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Originally Posted by Ed Caffrey
Looks good Ken! Widening on a press is tough, no matter the press or the dies....just hard to control.
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I'm learning that - Are there any tricks to widening a billet? The drawing die doesn't seem to widen at all, but surely does draw billet longer.
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Originally Posted by Ed Caffrey
Just keep in mind that any time you are not working directly under the cylinder's ram/the center of force, bad things can happen. And the further you get from that "center of force" the worse it gets.
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Yep, I remember you mentioning that before and decided not to make the base longer than the stock 5" to prevent myself from putting too much pressure out to the side.
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Originally Posted by Ed Caffrey
Usually with combo dies, you see drawing and flat.... just because of what I initially said about it being so difficult to widen on a press.
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Yep, that's what I was trying to make with my combo die set. I've decided the widening part should be made from thicker material, perhaps 1/2" or 3/4" to provide more curve to the widening part. Also have the top of the flat die and widening die the same height so the billet can be slid over on top of the flat die for the widening die to press on left side of billet.
Here's what I did with chains to allow removing pins with hot dies. This is the lower left, the other 3 pins are handled the same.
