[TheForge] Big Stuff

[Daniel Crowther]

Here's Mesta's info on the 50,000 ton press:

"The Mesta 50,000 ton hydraulic closed die forging press, this country's
largest forging machine, is currently producing the largest light metal
forgings in the world."


http://www.asme.org/history/brochures/h071.pdf


At 12:41 PM 1/13/2005, you wrote:
>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
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