As with all industrial processes, metal spinning originated as a craft—some sources say in China, others in pre-Christian Greece, Rome or Egypt. Traditionally, cast forms of rotation have been finished by turning and burnishing. Spin burnishing to spin forming is but a short step, and I suppose this to be the origin of spinning. The suitability of spinning as a means of production is linked directly to the availability of rolled sheet metal. From the dawn of the industrial revolution until the late 1960s, the use of metal spinning increased steadily. The introduction of hydroforming (a process using

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