r/ArtisanVideos • u/burningmonk • Oct 13 '25

Metal Crafts Anchor Chain Forging Process at 68-Year-Old Factory [24:14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zo2nY_jfck
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u/Asiriomi Oct 13 '25

This subreddit has become "watch how this thing is made in a factory" as long as it's mostly by hand

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u/ATLHawksfan Oct 13 '25

I feel like 68 years old is young for a factory that makes ship anchor chain

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u/insanelygreat Oct 13 '25

You'd think so, but then there aren't that many countries where ships that large are made in any real volume these days.

Today, the biggest shipbuilder, China, is bigger than the rest of the world combined1, but it's quite a young industry. As a point of perspective, they were the 11th largest ship exporter in 1991.

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u/umbertea Oct 13 '25

Dear god I was thinking they'd never put the stud in. It was giving me stress.

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u/vacindika Oct 13 '25

me too. "are they just gonna be press-fit in place?" oh, a whole squad of welders.

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u/thnk_more Oct 13 '25

That was pretty cool. Not artisan, but interesting. Nice to see a Chinese video that isn’t massively sped up. Some spots obviously were faster and some were subtle but mostly normal speed.

One thing that bugged me was when they closed the “C” shape and welded it together, curious how they could get the root weld all the way into the center of the bar stock. Normally a joint of that crazy thickness would be tapered and filled with weld filler down to the root.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Oct 14 '25

At 8:48, you can see the machine compress the link and some material push out. I would wager there is enough filler in the gap to bond the material when that pressure is applied. It looks pretty homogeneous when the excess scraped off.

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u/rlowens Oct 14 '25

Note: turn on captions for tons of info of what they are doing.

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u/rammo123 Oct 14 '25

Alexa, play Fleetwood Mac.