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[Frank S]

Anybody know why they put the 'stations' in that order?
Why not just go straight down the line?

The only thing I can see is station one and station 2 required the widest area this allowed station 3 to share part of the upper cavity of station 2 having them situated as 12345in a straight line may have required a longer punch/die set than the configuration they came up with. You almost have to view it at its slowest speed or frame by frame to see what I am talking about