Now this is a Press!

Awe inspiring. Watched it; headed to the shop to move some steel.
Thanks for the link!
 
That is flat amazing. Imagine how long a piece that size stays hot. Love the "tongs". Just one day in their with enough 1095 and 15N20 and we could all have lifetime supplies of damascus.
 
The HT oven, press, and lathe are OK ( If you like that kind of stuff), but I really want that quench tank!
 
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Oh those crazy Germans!!!

;)

That's frigg'n crazy cool!!! :eek: :cool: Thanks for sharing it Eric! :)

Apparently my Grandpa being full blooded German gave me no genetic advantage here, as I have no flip'n idea what they were saying--- but I sure wish I did! From start to finish that is amazing.

I wonder if that was some sort of polymer quench? Because it didn't quench like oil, but it didn't look like it was just water either.

The control the operators have with those machines is most impressive.

Normally I don't even glance at viewer comments because they're usually so damn stupid--- but I gotta say the one was pretty funny: "Chuck Norris can press it with his hands." ;) :D
 
I just showed this to one of the exchange students from Germany at our high school. He said that clip came from "a famous children's show in Germany that explains things." Yup, he said the narrator said it was cold water. I understand the finished piece weighs in at 20 tons. The small piece knocked off the original billet was 5 tons. The whole forging process takes 5 days. Apparently it takes 12 hours each time to reheat the piece.

Be cool to know how much energy the finished generator produces. Wonder how it's driven?
 
Great video!! I love watching stuff like that. People just don't know the level of work that goes into producing things in this world.

Thanks for sharing!
 
Thanks efleming thats a VERY COOL video. I appreciate stuff like this so much when I see the huge amount of time/effort that goes into it, its just amazing.
 
Phil Dwyer said:
I just showed this to one of the exchange students from Germany at our high school. He said that clip came from "a famous children's show in Germany that explains things." Yup, he said the narrator said it was cold water. I understand the finished piece weighs in at 20 tons. The small piece knocked off the original billet was 5 tons. The whole forging process takes 5 days. Apparently it takes 12 hours each time to reheat the piece.

Be cool to know how much energy the finished generator produces. Wonder how it's driven?
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Gday Phil,

I work in the industry. Here in Australia the majority of our power is generated by gens no dissimilar to this. They are either coal fired Steam Turbines, Gas fired Gas turbines or cogeneration plants. That was only a small gen rotor. More than likely under 60mw. We work on machinery that produces up to 750mw! Pretty cool.

Matt
 
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