[TheForge] Heavy Steel

[David E. Smucker]

Don, I know one of the 50,000 ton closed die press is in Cleveland and at 
the Alcoa plant. (They have a 35,000 ton too.)  There well maybe another one 
at TRW in Cleveland, I worked with some great machinists that came from TRW 
in Cleveland.  The other one I know about was in Baltimore.  When these big 
press would run folks that lived close to the Alcoa plant could feel it.  It 
is still there and still in operation for large aluminum forgings.

Dave Smucker
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Heavy Steel


> In a message dated 3/14/2008 4:26:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> davesmucker at hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> The USA has two 50,000 ton closed die presses originally owned by the  Air
> Force.  They
> were built by either Mesta, or United, I don't  remember which.
>
> I thought I saw a 50,000 ton press at TRW in Cleveland back in the  early
> 1980's. This one was made by Mesta who was the husband of the famous 
> Perle Mesta
> who was known as the "hostess with the mostes" for her lavish  parties
> featuring the brightest stars of Washington, D.C., society, including 
> artists,
> entertainers and many top-level national political figures. But perhaps  I 
> am
> disremembering. But it was BIG!
>
> While I was there they were using a much smaller press to stamp impeller
> blades for jet aircraft. Wham! Bam! Quite an exciting process. I never saw 
> the
> big press run.
>
> Don Plummer
>
>
>
>
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