I tried to get a drawing put together but have been unsuccessful. I am having problems exporting to jpeg. But anyway I am fooling around with a number of things, one of them is the scales of an armor piece, they are hexagonal and have a slight dish shape, they are used for Japanese brigandine. I have been hand cutting them, and it is taking a really really long time. The other project is in the making of my own steel casings for 9mm parabellum. It is in this project that the deep drawing will occur. So although I would supply the drawing, nearly everyone has seen or can see the 9mm casing that I am talking about. The tooling should be able to produce 5 half done casings per stroke. Another set of tooling will be required to "head" the casing. And it will be similar to coining.
So far my press and tooling is being designed to blank the material, and draw it with a single press stroke. The blanking die is supported by a block while blanking and then removed to allow the die to freely slide up the drawing punch during the drawing process. When I get my CAD to export JPEG I will post it for those interested.
I will be making all of my own dies. out of A2 tool steel. I don't yet have the capibility to shape carbide.  |