A method and apparatus for centrifugal casting, in which transfer functions are developed relating the fluidity of molten metal, for example iron of varying composition, to casting machine movement for a particular mold in order to cast objects, for example pipe, having desired and uniform characteristics, including wall thickness. An outer cladding is disposed adjacent the inner cladding. A first dielectric layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate including the trenches. A slotted flange is joined to a vehicle bracket and threaded shaft connects the body to the flange. Operatively associated with the product line and drain line is a shut-off mechanism containing a pressure sensor or gasket operatively associated with an appliance configured to activate the shut-off mechanism. In one embodiment, a disk drive comprising a disk, a head configured to read an area of the disk to generate a read signal, and read channel circuitry configured to receive the read signal from the head, perform channel statistic measurements on the read signal, and to generate a Channel Statistic Metric flag based on the channel statistic measurements.