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From YouTube: Meet Brianna Kufa
Description
Ironworker Machine project lead
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An
ironworker
is
a
tool
you
use
for
for
working
with
metal.
It
can
be
for
steel,
aluminum,
copper,
anything
and
what
it
does.
Typically,
it
has
at
least
three
stations,
there's
usually
a
punch,
a
shear
and
then
some
sort
of
notcher,
although
at
the
very
minimum
it
has,
you
know
one
or
two
of
those
things.
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Some
of
the
cheaper
ones
only
have
like
one
of
them,
but
there's
always
this
year
and
there's
normally
a
punch,
and
so
the
one
I'm
currently
working
on
is
modeled
after
this
piranha
and
the
reason
I
did
that
is
one
because
it's
very
simple
design
and
two,
because
anyone
you
talk
to
is
in
love
with
the
piranha.
They
say
that
that's
one
of
the
best
top
of
the
line
iron
workers,
so
figure
follow
the
best.
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Being
able
to
punch
saves
a
lot
of
time
and
it
makes
things
much
more
precise.
Punching
versus
drilling
takes
much
less
time
and
it's
far
less
likely.
You
don't
have
to
deal
with
breaking
bits.
It's
just
a
lot
faster
and
easier
to
work
with
and
then
typically
or
iron.
Workers
also
have
some
sort
of
a
notch
notcher,
which
is
like
a
sheer,
but
you
can
cut
odd
shapes,
so
the
notch
around
this
one
is
like
you
see
it's
a
rectangle
here,
two
inch
rectangle,
so
you
can
just
stick
something
in
there
and
shear
it.
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B
Yeah
at
the
minimum,
because
this
machine-
I
modeled
it
after
this
machine
you
can
see
this
is
two
and
five
eighths
thick
on
my
machine.
It's
three
inches
thick
and
we're
upscaling
a
lot
of
the
other
stuff.
So
that
way
it
has
more
force
available,
but
this
machine
can
do
inch
by
six.
It's
not
recommended.
It
says
the
capacity
is
8
by
4,
but
we've
done
inch
by
6
on
this,
so
I'm
guaranteeing
inch
by
6
with
my
machine
and
then
possibly
more.
B
But
the
thing
is,
I
don't
understand,
all
of
the
forces
necessary
sharing.
I've
been
researching
it
for
months.
Nobody
can
really
seem
to
tell
me
so
I'm
playing
it
really
safe
with
the
estimate,
because
as
you're
sharing
there's
a
bending
moment
in
this,
so
the
metal
is
pushing
up
here
and
it's
wanting
to
bend
this
whole
thing
upwards.
It's
also
pushing
it
out
like
this
because
it
doesn't
want
to
be
sheared.
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A
B
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Well
right
now,
what
I
need
for
this
project
are
people
that
are
doing
cad
work,
because
I've
got
a
design
pretty
much
done.
There's
a
few
things,
I'm
working
on
there's
other
people
that
are
helping
me
to
do
some
of
the
calculations.
I
have
someone
helping
me
work
on
the
stripper
for
the
punch,
make
sure
everything's
thick
enough,
but
yeah
right
now.
B
It's
pretty
much
just
cad,
because
I
need
this
whole
machine
cated
up,
but
I
want
to
have
a
cabinet
as
I
go,
because
I'm
finding
you
know
kind
of
the
little
things
that
are
going
to
change
and
not
change
and
there's
no
sense
in
doing
it
off
my
model.
Now,
because
it's
just
the
pieces
that
I
finished
are
going
to
work
or
not
work.
I
need
to
make
sure
the
ones
that
I
do
are
what's
in
the
cad.
B
Analysis,
it
would
be
useful,
but
we
couldn't
find
anyone
to
do
it,
especially
if
we
could
analyze
the
the
shear
and
see
what
the
capacity
really
is
and
also
the
the
stripper
assembly
and
stuff
for
the
punch.
That's
going
to
be
really
useful
because
it's
stuff
where
it's.
If
it
breaks
it's,
not
a
big
deal
because
I
made
it
so
you
can
take
anything
that
breaks
off
of
the
machine.
It
would
just
be
a
pain
to
have
to
refabricate
that,
and
we
want
to
do
it
right.
The
first
time.
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B
B
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Got
to
be
in
there
damn
good
or
something
bad
is
going
to
happen.
I
don't
know
what,
but
so
I'm
making
sure
to
do
everything
very
exact
like,
for
example,
on
the
on
the
prior
ironworker
model,
what
we'd
done
or
what
martin
had
done,
was
torch
away
and
weld
the
bushings
in
while
that
is
doable.
It's
likely
that
in
time,
it's
going
to
stretch
with
all
that
force,
no
matter
what
kind
of
bushings
you
use.
If
it's
not
that
the
steel
around
it
isn't
perfectly
conformed
to
the
bushing.
It's
likely
to
stretch.
B
And
so
this
I'm
doing
everything
I
can
to
ensure
that
does
not
happen.
I
got
my
bushings
hardened
they're
made
from
chromaly
steel,
which
is
really
high-grade
steel.
They
can
be
hardened,
so
it's
they're
really
hard
right
now
and
they're
going
in
there,
but
I
also
left
one
out
so
that
we
can
see
if
the
hardening
is
really
necessary
for
this.
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B
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B
I
used
a
our
jig
board
machine.
You
can
also
do
it
using
a
boring
tool
in
the
mill,
which
is
basically
it's
an
attachment
that
spins
and
then
it's
got
an
allen
that
you
stick
your
allen
wrench
into
and
you
can
adjust
it
by
the
thousands
for
controlling
where
the
tool
goes.
So
that
way
you
can
get
relatively
precise
holes.