Flanging Die Unbalanced Thrust

Posted by stephens on Mar 19, 2010 in Engineering Decisions, Equations | 0 comments

A while back, I blogged on how to quantify unbalanced thrust in cutting dies. Today, I would like to share the same for flanging dies. Forces in a flanging die are equal and opposite. So what happens when flanging occurs on one side of a cutting component? Unbalanced thrust. The issue with unbalanced thrust is should the flanging component be heeled or keyed to...

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