Totally different to what I expected. Great video.

have used many sets of omega pistons over the years, all have done there job faultlessly ,a quality product. Nice to see where and how there made

I installed some heating at Omega 30years ago when they had not long installed the forge. I was chatting to the old chap who ran the business and he was telling me about how when they first started forging pistons they were nearly all scrap due to die lubrication problems. They had had various specialist companies in with sprays lubes etc but no joy. he had nearly given up and he was chatting to a guyin the pub who had worked on a forge all his life. He told him the trick of offering the pot of lube up to the die (1.22 ) they went from nearly 100 percent scrap to have a reasonable sucess rate overnight. Not long after a team from Honda came for a look around and picked up a forged piston and asked how they had made it as they didnt believe it could be forged in that shape . As luck would have it a billet was just up to forging temperature he dipped the die and forged the billet . Luckily it came out perfect the Honda team were very impressed.

Ace, great videos!!! Really appreciate being able to get this sort of insight!! 👍👍

Great video. Thank you for taking the time and putting this together Steven. Very informative. Big Thank you!!

Loving these videos, really informative.

Very cool! Thx for posting!

Excellent work 👍👍👍

Always wondered how they go about forging those. Very interesting.

I love this channel!

Just got my lotus esprit pistons from Omega! they do look very very nice!

Looks like a good job to have in the cold winter.

When it came out of the press, it looked like one of my racing two stroke pistons after a meltdown sieze up.

Great video guys, thank you. Make sure to put back that suace pan to the kitchen. :)

That's neat.

Awesome vid

Very nice work

That press can punch a hole through across the globe :-)

using your manufacturing process for an engineering project in my undergraduate! what is the size of the initial aluminum bars?

This Pistons are well done. 👍😊 Like auf Steak.

Amazing

Wish they would of shown the complete process including the machining.

Hello , please tell me what press pressure is necessary for forming this piston, it is very important to me . The video is cool 🤘 🤘 🏿 💪

.....Wowwww!!.Thank​ you​ very​ much.​ I'm from Thai​ land.🎃🚬

Very interesting! Great video!👍from me

What temperature do you hear up the billet before forging?

hello. I live on the other side of the earth. is it possible to specify the weight of the production process? or to produce jointly in our country ?

Can anyone tell whether zinc aluminum alloy is good for making pistons of bitzer semi hermetic?

Chế tạo quá đẳng cấp bạn ơi.

some factory honda B series type-R pistons are made by them

como se llama el horno donde estan los 500 pistones?

How Much pressure is required to do that to billet

What temperature we heat the die??

What is the press effort?

Can you make piston from damascus steel.?

I need skirts that long. Might help my ej25 stop slapping... ha ha ha

Just curious, what liquid do you guys use to quench the piston after heat treating? I understand medal can be quench in oil or water after heating to certain degree.

what's difference between a billet and a black? I think billets are long pieces and small pieces like these piston pieces are blanks.

How many forgings can you do with that tool, before it has to be reworked or replaced?

Very coool...🤔

Hi ! How long does it take to produce a piston - from raw material to completely finished product ready for shipment ? Thanks

Techo porn....Give me more!!! Loved this Jason. What beads do you use? Show us your blasting cabinet.

As a blacksmith i do like this , heat treating aluminium has me intrigued thou but i bet that a trade secret .. right ?

MED - What options have you guys got for turbo charged applications on a +40 application without going down the 18cc dish route (as that would give my a CR of 7.8:1)?

heh heh heh. i do this at home ;) well, not quite. i dont have billet (surprisingly hard to get!) so i melt down pistons scored from the racetracks... pour in the mold, let it set... then slam it with the fly press whilst its still pliable. casting... then forged. a piston is amazingly simple to make. yet its amazingly complex! most of its in the accuracy... dead square pin with dead on tolerance bore and the ovality...

Blits of Al Millennium?

Looking forward to part 2 *:D* P.S Does Omega do piston rings in house too? If so, I would love to see that if at all possible!

So how does 2000 series aluminum compare to 7000 series like that used to make AR-15 uppers and lowers? Is it too brittle after the quench?

Why 2618 instead of 2024 or 7075?

