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Blanking Plastics

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glassmaker

Automotive
Jan 17, 2002
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Does any one know of a good reference for blanking plastic sheets? I need to figure out die clearance, punch size, stripper clearence, ect.
 
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What kind of plastic are you looking at blanking???
 
In a previous job I have some experience of blanking plastics (credit cards) the main things are to keep the punch and die clearance tight 0.0005” / side, make the stripper a running fit, make sure the punch and die are sharp, polish both if you wire erode and have a compound angle on the front of the punch. This will however change the dimensions of the blank if it is a tight tolerance, you will have to experiment with this or calculate it, I cannot remember what we did.

I hope this is of some help, but might not be depending on what you are trying to do.
 
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