Michael Bondi pulled a hot cylinder of steel from the furnace with a long pair of tongs and swung it under the hovering fist of a 1,000-pound pneumatic hammer. Stepping on a foot pedal, he brought the ...

The art of forging dates to at least 4000BC and probably earlier. Metals such as bronze and wrought iron were forged by early man to produce hand toots and weapons of war. Forging of wrought iron and ...

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This section of the industry may be classified as jobbing with quantities generally small varying from one off to perhaps 100 off. Tooling for producing open die work may consist of flat or shaped ...