C-frame dimpler and pneumatic dimpler

[BobCollins(AA)]

I have the standard c-frame dimpler from Avery and a pneumatic squeezer which I would like to combine. Anyone knows how I could mount the pneumatic squeezer on the C-frame . I have a foot switch for the pneumatic squeezer so it would make a great tool to dimple...

 

[fatherson]

If you're thinking of using the Avery C-frame as a yoke for the squeezer, it'll never work. You'd need something much beefier. Look at the DRDT-2 frame, for example, and even it flexes quite a bit. The Avery frame is really meant as just an aligning tool for the mating dimple dies, and it doesn't take any of the stress from the dimpling operation itself.

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Stephen

 

[robertahegy]

The C frame is meant to hammer blow the tools to form the dimples. As Stephen said, the stress incorporated in squeezing would bend the frame. I have mounted yokes on my pneumatic squeezer in a vice and used it that way to dimple parts, but you will always be limited by the depth of the yokes.

Roberta