ede Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Check out this guy forging balls on the power hammer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Russell Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Aussie smith Phil ( aka ) Forgemaster bashing out a ball under his hammer . Dale Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNewman Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Nice videos. For balls were there are high volume it would be hard to compete with these guys. Forged despite part of the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy k Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Here's an interesting simulation video that shows the ball forming just past the middle of the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNewman Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 These videos are pretty cool, I always thought that the balls for ball mills were cast, not forged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ede Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 One more of an Asian smith doing open die ball forging. Notice how he forges it on the diamond to bring it back: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Why not just start off with a cube, or is it a matter of grain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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