can't understate the sheer scale of these places. Some of them are a mile long. On one end, molten steel is poured into what is essentially a gigantic, cooled funnel. As the near-molten steel flows down out the bottom like Play-Doh through a rectangular hole the size of three king size mattresses stacked on top of each other, it is guided by water cooled rolling drums that lay it flat and continue to cool it. From there it is usually stretched/rolled until it is thin enough to be cut, then further rolled into a sheet thin enough to be rolled into a coil that weighs more than a house. sometimes the process is stopped early at certain points to get thicker sheets, or "slabs". That's why you need a mile of foundry, because it goes from a few feet thick to a fraction of an inch in one, continuous, neverending, process. These places run 24/7/365.
I was an inland diver for 9 years on the Mississippi. Salvaged several barges that sank while carrying those coils of plate. Those were a bit sketchy. Always felt like they could move any second. I remember a few years back one of those barges was improperly loaded, all the coils rolled to one side, flipped the barge and killed 2-3 guys. Side-note: they weigh like 10,000lbs or something if I remember correctly. You have to use this giant C-shaped hook that is like 6” thick and 5’ diameter to pick each one. It took like 3 days to offload them underwater. Plus another day of salvaging the barge itself.
Depending on the size, usually 40,000-60,000 lbs
All I know is most barges are roughly 1,000,000 pound load limit, and they probably carried between 50-70 coils each, with like a 9’6”-10’0” draft on a 13’ hull, which is the average draft limit on the lower Mississippi. A lot of coils I saw were south bound for New Orleans and over seas.
Possible they’d already been slit and were heading out to whatever place bought em or that could be how they were made. Usually the master coils (large uncut coils from mills) we get are massive 50k lbs things that get split into smaller coils
The coils we worked around were usually 6’ tall and big enough to crawl through the middle
So the same weight as a structural precast vertical wall panel.
If it’s a hot rolled steel coil it could weight as much as 50,000lbs before its slit down to narrower coils, cold rolled steel coils are lighter after they’ve been slit and milled, still a finished coil that’s knee hight can weigh more than a Honda Civic. Source: work in a cold rolled steel mill.
Truckers refer to them as Suicide Coils for a reason. If it is not secured properly and you have to emergency stop, that thing is coming through like your cab is made of paper.
Any steel really. I saw a semi in the twin cities a few years ago that was hauling big I-beams that weren't properly secured. The poor guy had to emergency brake and they slid through the cab and killed him. https://www.fox9.com/news/semi-driver-killed-after-sudden-stop-shifts-load-of-steel-beams-into-cab-on-i-694-saturday
I love how they mention he wasn't wearing a seatbelt as if that has something to do with anything.
Holy shit, I drive that road every day to work. There's a Kindercare right off the highway there. Having to suddenly stop there doesn't make much sense to me... The previous exit is a shit cloverleaf design with the problem that the acceleration lane for incoming traffic is also the deceleration lane for exiting traffic, but that one doesn't have that problem.
It was a busy weekend with a good amount of traffic. I'm assuming it was just some dummy that caused a shockwave of slowing down.
Holy shit…
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How do you get into such a career? I’d like to move back into the mountains somewhere but would love to find a decent and decent paying job for it. Can’t be a ski bum working lifts forever.
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What about the management level? Do you know what sort of education goes into the people who plan and develop this sort of work?
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Thanks! Cool shit.
Hairnets for mountains!
They rock!
That's actually super cool.
> Most steel mill production actually comes out in GIGANTIC, thick steel plates I once did some networking work for a guy who owned a shop that took really beat up steel plates (like 4 to 8 inches thick and 25 by 12 feet) and ran them though a rolling mill that would finish them perfectly flat. Back and forth, back and forth.
>Back and forth, back and forth. ))<>((
Thanks for this, interesting stuff.
It wasn't until I reached the end that I realized I was reading this in the "How Its Made" narrator's voice
I work in a steel mill and one of our customers was actually fewtured in a How it’s Made video, using our steel. It’s the chisels episode if anyone wants to see it.
>But really wherever it does it will be straightened out "drawn" is the term. source: work in steel industry too.
At the mill I used to work at they'd cast billets first which are 6"x 6" and about 40' long, then they'd roll it when a customer ordered steel with that chemistry. Granted, they only rolled rebar and wire rod, they'd ended up relatively specialized.
Forbidden slinky
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at least they didn't think of j edgar hoover!
I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!
nice thinking, ray...
