Wish now I had kept mine.....spent many a year working in a factory that made rubber hose. Working below the Intermix...when the next batch dropped onto the "mill".....Take-off belt carried away two strips of the rubber compound...into a dip tank to keep them from sticking together in the baskets at the end of the cooling rack. had to cut, and make rolls to keep the strip going. Have worn out quite a few of those Mill Knives.
Have also seen what happens, when one of those knives slips and goes into the mill.....it comes out the same thickness as the compound you were running on the mill....a fellow once lost a snap-on ratchet and socket...that then dropped down onto the mill....there was a "Crunch" but the mill never even slowed down.....for the longest time, there was the impressions of that tool in the surface of those two steel rollers. Just Imagine that being an arm......
there was a grinder set up between the two lines....it took a long time to convince the boss that an oilstone was also needed. In a factory where the main tool EVERYONE used, was a knife of some sort.
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Originally Posted by bill epstein
