Weld Fixture Design — 4 ways to use RAPid Plates in Machine Tool Design.
*** This video is silent, so you can watch it anywhere. It shows you — How To Use RAPid Plates to Locate the Product Parts in Your Weld or Assembly Fixture. After you watch it, watch the video below...
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Weld Fixture and Assembly Fixture — 32 Ways to Precision Locating with Pins
———– Machine Tool Fixtures, both Assembly and Weld Fixtures often require that a pin is placed into the hole of the product part to locate it. Locating Pins Are often used in fixtures to locate the...
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Weld Fixture Design — Drilling and Tapping — Discover MORE From the Experts...
________________________________ Experienced Machinists and Machine Tool Designers Provide great tips and advice in this edition of Weld Fixture Design 101. Experienced Engineers share some tidbits in...
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Discover Easy and Practical Clamping and Clamp Arm Design Ideas — Machine...
_ Weld Fixture Design — Practical and Easy Clamping and Clamp Arm Ideas for Beginning Machine Tool Designers and CAD Drafters A while back a reader asked how do we determine how much clamping muscle...
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The Power of Automation and Creativity in Manufacturing — Weld Fixture Design...
Do you like watching “How It’s Made” on the Discovery Channel? If you are a machine and technology geek like we are at Rentapen? Then you would have loved the week of factory tours we just...
View ArticleSimple Pointers for Weld Fixture Design — Backbone Trunion Weld Cell
A picture of a Weld Fixture is worth a Thousand Words. Weld Fixtures (Jigs) are machines that hold product parts in place while they are being welded in a Robotic or manual weld cell. Recently we...
View ArticleMachine Tools – 3 Reasons to Adjust Sub Assemblies in a Weld Fixture
We talk alot about designing adjustment with steel shim packs in weld fixtures. Why? Watch this slide show. It explains how Rentapen’s RAPid Blocks are used to fine tune adjust a sub assembly. I would...
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What the Beginning Machine Designer Needs to Know about Dowels
Dowels — Production Part Holding and Fixturing with Precision and Consistency Weld and Assembly fixtures used in mass production must repeatedly hold the part positions in exactly the same place every...
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Video and Slide Tours of Two Simple Weld Fixtures
If you are a beginning Machine Tool Designer, CAD Drafter, or Engineering Student you will most likely find the slide show and video here of interest. Both the video and slide show demonstrate a how...
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5-Tips for Pick-Off Weld Templates
The other day I saw we were doing a lot of “pick-off” or “take-off” weld fixtures for a couple customers. I realized I have not even mentioned these fixtures yet in the years of this blog. IT IS TIME!...
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