Electric Induction Forge

It wastes lots of energy as heat and creates lots of dirty smoke.

Electric induction forge.

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. If you ve ever wanted to forge cast or smelt metal this project is right up your alley. Hope my girl friend wont be angry what have i used. With induction you can focus heating on just the portion of the material to be forged and efficiently bring it to the malleable temperature.

Induction forging is an ideal process which combines precision control economics and safety. There is a serious risk of shock fire and possibly death unless all safety precautions are followed. Lets make an induction forge out of induction heater. Fire is an inefficient old fashioned and slow way to heat up metal objects.

Video of the induction heater melting stuff will be out next. When you think of a way to heat up a metal object you think of fire right. 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. Induction forging refers to the use of an induction heater to pre heat metals prior to deformation using a press or hammer.

This is how to build a powerful water cooled 500w induction heater capable of getting iron and. Making a mini electric forge fun interesting. It ist 23 00 sunday nothing to do. It gets hot enough to melt and.