How to produce Grinding Steel Balls——Steel Ball Making Machine

1. Three methods of steel ball manufacturing 

There are three types of steel ball manufacturing processes: casting, forging, and rolling. 

（1） Casting: The quality of cast steel balls mainly depends on the chromium content. In recent years, the rising price of chromium, environmental protection, and other factors have led to an increase in the cost of cast steel balls. 

（2） Forging: Using high manganese steel as raw material, pneumatic forging hammers and ball molds are used to make steel balls. Forged steel balls have a reasonable combination of high-carbon, manganese, chromium, and other alloy elements, and have strong hardenability in the production heat treatment, a small difference in hardness between inside and outside, and the difference in impact value, which makes forged balls stronger than cast balls. 

（3）Rolling: Using high manganese steel bars as raw materials, steel balls are made by a skew rolling mill with spiral rollers.

2. The advantages and disadvantages of the three methods 

If the same material is used, the quality of steel balls made by different processes is different: 

Casting <Rolling <Forging 

（1） Cast steel balls are naturally solidified by molten steel, which will inevitably lead to internal structure loosening, pores, and other defects, and cracks, partial wear, and out-of-roundness will occur during the grinding process. 

（2） Forging: Because forged steel balls have all the advantages of forging, forged steel balls have the best quality. Forged steel balls have the characteristics of small investment and quick start-up but rely on labor and low output. 

AFP is the only manufacturer in China with a history of nearly 60 years of continuous production of forging air hammers; the only company in China that has won the country's highest quality award (silver award) for air forging hammers. AFP produces and supplies air hammers for forging steel balls. 

This type of air hammer has the following characteristics: 

①Low investment, quick start-up, and large diameter range of production steel balls. 

②The raw material can be used for hot-rolled round steel or hot-rolled steel billet, and the length of the billet is not limited. 

③ Production is easy to organize 

④The shot steel ball has a high overall hardness, high impact toughness, low crushing rate, and no deformation. 

（3） Rolling: Rolling hardness is not as good as forging, but the production efficiency and degree of automation are higher. 

AFP's hot-rolled ball mill steel ball production equipment has the following characteristics through multiple innovative designs: 

①The overall design of the roller box has good rigidity; 

② Simple adjustment and easy operation; 

③Firmly lock and high stability; 

④The guide plate can be replaced quickly and easily with high efficiency. It provides a guarantee for the stable, efficient, and high-quality operation of the steel ball rolling production line. 

If you want to choose suitable steel ball production equipment, you need to consider factors such as output, steel ball diameter, cost, and labor. Through years of development and accumulation of forging equipment development experience, AFP has launched design consulting services, which can provide customers with expertise in forging process design, forging equipment selection, overall line process layout, and auxiliary system configuration according to customer needs and Suggestions.

If you want to buy steel ball-making equipment, please contact us!

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