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Calumet Fiberglass

My dad's business was Calumet Fiberglass. He started it in Hammond Indiana on Calumet Avenue and that entire area is called the Calumet region. We made many things from fiberglass. All were custom made, Very few ran more than 10 of a kind. We did a lot of work for Morton Salt since fiberglass doesn't corrode. I will add more pictures of things we made.
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180 Degree elbow for Morton Salt.
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180 Degree elbow for Morton Salt.

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  • Chris Argus with Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer Bottle. The car was new so this was in 1957. This was in front of our house in Hammond, In..
  • With the bottle painted. The car was bright yellow and blue.
  • Fan Shroud for electric generator on a rail car. It was made for Electro Motive division of General Motors.<br />
This was our shop in Lansing, IL
  • Chris and Purple Onion. It was a sign for a bar in Atlanta. It was translucent so it would glow when lit from inside. This was after he moved the shop to Guntersville, AL so this was probably 1966.
  • Me moving the Onion. It actually only weighted about 100 lbs. which was about what I weighed at the time.
  • Antenna Cover for IBM instrument unit on Saturn V.
  • HIGH BAY EAST, IBM INPUT, HUNTSVILLE FROM FOREGROUND, S-IU-504, S-IU-503, S-IU-210 S-IU-505 (IU=INSTRUMENT UNIT) (SATURN)
  • Me holding the last antenna cover. Other "rejects" were used for draining the oil in cars, feeding dogs, or boat battery boxes. We recycle.
  • 180 Degree elbow for Morton Salt.
  • We made the cover for the conveyor belt to dampen the noise level.
  • We made the cowl (the curved section below the headlights. <br />
August 1961
  • A Black and White developing tank for large pictures. Normally, it would be lying flat, otherwise the developer would run out.
  • One of may dust collectors we made for Morton Salt.
  • another dust collector<br />
June 1965
  • June 1965
  • we made the collector and the ducts. Note that the first 90 degree elbow is full swept transition from 42" round to 28"X34"
  • 9'6" diameter X 15'high, 42"ducts
  • June 1965
  • dust collector in a Morton salt Plant. we did not make the feeder ducts in this picture but we did make others.
  • Dust_Collector-72
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