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Posts Tagged with "steel"

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    Posted on October 4th, 2007

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    aluminum, extrusion, faber, luxfer, manufacture, scuba, scuba tanks, steel, tanks

    How Scuba Tanks are Made

    I was trying to talk Justin into getting a set of steel tanks so that he could band them together when we got onto the subject of how scuba tanks are made. He mentioned some videos of the process he had found, and sent them along to me. It’s really a pretty amazing process. Especially [...]

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    Posted on February 20th, 2006

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    alang, alang india, decommissioned, disassembly, drydock, full steam, ghostly old ships, india, low paid workers, metal, scrap metal, ship demolition, shipbreakers, ships, steel, ton, workers

    Where Ships Go to Die

    Where Ships Go to Die

    Ever wonder what happens to those huge ocean-going ships when they outlive their usefulness and are decommissioned? It turns out they are usually sailed to a place called Alang India where they are dismantled and sold by the pound for scrap metal.
    Now, one might think that, once they reach Inida, they would be placed in [...]

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