Tips and Tricks on Press Brake Safety FAQ [Selmach Machinery]

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Watch our experienced engineer discuss the importance of hand and slow speed safety on a Press Brake. For the purposes of this demonstration we have opened the side gate on the Press Brake. At this point if you try to put your foot on the pedal, the machine wouldn’t work. But if you look down at the control panel, you’ll see that the reset switch is flashing. If we press this reset switch and place our foot on the foot pedal, you will get slow speed, enabling you to use the machine when the side fence is open. And as you can see, with either gate open, the machine will run in slow speed.
The pressbrake has two speeds, one is fast approach which basically is being guarded by the laser guards. Number two is slow approach which is basically switching off the laser guards, getting a small gap of the base of the metal is in the machine and then it can fold.
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