Tube Swaging


Swaging is a forming process in which a metal work piece is reduced
to a desired size or shape by a succession of rapid hammer blows
from a rotating die.





Cold Rotary Tube Swaging:
This tube swage process is done mostly with aluminum, copper or thin wall steel. We take a tube or a solid rod and reduce the outside diameter down to a specific diameter. Cold tube swaging is relatively quick, inexpensive and chipless.






Hot Rotary Tube Swaging:
Premachined parts or tubing of alloy steels or stainless steel alloy are heated to the required forging temperature via a furnace or a Tocco induction-heating unit. Then when parts come up to the required temperature per specification of the particular material and then swaged down to the required diameter.






Process Characteristics of Tube Swaging:
    Involves rapidly repeated hammer blows
    Work piece may be hot or cold
    Swage / Tapering
    ID Expaning
    Flattening / Flaring
    Push / Pull Control Rod

Swaged Parts:
    Furniture Parts
    Lighting Parts
    Fence Scrolls
    Landing Gear
    Torque Tubes
    Struts & Bolts
    Push / Pull Rods
    Control Rod Assembly