Making your own dies

[toxo]

Saying well done to you is getting tiresome. Do something wrong for God's sake man.

[kgg]

13 hours ago, dikman said:

I can now see how to make a better one, a bit smaller and neater.

Looks very good. Making it smaller may reduce the torque at the head. Neater will that is in the eye of the beholder. I think you did well it is clean and most importantly functional. Job well done.

kgg 

[dikman]

Definitely not pretty , but yes, functional. Using a cam to operate the push rod, which could be shorter, is what I have in mind, just an idea kicking around.

[MarshalWill]

It looks good. Nice design. Good function. Can't ask for much more than that.

[dikman]

Thanks Will, I've been experimenting with using a cam to do the pushing, it seemed to me it should be a more "elegant" approach but it ended up pretty clumsy trying to get the travel required. It seems the pivot/linkage is the best way to go (that's the method used in a couple of commercial units I found).

[MarshalWill]

It works with a simple mechanism. Elegance is sometimes found in simple.