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Forging in Closed Dies (1955)

1955 · Short film · 27 min

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This color educational/training film is about forging. Copyright 1955, directed by Dermid Mclean and made by Paul Hance Productions. Titles: Forging in Closed Dies (:07-:58) was made by the Drop Forging Association. In a log cabin, a man makes a horseshoe on an anvil. The man is forging which is to make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it. Billets of steel are brought to forging heat in a furnace. A man uses a modern machine to forge. The machine beats down the metal (:59-2:43). A man hits hot metal on an anvil. A machine slams down on metal and it emits a huge fire. A woman gets into a car. They show a Studebaker car without it's side and roof. The cylinder block is shown. Fan blades. Gears move. Differential gears. A chassis. Parts of the car move, these parts needed forging originally. A connecting rod. The die in which the rod is made is shown. A forging drop hammer is where the rod will be made. Steel is heated in a furnace. The hammer drop down onto the molten piece (2:44-6:22). The finished connecting rod. The structure is shown. A forging drop hammer machine with a worker next to it. The machine is shown working as it drops. The hammer keeps drooping. The air lift type machine (6:23-8:34). A steam drop hammer machine is shown and explained. The men place metal inside of it. Steam assists. Steam hammer keep dropping. The hammerman uses different dies for forging a piece. Multiple dies are shown and what they do to…

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Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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