Chapter 6
Stamping About
IN THIS CHAPTER
Describing stampers
Filling the gap and staying straight
Defining operations
Motivating mechanically
Powering up with servos
Thinking progressively
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
— OSCAR WILDE
Stamping presses are the workhorses of the fabricating industry. Depending on the press (two distinct types exist), they’re able to shape sheets of metal larger than a picnic table (sometimes much larger) or spit out complex metal widgets faster than you can say “no more overtime,” and do so with great accuracy. Together with press brakes and turret punch presses they form a machine-tool triad, without which effective sheet metal processing would be impossible.
In fact, I can say with all confidence that without ...
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