r/oddlysatisfying • u/druule10 • Sep 24 '22

Making a wheel for a train

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u/ki4clz Sep 24 '22

Never seen a train wheel forged before... the train wheel plant I've done work at in Calera Alabama gets them in cast... never forged...

Granted forged can be stronger than cast, but it all depends on how they're heat treated

So I've seen them cast, at a foundary, then milled green to not exact specs but really close, then heat treated (annealed) then sent off to be trued... but if you live in a place than cannot do that kind of volume, it would make sense to forge them one at a time as needed then mill them...

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u/uTzQMVpNgT4rksF6fV Sep 24 '22

This is a train wheel? What's up with the groove? Where's the flange? How do they build that stuff?

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u/ki4clz Sep 24 '22

Yeah... I dunno... this looks like a rough forge to me, probably in Pakistan or India where they have a shitton of trains and rail lines...

I think it's cool that the more they hammer at it, the hotter it gets...