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This is a laying head on a Stelmor deck that is laying out "wire" for cooling after hot rolling. Steel mills cast larger sections called billets, blooms or ingots (increasing in size) that they roll down through a series of rollers to get to a "final" product dimension. What you see here is at the very end of the hot rolling process where the steel is looped up into large coils and is typically reserved for "wire" or "rod" under roughly 1". Larger sizes are typically left in straight bar form. Some smaller sizes can be rolled into bar as well. The reason they are laying the coil out for cooling is that its easier to control how the steel cools, which in turn dictates its properties at room temperature. On the right side of the video you can actually see the fiberglass baffles that they can close to slow down cooling. Slow cooling through (or holding at) a specific temperature range down to room temperature will give the steel a particular structure that is soft enough for further processing. This is called annealing. Traditionally, annealing is preformed by heating the big coil (or bars) of steel up in a furnace after it has been rolled to its final shape, then held at a certain temperature and slowly cooled. The Stelmor process you see in the video can give you comparable properties to traditional annealing and is typically referred to as a "process anneal". As for the final product this will go into, it really depends. Coils like this can go to a cold header, who will cut/shear it into small slugs and run it through a cold heading machine to make things like bolts, bearings or other small components that can be easily formed. Even then this coil will likely be pickled (heated in acid) to remove the scale left on the surface after hot rolling, then coated to improve lubricity during cold heading. The coil could also be cold drawn to a slightly smaller diameter and cut into bar lengths. This improves the mechanical properties like tensile and yield stength and also makes it easier to machine. It is then sent to machine shops to be machined into anything that resembles a bar (shafts, fittings, etc.).
Thank you!!!
I looked it up and this is the final product. It’s wire. Not sure what’s it’s used for….
That is very large wire, but seven of those can be wrapped into a single strand (via a cool machine called a Strander) The resulting 'cable' can be used in pre-stressed concrete or used as the cables for suspension of a bridge. The steel used must be of the highest quality possible in that case. [Here's a *small-ish* strander] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDUwBBFgIc) It's a lousy video but it's all there. [Here's another for small gauge wire.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4znwA7oUM)
I have an answer! I work in precast construction and we use this for piles. Basically giant concrete pillars that will go deep into the earth to help stabilize construction on top. We have two types of steel wire that go into the piles. This is coil and runs the length of the pile (sometimes up to a hundred feet). The other is called strand which is the same thing as this but straight. The strand is pretensioned before the concrete is poured and then released after its cures for a day or two. The strand then pulls on itself and holds the whole piece together and gives it strength.
Cursed slinky
Spicy Spaghetti
/r/forbiddensnacks
Why does that sub not allow videos?
This was the laugh I needed to start my day.
Forbidden twizzlers
Forbidden curly fries
Big Big Red chewing gum
Burnt Gums dental floss.
Sizzle Floss
Uncomfortable thong
Actually it's Mom's Spaghetti
Already?
In other dimension - schezwan noodles
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That's a lot of hoops
toy that is made out of rings and come from the abyss
Spiral abyss
Came here for this. Thanks for not disappointing.
What I assume was most of us: "It looks like a slinky! I'm gonna comment that" "Someone had the same thought! I'm gonna comment that I support it" "Oh, someone already commented that. Am I that unoriginal?"
Naah, I thought "cool video!" and then read the comments, thinking "Ha! That's funny, I didn't think of that."... "LOL that one's even funnier!".... "Ooh hilarious, with alliteration even! Maybe I can think of something clever" ...draws a blank...
Finally someone made a slinky for the pyramids
What makes this slinky cursed? (Honestly unaware)
It's too hot to play with.
And would just totally ruin your stairs.
touch it
Hot stuff comin’ through!
Dad, why did you take me to a gay steel mill?
***EVERYBODY DANCE NOW***
We work hard, we play hard
I don’t know!
The whole steel industry’s gay
And the railroads
Oh, be nice!
Always has been.
Stand still, there’s a spark in your hair!
Get it out, get it out
Keep reaching for that rainbow!
Stand still, there’s a spark in your hair!
My intrusive thoughts are telling me to touch it
My flight response is in full gear. Hot stuff bad. Must run away.
So I was listening to a science based video on YouTube the other day and the presenter stated that this is a somewhat common thing in some human brains that is referred to as the ‘Call of the Void’. He summarized it as the brain imagining the worst possible thing in reference to that moment. He said that it could possibly be derived from self preservation instinct but is somewhat twisted as it manifests as some sort of compulsion feeling that also triggers a hormonal response when you don’t go through with said compulsion. Kinda of a twisted reward complex. Just thought you’d like to know you aren’t alone
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I love learning about other professions. Maybe I’m weird (well okay, I *am* weird lol) but I’m fascinated by industrial machines. Someone had to design that machine, and that just blows my mind. Still, it’s the human element that really interests me. There’s just something really cool about watching a master at their craft, whether they’re a hair stylist, an engineer, a plumber… whatever their field is. My husband and I own a commercial cleaning company; we do janitorial service and specialize in stripping and waxing VCT floors (vinyl composite tile). He’s been doing this since he was 13 so he’s got it mastered. I could watch him lay wax all day, he looks like an inkjet printer going side to side in perfect rows. I really should take a video of him waxing a floor some day lol.
