The oval x-sec die on lower shelf is 4 feet long and looks kinda heavy. What’s it for please?
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Purpose of this long ovaloid sheet metal die?
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What material is the long square insert block in the middle? Is it urethane, by chance?
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I'm pretty certain that center block is urethane, just covered with dust.
Read this.
Urethane Tooling – SheetMetal.Me
Picked up the die collection; here are pix of the hollow urethane die. The red thing is the urethane insert, approx. 2 x 2 in. X-sec. The urethane is much harder than I expected, I can barely get a few thou of my fingernail into a corner of it. Has anyone used these? It seems you can use them as the “female” part of various male dies you have, within some limits. Any books you’d recommend on operating press brakes that are recent enuf to include info on this type of die? I looked up maker, Kauffmann of Chicago, and apparently they are gone.
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Acrotech of Lake City Mn is a successor company to Di-Acro where
much of this tooling was developed back in the 70's.
Dale Oliver acquired the urethane tooling lines when Houdaille bought
Di-Acro and moved it from Mn.
His son Andy runs the company today.
They service and sell urethane metalworking materials and equipment.
Urethane Parts, Sheet Metal Roll Bending Machines | Acrotech | Lake City, MN – Custom Urethane Manufacturing
petersen
much of this tooling was developed back in the 70's.
Dale Oliver acquired the urethane tooling lines when Houdaille bought
Di-Acro and moved it from Mn.
His son Andy runs the company today.
They service and sell urethane metalworking materials and equipment.
Urethane Parts, Sheet Metal Roll Bending Machines | Acrotech | Lake City, MN – Custom Urethane Manufacturing
petersen
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Urethane is available as a two part liquid you can cast. I made the Indian emblem on the seat for the bike in my avatar by making a cast in alginate dental impression material on an unused seat, making a plaster cast of that and finally a cerrometal stamp. I made a stamp for a friend by making a silicon rubber cast of my punch and casting urethane in that.
The urethane was sold as a drop hammer die facing. If God made anything tougher, he kept it for himself.
Bill
The urethane was sold as a drop hammer die facing. If God made anything tougher, he kept it for himself.
Bill
