I’ve made my first pep-set mold. Today I met some of the men who work in and around the pep-set department: Pete, Hank, Russ, and Randy. Gregory helped me “ram” my first mold, first the bottom, the “drag” and then the top, the “cope.” Gregory and I watched Pete clean the pep-set machine, which takes about 45 minutes to an hour at the end of the working day. There is a lot of grinding and chipping away of dried bonded sand in order to get it ready for the next day’s work.
In the afternoon, I took a computer tutorial on proper forklift technique and in something called “lock out and tag out” procedure. Lock out and tag out procedure is the practice of disabling a machine in order to ensure a safe working environment during maintenance and repair. I’ll need practical forklift instruction and practice, but at least I have some of the concepts under my belt.
