Dimple tooling

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My wife's cousin JB, who works at Interiors by Shannon, contacted me the other day about making him a dimpling punch and die for installing door panel fasteners..


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There's always room for improvement, so I thought I'd add a flat to one side of the lower die so it could be clamped in a vise for more stability. A short piece of V-block was installed in the Aloris tool holder and viola! We have a Southbend Milling Machine!

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The alignment pin was added to the bottom die to help keep the panel aligned during the punching process, a 1/4" hole will be added to the panel where fasteners are needed.

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Installing into the vise...


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Our .06 aluminum test panel...


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….that should work...
 
Are you doing that on a manual lathe?
I could write a program for CNC mill or lathe to produce that but wouldn't even attempt it by hand. Amazing.
 
Cool. Last I looked , ( years ago),interiors by Shannon was still a one person show. Some nice work comes out of there, so it's only fitting they have something done by you.
 
JB started there about a year and half ago, including Shannon that made three people working there. Shannon already had a version of this punch, I duplicated it (with "improvements") so JB could have one as well. I follow them on IG, they do some amazing interior work.
 
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