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Published by LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC. 292 Wodison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 100i7 BULLETIN NO. 174 October 6, 1967 ANTI-KNOCK,,COMPOUNDS AT PORTO VESME -- AMMI Metallurgica Sarda will participate in the establishment of a tetraethyl and tetramethyl anti-knock additive plant on the Sardinian cOAat it was announced in the August 21, 1967 issue of Metal Bulletin,. The project will provide a local outlet for lead produced in Sarda1 s new Imperial Smelting Furnace at San Antioco. No consumption figures have been released, but, a similar project at Thessalonika, Greece, was expected to consume some 5,000 tons of lead yearly. This will be the second anti-knock compound plant in the Eastern Mediterranean area according to the report. METALLIC FUME DETECTOR -- Mr. H. J. Lucap-Tooth, Managing Director, Telsec Instrements, Ltd., Sandy Lane West, Littlemofe,,Oxford, England, has announced the availability of a portable instrument which will measure traces of lead, cadmium, chromium and other metals down to 0.05 mg. per cubic meter of air. Light beam from a hollow cathode lamp supplys an ultra violet light characteristic of the metal to be analyzed. The beam is chopped and directed through a gas flame to a monochromator and photomultipler which measures the light intensity. If any atoms of the metal to be checked are in the flame, they will attenuate the light beam, and attenuation is directly proportional to concentration. The instrument was developed by the British Ndn-Ferrous Metals Research Association to detect lead or cadmium in foundry atmospheres, however, the detector can be adapted tc measure traces of numerous other metals. | LEAD AND ZINC FROM THE YUKON -- Anvil Mining Corporation, Ltd., jointly owned by : Cyprus Mining Corp. 6c. Dynasty Explorations Ltd., has announced its intent to proI ceed with a $56,000,000 construction program to produce lead and zinc concentrates ' from its mine in the Yukon territory of Canada, says American Metal Market of ' Tuesday, August 29, 1967. First delivery of concentrates are scheduled for late 1969. The lead/zine ore will be mined by open pit method. Anvil has signed sales contracts with Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd., and Toho Zinc Co. Ltd., in Japan for the total mine output over an 8 year period. MOTHERS' l.TTTT.E HELPER -- According to an article in the August 29, 1967 issue of American Metal Market, lead bismuth alloys are employed in a pop-up cooking timer that visually indicates when meat is cooked to its succulent best. When the breast meat in a turkey for example reaches the melting temperature of the alloy, the meat is cooked. The alloy then releases a spring and up pops a red indicator signaling- that the turkey is ready to be served. Called the Dun-Rite Timer, it has been tested and approved for use by the Department of Agriculture. METAL POWDER INFORMATION -- Franklin Institute has announced the formation of a Metal Powder Technical Information Center according tp an article in the Sept. 1, 1967 issue of American Metal Market. The object of the information center is to gather, organize, and transmit useful technical literature in response to inquiries PNYC00006334 N11476 BULLETIN m U> submitted by firms engaged in that industry October 6, 1967 The service is provided at no cost. TRYING TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE LEAD?? -- Alcoa has recently announced a new cable coatings development according to the September 1, 1967 issue of American Metal Market. They are going that "extra mile" to support the utility industry and the Government in the beautification; of overhead electric facilities. Alcoa's con tribution is a polyvinyl chloride insulation which they call "sky gray". Report edly, the shade was carefully selected to blend into the sky and enhance appear ance of overhead wires. Perhaps.they should try lead. ETHYL AROUND THE WORLD -- An interesting article in the summer issue of Ethyl News describes a new multi million dollar tetraethyl and tetramethyl manufacturing plant under construction at Tokuyama, a petrochemical manufacturing seaport in Southwestern Japan, Whan completed in early 1969, the plant will supply anti knock needs for gasoline for some of the 8,000,000 gasoline powered vehicles esti mated to travel on the highways and roads of Japan. THE PLACE OF THE IMPERIAL SMELTING PROCESS IN NON-FERROUS METALLURGY -- An inter esting article under this title appears in the August 1967 Journal of Metals. It states that last year the Imperial Smelting, Furnace accounted for 257. of world lead production. Location of the 9 ISF's is given and their operations are des cribed individually. A look is taken at future development in the process, and use of computerized controls. " ROLLING WITH ULTRASONICS -- The Westinghouse Research Laboratories at Pittsburgh have found that ultrasonics considerably reduce the load needed to roll metals. Using frequencies around 20,000 cycles per second, they report reduction in roll ing force of up to 65% have been accomplished with metals such as lead, aluminum, and copper. A brief announcement of this development appears in the September 1, 1967 issue of Industrial Research. NEW TERNE FACILITIES ANNOUNCED BY APPALACHIAN STEEL CORP. -- An article in the September 11, 1967 issue of American Metal