Excellent Marc, as always your teaching skills make machining and mechanical operations easy to understand. Great topic....looking forward to more of your wisdom. thanks, greg
What a nice explanation of punch positioning. In my small manufacturing business I have had many components laser cut to go into a product based on Victorian designs. Now those Victorians used blanking and piercing tools much as you describe to make the same. How I wish I had the time to try to learn and make such tools as to punch out my own parts. I can but dream. The process is at once simple but very precise and quite scientific.
Marc, Your videos are great!! The wealth of knowledge and why things work they way they do is wonderful! I have been in the trade for 4 years now and love that I get to learn everyday. I went to a community college to get some basics, but with your help I have excelled faster than I have ever imagined (and my boss is amazed at my progress). For that I thank you so very much. Please keep them coming and look forward to the next! Best, Eddie
Love the videos you produce. I have learned quite a bit of very useful knowledge for a hobbyist type of machinist. Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.
I appreciate this greatly. I recently started a job at a small job shop and they have punching operations, but there is nobody who really knows how to set it up. The operator is largely just winging it 😮💨 so I'm doing the leg work to figure out how to do it right and save time on deburing. I'll have to look through your content to see if you've shared any more punching insights.
Hi Jeff! I am planning a short series of videos that will cover basic punch & die work as soon as I finish the series on Jigs and Fixtures. I am feeling much better and have started the part 8 video (before last) of the Jigs & Fixtures videos). Thanks for watching and for taking the time to write, Marc
Hi Marc, This lesson about punches and dies is excellent, I've been machining for a while now but never really been confronted with the subject. Now with your teaching I know I could make a decent set. Thanks for sharing, Pierre Punch and die could also mean: Punch a huge Hell's Angel and die...If you don't run fast enough...lol
Great to see you back in your (natural) role as educator, a calling in which you excel. I enjoyed and learned from this video. I would have liked to have seen the punch and die in use. Is there a home shop sized punch press that can be purchased somewhere between the paper punch and the colossus, multi-ton machines? I don't recall seeing anyone in this machining group using a punch and die machine. I enjoyed the description and thank you for sharing. Nice to see you again, too.
Hi Jim, it is great to hear from you! There are many sizes of punch presses, I had up until a few years ago a five ton flywheel driven press in my home shop. At school we used a 20 ton machine. I designed many years ago a small die set and punches to be used in a two ton (minimum) arbor press, that produces 1/4" washers from mild steel sheet. It had the die set, the bolster plate, the die, the stops, the stripper plate, the punch plate and the punches. it would be a nice home project for learning about punch and dies. If you think you would like to have the plans just let me now, they are in French (if I can find them) but I can easily translate them. Thanks for watching, I hope to hear from you soon, Marc L'Ecyuyer
If you can find them, yes, I would be interested in the plans. French is probably ok. I can have friends help me with translation if needed. Do you perhaps have the plans in .pdf format? Only if it is easy. You could also take a video or still shots of the plans with your camera and I could use them on my computer. But, only if this is not too much trouble. I would rather you kept on with your fine videos. Great work you do. Best regards, jim
Jim Milne Hi Jim, I found the old plans. I can send them to you in JPEG format (in French because I haven't had time to translate yet). I cannot attach the files to a comment answer so could you send me an E-Mail to THATLAZYMACHINIST@GMAIL.COM and I will return your E-mail with the files. Thanks Marc L'Ecuyer
Hands on training is no real training or effort is not given how or why a part is machined a certain way. Instructional text book classes are a joke with instructor not putting the exercise into practice. When I do something exactly the way I was instructed someone else passes by and yells at me because they machine differently. Believe me I am a fast learner and for some that is not enough. Having to rely on videos like yours to actually learn, and they are very educational, just puts my employer's training to shame. Thank you for your educational videos.
Hi jay, thanks for the comment and the complement. I often tell my own boys that they have to learn, with their teachers if the teachers are good or in spite of their teachers if the teachers are not so good. Good luck and thanks for watching, Marc L'Ecuyer
No it's not one fell swoop, it's one swell foop. The drilling and lapping of the dowel holes is where I fall short. I can't get them right every time. just having to make more and hope the work out.
Every time I watch your vedios I realize how much I don't know. I really enjoy your instructions.
Excellent Marc, as always your teaching skills make machining and mechanical operations easy to understand. Great topic....looking forward to more of your wisdom.
thanks, greg
I greatly appreciate your machining videos. Thank you for making them. I learn so much from you and am very happy to see another lesson.
Outstanding overview of the punch set up process. Thank you for taking the time to educate all of us. I enjoy your channel very much.. Fred
Marc, thank you once again for a wonderful instructional video.
