Replacing a Worn Converter Mouth Without Original Drawings
Introduction: When a converter mouth is worn and the original drawing is gone, the part itself becomes the main record of the shape a replacement has to match. Older BOF vessels often outlive their paperwork. A maintenance learner then faces a very practical problem: the mouth ring is burned, cracked and built up with slag, no dimension sheet survives in the plant archive, and a replacement still has to bolt on cleanly and last the next campaign. The useful path is not guesswork. A worn part carries readable information — where it mated, where it ran hottest, where slag flowed, where it distorted — and that reading, combined with notes on how the vessel actually works, is what turns a damaged casting into a defined replacement shape. What a worn converter mouth can show before any drawing is made The converter mouth is the open end of the vessel, the place where off-gas leaves and where the vessel tilts to charge scrap and tap steel, as steelmaking course material describes when it c...