Market states that Appalachian Steej_ I Corp. has acquired additional equipment and new facilities at its Elizabeth. New fnr'.Tc-rccy piLaRfa the production of hot dipped terne plate. It will produce var ious coating thicknesses of terne plate of commercial grade including Special j Coated Manufacturing Ternes, a product which U. S. Steel and Wheeling recently discontinued. THB BATTLE FOR THE RADIATOR -- An article in the June 5, 1967 issue of Steel says the copper industry is not about to turn the automotive radiator market over to aluminum without a fight. Indeed, many new radiator designs and fabrication tech niques are being tested by the International Copper Research Association, Inc. (INCRA). - Lead alloy solder is necessarily involved in this fight too. An aluminum radiator would, in all likelihood, not use solder in its construction. Steel says other means for joining copper radiators are also being explored. INCRA is hopeful of retaining the copper radiator and some progress is reported in development of lead-tin solders with better creep properties at elevated temperatures. PNTCOCC06385 BULLETIN NO. 174 -3- October 6, 1967 ELECTRIC CARS--HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL -- This is the appropriate title of a compre hensive piece done on the subject in the April edition of IEEE Spectrum, official organ of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Of the thousands of words Written on electric cars in recent months, we think this article is one of the most objective arid best documented chat we have read. Some of our praise lies in the fact,, no doubt, chat Our staff was the first consulted by the writer when he began to research, for the story; thus, we were able to influence the dir ection, along ration#! !ihd#, arid credit is given at the end of the article. We can, furnish a copy upon request. ELECTRIC TRUCK RODEOS --are still kicking up dust, and the latest was in Akron, Ohio, on May 23 and 24. The four electric utilities serving northern Ohio spon sored the affair held in Ohio Edison's Fairlawn Service Center, and more than 800 decision-maker industrialists attended. Thousands of dollars worth of batterypowered vehicles were sold right on the floor and many solid prospects gained. Show Business, if: done properly, i# still hard to beat! THE MUCH-HERALDED FORD ELECTRIC CAR -- made it's debut in England on June 8 -- powered by lead-acid batteries. Called the "Comuta," the car is not intended as a production model for marketing purposes, but will be used in extensive tests in England and at the Ford Research Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Four conventional 12 volt lead-acid batteriesspower the two 5 hp motors, one on each rear wheel. Reaction to the announcement was somewhat mixed here and abroad, since not much mention was made of the exotic sodium-sulfur battery so highly touted in Ford's sensational news release at a meeting of government officials in Washington a year or so ago. The statement was simply made that when more sophisticated bat teries become available they will be adapted to the vehicle, or its successor. Other electrics recently announced in the U.S. as being produced for testing are the Westinghouse "Markette" and Electric Fuel Propulsions' "Mars II." MACHINABILITY--OLD STORY, NEW ALLOY -- Addition of small quantities of lead to alloys to enhance their machinability is an old story, but is still making'news. Latest material to profit by lead's internal lubrication is beryllium-copper. The Beryllium Corporation has announced a new alloy with 6.07 to 1.0 per cent lead, according to American Metal Market of June 7, which is not only more machinable, but can be extruded without cracking. High speed production potential for the new alloy has found it a place in manufacture of the ball point holder of ball point pens. MOTIVE POWER BATTERY CAMPAIGN -- Recent activities by L.I.A.'s staff in this cam paign include a paper given on "Batteries and Battery Uses" at the Power Use Section of the Tennessee Valley Public Power Association, in Memphis, an exhibit of lead-acid battery-powered farm machinery at the Annual Conference of the Farm Electrification Council at Dallas, and participation in three fork-truck demon strations in the San Francisco Bay area. Incidentally, the Dallas exhibit in cluded three electric cars: the Westinghouse "Markete", Electric Fuel Propul sion's "Mars II", and West Penn Power's "Allectric". PNYCOGOC6386 BULLETIN NO. 174 -4. October 6, 1967 American Metal Market, 525 W. 42nd Street, New York 10036 Ethyl News, Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York 10017 IEEE Spectrum, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 345 E. 47th Street, New York Industrial Research 9 E. 41st Street, New York City Journal of Metals 345,E. 47th Street, New York 10017 Metals.'Bulletin, Metal: Bulletin Ltd., 46 Wigmore St. London, W.l Steel, The Penton Publishing Co., Penton Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio $36.00 yearly no charge quarterly $18.00 non-members $14.00 yearly $ 1.50 yearly /f.12 10 s. yearly $ .50 MEETING OR SHOW Fall Meeting o;f the Electrochemical Society Non-Ferrous Founders Society Nat'l. Metal Exposition Annual Fail Meeting of the Metallurgical Society of A.I.M.E. American Ceramic Society 20th Pacific Coast Regional Meeting Joint Meeting of the Amer. 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