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I have a run of parts coming that requires a bunch of flat stock bending. I got the basics finished today for a lay down style open press to do the job. I will be finishing it off with a limit switch to help speed the job and make it repeatable.

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That looks pretty awesome, great job and it should work well. Post up a picture when you get it operating and finished pieces.
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Just a run of parts?

Your setup looks great, but for just a piece of flexible tooling, I wonder why you welded that stock to the threaded end of the cylinder rod instead of welding an appropriate nut to the plate and threading it to the rod, now the reuse without work for this rod is limited.
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weldor2005 wrote:Just a run of parts?

Your setup looks great, but for just a piece of flexible tooling, I wonder why you welded that stock to the threaded end of the cylinder rod instead of welding an appropriate nut to the plate and threading it to the rod, now the reuse without work for this rod is limited.
The cyl is cheap enough it really didn't matter to me. The job pays for this tooling hundreds of times over. I did look at the tractor supply store when I got the ram, they did not have any 1 1/8" nuts of any thread.....
5000 pieces to bend, 4 bends per part.
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Corfabrication wrote:
weldor2005 wrote:Just a run of parts?

Your setup looks great, but for just a piece of flexible tooling, I wonder why you welded that stock to the threaded end of the cylinder rod instead of welding an appropriate nut to the plate and threading it to the rod, now the reuse without work for this rod is limited.
The cyl is cheap enough it really didn't matter to me. The job pays for this tooling hundreds of times over. I did look at the tractor supply store when I got the ram, they did not have any 1 1/8" nuts of any thread.....
5000 pieces to bend, 4 bends per part.

Yea I would say that set up will pay for itself. The weld looks nice though. from what I see.
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weldor2005 wrote:
Corfabrication wrote:
weldor2005 wrote:Just a run of parts?

Your setup looks great, but for just a piece of flexible tooling, I wonder why you welded that stock to the threaded end of the cylinder rod instead of welding an appropriate nut to the plate and threading it to the rod, now the reuse without work for this rod is limited.
The cyl is cheap enough it really didn't matter to me. The job pays for this tooling hundreds of times over. I did look at the tractor supply store when I got the ram, they did not have any 1 1/8" nuts of any thread.....
5000 pieces to bend, 4 bends per part.

Yea I would say that set up will pay for itself. The weld looks nice though. from what I see.
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