We posted about the female die for the FG-42 first model bi-pod stamping die a while back. Today’s post is about the male stamping die. This first set of pictures is the solid model for the male die.
Once again a few pictures to give you an idea of what the bi-pod should look like.
WE are also trying something new with this post and that is provide a video of the master cam program as it operates.
Here is the video of the master cam program:
I am working on an audio track for the next posts, just did not have any luck on this one.
The total run time to make the die plate is 4 hours. tool costs $210.00, total time for for solid modeling, master cam programing,tool set up is 16 hours. Material costs is $60.oo. Just to make the die the cost was approx $1550.00. dividing this cost over 300 pieces brings the basic cost for this die down to 5.00 per piece for this die. There will probably be 6 sets of dies per bi-pod leg.
Friday hope to have the video of the die being made. Stay tuned and comments and suggestions are always welcome.
so how many pieces do you think you can make with the dies ?
These dies are made of 1018 and not tool steel. They will probably start wearing out at about 700 pieces and have to be re-made at that time. That is more then I plan to make.