patrick

Roger, I have some questions that you may have answered in previous posts. How long have you been in the forging buisness? How many people work in your shop? Is there one particular type of work that is your main production or are you what we in the states would call a job shop, doing relatively small volume work for whoever needs parts? Are there many (or any) other shops like yours in your country, or is the demand for work like yours pretty small? Thanks for your posts and particularly the pictures. I really enjoy seeing industrial tooling and projects. Patrick

All band saw blades are NOT made from L6. Here at work we have blades up to 2.5" wide and 1/16" thick for cutting large steel ingots and billets. These blades are usually carbide tipped. The backs are a high carbon chrome/moly alloy with very little Nickel. L6 has Nickel as the major alloying element and a variable carbon content depending on the application. Often found in large blades for sawmill applications, these blades were not tipped (in the past) so the blade needed both edge holding abiltiy and toughness. Patrick N