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Welcome to the Virtual Factory Tour at SATO
TEKKOU. I will show you in detail how steel balls are manufactured at our
factory step by step. |
Material First, there is a raw material.
We choose the best iron as the original material, and have the iron rod
specially manufactured for our company with the specific components at the steel mill.
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When the iron wire is manufactured at the steel mill,
the iron is burned red hot and stretched to make the iron wire.
At that time, the scale (oxide film) is attached to the surface.
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Drawing We draw the iron wire rod to the exact size to make it easier to press
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Photo (left) Drawn iron wire (about 1 ton).
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Heading
Using the stretched iron wire as the raw material, we cut the wire to pieces of certain size with the ball header,
we then press it with the metal mold to create the ball shaped blank (pressed blank balls).
We then make the metal components of the pressed blank balls uniform.
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Wow! This is amazing! It makes balls by crushing from both sides. It's like machine guns.
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Yes. Since the iron is force-pressed by the metal mold,
it generates tremendous heat so you can't pick it up with your bare hands.
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Well, I see. This is terrific...
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Flashing
In this step, we remove the flash from the pressed blank balls using the flashing machine.
Punch marking (special process for Pachinko balls)
The special puncheon uses the metal mold with a mark specified by a customer.
Then the balls are rolled in between the metal mold and the mark is punched.
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Can you punch graphics too?
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Sure! In many cases, marks are logos of our customers.
Although it depends on the size of the letter, we can punch marks with up to 10 letters.
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I see!, so you can print my name on the Pachinko balls? |
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Yes, indeed!
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