Paper Punch Die Help?

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- gglines
  
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20 years ago

Tue, Jan 20, 2004 4:53 AM

A friend of mine has a business where he cuts 1" x 1.5" prints from a 11" x

14" xray sheet. Think of cutting those wallet size pictures froma big sheet of them like in grade school.

They do it by hand with scissors, and he was thinking of a punch that would "press" them out one a time and fed by hand. Only one x-ray sheet is cut at a time. He's seen my 4 ton Diacro #1 bench punch and thinks that would be a hundred times faster than what he's doing now with scissors.

Is there a better solution out there? My punch works great on sheet metal, not sure how well it would cut x-ray film.

Thanks,

George

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- Roger Shoaf
  
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20 years ago

Tue, Jan 20, 2004 6:11 AM

Two ideas here, one is a steel rule die and the second one is an off the shelf product they have to cut ID photos from Polaroid snap shots to laminate on ID cards. Look for a place that does passport photos to see what I am referring to. I suspect that this is a standard size.

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posted
20 years ago

Tue, Jan 20, 2004 2:50 PM

Roger,

Many thanks. I will check into that.

George

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- Keith Marshall
  
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20 years ago

Tue, Jan 20, 2004 5:00 PM

Can he not use a regular paper trimmer like this?

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or this?

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20 years ago

Thu, Jan 22, 2004 2:30 AM

He could, but he wants to speed up production by cutting all 4 sides at once. The suggestion to look up photo cutters was on the money as it looks like something close to what he wants is pretty cheap.

Thanks,

George

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- John Ings
  
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20 years ago

Thu, Jan 22, 2004 9:56 AM

I assume that the 1" x 1.5" rectangle doesn't come from exactly the same place on each x-ray sheet? In which case alignment is important. One way of doing that is to make up a 'cookie cutter' out of say, a

1/2" wide strip of 1/8" thick steel, sharpened on one edge and then formed into a rectangle. This can then be placed on the proper spot on the film and held in place with a bit of tape. Then the film and template could be placed beneath a foot operated press. I don't think a hydraulic press would be necessary, and would probably be more dangerous.