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Balls of Steel Video

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Check out this guy forging balls on the power hammer:  

 

Aussie smith Phil ( aka ) Forgemaster  bashing out a ball under his hammer .

 

 

 

Dale Russell

Cool videos, thanks for posting them. I think the first one would be a good demonstration of how stock temperature will increase under a hammer. They're all doing it but #1 is most dramatic, the slugs go from orange to yellow quickly.

Frosty The Lucky.

Nice videos.  For balls were there are high volume it would be hard to compete with these guys.  Forged despite part of the title.

 

It would be great to hear from Phil what these balls are for?   He must be making a fair number to justify the tooling.  I would have thought someone would be mass producing 5" balls fairly cheaply. 

 

These videos are pretty cool, I always thought that the balls for ball mills were cast, not forged.

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One more of an Asian smith doing open die ball forging.  Notice how he forges it on the diamond to bring it back: 

 

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