CASTING MODERN A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDRY SOCIETY P. 42
AUGUST 2013 VOLUME 103 | NUMBER 8
COLUMNS
7 Editorial You Have Been Quiet A.T. SPADA
19 Washington Alert Lawmakers Focus Again on Currency
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Manipulation S. SALMON, J. HANNAPEL AND C. RICHTER
47 CEO Journal
The True Meaning of Marketing DAN MARCUS
DEPARTMENTS P. 21
22 Calculating Furnace ROI Improving your aluminum melting department’s furnace efficiency will help you produce better castings, and it doesn’t have to take 10 years to pay off. R. SCHAEFER
31 Battling Graphite Degeneration in Heavy Section Ductile Iron Glidewell Specialties developed an approach to controlling chunky graphite in heavy section ductile iron castings using late inoculation with bismuth and cerium. M. BEERS
36 An Alternative Method to Methylene Blue Clay Test Spectrophotometry could take subjectivity out of the molding sand test for better reproducibility and repeatability. A. PIKE, D. MORADINEZHAD, J. PEKAROVIC AND S. RAMRATTAN
42 Testing 1-2-3: Study of a Quenched Cupola
Quenching a cupola in full operation with water and nitrogen provided the data necessary to analyze a computer simulation program for commercial cupolas. A MODERN CASTING STAFF REPORT
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