The new guy keeps putting the green sand in the wrong hopper and it's messing up our molds

I've seen it happen twice this week already. He grabs a shovel from the floor, which is fine, but then he dumps the return sand straight into the new sand hopper instead of the muller. It's not a huge deal on small jobs, but we're running a big order of 500 valve bodies for a plant in Toledo. The mix is off now, and we had three molds fail on the line yesterday because the sand wasn't binding right. My foreman told him once, but he just nodded and went back to it. It matters because bad sand means scrap metal, wasted time, and we have to re-melt everything. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but someone needs to show him the right way, maybe with a label on the hopper. Has anyone else had to deal with training someone on basic sand system stuff like this?

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aaron3841mo ago

We had a temp once who kept using the core paste like it was glue stick. He sealed up every vent hole on a run of 200 manifolds. The shakeout sounded like popcorn, and the foreman's face turned the color of old brick. They ended up chiseling every single one by hand. Sometimes you just have to walk them to the scrap bin and show them the money turned back into garbage.

jessicab3316d ago

Two hundred manifolds is a brutal way to learn that lesson.

elizabeth_gonzalez1mo ago

Bet he still thinks he did a good job.