[TheForge] Ellipse-forging test result

[Jerry Frost]

I can't speak for all of us but I'm not being critical. 
Reading your description of the process and steps 
involved tells me I could do it a lot faster matching 
to a drawing for a few parts. A mandrel is more for 
truing parts and not really for forming them.

Heck, if I had to make a hundred or more elipses, I'd 
do it just like I make multiple rings. I'd turn an 
eliptical mandrel and use it to make eliptical coils, 
then cut and weld the parts.

Lathes are such handy things. <grin>

Frosty
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>


> To each his own, but forging that ellipse over a cone 
> mandrel struck me
> as pretty easy.
>
> I'd say, a cone or cylinder mandrel for one ellipse, 
> a jig for 100.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>