[TheForge] Big Stuff

[PlumDon at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/2005 12:22:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
davesmucker at hotmail.com writes:

That  50,000 ton press is the largest in the USA. 
About 20 years ago I was watching them forge jet impellers at TRW in  
Cleveland. Way off in the distance of this building was a HUGE forging press  made by 
Mesta. I was told it was 100,000 tons. It stood at least 30 feet tall.  Does 
anyone think it was really that big? 
 
Some of the other old fogeys who like me, are of the WWII era, may  recognize 
that Mesta name. Pearl Mesta was married to the guy who made this  stuff. 
 
 
Don  Plummer
Plummer Design Works
392 Hallman Mill Road
Phoenixville, PA  19460
610-495-5058