I Receive Many Questions on How TO IMPROVE HIGH-SPEED Progressive Die Hits Per Service, Otherwise Known As Tooling Life. How can I get more parts pervice? How can I run toling

　　

　　

　　If your tool design is lacking, investing in coatings will be throwing good money after.

　　increased vibration.

　　Guide Pins and Ball Cages that are too small for the application. Again, they Will Flex, Causion Vibration During Cutting and Forming, Which Will Lead to premature deploy.

　　And bottom with just the right amount of lube. TOO MUCH can be as bad as too little.

　　

　　To Figure Out What is Going On. If you get 100,000 hits pervice today and only 50,000 hits per service tomerrow, too coatings will not help you.

　　Back and Forth to the Coater Would Bring us Little Benefit -We Might Gain Another Week of Run Time.

　　But for some expected applications, when we are forming and excitement missing, the Stampings Would n’t rubout couatings.

　　

　　

　　About 3,500 on the vicker scale (compared to 1,800 for carbide).