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Trim Tool & Machine, Inc. - Cleveland, Ohio
is a specialized stamping tool made of thick hardened steel that is used to trim away excess metal from diecast castings, creating precise and consistent parts. While many companies use wire EDM to cut their trim dies, Willis said he uses a Jet Edge abrasive waterjet system because it is much faster and more
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Heard the one about the Congressman and the machine shop?
years, Combs says. The survivors now do a lot of specialty work that can't get done overseas. And, in fact, business for SC is good, the best it's been in quite some time, Combs says. Thanks to a boom in oil services and drilling, job shops anywhere near Texas are swamped. The excess work is going
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When to outsource rapid-prototyping work
the services of a qualified RP service bureau when: Demand for prototypes rises with the release of each new project. Instead of having excess machine capacity to handle peak loads, use outsourcing to meet department needs. An application is best suited to a different technology. The first RP machines
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Cool running
deflection, counterbalanced with maximum bearing life. Often in these applications, bearing load capacity relative to a fatigue-spall life criterion is well in excess of the machine design life. In practice, end users install and preload the bearings to manufacturer specs. A fixture applies push-pull
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Proper Tension Prevents Flexible Packaging Print Problems (.pdf)
The key to reliable defect prevention is the converter's ability to measure and make machine adjustments to eliminate unwelcome deviations including tension transients. While many film printers and converters are trying to overcome excess tension in their webs, some suffer from slack web conditions
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Film Winding 2 Application Note (.pdf)
Winding up film on extruded or blown film lines produces high levels of static electricity, often in excess of 200 kV. This can lead to a number of major problems:. ./3128c81c-1498-44ef-8042-e4273aecad81 Film Winding 2. 935 Ionising Blower. Converting > film winding 2 > ISSUE 4. Problem
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Electrohydraulic Flow Matching: The next generation of load-sensing controls
the highest load pressure by a fixed excess pressure Δp. Because supply pressure constantly adjusts to the highest load pressure, HM-LS and HM-LUVD controls save energy compared to open-center controls that divert some flow to the reservoir. In addition, load-sensing technology has advanced to the point where
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Automated foundry fights foreign competition
downtime. An operator directs the mixer head via joystick to fill pattern boxes with sand. These get compacted on a vibrating table. Compaction time and vibration frequency are set for each pattern according to mold qualities, and a robotic strickling tool removes excess material. Molds then move