Originally Posted by
Tazza
No1 - I like your setup, very smooth operation. I'd have most of the parts to go hydraulic too, but I'd be worried that i may size something wrong and bend or break something, there is a lot of potential force that you can apply with a hydraulic cylinder unless you lower it with a relief. How do you go with the heat generated by the power pack? i didn't think that they were rated to run for extended periods of time. I'm with you on the fact that you can easily change setting son the fly.
That's the thing i have wondered about too, do you need to change the cycle times depending on the time of year? Cooler months means that the mold may not over heat as easily as the hotter months of the year. Does that even come into play? I'd have thought it may if you were running the fastest possible cycle times to churn out as many projectiles every hour as possible. I'd like to think that I'd be happy letting it clunk away, even if it's not doing quite as many as it could, it saves me sitting there manually doing it. I can save that job for my re-sizing stage....