Questions generally asked during interviews on the subject of Press tool.

Compiled by S. Ghosh.(Sr. Manager-Training)

1. What is Die-shut height?
2. What is Press shut height ?
3. What is throat depth ?
4. What is Bolster opening ?
5. What are the effects of high cutting clearances between die and punch ?
6. What is the effect of low cutting clearances between die and punch ?
7. Distinguish between direct pilots and indirect pilots ?
8. What is a finger stop ? Why is it given in a die ?
9. What are retractable pilots ? What are its applications ?
10. What is a hybrid punch ?
11. What is pitch punch ?Draw a sketch of a pitch punch ?
12. What is heel on a punch and why is it provided ?
13. How many types of stripper plates are there ? Name them and sketch them.
14. What do you mean by Margin on a Die ?
15. What is Land on a Die? Why is it provided?
16. What is a split die ? What are its advantages?
17. What is the clearance provided between die and punch?
18. What is the clearance provided between die and punch?
19. What is the clearance provided between pillar and bush?
20. What is the clearance provided between a die insert and its cavity?
21. What is the clearance provided between pillar /bush and the bolster plates?
22. Why angular clearances are provided in a die?What is the usual value given to it?
23. What is the difference between piercing and blanking operations?
24. What is the function of a stripper?
25. When should a spring loaded stripper be used?
26. When should clearances be subtracted from the punch dimensions?
27. What are the general rules for die block thicknesses and its margins?
28. What is an idle station in a progressive tool?
29. Why stepped punches are provided?
30. What are the different methods of reducing the cutting force required off a punch?
31. Why does a strip cling on to a punch after it pierces/blanks?
32. What is stripping force? How much is its value in comparison with the shearing force?
33. How do you find out the screw sizes for a press tool?
34. How do you find out the dowel sizes for a press tool?
35. How do you find out the pillar sizes for a press tool?
36. What is the formula for calculating the punch length for slender punches in a die?
37. How do you find out the thickness of different plats in a press tool?
38. Why are the bushes generally fitted on to the top bolster plate in a press tool?
39. Which one is generally harder in après tool-the pillar or the bush,the punch or the die?Why?
40. Select suitable materials for all the components of a combination type press tool with proper
justifications.
41. Also mention the hardness required for each element.
42. Write the heat treatment procedure of HCHCr.
43. Write the material composition of HCHCr.
44. Why grain direction consideration is essential for designing a bending tool?
45. What is the formula for calculating the shearing force?
46. What is the formula for calculating the bending force in V-bending tool?
47. What is the formula for calculating the bending force in U-bending tool?
48. What is the formula for calculating the bending force in wiping bending tool?
49. What is ironing?Why is it necessary?
50. What is spring back ?What are the methods by which we can overcome springback?
51. How does forming differ from bending?
52. How does a solid form die differ from a pad type die?
53. Name five forming operations?
54. What is the smallest permissible radius that can be curled?
55. How are curls strengthened?
56. What is a bulging die ?
57. What is the bulging medium?
58. What is the critical height of a hole flanging?
59. What causes spring-back?
60. When are edge bending die used?Why?
61. What are the spring back values of MS, BRASS, ALUMINIUM, BRONZE, and COPPER?
62. What is corner setting?
63. What is coining?
64. What is embossing?
65. What is lancing?
66. What is notching?
67. What is bell mouth in a die ?
68. What are the utility considerations of an inverted die?
69. Give a sketch of a compound die and label all its parts.
70. What is a compound die?
71. What are the utility considerations of a compound die?
72. Give a sketch of a compound die and label all its parts.
73. Give a sketch of a progressive die using the blank through principle and label all its parts.
74. Give a sketch of a progressive die using the chop- off principle and label all its parts.
75. Give a sketch of a progressive die using the parting principle and label all its parts.
76. What is a semi piercing operation?
77. What is shear-forming operation?
78. What are notching, trimming and shaving operations?
79. What are side action dies?
80. What is Draw clearance?
81. What is a Combination die ?
82. Give a sketch of a combination die ?
83. What is a shedder?
84. What is a stripper?
85. What is an ejector?
86. What is the basic difference between a shedder, stripper and an ejector?
 Commonly Asked Questions in Interviews
Complled By R.Dasgupta
1. What is full form of CMM?
2. How you will make the set of slip gauges measuring 68.735mm.?
3. Very-Very precision slip gauge are made up of which material?
4. What specification of grinding wheel you will use to grind a bore of 10mm. in too harden tool
steel?
5. What you will do in the machine to achive very high surface finish in EDM?
6. Wire of WEDM machine are made of what material .
7. What are the materials used for electrode of EDM.
8. What are the uses of dielectric fluid in EDM ?
9. Name commonly used dielectric fluid in EDM & WEDM.
10. Why alloy steel can bot be parted by gas cutting?
11. Name commonly used cutting tool materials.
12. Diam ond wheels are dressed by which dressing tool?
13. What do you mean by conventional and non- conventional machine tool?
14. What is the difference between machine of machine tool?
15. You required to achive 0.01mm. accuracy in 500 mm. centre distance of bore, what should be
the condition of the job?
16. While doing Milling or Turning operation you observed that material is too hard to cut . What
you will do next?
17. What is graphical representation for following:-(
(a) First angle and Third angle projection. (b) Concicity (c) Symitricity

