Flying shear - GIF

[Bcampbell1989]

At a tube mill I used to work at, all the mills had flying shears, except they traveled about 18” and sheared so fast you could barely see it. Our tool and die guy had heavily modified them to last upwards of 2 years, originally they on,y lasted about 2 weeks. I worked in maintenance and was the only person besides him allowed to rebuild them. Man was it fun to do, lots of hand fit parts that their final dimensions were hand scraped to fit at time of rebuild. I realLy miss working with him and rebuilding those dies. The tube mill I currently work at uses flying saws and we don’t get to rebuild anything, everything is bought new and it really is no fun not getting to rebuild stuff. That first tube mill will likely remain my favorite job I’ve ever had