October 16, 201411 yr I was out for business and had a chance to videotape this old forging operation, clearly doing commercial, "run of the mill" work -- but on fascinating, old style equipment. Truly dinosaurs of old. I hope that you will like this video. http://www.machinerymoverschicago.com/blog/DeKalb-Hot-Forging-Plant/ The hammers looked like Chambersburgs.
October 20, 201411 yr Couldn't get that link to work but it looks like you've also posted it on YouTube also:
October 21, 201411 yr I don't understand how this is an "old-style" forging operation? How do you envision that drop forging plants do work? The large hammers in use today are typically 40+ years old in operations that are still going strong.
October 21, 201411 yr The big old stuff was expected to be rebuilt pretty much forever and if you keep up the maintenance it will run pretty much forever.
October 28, 201411 yr There are closed die hammers like that all over the world. When I started at VOGT we had a city block shop full from 1500# to 25,000#. I was in a Sypris plant in Toluca Mexico that was running a 13,000# steam hammer converted to air. Many of the steam hammers are now running on air as the compressors now are often cheaper to run than a steam generator. And as Thomas notes the old high grade industrial equipment was designed and built to be rebuilt nearly forever.
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