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FIFTY MILLIONSELECTRICAL JOBJUST COMPLETEDFIFTY MILLION DOLLARS! That’s the extent of the stupendous BMI electrical Job lust completed with the final Installation or bus bar In the ten Metal Units, each of which comprises three great buildings—Rectifier, Electrolysis, and Chlorination. In general this electrical Job includes everything out from the subs tat ions Into the plant, but the bus bar phase eclipses all else. At the peak or this work McNeils employed 75 electric Ians lnbus bar assembly alone.Details of the complicated task would be wreanlngless to the layman, but here are figures that will afford a conception or its Immensity: Bus bars are madeof copper and silver and 2930 tons, or 293 to each unit., was used. Because of the insistent war demand for copper more than $23,000,000 of pure sliver, a loan from the U. S. Treasury, was substituted for that metal In Units % 7, 8, y and 10, the silver In the latter amounting to almost two-thirds of the installation.Weight of silver alone was 1,239,273 pounds. In a soil'd plank eight Inches wide and half an Inch thick It would reach 13 l/3-miles. Bars of copper or silver may be half an Inch thick, eight Inches wide, and 'M feet long, but many varying sizes were needed, and each unit took 9*36 pieces of these metals in bar, and the total of the ten, placed end to end, would be 82. 7 miles. Necessary s i 1-ver plating on copper was sufficient to cover an acre and a half, or ten city lots, with a heavy coating. Approximately 490,000 three-fourth lncn bolts and 960,000 washers went into the whole. Yes. it Is oOME ELECTRICAL JOB, now done!/
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Henderson Basic Bombardier
Henderson, Nevada, US
Fri, Jun 04, 1943
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