Almost have my flat fingers figured out. I wanted them to be direct replacements for the tapered stock ones. The second one was just a little out of spec for my liking so I’ll finish them up this weekend.
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Looks nice. What’s your plan for the holes on the finger? Mounting point for other end shapes, or adding wear pads or something?
Yes they are for accessories. Mainly for a 1 inch flat bar to bridge the fingers. That way I don’t have to slide them back and forth to do multi step / tooling setups. Also going to make a set of thin extensions for getting real close to the tooling.
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you could almost 3d print those with the right size reamer and some carbon fillament. fill a mint?
fil-a-ment like chik-fil-a?
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That’s a legitimate idea right there. Probably don’t even need the reamer, and if you’re worried about the bores wearing you could press fit bronze bushings.
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once I saw that pic I thought, this piece has zero use except to hold the part still that fraction of time before the press clamps down. so even if you had a crazy profile you could modify it accordingly to hold/locate the part. even create a back stop to hold it one position on one side for one bend and the other side for another bend. but I dont do this for a living so its just an idea.
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