Content tagged with "tension"
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Article
March 9, 2010
Preventing oil canning problems
Figure 1a Oil canning can be seen in the side walls of this drawn shell. I have spent a great deal of time on die building and stamping jobs, dealing with everything from soup to nuts. What I find most frustrating are die shops and stampers that waste a great deal of money trying to... Read more...
Article
December 7, 2004
Preventive maintenance on sawing equipment
Practicing regularly scheduled preventive maintenance on band saws can help maximize sawing center productivity by lowering costs, downtime, and frustration. It also decreases the need to contract outsiders to finish jobs. With preventive maintenance, machine and blade life increase, and... Read more...
Article
December 11, 2003
Pulling taffy and producing tube
Do you remember going to the county fair and watching candy makers make taffy? As a child I often would watch the whirling motion of the taffy pull machine as it whipped and pulled and whipped and pulled again and again until the candy was the right consistency, texture, and color. As long as... Read more...
Article
August 28, 2003
Article
June 6, 2001
Protecting surface-sensitive materials in coil processing
In today's world of metal fabricating, reducing the number of steps in the production process is an ever-increasing trend. Fabricators are becoming more efficient by: Feeding production lines with materials that have been slit to the proper finished dimension. Feeding production lines with... Read more...
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