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Just ordered Light Racing Dimple Dies **UPDATE** pics 1st post

rdn2blazer

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Cant wait to do some cool fab stuff with them. Will post pics when they arive. Ordered them from Keith at XtremeCrawlers.com. cool dude to talk to also. I ordered a 5 pc. set, 3/4", 1", 1-1/2", 2", 2-1/2" dies for $290.00 $305.00 to my door.



***UPDATE***


Recieved my Light Racing Dimple die set. Look like quality pieces, cant wait to put them to use. Only one complaint, IS ANYTHING GOOD MADE IN AMERICA ANYMORE!! :mad:, I Have to say I was disapointed to see right on the package "made in china" WTF?!?!

These are supposed to be the bad ass dimple dies from what I have read about them on every fab web site, still pisses me off though. These pieces are SSOOOO SIMPLE to make on a cnc lathe its not even funny. I know cnc lathe programing and this part could be programmed in a matter of minutes, and machined in just a few minutes. It just bugs me damnit! Anyways here a few pics.

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Congrats!!!

Santa brought me a set of those last year, also from Light Racing.

So far I've only been able to fondle them through their small plastic wrappers, but I look forward to finally breaking them out in the coming months.

Speed holes are not only cool looking, but add a tremendous amount of strength while REDUCING weight. Therefore it follows that with enough holes, a truck could eventually become weightless and infinitely strong! :saweet:


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rdn2blazer said:
Cant wait to do some cool fab stuff with them. Will post pics when they arive. Ordered them from Keith at XtremeCrawlers.com. cool dude to talk to also. I ordered a 5 pc. set, 3/4", 1", 1-1/2", 2", 2-1/2" dies for $290.00 $305.00 to my door.
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He is in my neck of the woods. Seems like a decent guy.

What's the max thickness your set can dimple?
 
well, i guess i'm on my way, a little more rust and a set of these and i will have the strongest burb body ever.

have fun with the new toys
 
DPI said:
What's the max thickness your set can dimple?
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IIRC they could do 1/8"....maybe even a bit more. I think the challenge is finding a press that can apply the necessary force for those kind of thicknesses though..... :thinking:

Some guys use an impact wrench and a bolt through the center of the dies to draw the two halves together. Pretty clever and cheap solution for the lighter gauge stuff.


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There rated for .125 Cromoly plate. So Mild steel .125 is no problem.
 
Fry said:
one thing to mention.. They add rigidity not strength
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.............which equates to strength. If its more rigid, its stronger. Its strength by design, not mass. If you put a bend in a piece of sheet metal and put the bend side down it will hold a good amount of weight, Its still the same piece of steel just with structure, or rigidity design feature added to it.
 
potatoe, potato...

Im not an engineer, but a short stupid way to think about it is, your diverting the force to a different location. Stronger, weaker, are all adjectives, but in this case need to be specified.

The material is not stronger. Material strength doesnt change unless you change its metallurgical properties,.

You are diverting the stress exhibited on the material into another plane- one which is stronger (like angle iron or I beams vs flat stock). Materials are stronger when trying to be compressed than stretched...

these dies add strength- more so as you move to the edge (aka, super large circles. But, there's a downside, in that if you went to say a a 1 foot die, torsional strength goes down by a bit, so you have to have a happy medium somewhere. But in general, use the largest die you can, unless you expect to see some weird loads being applied.

Example: Frame to roll cage= mostly compressive force.
Skid plates, impact force, dimples wont really help you at all. I shaped reinforceents on the back are your best bet for that.
 
Pookster said:
potatoe, potato...

Im not an engineer, but a short stupid way to think about it is, your diverting the force to a different location. Stronger, weaker, are all adjectives, but in this case need to be specified.

The material is not stronger. Material strength doesnt change unless you change its metallurgical properties,.

You are diverting the stress exhibited on the material into another plane- one which is stronger (like angle iron or I beams vs flat stock). Materials are stronger when trying to be compressed than stretched...

these dies add strength- more so as you move to the edge (aka, super large circles. But, there's a downside, in that if you went to say a a 1 foot die, torsional strength goes down by a bit, so you have to have a happy medium somewhere. But in general, use the largest die you can, unless you expect to see some weird loads being applied.

Example: Frame to roll cage= mostly compressive force.
Skid plates, impact force, dimples wont really help you at all. I shaped reinforceents on the back are your best bet for that.
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Im with ya, either way, Im stoked to get'um and play with'um. :D Its just cool fab tool stuff.
 
just recieved my set of dimple dies, pics in first post. refresh.
 
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