(d) Flatness (e) Straightness (f) Perpendicularity (g) Parallalism

(h) Rum out (i) Total run out (j) Surface finish.

18. What do you mean by parallax error?

19. Define following:-

(a) Tollerance (b) allowance (c) Hole basis & shaft basic system

20. What kind of fittings will be in following:-

(a) H7g6 (b) H7M6 (c) H7P6

21. What do you mean by interchangeability?

22. What do you mean by comperator?

23. What are the different tyoes of gauges used for measuring and their purposes?

24. To form ab angle in a wheel what dressing attachment you will use?

25. What is the difference between dead centre and live center?

26. What are the different tyoe of angles in a single ooint cutting tool of turning?
27. What are the different tyoe of angles in a single point cutting tool of shaping?

28. What do you mean by zero, positive and negative rack angle?

29. In a carbide tip which kind of rack angle are there?

30. What are the different tyoe of H>S>S materials?

31. What do you mean by 18-4-1 HSS?

32. What are the main properties should have in cutting tool materials?

33. What do you meam by approach angle of carbide tip (For Milling)?

34. What are the angle of endmill & side and face cutter?

35. What do you mean by cutting speed?

36. What are the different tyoes of threads and their angles and uses?

37. What is the differonce between machine and machine tools?

38. What do you mean by least count?

39. What is the cutting speed of grinding. What aare the factors involve in selection of grinding
wheels?

40. What do you mean by the folloeing marking on a grinding wheel GC36KSV23.

41. What are the major advantages of grinding?

42. What should be the drill point abgle for steel & aluminum?

43. What effect will be if turning tool is not in the center of the job?

44. How you calculate the amount of off set of tail stock to produce any angle in the job?

45. What are the reasons of unbalance of wheel?

46. What are the reasons of unbalance of wheel?

47. Why coolant flow should be stoooed while grinding wheel is off?

48. When you will use single point dresser and multi point dresser?

49. Why lapping is done 0.012-0.16/Ra?

50. Why coolants are bot used for machining of cast iron?

51. What is the difference betewwn NC & CNC control?

52. What are the effects of positive rack & negative rack angle of single point tool?

53. What are the factors to be consider while selecting a proper grinding wheel?
54. What are the makes model and specification of the machin jyou have used so far?

55. In C.N.C machine what control you used? What version of control you used?

56. What do you mean by up milling & doen milling? What milling you will prefer?

57. Why machine bed is generally made of cast iron?

58. To grind a job in between centre what precaution you will take>

59. While dressing of grinding wheel why dresser used to be kept at an angle ?

60. When you eill use end mill and slot drill for making a slot?

61. What do you mean by least count of m/c & making a slot?

62. What are the different tyoes of clamos used in milling?

63. What are the work holding devices for grinding?

64. What is the spindle tapper specification of your milling machine spindle, tail stock spindle and
CNC milling spindle?

