Electric Induction Forge

If you ve ever wanted to forge cast or smelt metal this project is right up your alley.

Electric induction forge.

With induction you can focus heating on just the portion of the material to be forged and efficiently bring it to the malleable temperature. Well what if you could h. When you think of a way to heat up a metal object you think of fire right. Fire is an inefficient old fashioned and slow way to heat up metal objects.

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. Hope my girl friend wont be angry what have i used. First a word of warning. Induction forging is an ideal process which combines precision control economics and safety.

Making a mini electric forge fun interesting. There is a serious risk of shock fire and possibly death unless all safety precautions are followed. It ist 23 00 sunday nothing to do. It wastes lots of energy as heat and creates lots of dirty smoke.

Induction forging refers to the use of an induction heater to pre heat metals prior to deformation using a press or hammer. Video of the induction heater melting stuff will be out next. This is how to build a powerful water cooled 500w induction heater capable of getting iron and. Lets make an induction forge out of induction heater.