Patent ID: 6908519

Claim:
A method for providing a forging press and using the forging press to forge a nickle-base superalloy, comprising the steps of providing a forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy; providing the forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy, wherein the die nickel-base superalloy has a creep strength of not less than a flow stress of the forging nickel-base superalloy at a forging temperature of from about 1700° F. to about 1850° F. and a forging nominal strain rate; heating the forging blank and the forging dies in air to the forging temperature of from about 1700° F. to about 1850° F.; and forging the forging blank using the forging dies at the forging temperature of from about 1700° F. to about 1850° F. , in air and at the forging nominal strain rate.