What a nice explanation of punch positioning. In my small manufacturing business I have had many components laser cut to go into a product based on Victorian designs. Now those Victorians used blanking and piercing tools much as you describe to make the same. How I wish I had the time to try to learn and make such tools as to punch out my own parts. I can but dream. The process is at once simple but very precise and quite scientific.
Marc, Your videos are great!! The wealth of knowledge and why things work they way they do is wonderful! I have been in the trade for 4 years now and love that I get to learn everyday. I went to a community college to get some basics, but with your help I have excelled faster than I have ever imagined (and my boss is amazed at my progress). For that I thank you so very much. Please keep them coming and look forward to the next!
Best,
Eddie
This is an excellent video, thank you for making it.
Love the videos you produce. I have learned quite a bit of very useful knowledge for a hobbyist type of machinist. Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.
Marc, this is a well taught lesson, easy to understand. I appreciate that you're taking time to educate us. Your videos are excellent!
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Thank you for the lesson....interesting and informative!
Interesting lecture Marc. It shows why diemakers need precision on their side. ;-)
Colin
I appreciate this greatly. I recently started a job at a small job shop and they have punching operations, but there is nobody who really knows how to set it up. The operator is largely just winging it 😮💨 so I'm doing the leg work to figure out how to do it right and save time on deburing. I'll have to look through your content to see if you've shared any more punching insights.
Hi Jeff! I am planning a short series of videos that will cover basic punch & die work as soon as I finish the series on Jigs and Fixtures. I am feeling much better and have started the part 8 video (before last) of the Jigs & Fixtures videos). Thanks for watching and for taking the time to write, Marc
I really enjoyed this video, and learned from it. Many thanks, and best regards.
Hi Marc,
This lesson about punches and dies is excellent, I've been machining for a while now but never really been confronted with the subject. Now with your teaching I know I could make a decent set.
Thanks for sharing,
Pierre
Punch and die could also mean: Punch a huge Hell's Angel and die...If you don't run fast enough...lol
Wow you do know your stuff and can teach us about it. Thanks.
Great to see you back in your (natural) role as educator, a calling in which you excel. I enjoyed and learned from this video. I would have liked to have seen the punch and die in use. Is there a home shop sized punch press that can be purchased somewhere between the paper punch and the colossus, multi-ton machines? I don't recall seeing anyone in this machining group using a punch and die machine. I enjoyed the description and thank you for sharing. Nice to see you again, too.
Hi Jim, it is great to hear from you! There are many sizes of punch presses, I had up until a few years ago a five ton flywheel driven press in my home shop. At school we used a 20 ton machine. I designed many years ago a small die set and punches to be used in a two ton (minimum) arbor press, that produces 1/4" washers from mild steel sheet. It had the die set, the bolster plate, the die, the stops, the stripper plate, the punch plate and the punches. it would be a nice home project for learning about punch and dies. If you think you would like to have the plans just let me now, they are in French (if I can find them) but I can easily translate them. Thanks for watching, I hope to hear from you soon, Marc L'Ecyuyer
If you can find them, yes, I would be interested in the plans. French is probably ok. I can have friends help me with translation if needed. Do you perhaps have the plans in .pdf format? Only if it is easy. You could also take a video or still shots of the plans with your camera and I could use them on my computer. But, only if this is not too much trouble. I would rather you kept on with your fine videos. Great work you do.
Best regards,
jim
Jim Milne Hi Jim, I found the old plans. I can send them to you in JPEG format (in French because I haven't had time to translate yet). I cannot attach the files to a comment answer so could you send me an E-Mail to THATLAZYMACHINIST@GMAIL.COM and I will return your E-mail with the files. Thanks Marc L'Ecuyer
Awesome
An easy way to see a external and internal punched hole is look at a plain washer most are punched the bigger the washer the easier it is to see.
Ian
Hands on training is no real training or effort is not given how or why a part is machined a certain way. Instructional text book classes are a joke with instructor not putting the exercise into practice. When I do something exactly the way I was instructed someone else passes by and yells at me because they machine differently. Believe me I am a fast learner and for some that is not enough. Having to rely on videos like yours to actually learn, and they are very educational, just puts my employer's training to shame. Thank you for your educational videos.
Hi jay, thanks for the comment and the complement. I often tell my own boys that they have to learn, with their teachers if the teachers are good or in spite of their teachers if the teachers are not so good. Good luck and thanks for watching, Marc L'Ecuyer
I do like that Buzzard Ball and Sinker, Simper Fi Brother.
I've held my tongue long enough. The saying is not "one foul swoop" it's "one fell swoop".
You say it wrong all the time.
No it's not one fell swoop, it's one swell foop. The drilling and lapping of the dowel holes is where I fall short. I can't get them right every time. just having to make more and hope the work out.