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Swift Action. At a Detroit meeting of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers, engineers from General Dynamics' General Atomics Division demonstrated how the principle works in practice. Magneform - a tool little larger than a home washing machine and using no more current than an electric range - has no moving parts at all. Its essential part is a coil of heavy wire that can take var ious shapes, including a cylinder, a doughnut or a flat disk. When a massive electric current from a capacitor is shot suddenly through a coil, it creates an intense magnetic field...
Gentle Handling. Magneform is already doing many useful jobs: aluminum and copper are being joined to porcelain insulators for outdoor wiring; the metal bands around artillery shells are being fitted quickly without any fuss. The auto industry is using Magneform to produce ball-joint and seal assemblies for front suspensions. Magne-form's principal advantage over welding, pressing or stamping is its ability to shape metals without the rough handling that such operations ordinarily require. Automated assembly-line operation can be managed easily, and Magneform men are already looking toward the day when most subsidiary parts of an auto...
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