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  1. Aug 7, 2022, 10:24 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Philip Davies View Post
    It isn’t clear to me how the main, curved components are formed. Stamped out? Forged? Did I miss something? I went through it several times.
    Virtually all stampings, including the channel shaped 'housing' formed from flat strip. Teeth are milled into the hook portion, and what I take to be the chain swivel ball is shaped part in 6 spindle lathe with form tools.
    The anchor end wasn't visible, I suspect done the same way. but a lathe with integral milling or live tooling perpendicular to the material axis.
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