HOMEMADE 6' LOUVER PUNCH

I was having trouble finding 6" wide louvers so with a little help from other YouTube videos I fabricated my own tool. It is limited by the space between the guide pins but I was figuring on welding the louver sections into the hood anyway. This allows you to do this with a simple hydraulic press and not an English wheel type of setup. I was pleasantly surprised by how cleanly it cuts. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions or comments.

[CurtisDrew]

You will love an air over hydraulic jack on that press. I put a HF 30 ton one on mine and will never go back to the old way. I finess the press with the pump handle, but the big steps are so much easier to just press the air valve and let it run down.

I have a 90 deg bender like that and even built a round edge bender for making "J" hooks. Only I used old motorcycle fork springs to raise my dies back up.

[garyprice]

Excellent results. Love the registration aspect. Now I have to work out how to do that on a large panel.

[JG-kvoi]

Nice! Works well. I'm about to build a louver press myself, will use a couple of lathe high speed steel blanks as my cutting edges, regular old 1018 steel for the rest of the die pattern. Thanks for posting the video!

[ramonching]

Very good result. It also encourages me to make one. 👍👍👍

[craigywaigy]

Great job. Another way to make the punch and die, is to use regular mild steel, but to hard face the edges with commonly available hard-facing rods which are the equivalent of tool steel. :)

[joelongstaff]

Geat video Thank you. You might want to try using leaf springs for your dies. They cut very well and last a long time.

[alitn]

Good job 👍
You can add 2 spring on top of the die and connected to jack !

[rchonda]

Nicely done, very neat and well formed louvre. 😉👍

[josecarlospoggian]

Beautiful, thanks to posting it.Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍

[ramonching]

Make the guide post farther apart. And you are really in business. Typical panel would be 24" apart.

[BossSpringsteen]

Wow, exactly what i was looking for. Thanks.

[baazigaj]

hi, do you have a video of building process and dimensions. epic build

[benborsa]

nice, to make more efficient of a process, you should extend the center circle to be a pipe that you can put a pin in to connect it to the rod of the press.

[Jkjkjkjklllll]

Встанови пружини по боках пуансона, вони будуть самі розділять . хороша робота

[Thanjaimandalam]

1.6 mm thickness hydraulic pressing Ton capacity ?

[TheeAbstractHero]

How did you end up designing your die shape?

[patrana]

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