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I apologize from my late response. I understand how this looks, sorry about that…. I do appreciate everyone’s input and want to thank everyone for their input. Your right I don’t know WTF I am doing and that’s why I am here, sorry…. To paint the picture or write the book to convey everything...

Thank you for your input memphisjed. you are correct there are faster ways to make this part, like water jet or laser, (im not familiar with angle line?) the goal to make these parts the cheapest possible per part. also notice that there is 1/8" radii on the corners of these rectangles. so there...

Hello To All Here is the latest die set that I am planning on building. YouTube link of the auto cad drawing. https://youtu.be/o0Qgv6fgu3Q It is a die set that I plan on building to punch out these parts out of 1.5" by 1/4" aluminum t6 6061 flat bar on my Niagara number 3 punch press. I used...

I talked to a local metallurgical place and they recommended soak 2 hours at 1400 then ramp up to 1850 2 hours, remove and air quench with a fan fast no temper. I had the parts wrapped in ss foil so it took a little bit to un wrap them, but I did that in front of the fan. I am thinking about...

We heat treated some d2 tool steel in house instead of out sourcing. We don't have a vacuum kiln, but tried wrapping them in the ss foil. Scale was a little worse than I am used to. When I surface ground these blocks, was getting what look like small surface cracks. Any ideas? Thanks

This is a head scratcher for me Pictures are here: https://wmwinkler.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/shop/Ek5t6Y6LWs5KuCHeM3WUT6YBscXZNHW7OJ1YQAwFp8fasw?e=lADymu

I bought a nice dual dial indicator tramming device and calibrated it. I got the head zeroed out left to right and front to back. In theory I should be able to slowly rotate the tramming indicator on the table and it should read zero as I rotate it correct? This is not the case for me, I don't...

All good info here i got on the msc website and ordered both the High Carbon Steel Tempered Music Wire Coil and 316 Spring Wire Coil i will give them a shot thanks for the input

Hi, Looking for soft material that i can make springs out of, then once the spring it formed, i can heat treat it. I have alot of fairly complicated springs to make, that i cant use any wire that already has some sort of heat treatment, it would be to difficult to bend and form. what material...

So i have this huge beefy heavy steel cabinet that is lined with fire bricks, i think they may have used to preheat certain types of parts for welding cracks up for example cracks in cast iron, like an exhaust manifold. it doesn't have any forced air, so the highest temp i can achieve with the...

any ideas, there must be someone out there with one of these machines that can help?

I'm trying to identify what i have here... I am new to cnc and just got this machine. I got everything to work, I just can't figure out how to load a program, put in the work and tool offsets and run program. Here is some of the badging V2xt on keyboard cover Dx32 on inside of keyboard cover...

i see basic diemaking book by D. Eugene Ostergaard refers to it as the cut band, says it should be about a third of the thickness, i have also heard that it should be about half the thickness here is a picture of an example of excessive cutting clearance which is what mine looks like...

I appreciate everyone's input, a lot of things well said, i am here to learn, a lot of you have a massive amount of experience and knowledge. I wanted to see how this part would come out with what i have done so far. After work i put it on the 50 ton electric over hydraulic press. the ram...

update so quick update I have thought of other methods of building this part...i haven't found any methods that are up to the challenge of speed. 500 parts a year, would mean they order 500 parts at one time, i have to beat $2 per part i am finding it very difficult to get ANY aluminum other...