Bow Bender Press Rebuild

Bow Bender Forming Press Rebuild

This customer manufactures a wide variety of School Buses and other Commercial Transportation Units. A.S.M.E., a division of Custom Rollform Products, manufactured a Coil Feed Rollform Line to punch, rollform, and cut-to-length a wide variety of Roof Trusses primarily for their School Bus Line. After rollforming the Roof Trusses, they would put two lengths into an old Radius Form Press that would form them into a contour radius the height and width of the Bus.

A bow bender rebuild is a comprehensive process that restores your machine to near-new condition. It can involve a range of tasks, depending on the specific needs of your machine. Worn parts, leaky hydraulics, and tired controls can all lead to decreased accuracy and efficiency.

The rebuild is not just about replacing parts. It is also an opportunity to improve. In some cases, components are upgraded for better performance and efficiency. Safety features are reviewed and enhanced to meet modern standards. The control system, the brain of the machine, are reprogrammed for increased accuracy and user-friendliness.

About This Bow Bender

This unit was approximately 30 years old, and the manufacturer no longer built machinery. The machine design was a little unconventional but produced parts for years. The customer asked if we could rebuild the machine and update the Controls for them. The original frame was cracked and needed to be fixed and reinforced. All the Hydraulic Hoses, Cylinders, and Valves leaked and needed to be repaired or replaced. A lot of the Form Tooling, Bushings, and Guides needed to be reworked or replaced. A new PLC was added along with a lot of the Switches and Sensors.

We hard piped a lot of the Hydraulics and eliminated a lot of the Hoses and leakage problems.

It is not shown on the photo, but we also built Safety Guarding for the System which was virtually non-existent before our rebuild.

By giving your Bow Bender a new lease on life through a rebuild, you can save money, improve performance, and keep your shop running smoothly for years to come.