Brand name: ALAMO S / 1
Company: Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.
Location: Vandalia and Fulton plants, Missouri
Years: 1935-1961+? (brick made)
Type: Superduty Firebrick
Description: Key-shaped. Brand name ALAMO S impressed into the face with number "1" beneath on second line.
The "S" stands for stronger than the regular ALAMO firebrick.
Equipment: Power-pressed, extrusion, air-rammed, hand-molding, tunnel kilns,
periodic kilns.
Deposit: High-grade refractory fire clay.
Comments: Used in blast-furnace stoves, electric steelmelting furnace roofs.
References: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Modern Refractory Practice, 1961,
p. 65-66.
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