Electric Induction Forge

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Electric induction forge.

When you think of a way to heat up a metal object you think of fire right. Making a mini electric forge fun interesting. 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.

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 s a 30 kva induction heater built by bwang over on instructables. Induction forging is an ideal process which combines precision control economics and safety. Fire is an inefficient old fashioned and slow way to heat up metal objects.

This project deals with mains voltage and if you have any doubts or concerns about working with it this project may not be for you. First a word of warning. 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. It wastes lots of energy as heat and creates lots of dirty smoke.

If you ve ever wanted to forge cast or smelt metal this project is right up your alley. Lets make an induction forge out of induction heater. It ist 23 00 sunday nothing to do. Hope my girl friend wont be angry what have i used.