Do they still hot tank motors?

My shop here in Indiana uses a process they call Thermo-cleaning. The block is degreased in a rotating wash cabinet and then placed in a machine that shot-blasts the block, heads or whatever. Rusty blocks or heads come out like new. Obviously you can only do this on parts that will be completely re-machined but for that date coded block you found in a yard its perfect.

Moparfeind said:

That must be one incredibly large and powerful ultrasonic cleaner!

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It is and works wonders

BB BELLA said:

Wayne, I worked at the kipling ave. plant for a short time the pay was fantastic as I recall about $12/hr. My girlfriends father drove truck for canada cartage and got me an interview with the head warehouseman and the plant personel manager was an aquaintance of my father. I ended up working on the end of the oven line stacking cases on skids,what a hot demanding job I probably lost 10 lbs. the first week,salt pills in a dispenser on the wall! somehow the the plant manager figured out I was only 15yrs. old and they came to the line and escorted me out, after 3 weeks! 1976

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We called Kipling the dungeon.. with Rats in the basement the size of dogs! I was at CG for 3.5 years before we started our own plastic injection moulding company here in Penetang in '85. In '82 I was supposed to start at Spar Aerospace working on the Canada arm for $5.15 and hour and my sister pointed out an advert in the TStar for CG starting at 11.08/hr. Was an easy choice. I was making $18.35/hr when I left in the Fall of '85 and haven't had a decent wage since.. lol

dadsbee said:

We called Kipling the dungeon.. with Rats in the basement the size of dogs! I was at CG for 3.5 years before we started our own plastic injection moulding company here in Penetang in '85. In '82 I was supposed to start at Spar Aerospace working on the Canada arm for $5.15 and hour and my sister pointed out an advert in the TStar for CG starting at 11.08/hr. Was an easy choice. I was making $18.35/hr when I left in the Fall of '85 and haven't had a decent wage since.. lol

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Well that just sucks!
Mike

dadsbee said:

We called Kipling the dungeon.. with Rats in the basement the size of dogs! I was at CG for 3.5 years before we started our own plastic injection moulding company here in Penetang in '85. In '82 I was supposed to start at Spar Aerospace working on the Canada arm for $5.15 and hour and my sister pointed out an advert in the TStar for CG starting at 11.08/hr. Was an easy choice. I was making $18.35/hr when I left in the Fall of '85 and haven't had a decent wage since.. lol

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Exactly the reason I got into the Medical industry. Medical industry is so much more stable than automotive/consumer products manufacturing. Plus the pay is waaayyyy better..
I've been in the tool making industry for over 4 decades now and I'll have to say I'm finally getting paid what I'm worth.... When I first started in the trade mold makers were worth their weight in gold which was one of the reasons I got into the trade, then some cerebral butt head figured to cut costs and move op's to China, Mexico, India or some third world country. Wages dropped to the point that electricians and plumbers were making more money than journeyman tool makers. Now that all the old guard is retired or on to the next world the industry is scrambling to find real tool makers since they shut down pretty much all the trade schools back in the 80's. No one is coming up behind to fill the void left in the tooling trades. The last apprentice I had was back in 1992... Guess it made sense to someone to give the ole blue collar guys the shaft..

Wayne , Parry's in Orillia has a hot tank, if anybody needs one done! I've always had my blocks,heads done there and mag'd

dadsbee said:

We called Kipling the dungeon.. with Rats in the basement the size of dogs! I was at CG for 3.5 years before we started our own plastic injection moulding company here in Penetang in '85. In '82 I was supposed to start at Spar Aerospace working on the Canada arm for $5.15 and hour and my sister pointed out an advert in the TStar for CG starting at 11.08/hr. Was an easy choice. I was making $18.35/hr when I left in the Fall of '85 and haven't had a decent wage since.. lol

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85 I was racing/ twisting wrenchs in offshore race boat game,ended up crew chief/mechanic for [I'll leave the name out in respect to family} out of the U.S.A. My throttleman/Owner RIP went on to be President of APBA.

fbs63 said:

My shop here in Indiana uses a process they call Thermo-cleaning. The block is degreased in a rotating wash cabinet and then placed in a machine that shot-blasts the block, heads or whatever. Rusty blocks or heads come out like new. Obviously you can only do this on parts that will be completely re-machined but for that date coded block you found in a yard its perfect.

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I had that process done on a 354 Hemi engine. I was really disappointed in it because it left grease in some hard to access places. The water jackets were left so rusty that the drain cocks were plugged when I tried to drain the block a few weeks later.. Maybe shop error, but I would never try it again...................MO