Many applications, usually involving either mounting parts or routing wiring and other materials, require holes to be drilled or punched into sheet metal. As with any other typical fabrication task, ...

Experience in stamping plants has suggested that there are considerable differences in the ability of different chromium-plated dies to form sheet metal. Earlier laboratory work indicated that ...

[Kevin Cheung] likes to upcycle old soda cans into — well — things. The metal is thin enough to cut by hand, but he’d started using a manual die-cutting machine, and it worked well. The problem? The ...