Hot Mop.

kaboom...lol (not all that funny but I always end up laughing for some reason...maybe it's just nervous release or maybe it's some kind of perverse joie de vivre...no idea)

The actual sound it makes has always been kind of close to kaboom. More like ka-WHOMP Bang! There I go laughing again, just like clockwork. Can't seem to help myself.

When we did significant hotwork, we would run Trumbull between 525 and 550 in the kettle or the lower melt alternate between 500 and 525. We never had any flashing at the kettle UNLESS the kettleman was snoozing when we started running a large straight go and drawing a lot of hot suddenly. We were not doing commercial work so we always worked out of a smallish pump kettle. You have to plan ahead with that. You don't want to be waiting for supply, you don't want to be pushing sludge, and neither do you want to burn your equipment to the ground. We would run it down fairly low at the end of the day for a faster heat-up in the AM. Usually it all went quite smoothly, though the lid did get violently exercised on occasion. If you've ever seen a cat flatten back its ears and dilate its pupils, that's about how people react when a kettle pops. At first, that is. After that, the reactions get a little more diverse.

Anyway, our application temp usually ended up being in the high fours. If it wouldn't sizzle in the cart when you spit in it, we would siphon or send it back and start over unless there was enough empty capacity in there to bring it up to heat with fresh hot. I am a shingler to the bone and don't consider myself a true hot man, but I did it for a lot of years, turned out many solid products and came to a huge appreciation of the art; it is an art.