Furnace Glasses V 4.0
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Owner:
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poosu
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Released:
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Friday, August 11, 2006
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Origin:
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Florida, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In Sue's Summer Theatre
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I worked hard in a steel mill for years. Now I want to travel.
Fourth try: Piece of wood disappeared. I just found this pair I was given to use from my Russina hosts while visiting the steel mill in Novokuznetz, Siberia in 1994. Given their bulk they will probably not travel much. I'm sad to put this piece of memoribilia out but if I don't someone will probably just throw it away.
Third try. Second try disappeared. This probably won't work. Now it's just a round piece of wood.
These are furnace glasses. I got my first pair in 1966 in the Open Hearth steelmaking shop in Bethlehem, Pa. A necessity but also a quasi status symbol as they were attached to your hard hat and designated you as a "furnace person". Using these you could look into the 3000 degree furnace and see what needed to be seen. From time to time molten sparks few out of the furnace and burned their way onto the glasses. When the glasses got too pitted, they had to be replaced as this pair was. The same thing happened to you face if you didn't protect it with your gloved hand. These glasses now retired as I am. We both would like to travel and enjoy ourselves. I'm doing fine. How about helping out these hard workers?
The original, badly pitted glasses apparently died in an archived cache a year and a half ago. So I'm putting the TB back on the road with my last personal pair. Hopefully they will last longer
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