What do you do when you have an old truck that has major body damage or so much rust that your body panels have disintegrated? If the damage is beyond the relief of simple hammer and dollies, then ...
Many applications, usually involving either mounting parts or routing wiring and other materials, require holes to be drilled or punched into sheet metal. As with any other typical fabrication task, ...
Using 3D printed forms to bend sheet metal isn’t exactly new. We’ve seen several people create custom dies for their brakes, and the results have shown the concept has merit for small-scale production ...
Ford has developed a new technology to rapidly form sheet metal, allowing the company to deliver prototypes in as little as three business days. The same process would previously have taken between ...
Experience in stamping plants has suggested that there are considerable differences in the ability of different chromium-plated dies to form sheet metal. Earlier laboratory work indicated that ...