BillPSU, the answer to your question is political, I'm afraid I can't go into much more detail than that. The initial engineering of the tooling was done 1,500 miles away from the press, and when we physically measured it, we found that the designs were based off of misleading stroke specs...
P.S. No we do not have the documentation. We have scanned PDF images of about half of the German engineering drawings, and some specs that were given us to the vendor.
The previous owner was the Soviet government, it was used to press tank and submarine heads during the cold war. Needless to...
Pressed: Let me clarify. It's a press capable of pressing 10,000 tons of force onto unheated steel of up to 1 inch thick. It's got 8 cylinders over 3 feet in diameter, with hydraulic pressure over 5,000 psi. It's the biggest cold-forming steel press in the world we're told (tied with 2...
David, actually I did need to find a circle cutter to purchase for our pressroom, so that was a great help.
TVP, Siempelkamp manufactured the press in 1982. They're still around, but they have been reluctant to give much assistance on the engineering, because we bought it used, shipped it from...
Greetings,
I am a fairly new graduate in charge of designing/procuring tooling for a 10,000-ton cold-form steel press (Yes, I know that is big!) to press heads for large pressure vessels.
I am being pushed by management to run the press at the absolute lower limit of it's stroke (within one...
