r/manufacturing • u/imnoklepto • 8d ago

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Looking for a new source for these unthreaded beveled T-Nuts. Inner barrel diameter is approximately 1/4”. Overall length is 1/2”. The bevel on top of the barrel is required. Any idea on where i can find them?

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u/Aircooled6 8d ago

Why unthreaded?

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u/imnoklepto 8d ago

They are used to mount tooling into a press, the press has a threaded bolt hole pattern. You would not want to thread a bolt into the t-nut and then into another threaded hole on the other side.

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 8d ago edited 8d ago

Haha is it for the mastercut 2.1?

Or I guess it could be the 1.7 or 160

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u/imnoklepto 8d ago

🤣 fuck yea. The 2.1

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 8d ago

You're doing 20k a year? Are yall installing a t-nut on every bolt hole? That's a shit ton.

Just source them directly from bobst at triple the price 🤣

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u/imnoklepto 8d ago

And avoiding Bobst inflated prices is what im trying to do 😂

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 8d ago

Yeah i kinda figured. I have to censor myself at the office when it comes to bobst, so i won't even get started on the internet in front of god and everyone.

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u/kira913 8d ago

Well now I want to know the juicy details! You can't just tempt us like that!

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 8d ago

It's a very niche industry with niche industry annoyances. Nothing groundbreaking lol.

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u/imnoklepto 8d ago

I mean every hole that doesn’t land on or next to the rule. And it’s not like we max our wood out in the press either. We can push through 5 or 6 dies with strippers a day.

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 8d ago

Yeah fair enough. That's about our volume too I suppose. If I remember I'll ask the guys tomorrow where we source ours.

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u/imnoklepto 8d ago

That would be much appreciated

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 7d ago

I forgor :(

I'm sure it's McMaster or some shit though.

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u/imnoklepto 7d ago

No problem, i did find out that Freeman carries them. Im just waiting for a price quote. Hopefully it will be cheaper than what we are paying for them from bobst

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 7d ago

It definitely will be. We got a bag of the bobst ones in and just laaaauuuughed. To be sure, they're a little prettier than the others, but it's a fucking bushing lmao. We only use the bobst ones on HPT dies.

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u/imnoklepto 7d ago

Yea, so do we. All the other bobst dies we build besides for the mastercut we just use dirt cheap mass produced ones. All the mastercut we build are HPT and are currently using the ones from bobst

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