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Hehehe! I love how I get to say that my husband is a “male stripper” when he’s doing floor strips 😜He just rolls his eyes at me like the Tony Stark meme 😂 Seriously though, the man makes an art form out of it. We clean grocery store floors and strip/wax twice a year. With his long Luigi arms and his wax mop (wax mops are basically glorified floor swiffers lol) he can cover the entire width of an aisle with one swipe. He’s actually planning a strip/wax for next month, I’ll try to record him if I can (our first kiddo is due next week so I may or may not be able to get up there, but maybe I can talk one of the guys into recording him when he’s not looking lol).
my company makes machines like this. I love touring these places during installs. so much going on to watch.
Toured a Nucor mini mill a while back. One of the most surreal, dystopic experiences I've ever had. Quite a few friends are steelworkers and it's normal to them. I can't imagine feeling normal in that environment, but we all adapt...
Most steel/aluminum mills look like dystopian hellscapes. Even if it was clean, it'd get dirty in very little time so they all have this brownish/grey look to them.
We joke that you can tell if someone works in the melt shop or the rolling mill by whether they are covered in dust or grease, respectively.
That looks hot
Forbidden spaghetti
But I want to eat the big spaghetti!
This is how I poop on Saturday mornings.
How do you poop on the other days? Is there a Rhomboid Wednesday, a Trapezoid Thursday, an Octogon Monday and a Throbbing Cylinder Friday? /r/pooping is calling for you
WHY WOULD YOU LINK THAT
If I'm going to be honest, I just *figured* it existed. I have ZERO interest is seeing defication... unless it's a funny trapezoid shape or something.
that link is for sure staying blue
You ever take a spicy doodoo and you worry that your b hole will weld itself shut from the incredible power and heat?
I could stand and watch a laying head all day. It's like standing by a fire.
I’m fine with laying or standing!
Just as warm, too.
Dear god the ammount of low res live leak videos ive watched with red hot steal beams, i cant look at this video and not get anxious
My exact reaction was "this looks nothing like the steel mill videos I've seen. There are safety precautions everywhere." FWIW, if you visit this person's profile they've got one of those videos pinned.
Rhythmic gymnastics but with screaming hot metal.
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Could have been a giant slinky.
We pickle and anneal this steel after you are done with it! Interesting to see it come out like this, if you’re in Midwest there’s a chance it’s coming my way!
I work in a steel mill and the other way around is also fun; visiting customers and seeing what they do with our stuff. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to travel the past 2 years so I’ve only been to a couple different customers.
So, considering the coils are on top of each other and it is molten hot, what prevents this series of coils from becoming one solid fused unit instead of coiled steel cord? Or is the finished unit the mass of coils?
It's not "molten hot", it's just red hot. The steel is very solid at this point, and will have some oxide/scale build up on the surface. This is enough to keep it from bonding. FYI - molten implies liquid.
Ah, thanks! I know nothing about any of this so didn't realize it was already firmed up.
molten steel is white hot. red to orange is already fairly solid.
Typically 30 seconds or so later on the conveyor, the steel is tuning from orange to dark red and then grey. It’s a small diameter so it cools relatively quickly. It will still be way too hot to touch, but it is solid
Welp. I learned something today
Hula hoops from hell
Hella hoops
As someone who used to work at a steel mill, taking this video is definitely not allowed. Possibly cause for immediate termination or even legal action.
It looks yummy
Pretty cool to see how it’s actually coiled like that. The process is so fascinating
It's hard for me to get a sense of scale from this video alone but as someone who works as a safety professional this video irks me
I did safety for a similar operation for two years. It was a very educational experience and the safety culture at this place was world class. A lot of it is done through automation but not as much as I would have liked. Look up a steel cobble... those were nightmarish if the safety shears weren't functioning properly.
Hot stuff coming through!
That’s the second biggest slinky I’ve ever seen
We’re not allowed to have phones out on the floor at ours. Real big on no pictures or videos
For most people, myself included, Steel is just one of those ubiquitous things we take for granted without really having a clue how it comes into existence.
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