class37418stag Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Hello everyone Where I get correct item for slag in open wagon Please give comment thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2016 (edited) There's going to be plenty of closed works soon so any of those Edited April 1, 2016 by russ p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 The other source is grey Cat Litter! However it disintegrates when wet! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Where I get correct item for slag in open wagon Noch 15959 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Noch 15959 Wrong answer of person but I am talking about slag from British steel burn waste hot until get hard and cold The other source is grey Cat Litter! However it disintegrates when wet! Mark Saunders No thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 There's going to be plenty of closed works soon so any of those I am not talking about closed down so I need slag in 1990s for carry my wagon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Wrong answer of person but I am talking about slag from British steel burn waste hot until get hard and cold No thanks It is sold new and unused, likewise the biomass that power stations burn is also suitable for cat litter! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Depends what it is going to be used for. Slag for adding to cement during manufacturing would be finely ground and conveyed in Vee-tanks of the sort used for finished cement. Slag that had been crushed for fill, such as the 2 million or so tons brother-in-law bought for a project in Cardiff, could be represented by fine sand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Noch 15959 [/quote I've racked my brains to include a cameo with those naughty ladies, but nothing came to mind that was explainable should my daughters point it out.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10000 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 On steelworks where I worked many years ago the slag was high phosphate, ground to powder and sold as fertilizer. It was available from agriculture suppliers (and some gardening outlets) as "Basic Slag Fertilizer" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 On steelworks where I worked many years ago the slag was high phosphate, ground to powder and sold as fertilizer. It was available from agriculture suppliers (and some gardening outlets) as "Basic Slag Fertilizer" It was often used for 'top-dressing' grassland; you could always tell which fields had been treated, as they were a deep, rich, green colour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Noch 15959 Don't think much of yours! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Slag travelling in open wagons - i.e. not the powdered product - is possibly going for use as roadstone. There was a slag-to-tarmacadam plant at Frodingham in the 1930s, and it's probably still in operation, although nowadays the stone would probably be shipped without the bitumen. Therefore, any material that represents fine-screen stone would do it. One would have to find out the colour when it is not covered in tar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londontram Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 "You Slag" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Noch 15959 [/quote I've racked my brains to include a cameo with those naughty ladies, but nothing came to mind that was explainable should my daughters point it out.... Global warming mini-tornado set piece? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 Yes, most amusing, I can see that many of you have the Jim Davidson bumper book of humour on your shelves. However it might have been more helpful to direct Andrew to some images of waste steel slag which appears to be mid to light grey with a hint of rusty brown. It looks to be more flaky than ballast. I'm not sure what to use to model it though it does look a bit like porridge oats in texture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted July 24, 2016 Author Share Posted July 24, 2016 Where I buy slag material for my ingot mould tipper wagon from model rail shop and I don't want buy cat litter NO THANKS But I prefer buy at model rail shop Thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Yes, most amusing, I can see that many of you have the Jim Davidson bumper book of humour on your shelves. However it might have been more helpful to direct Andrew to some images of waste steel slag which appears to be mid to light grey with a hint of rusty brown. It looks to be more flaky than ballast. I'm not sure what to use to model it though it does look a bit like porridge oats in texture. More helpful, but a damn sight less amusing . What's wrong with Jim anyway ? That slag stuff looks like tea leaves to me, try those Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Andrew, slag is taken from the furnaces and is allowed to cool at the steelworks. Then it is excavated, just like any other rock, crushed, and then it is ready for use. So it usually looks just like crushed stone. You can simply represent it by using a coarse modelling ballast. Mixing different colours helps, greys from very dark through to light shades and rust reds are the main colours. Don't mix the colours evenly, keep it patchy. Some slag can have an aerated appearance, like it has little bubbles in it, and some can have a glassy, shiny appearance. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 However it might have been more helpful to direct Andrew to some images of waste steel slag Just for clarity, that is not basic slag but 'skull'. When hot metal is run through troughs and launders (chutes), and is poured from ladles, it leaves behind a thin encrustation of slag and metal. When cooled it is peeled off by cranes or chipped off which accounts for its flake like appearance. Unlike slag it has a very high metal content and is broken up and recycled back through the furnace. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Where I buy slag material for my ingot mould tipper wagon from model rail shop and I don't want buy cat litter NO THANKS But I prefer buy at model rail shop Thank you The ingot-mould tipplers had a bed of ordinary railway ballast on the floor, upon which the ingot moulds were laid. Until they started cutting chunks out of the side panels, they used to return to Landore and Dowlais with scrap moulds for remelting. Ingot moulds are available from this gentleman:- http://www.rtmodels.co.uk/rt_models_040.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUNFOS Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Try Chinchilla dust, very fine material and the correct colour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 (edited) More helpful, but a damn sight less amusing . What's wrong with Jim anyway ? ... I'm reminded of the "diary entry" (usually, but not always, attributed to Benny Hiil). "I met Jim Davidson, a very funny man and a gentleman; and spoke to all three.." Edited July 25, 2016 by rockershovel 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cokebreeze Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/carnforthironworks/today You can go and get your own for free. Keer estuary nature reserve West of Carnforth. Follow the signs to Warton raceway. They host banger racing on the site of the old Carnforth Haematite Ironworks slag bank. Fresh crushed limestone is a close representation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
katwigan Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 When I worked in the Chrysler / Mitsubishi Foundry here in Adelaide the metal was melted in a coke fired Cupola that also used Limestone as a filtering agent. The Limestone produced the bulk of the slag that would be run off when the Cupola was "tapped" to access the Cast Iron. So I agree with Cokebreeze re the use of fresh , crushed limestone being a good representation, it basically being exactly that. Actually 'Cuttle fish' suitably painted and carved to shape would probably do a very good job of representing large cooled pieces. The old Pumice stone is probably very similar produced in a natural process ( Volcanic ) Kevan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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