Questions tagged [forging]
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Is it practical to make a solar furnace for small scale metal production?
Solar furnaces using mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a small area do not produce much power - perhaps 1kW per square metre of mirror - but can reach very high temperatures. From the earliest ...
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Production technology for hexagonal shaft ?
The shaft is the most important element in my machine, so i rather prefer forging for production technology, the circumscribed circle of the shaft is about 140 mm and the length is about 1400 mm.
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Is it feasible to forge multiple, smaller parts in the same forging operation?
Let us assume you have a large forging press or drophammer, and drawings for a set of smaller parts that all need to be forged from the same material. Would it be feasible to construct a forging die ...
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How can I calculate backward extrusion force
I am interested in finding a way to calculate the force necessary to do a backwards extrusion. Typically these would be for forgings 0.5 to 3" in diameter (or square) of different kinds of steel. The ...
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What are typical forging loads?
What are typical forging loads for various metals and configurations? I know that the typical test for a metal is to upset a 0.750" high x 0.500" diameter cylinder to a height of 0.5", but could not ...
