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Re: It Came From the Fab Shop: Tools Even Better Than Hammers
I used to work for Amada - wasn't in the press brake division, though. Heard a few interesting shop accident stories there, though.
When I designed the MSPNP cases at work, I designed them around making them easy to form on a press brake, since they were a bit of tooling I was familiar with. That, and we didn't want to tool up for custom made extrusions for a short run of cases.
Originally posted by NMCA_Ron
Press brakes rule! I operate one from time to time at work (Old, old OLD Amada) and I gotta tell you, they are quite handy to have around. We bend everything from 18 ga. cold rolled A36 sheet to 1/2" plate. I agree, you absolutely, positively need to have your wits about you when you operate one of these machines. Not only can you lose a finger, but if you do not set up the tooling correctly, you can break a punch or die and send pieces of jagged, hardened steel whizzing across the room. Ask me how I know... :
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When I designed the MSPNP cases at work, I designed them around making them easy to form on a press brake, since they were a bit of tooling I was familiar with. That, and we didn't want to tool up for custom made extrusions for a short run of cases.
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