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Production Methods: Ring Rolling (Not to be Confused with Rickrolling)

By Rain Noe - August 23, 2012

in Object Culture

Let's say you needed to make a perfectly circular steel ring in an enormous size, like 25 feet in diameter. What production method do you use? Bueller, anyone?

You'd use what's called ring rolling, or more properly "seamless rolled ring forging." Check out the first 2.5 minutes of the video below to see it in action. It kind of reminds me of watching people make pizza crusts or use pottery wheels:

So what do you do with a big-ass part like that? Ring rolling is used to form parts for rocketship sections, pipes, turbines, and enormous wedding bands for matrimony-minded giants.

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Callum

12 years ago

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And there was me thinking I'd seen how it was done in the olympic opening ceremony...
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Adam

12 years ago

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this is a vastly superior video of hammer forging:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHAkqCls4A
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