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Checking For Wear
If you want us to do the checking for you, we can arrange for one of our service technicians to come out to your facility and check the punch press for you, for just the cost of the travel. Or let us know where you are located and when we get close to your area, we’ll perform the check at no cost to you.


Worn Area #1

A good sign of a worn turret is visual gauges and by just feeling for rough areas in the station. Both will wear out tooling rapidly. The best test, however is to use a dial indicator to measure the wear as shown below.


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Worn Area #2

A good sign of a worn turret is visual gauges and by just feeling for rough areas in the station. Both will wear out tooling rapidly. The best test, however is to use a dial indicator to measure the wear as shown below.


[+] WORN AREA #2

Tool Check #1

Insert a new tool into the station and on the top of the guide, place the dial indicator as shown and take a reading as you are pushing the tool away form you.


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Tool Check #1 CLOSE UP

In this instance it was zeroed in as it was pushed toward the center of the machine to make the reading easier to read.


[+] CHECK#1 CLOSE-UP

Tool Check #2

Then by pulling the tool towards yourself, take the reading and the difference is how off your tolerance is.


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After

The Tolerance in this instance is about 0.010” off. We recommend that any station over 0.005” should be sleeved.


[+] CHECK#2 CLOSE-UP

Turret Sleeving International, Inc., a Utah based company, has over 23 years experience refurbishing the upper turret stations of the Amada turret punch press. TSI has installed over 85,000 sleeves, world- wide and continues to grow.

Initially, the designers of the turret restoration process gained experience by working on Weidemann, Di-Acro, Behrens and Amada equipment, but recognized the growing need for Amada upper turret bore wear repair. Turret Restoration Inc., began specializing in the turret
restoration of Amada Punch Press equipment exclusively.

Turret Sleeving International, Inc. has also become a distributor of quality replacement parts for your Amada Punch Press, such as the Kontempo Sleeve, auto-index guides, bottom die holders, guide keys, upper lifter springs and collars. TSI also offers a state-of-the-art, maintenance free, air-blow system, which can be retrofitted to your Amada Punch Press, and an Octo-rack exchange program.

TSI can usually schedule the refurbishing of your Amada Turret Punch Press within 30 days, with the downtime lasting only about 2 days. After the initial installation, your personnel may replace the Kontempo Sleeves if needed, once again restoring your punch press to OEM specifications. References from companies around the world are available.



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