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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2714923, member: 24314&quot;]<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">CORRECTION, CORRECTION, MISINFORMATION ALERT</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">My mouth is wide open.&nbsp; Get the crow ready!&nbsp; <b>SORRY!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b> </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Previously, I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> posted this bit of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">misinformation</span>: &quot;While turning the ingots into strip that is thin enough to punch out planchets, it is passed through the hot rollers <b>back and forth</b>. At each pass the rollers have been adjusted closer.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Due to the fact that I never saw the rolling mills in operation, and could not figure out how the workers would carry a long strip back to the &quot;front&quot; of the mill...I ignorantly assumed <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />the strip went back and forth thru the rollers. Turns out this was a completely stupid assumption! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Doug and Oldhoopsterare correct.&nbsp; The strip goes through the mill&nbsp; in only<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)"> one direction</span></b>.&nbsp; When the strip gets too long to handle easily, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">it is cut.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Doug posted: &quot;...from all the videos of it I&#039;ve seen, they [<span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 179)">rolling mills</span>] only go one way. I&#039;m not saying it can&#039;t be done back and forth, it certainly could. But it would require roller machines with a transmission - one more thing to break - to do it.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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