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Air Force Heavy Press Program

I see the HAER photos of the Wyman-Gordon press were done by Jet Lowe. I was got to meet him at the 1996 Society for Industrial Archeology meeting. Asked him sign his book _Industrial Eye_ for me. Made me happy.

David
 
Peter from Holland said:
Anybody knows about a new heavy press someone is building in the US ??
At a shop nearby they machined parts for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNr6yWIRlk4

Peter
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I watched that video about a year ago, but have no idea who commissioned it. It would be interesting to find out the specs, I think that Russia has an 70K (or so) ton press, and China commissioned a 80K ton press a few years ago.

For more on the 50K ton Alcoa press, this is a very good reference from the ASME: https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/med...1-ALCOA-50000-ton-Hydraulic-Forging-Press.pdf

And here's a shorter paper on the Wyman-Gordon press: https://web.archive.org/web/2015020...SMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/5662.pdf
 
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