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part  1:  Considerations  Particular  to  Coil  Stock

10/20/2015

 
Coil stock has become well established within the metalworking industry over the past few decades. There are numerous advantages processing coil stock including the fact that it:
  • Delivers sustained speed of production
  • Enables continuous press runs
  • Reduces material costs
  • Reduces scrap costs
  • Reduces storage space
  • Increases operating versatility
  • Enhances material availability
  • Removes the operator from point of operation
  • Improves the profitability of today’s metal stamper
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​As positive as all of this is, however, there various material conditions unique to coil stock.  Understanding each of these potential issues and how to avoid or deal with them will help keep your operations at their best.  

Coil Set – all stock has, to some degree, a condition known as coil set, which is a curvature of the stock.  Since the stock is wound under tension, the coil set persists even as the material is unwound.  Coil stock straighteners are used to remove enough of the coil set to enable automatic feeding.  However, for more severe conditions, precision levelers may be required.

Crown – A curvature of the stock through its cross-section where the center of the stock is higher than the edges is known as the crown.  This condition can be reduced by the leveling process, but most often needs to be accommodated within the dies and coil equipment.  This requires abnormal clearances for the stock by recessing rolls or plates to allow passage of the edges of the stock while keeping pressure on the flat surface at the center of the stock.

Camber – This condition occurs when one edge of the material is longer than the other, and is most noticeable in narrow materials.  The material curves off to the side in one direction or even snakes back and forth.  Camber is measured in the number of inches (or fractions) of offset in a given length.  Once camber occurs, it is very difficult to keep on the center line of the tooling during the coil feeding process.  While this condition is best dealt with from the source of supply, the coil processing equipment and dies need to accept and accommodate the worst case conditions of camber.
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Coil end kinks – Leading and trailing ends of coil stock can have significant “kink” in them, which must be removed to enable automatic coil handling and feeding.  This is commonly done with a knibbling device or a cropping shear in large, high production lines.  Other removal processes utilize coil breakers, debenders, or flatteners at the entry station of the power straightener.  However, a power straightener does not completely remove a coil end kink.  So, although the kinked coil can be fed through the die, it will most likely result in an unacceptable part.

Coil break – This results when coil material has a series of kinks or lines, typically evenly spaced, across the surface.  This condition cannot be completely corrected within the conventional coil processing line.  If not too severe, the coil break can be accommodated for within the system.  However, it will most likely result in unacceptable parts.
We’ll present more of the conditions that can negatively affect coil stock as well as solutions in our next blog post.

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