Interesting video about forging (Studebaker content)

[53k]

Greg Cone (R-5 owner/restorer) sent me this video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2_0V58ocq4
If you have nothing better to do for the next hour and 16 minutes, have at it. However, it is very interesting and if you either forward to the 3 minute 45 second point or run the video to that point (recommended), you will find the Studebaker content.

[what huh]

Very cool video so far, watching now. Thank You for sharing

[Mike Van Veghten]

Pretty interesting, thanks.

Two things of note -
1. Even though this was done many years back, very few things have changed.
2. In the heat treating section, in todays heat treating, an extreme cold treating is also used to toughen steel and aluminum alloys.

Mike

[clonelark]

Great video thanks for posting, Now if i could get some titanium rod forgings for Studebakers.

[nels]

I like the hearing protection no one was wearing. Boy how things have changed. Great film though.

[11SecAvanti]

Note the custom colors on the 232 motor and the wiring straps on the main caps. That 53 Hardtop is beautiful. And proof that the rocker arms are forged steel. Enjoyed the video. Stop trashing the 232 engines. They aren't being forged anymore.

[Buzzard]

Thanks for sharing-very informative video.
Bill

[jlmccuan]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Roscomacaw]

Having spent a good part of the 80s retrofitting industrial shears and presses with safety oriented controls, this film points up the WHY of what I was doing. Of course, no one (none of the labor types) wanted to see me F up their machines for them. And the first question I'd field about how to run it thereafter was: How do we get around this crap (the safety systems)?

I DO remember my first encounter with one of those huge, drop-hammer presses. It was at Northrup aviation in Hawthorne, Ca. Even tho I'd seen the press the day before, the unit I was working on was some distance away within the same building. So on the second day - without any forewarning, they started hammeing out a panel made of titanium. I liked ta crapped my pants! I thought SURE this was the "BIG ONE" earthquake we've been looking for for decades! After a couple more strokes of the thing, I realized it was just a machine. I don't know how much money it would've taken to convince me to become an operator of that nauseating, deafening monster.

Paul - thanks for sharing this. It was really cool (er, hot) viewing!

[62champ]

Pretty cool to watch those things being made - wonder what ever happened to that demo V8 - or was it repainted and is the one in the museum.

Similar thing going on in this 1904 recording...would have liked to have sold brooms to this place - probably went through quite a few...

[Alan]

Rosco, You should have been at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica in the 60's. They had a drop hammer there that made slugs for TRW pistons along with pannels for DC8's that poped out 8 pistons at a time from 6" thick aluminum plate.

[BobPalma]

Very interesting, Paul; thanks. BP

[StudeRich]

/Cut/I DO remember my first encounter with one of those huge, drop-hammer presses. It was at Northrup aviation in Hawthorne, Ca. Even tho I'd seen the press the day before, the unit I was working on was some distance away within the same building. So on the second day - without any forewarning, they started hammeing out a panel made of titanium. I liked ta crapped my pants! I thought SURE this was the "BIG ONE" earthquake we've been looking for for decades! After a couple more strokes of the thing, I realized it was just a machine. I don't know how much money it would've taken to convince me to become an operator of that nauseating, deafening monster.

Hi Bob, make that "Northrop Aircraft Co.", later Northrop Corp. Aircraft Div., now Northrop Grumman, home of the YB-49 Flying Wing, P-61 Black Widow, F-89 Scorpion, T-38 Tallon, F-5, YF-17, YF-23, F-20 Fighters and the B2 Bomber.
Designer of the F-18, Mfg. of the F-18 Aft Section and the Boeing 747 Fuselage.

I worked in the Office above Dept. 5501 where those Drop Hammers were, for about 8 of my 20 years there, it's a good thing they did not run those at that time 24/7.

The Northrup with the "UP", is the flower and vegetable Seed Co.