Can a collection of ordinary steel screws become a handmade knife? This metalworking project begins with small screws ...

In the forging process, metal is shaped by pressing, pounding, or squeezing under very high pressure to form parts called forgings. Almost any metal can be forged, including carbon, alloy and ...

Inside a car engine, the crankshaft rotates thousands of times per minute, absorbing immense force each time. The landing gear of a passenger aircraft bears the full weight and impact of the airframe ...

Press forging may be defined as the process of shaping a metal that is placed between two dies by applying mechanical or hydraulic pressure. Press forging is usually done on a forge press - a machine ...

In a variety of industries, casting and forging are popular methods of creating components and parts. In spite of this, the processes are very different from one another, and the products produced by ...

It is the norm for our Retrotechtacular series to concentrate on a technology that has passed out of use but is still of interest to Hackaday readers, so it is perhaps unusual now to feature one that ...

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 ...