Electric Induction Forge

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Electric induction forge.

If you ve ever wanted to forge cast or smelt metal this project is right up your alley. Video of the induction heater melting stuff will be out next. There is a serious risk of shock fire and possibly death unless all safety precautions are followed. Well what if you could h.

Making a mini electric forge fun interesting. Lets make an induction forge out of induction heater. Induction forging is an ideal process which combines precision control economics and safety. Induction forging refers to the use of an induction heater to pre heat metals prior to deformation using a press or hammer.

Fire is an inefficient old fashioned and slow way to heat up metal objects. It s a 30 kva induction heater built by bwang over on instructables. When you think of a way to heat up a metal object you think of fire right. First a word of warning.

This is how to build a powerful water cooled 500w induction heater capable of getting iron and. Typically metals are heated to between 1 100 c 2 010 f and 1 200 c 2 190 f to increase their malleability and aid flow in the forging die 1. With induction you can focus heating on just the portion of the material to be forged and efficiently bring it to the malleable temperature. It wastes lots of energy as heat and creates lots of dirty smoke.