Cold-heading insert for particle-board furniture

Stage-direction demonstration. Eleven-step cold-heading sequence: wire chop → size → extrude hole partway → extrude further → head → punch out waste → finishing size → knurl grip → thread inside → plate. Phosphate-stearate lubrication after WWII reduced die count and made it economical. 180 dB shops; seven heading strokes per second.

So when we want to forge something, we have to do multiple steps. [Tom passes around a small forged insert.] To give you an example: this little simple part is basically a little metal insert that goes into a piece of wood so that you can put a steel screw in it without stripping the wood threads. You put together cheap particle board furniture from Walmart, and it has all these little inserts in it.