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Not only safer but with a vastly superior final product.

Those flanges being made with the Chinese hammer are extremely crude. You can see the roughness of the surface in the final shot. Welding them onto the end of the pipe will require lots and lots of filler, and the mating surface will require a very thick gasket.

Also LOL at the guy checking for diameter and roundness by measuring in two different spots with a tape measure.




They are shaved down on a lathe at the end, then tested for conformance. The end product looked very 'high tech'. I don't know if the method has any significant effect on internal defects relative to the safer method though.


You should watch the entire video, or just skip to the end and see the stills that show the milling stage.


Are you saying it doesn't get machined down on all surfaces? I can imagine there being less waste and higher yield on the more controlled process, but could you explain how the final product is any different?


Well if they do machine it then they're going to take off the hardened surface put on by forging. Maybe that doesn't matter for a pipe flange.

But that would also take a gigantic lathe, given the backyard nature of their forging setup I'd be interested to see how they do that.


They show the machining in stills at the end of the video. The also show that it meets the specs with high precision.




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