Need a 8-3/4” aluminum piston. 5 ring groves

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Now I understand why pistons cannot casting... Much better to pressed to compressed the aluminum material for greater strength, I saw some video on KZfaq attempting to copy the piston rod just to recycle the spare parts of a car made of aluminum cans. It works actually but didn't last long cuz it's casted...

Can you share the material of die and punch are made from. Please post the material composition sothat others can make dies and punches for their own jobs

So can you forge a standard piston yourself ?

' what kind of vehicle use this piston

So, after what I have seen in another video in which the piston manufacturing process includes them being cast and machined in many different procedures which is extraordinarily time consuming, I would think that forged pistons are cheaper to make.....but somehow they aren't.

How do you spell Aluminum in Australia? Is it spelled "A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M"?

He has done it for HOW LONG?? couldn't stand to work in the same spot day after day

I want Excalibur be made !

Wow, when I thought about forged aluminium pistons, never really thought it would be like this, just in one step. This is almost "extruded" pistons...

Can you make a piston out of titanium material

My bike using 150 cc diasyl cylinder and forged piston.. ans liquid coollant too 😂👌🏻

Did they make custom sizes ?

2:33 we have same boot

Mechanic porn, Old-school.

Where is the part 2:)

Specific!

Noice

These could be even lighter with some perforation. I guess: consider magnesium surface layer for aluminium foam. Thank you for sharing knowledge.

what does 2618 stand for ??

Ah-loom-in-um. 😊

Forging per hour a capacity

Damn...that hydraulic machine squeezes the shit outta them pistons, huh?

Isn’t the point of heat treating then quenching to create hardness through tension in the case and the core? If you machine it, does that not reduce the hardness significantly? Like isn’t most of the hardness in the outer walls , hence, case hardness?

BTW he's from England

I didn't think they'd use billet stuff to make forged, i thought more of cast aluminum. Wonder how much strength, compressive strength, tensile strength going to billet to forged makes any difference or some difference vs. cast to forged.

This fire is on more than 8 hours I amagin the bill

Interesting process because in when you quench carbon steel it makes it brittle and really hard. An opposite happens with aluminum, copper, gold and some other metals.)If you mechanically squeeze those metals they get hard and brittle and if you need an additional mechanical work to be done on it then you’ll need to either: heat it up or, better, heat it up and quench it. Surprisingly in this video, they first press it then heat treat it and yet it is still stronger. Interesting.

Cool word 'forged' like Thor's hammer, or Excalibur: "forged by the gods..." God bless the ancient engineer who inventing the first forged tool, I wonder who it was?

polish the fugg out of em, then coat, then balance match, oh boy, knife edged crank all polished up and balanced to the nuts.. fugg it, polish and balance the cams too, everything, weightmatch rods, rings, anything that moves

Who doesn’t love to see that hot aluminum squeeze out of the forge press! Sorry, aluminium.... Why is aluminum underlined in red?

What alloy is used for pistons?

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we aply lubrican.... the lubrican gone to vapor wgeb touch the hot iron... then he swap the iron with towel...

Do they spell aluminum differently too?

I was expecting the billets to be hotter, as in glowing red.

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I would have to do blood work and chest x-ray for long term workers.

To be very good forged is need that the clamping has no escapes on sides....if has escapes...os only presed aluminium not forged...

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Love the video but can anyone answer why you can get 8 forged pistons for a common Chevrolet 350 engine for $300 but it will cost you $1200 to get 4 pistons for a fiat, or lotus or escort

Forging a MotoGP piston? Wow... What manufacturer?

Its not so labour intensive and fairly a simple process, so why are they so expensive???

Why do they cost so much?

A lot of "eye-balling-technology" being used here

Amiga pistons?

Never heard extrusion can also be called forging.

i thought forging is just put it in oven till its glowing red and then just put in water

I am running a garrage with the name of PUNJAB RACING STORE Kharar-140307 in INDIA 🇮🇳. Where I modify and tune bikes for RACING. I usually use Wesico,woosner,Pro-X etc. Please tell me, How you can send me Pistons in INDIA as per my requirement.

Wow all that work but then they cheap out on the rest of the engine