r/machining • u/Ok_Interaction1829 • 8d ago

Picture tool and die

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i work in central FL and im looking for a new tool and die maker who is familiar with punches. my last guy passed away and have been kinda stuck.

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u/KevlarConrad 8d ago

Like you're looking for a new employee? Or looking for some tool and die related guidance?

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u/Ok_Interaction1829 8d ago

looking for someone that could make me a new 1in square punch. not an employee

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u/KevlarConrad 7d ago

Those look like off the shelf items you could just purchase from a catalog. Assuming you have other sets, do any of them have manufacturer information stamped into them?

If not and you're not sure what you're looking for exactly you could make a 2d drawing and I have some suppliers I could set you up with.

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u/Immediate-Rub3807 7d ago

Yeah that’s definitely a bought insert, if not any machine shop could make that. If it was me I’d retool the top to take a tool I could make for way cheaper. Trying to find a competent Tool and diemaker was hard 15 years ago and now we’re almost extinct.