1973 – 1977
Casting world’s largest round aluminum ingot
by James BrockAs a technical specialist for Alcoa - my team was challenged to cast a 1066 mm diameter aerospace alloy ingot to support our forging customers. Over a two year period we developed bottom blocks, graphite casting molds and practices to successfully cast the large ingot. As team lead I was part of all the project parts but key in casting practice development-spending many long days and nights in our casting plants.