[TheForge] Yakish metal content

Fri Nov 28 08:22:00 2003

I couldn't get the first URL to work, so I don't know if there is
information contain there.  I wonder who's forge shop this is.  It doesn't
look like Lehigh Heavy Forge (Old Bethlehem Forge) but I was there only a
few times.  They have a 3000 ton open die press and 10,000 ton open die
press -- the 10,000 being the largest open die in the USA.  The 3000 ton was
steam power for many years but has been converted to hydraulic.  The 10,000
was built as a hydraulic.  The are a number of other shops with 2500 to 5000
ton open die presses.

Lehigh / Beth Forge has done most of the heavy forging for the navy for the
last 100 years from big guns to real big shafts for both ships and subs.
They also do lots of shafts for big motors and turbines.  Yet there biggest
business is forging large backup and work rolls for rolling mills.  They can
handle a forging billet up to about 300 tons.  (this will make a finished
roll around 150 - 200 tons.)   It is really something to see one of the big
presses in operation.  The operators control both the movement of the press
and the rotation of the part.  And just like the blacksmith on most items
they have to go back in the furnace for another heat.  They also use a hack
to cut off scrap -- it just real big and mounted on a fork truck -- but the
force is provided by the press.

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Yakish metal content

> Way cool.
>
> I agree a video would be very VERY. Wonder if they do requests?
>
> I'd like to know what the mandrel they're using is. A REALLY big piece of
> H-13?
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Linn" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; "ArtMetal" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 4:47 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Yakish metal content
>
>
> >
> > Forging the magnet ring for the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR)
> > experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the
> > <http://www.star.bnl.gov/http://www.bnl.gov>Brookhaven National
> Laboratory.
> >
> >
>
http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/imagelib/star_photos/public_html/Magnet1.0.Forg
> e.gif
> >
> >
>
http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/imagelib/star_photos/public_html/Magnet1.2.Forg
> e.gif
> >
> >
>
http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/imagelib/star_photos/public_html/Magnet1.2.Forg
> e.gif
> >
> >
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