65. What is the cutting speed of grinding?

66. What you mean by plunge grinding?

67. What kind of coolant is used in grinding of copper?

68. What do you mean by position hole or tooling hole?

69. What do you mean by ;degree of freedom?

70. What is the difference between jigs & fixture?

71. What do you mean by Jig- Fixture?

72. Pillar & bush for press tools are imade of what kind of material abd what should be their
hardness.

73. Pillar & bush for mould are made of what material and what should be their hardness?

74. What do mean by Injection mould ?

75. What is the processing cycle of thermo plastic?

76. What is the processing cycle of thermo set plastic?

77. In high speed milling up to what hardness material can be machined?

78. WEDM m/cuss are abundantly used for making whaaat?

79. EDM m/cuss is abundantly used for making what?

80. Name few case hardening process.

81. What do you mean by normalizing?

82. What do you mean by annealing?

83. After forging welding hot – working what kind of heat treatment is compulsory?

84. Core& cavity of mould are generally made of what material & what should be the hardness?

85. Punch & die for press tools are made of what material and what should be the hardness.

86. What is the difference between pressure die casting & gravity die casting?

87. What is riser in pressure die casting?

88. What do you mean by multi cavity mould?

89. What do you mean by family mould?

90. How you will decide for no of cavities?

91. Why ejector pins are generally case harden preferred?

92. For What kind of components you will use sleeve ejector?

93. When you will prefer stripper plate ejector?

94. In three plate mould what gate generally used?

95. What are the different tyoes of gates and what are their specific uses?

96. What are the advantages of hot runner mould?

97. What do you mean by manifold?

98. For what types of component split mould is used?

99. What do you mean by roto core?

100. What is the function of wedge?

101. What are the different actuations system generally emoloyed for split dies and side core?

102. On what occasion dog leg cam is used?

103. Nozzle or torpedo in hot runner mould are made of what material?

104. What do you mean by shot capacity of Injection unit?

105. What do you mean by plasticzing capacity of Injection unit?

106. What are the reasons & remedies for following faults in plastic component (Moulded):-

(a) Short filling (b) Burning in component (c) Discolouring (d) Fish eye mark (e) Flashing f. Blistering
107. What do you mean by venting?

108. What do you weld mark?

109. Why gate location is important?

110. What do you mean by hesitation in filling?

111. What do you mean by cut bearing?

112. What id MMR?

113. What do you mean by warpage?

114. What do you mean by shrinkage?

115. In guide pillar and guide bush why pillars are dept less harden than bush?

116. What do you mean by rooling hole ?

117. What is the function of locating ring of Mould?

118. What are the different gates used in injection mould?

119. What do you mean by family mould?

120. What do you mean by runner lay out?

121. What do you mean by balance runner?

122. Why sprue and ru;nner should be well polished?

123. What do you mean by mould temperature?

124. What are the common methods applied to unscrew the treaded component?

125. What is the function of wedge in split cavity and side core?

126. What are the different Ejection system?

127. How following are calculated:-

(a) Injection Pressure (b) Clamping Force (c) Ejection Force

128. Why proper gate location is important?

129. How no. of cavities are decided?

130. What are the materials generally used for making the following:-

(A) Core (B) Cavity (C) Topptate (D) Ejector pin (E) Sprue bugh (F) Guide pillaer gide bush

131. What should be the hardness of Core, cavity, Guide piller & Guide bush?

132. What are the advantages of hot runner mould?

133. How three plate mould is economical?

134. What do you mean by cut bearing?

135. How a Injection moulding machine is specified?

136. What are the steps are followed to polish the cavity and core of the mould?

137. Name few Engineering thermoplastics and their uses?

138. What are the reason and remadies of following problems:-

(a) Flash in the component (b) Burning mack

(c) Short filling (d) Blistering in the component

(e) Poor surface finish (f) Sticking

139. Why venting is necessary?

140. What are the advantages of Jigs& Fixture?

141. What do you mean by repeatability?

142. What do you mean by interchangeability?

143. What you mean by motion wconomy in Jigs & Fixutre?

144. Why diamond shape pin to cater is used ?

145. What is Blistering in Mould component?