Questions about a Nibbler

I've found a few Nibblers for sale and I don't know much about the machines in general. After watching a bunch of videos on YouTube it seems like everyone mostly uses Pullmax's is that because of the availability of tooling? The machine I found was a Trumpf CS75 Nibbler is this for just cutting metal or can I form parts on it as well? Any advice or help would be great, I'm new to owning forming equipment so sorry for the cluelessness.

-Matt

 

Hey Matt,

I'd suggest you tap some of the on line metalshaping sites- metalshapers.org etc. These guys have alot of on hands experience with tooling and usage of these machines. The Trumph machines have tooling for metalshaping other than just cutting/nibbling just as the PullMax machines.

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I use a nibbler junior. The tooling is based off of round stock so I just make my own as I need it.

 

Mine is a Nibbler Medium, but essentially they all do pretty much the same thing. Probably the one thing to look at is throat height as that can be limiting for certain operations. Most of these type of machines will be limited in this area as they were mostly made for performing various operations on flat sheet.
Trumpf is a good machine and for the most part you're going to be making a lot of your own tooling. Metalmeet.com & Allmetalshaping.com are a wealth of information.

 

mine is a old Libert, its done everything ive needed so far..tooling, is pretty much whatever you can think up that you want it to do. look up the Metal Meet forum, lots of info, the guys gave me ingo on how to do stuff for my libert. most of the pullmax tooling stuff is 3/4" shank i think?which their holders are nice to use so lots of tooling.

 

I'm not sure what the tool holders look like on this one. I have yet to see one in real life so I can't begin to imagine how it all goes together so to speak. BTW nice looking floors!