Every year, remove dead, diseased or dying material, and take out any branches that are badly placed or crossing.
Always wear gloves whenever bleaching or dying material because the dye/bleach can stain or burn through hands PERMANENTLY.
This chapter discusses common die materials, die wear and die life, pass schedule concept, and drawing practices.
Common die materials are tungsten carbide/cobalt, natural diamond, and single and polycrystalline synthetic diamond.
Furthermore low-friction coatings and harder die materials improved the forming results.
Both die materials yielded high quality CsI crystals at high growth rates.
After that, the process of die development was studied according to the sequence of die components, i.e., die structure, machining condition for die making, die materials, heat treatment of partially die components, and so on.
The paper details techniques used to reduce machining times and improve workpiece surface roughness/accuracy when HSM hardened mould and die materials.
Four selected die materials commonly used in the cold-forging process were examined in the present study to obtain the relationship between the hardness and the die fatigue life.
Therefore forming experiments were performed with different die coatings (titanium nitride, titanium carbon nitride, amorphous carbon), different lubricants (common oil, forming lubricant and without lubrication), as well as two die materials.
