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I finally understood what an old timer meant about 'listening to the pour'
Back in my first year at the Milwaukee plant, a guy named Frank watched me rush a gray iron pour and said, 'Kid, you're not hearing the song it's singing.' He made me stand there for a full five minutes on the next one, just listening to the metal flow into the flask. Has anyone else had a moment like that where an old trick just clicked?
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parker1837mo ago
That's a cool way to put it. Read a thing once about how bakers can tell dough is ready just by the sound it makes when tapped. Makes sense that other trades have those little tells too.
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hayden_lane7mo ago
Listening to the song it's singing" is a great line. Sounds like Frank was a real poet with a heat shield. My version of that was learning to smell when the grease was about to go bad in a fryer.
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