In today's high paced world of the digital age with internet communications dominating our modern daily lives the old school world of Smithing or Blacksmithing still exists providing highly valuable products for industry. Today Forging services provide new tools and tool modification for industries such as Mining, Marine, Construction, Rail, Civil Engineering, Automotive, Food, Agriculture and other Metal based products.
Forging products can include Lifting Equipment, Mining Equipment, Rail and Locomotion equipment, Water equipment and so on. Forging can take three main services such as closed and open die forging of rings slabs, shafts and so on. Hot Bending of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and upset or horizontal forging.
Typical products that are produced using forging services across the many industries that require blacksmithing services include U-Bows and hooks, eye-bolts, s hooks, towing hooks, tilt tray hooks, shunters handholds, cotter pin tools, brake shoe bars, brake lock keys, sleeper tongs, rail tong scissors, rail tongs, turning bars, centre punches, pin punches, claw bars, curved spiking hammers, drill rods, roof bolts, ore crusher bolts, mill liner bolts and so on.
The forging process typically uses coal, industrial coke, charcoal or gas or what is known as a finery forge to develop the fuel to provide heat to metal. The forge is basically the fireplace that is specifically designed to allow the fire to be controlled in order that metal can be brought to the heat in order for shaping to occur or for other requirements to be created. These other requirements could include hardening as an example where metal is customised to perform a specific function as a tool within a specific environment.
Forging equipment will include Anvils, Hammers, Chisels, Tongs, Fullers, a Hardy which is similar to a chisel or hammer for cutting both hot and cold metals and a slack tub which is a container with water, brine or oil that the blacksmith using to cool the hot metal that has been through the forging process.
Drop forging is the procedure that is used when shaping metal is needed particularly for creating complex shapes through the dropping of a heavy hammer with a die to develop the shaped metal product. A tough process even in the 21st century.
Forging is carried in across the Globe in order to make metal products like tools that often is required to be made in order for other manufacturing processes to occur. Hence the old art of blacksmithing is still highly relevant in the 21st century digital age.
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Morel Hudson writes articles for small business and Granger Forge and for further information on blacksmithing and forging services please contact Granger Forge at http://grangerforge.com.au an Australian supplier to industry.
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