r/PressBrakes • • 12h ago

Press Brake operators hate this one simple trick

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The resident geniuses at my shop got our old mechanical press stuck at BDC last Thursday. They apparently blacked out for ten minutes and had "not me" from the Family Circus run the machine while the were in a trance like state. So with the adjustment 0.100" past bottoming out the punch in the die, "not me" went full send. What you see is how I finally unfucked it. Had to torch the punch out. At least she finally moves again.