I’ve always heard the term HOT stamping as a way to form metal, but wasn’t completely clear on the details, so I was happy to find at Hotforming.com/experiments some very useful and educational information and material on this subject and so much more come to find out.
My father’s brother, who is one of the closer of my many uncles in that large and intricate part of the family, was in the Pressing and Tooling business for a quite some time, starting soon after ending his time in WW II, which was a smart choice to make at that point of time. So I have had the pleasure of hearing many a stories through out my lifetime from him and others who were in that trade for some time.
I’ve learned that at AP&T they build very specialize machines that build some pretty complicated items made of metals and they have a very interesting website at Apt-usa.com that I took the time the other evening to browse around in and was impressed with some of things that I found myself learning about a subject that I thought I had a pretty good and complete knowledge about.
I haven’t seen this particular uncle in a very long time, but I understand that he is expected to make an appearance during this year’s holiday season, possibly next week at our family Thanksgiving dinner and get together, which is always held at my parents homestead. It will be good to be armed with some upgraded knowledge concerning issues like hydraulic presses and hot stamping and even a bit about the newest technology regarding to the many press automations that are coming into place just recently. This could possibly make some of the silent moments a bit easier to deal with, the kind that occur frequently during these sometimes stressful and uneasy family events,