[TheForge] Ellipse-forging test result

[Michael Horgan]

There you go Frosty. High speed replacement for spinning. Make one 
mandrel on the lathe, and use the dynamite to explosive form the 
part. Then, with a plasma torch,just slice out your ovals from the 
formed cone...

(Something I've wanted to try since watching our neighbors in the 
industrial park forming fuel tanks for Saturn 5 rockets.)


>>How about just waterjet 'em?
>
>Now your talking!
>
>I don't have a waterjet or mandrel cone but I do have a lathe.
>
>To a man with a lathe every problem looks like a turning. Good thing 
>I don't have a case of dynamite eh? <grin>
>
>Frosty
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