Tool Maintenance

TOPICS

Protect your investment

Faulty equipment
Damaged tooling
Poor results
What you are sharpening
Maximize tooling longevity
Taking control
ValuGrind features and capabilities

Protect Your Investment

and Productivity

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Cheap Improper
Equipment

Poor Costly Maintenance

Poor Punching Results

What You Are

Sharpening, Engineered
Tool Steel
Punches and dies are not rebar.

Quality Product
Dependable, reliable, consistent
Engineered materials

Wear Resistance (Adhesive and Abrasive)

Resistance to wear from gummy materials stainless
Resistance to wear from abrasive materials hot rolled
Provided by hardness level and chemistry (carbide composition)

Toughness and Good Fatigue Life

Resistance to breakage (fracture) and chipping; impact strength

Designed for high speed punching

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What You Are

Sharpening Tool Steel

Basic Structure
Matrix (Base):

The mortar that holds the road together

Carbides:
Offer resistance to abrasion similar to cobble stones
Carbide volume and composition can be altered to offer
enhanced wear resistance and usability.

What You Are

Sharpening Tool Steel

Carbides consists of Carbon (0.5 to +2%)

in combination with alloying elements

Cr
Mo
Si
W
V

(Chromium) Uniform hardness, matrix strength

(Molybdenum) Red hardness, sharpening
(Silicon) Toughness
(Tungsten) Hardness and heat resistance
(Vanadium) Wear

The carbides are harder than the matrix and

provide the wear resistance
The carbides are formed during the fabrication process and can be from 5 to
20% of the tool steel (alloy content or carbide content)

Amount and type of carbides are different in different tool steel grades

A2 D2 M2 M4 M4PM

Maximize tool longevity

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Take control

Increased productivity
Reduced down time
Higher output

Improved finish part quality

Longer tool life
Reduced consumables expenditures

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MACHINE FEATURES

Easy to set up and

install
Easy to operate

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Grinding Wheels

Use This

Not This

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ValuGrind

Completely fixtured for

style selected
Total solution

MACHINE CAPABILITIES
Quick Overview: Dies

Dies are clamped to a

magnetic chuck

Small dimension thick

turret dies are placed in
same fixture as multi tools

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MACHINE CAPABILITIES

Quick Overview: Thick Turret and Trumpf Style Multi Tools

Thick Turret and Trumpf Style Multi

Tools
Trumpf style multi tool punches and
dies, and Thick Turret multi tool dies
are first placed in a special plate which
is clamped to magnetic chuck (upper
right)
MT, MTG and XMT multi tool
punches are clamped the same way as
other Thick Turret punches (lower right)

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MACHINE CAPABILITIES
Quick Overview: Trumpf Style

Trumpf Style Punches

Punches (all sizes) are first
placed in a special fixture,
which is fastened on tilting
plate (right)

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MACHINE CAPABILITIES
Quick Overview: Whisper/Rooftop
Punches

Whisper/Roof Top Punches

ValuGrind can sharpen whisper
and rooftop shears
Tilting plate can be set in an
angle between 0 to 8
Place punches in the fixture
Tilt the fixture to the required
shear angle, make any fine
adjustments and secure

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MACHINE CAPABILITIES
Quick Overview: Thick Turret

Thick Turret Punches

Thick Turret D and E station
punches are fixed on tilting
plate (upper right)
Other size Thick Turret
punches are first placed in
the fixture, then fastened on
the tilting plate (lower right)

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