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Impact Extrusion is commonly used to make collapsible tubes such as toothpaste tubes, cans usually using soft materials such as aluminum, lead, tin. Usually a small shot of solid material is placed in the die and is impacted by a ram, which causes cold flow in the material.  Hydrostatic extrusion is a form of impact extrusion, uses a fluid hydrostatic pressure instead of a mechanical ram. This is useful for making parts out of materials such as Molybdenum, Tungsten that are relatively hard to extrude using normal extrusion methods.  |
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Cold Forming |
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Burnishing |
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Coining |
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Cold Forging |
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Cold Rolling |
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Hubbing |
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Impact Extrusion |
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Peening |
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Sizing |
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Swaging |
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Thread Rolling |
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