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- Dec 8, 2003
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- Yacolt, WA
I am working on a flying shear to add to a continuous casting line that we did a few years ago. I need to cut through a 3" square aluminum bar at about 800 deg F and the cut needs to be complete in less than 1 second and at the shortest desired lengths, the cut would occur every 3 seconds.
I am thinking something like an Iron Worker Shearing action that would leave a nice square cut and we would mount this on a carriage that synched up with the bar as it was coming out of the caster (we are driving the casting wheel and have an accurate sense of position at all times). Based on similar systems we should be able to achieve +/- 0.030 inch cut accuracy if we comp for temps.
Anyone have a lead on a small form factor shear that we could integrate into a reciprocating carriage like this?
This is a flying shear for sheet metal - we are looking to emulate something similar to this with 3" bar stock.
I am thinking something like an Iron Worker Shearing action that would leave a nice square cut and we would mount this on a carriage that synched up with the bar as it was coming out of the caster (we are driving the casting wheel and have an accurate sense of position at all times). Based on similar systems we should be able to achieve +/- 0.030 inch cut accuracy if we comp for temps.
Anyone have a lead on a small form factor shear that we could integrate into a reciprocating carriage like this?
This is a flying shear for sheet metal - we are looking to emulate something similar to this with 3" bar stock.
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