I thought that you were going to make it on manual machinery. CNC is cheating for a hobby forum, ha-ha. Nice work !
I thought that you were going to make it on manual machinery. CNC is cheating for a hobby forum, ha-ha. Nice work !
Good question! There were several considerations.Jim, I don't know why I haven't asked this earlier, LOL, but why a stepping motor ?
I can tell you that this is a hand fed, cut-to-length operation. The parts are short and are fed to a hard stop, hence the need for maximum open time. The operator only has to keep some pressure on the end of the material as it is cut on the other end. Ultimately I will completely automate the process, but the customer is not ready for that step at this time.
If this was a progressive operation I would be doing things a lot different. I have a strip out of a progressive die sitting here on the table, it has about 20 stations and 14 of them actually perform an operation. I just got that one back together the other day.