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Bonus: CNC turret punch press

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Bonus: CNC turret punch press

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I'm standing in front of a CMC turret punch press today and in front of me is the job we're actually getting set up to run. You can see the part here is cut out with a series of different punches as they move around the job Here's an example of one of the punches it's a rectangular cut out and that's used right here to cut this hole here as well as this one over here. You can see you place it here this is a little bit longer punch and it's used to do this periphery around the outside of the part You can see that fits right into this hole. The side of the part to cut this thing around What this machine really is, is an over priced hole punch It has a turret, it has 34 different tools in here and it can go around and index to any one of the tools as it cycles throughout the part punching the different holes throughout the job. We have auto index which allows this punch here to rotate to any degree or angle we want as we progress through the part. In this job here it's only using zero…

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