Die Sep Demo at Amerimold 2019

Tool Shop Live! was a breakthrough hit from Amerimold 2019. This new aspect of the Event for Mold Manufacturing was brought about as an effort to address the fact that mold repair is often a team effort among suppliers, mold manufacturers and customers. For anyone who attended this year’s show, Tool Shop Live! gave a chance for technology and service suppliers, each offering solutions for every shop’s mold maintenance and repair challenges and needs, to show their stuff through presentations and demonstrations.

One such demo was from Louis Bowler of Die Sep, who showcased the company’s mold separator and tipper, giving Amerimold attendees the chance to see a 90-second mold removal process.

Watch the demo for yourself, and read the transcript below

Louis Bowler

It's a Die-Sep mold separator and tipper. We make them both with hydraulics and this is a ball screw machine that we use. It has magnets embedded in the platens. All that you do is set a mold down inside of our platen, push the platen up and push the mold up to the stationary platen.

We make these so that they will handle anything from six by six by six-inch moles up to 50,000 pounds.

Now just turn on the magnets.

It's pretty easy to orient the mold. When you take a mold out, usually one of the parts will come off, go to a bench or whatever the case may be. To line it back up, all you do is get the radius on the leader pins kind of inside the bushing a little bit. You start to close it. If it starts to jam up at all, you just turn off the magnets on the pusher platen, and the mold will then align itself sideways and still slip back in. So these take about 90 seconds to do the whole cycle. An 8,000-pound machine will take about three minutes to do the whole cycle, and a 50,000-pound machine will take about five minutes.