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Hum that's strange. I cant find the punch I have on the website either. The punch I use is a "Pittsburgh Deep Throat Metal Punch" (yea yikes on that name!) it's a hand held punch, and it comes with a set of punches of different sizes, and it can punch up to 14 gauge thick aluminum, but don't try to punch into steel, I broke the smallest punch doing that. The Item number is, 91510. It's not showing up on the website, but I bought mine at the Newark California store years ago. I need to go back to that store and buy a replacement punch for the one I broke. If you can find it make sure you get the metal stand for the punch, as it makes it a lot easier to keep in place when punching out holes. You really need to press down hard on the handle to punch out holes, and the stand makes it more stable.

pete

this is what mine looks like,

http://www.amazon.com/Roper-Whitney-135010001-Throat-Punch/dp/B001VXS7ZK/ref=pd_sbs_indust_1

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Kendall Jackman <kendall.jackman@...> wrote:

 

Ahhhh, that 808 is triggering some serious gear lust here.  I want that early 80's Tangerine Dream sound...

Anyway, those panels look great.  What's the specific tool you used?  Searching Harbor Freight for "punch" yields 26 results, and none of them look like what I imagined I'd need:

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=punch

Then again, I never did like shop class, so I probably have no clue what I'm even looking for.  I assume the many "pin punch sets" are not what I need?

-kj

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Pete <23isgood@...> wrote:

 

I use a cheap manual hole punch from harbor freight. It works fine for euro style aluminum panels. You can see the results in one of my videos,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3PNx03pO4

pete

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Dotcom Refugee <kendall.jackman@...> wrote:

 

I've been looking on line at punch presses and other tools for stamping standard-sized holes in the sheet gauges we work with in the synth panel world. All I can seem to find are:

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