# @bikerumor on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B26PFpihCVt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13357769-bikerumor-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f5b423ec36.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-09-27T09:39:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BikeRumor (@bikerumor) — https://gondola.cc/bikerumor

## Caption

Got to tour uniorbiketools In feelslovenia And learned how sintered parts are made...really cool!
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It starts with powdered metal made by pouring a 1mm stream of melted steel then blowing it against a wall where it immediately cools into a powder. Then, it’s cold pressed into shape, at which point it’s called a “green” part, and it’s very weak.
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That’s what you’re seeing in the video, which we could easily snap.
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Next, it’s heat treated to become within about 10% of the strength of a normal steel part. Benefit is that it can be made more quickly and in way more complex shapes than you could do with CNC machining. Or, at least, without a LOT of machining that would take up more time. Sintering isn’t all that much less expensive a process, the tooling is very expensive to make, but it’s fast. They can have a finished product in as little as 6 hours.
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Their chain tools are sintered, and we’ll show more in an upcoming factory tour story!
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#uniorbiketools
#factorytour
#howitsmade
#sinteredmetal
#bikeparts
#cycling
#feelslovenia
#ifeelslovenia

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ifeelslovenia, howitsmade, uniorbiketools, feelslovenia, cycling, bikeparts, sinteredmetal, factorytour

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