Oliphant Tool Company

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Manufacturer of carbide pins & punches for cold forming

Supplying the world leaders in fastener technology for over 25 years

Aerospace - Automotive - Commercial - Electronics - Medical

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Carbide Pins, Punches and Proprietary Carbide

Set your headers to stun

For 25 years Oliphant Tool Company has narrowly specialized in the manufacture of carbide cold heading pins & punches for aerospace, medical, automotive, and electronics companies worldwide. Combining three generations of manual tool and cutter grinding experience with next generation expertise in cutting-edge technologies, all tooling is manufactured following strict quality procedures on state-of-the-art proprietary CNC equipment and comprehensive records of all manufacturing processes are kept in perpetuity for total traceability.

Tool Life Extension is our Specialty

Throughout our history we have constantly invested in research and development including proprietary machine tool technology, tool design and modeling, nano-grain carbide metallurgy and advanced multi-layer PVD coatings. These many years of research both in our lab and in the field have resulted in quantum leaps in performance. Let Oliphant Tool Company help you utilize our latest advances in cold header tooling technologies including our proprietary tungsten carbides, advanced tool designs and the latest generation of PVD wear coatings.

-    Extrusion and double extrusion pins
-    Burnishing and coining pins
-    Pierce and Punch Pins
-    Polygonal Pins: Square, Hex, Octagonal, Rectangular, Trapezoidal, etc)
-    Hexalobular, TORX, TORX PLUS and Fluted Pins
-    Spark Plug and Socket Pins
-    Knock out / Slug out pins
-    Specialty point forms: multi-faceted, trepan, bullet-nose, waterfall, compound concave and convex
-    All types of carbide gage pins
-    Proprietary tungsten carbide grades specially designed for cold heading
-    Air/oil holes and a wide array of PVD coatings also available

Carbidyne™ OT-Grade Carbides: Born to Form

Throughout the 1980’s, we were not satisfied with the off-the-shelf grades offered by carbide suppliers. None of the grades were really suitable for cold forming extrusion and piercing applications. They were either die grades, too soft for best performance or drill grades, too brittle for our preferred applications. What we needed were new formulations that provided the strength we needed with the wear resistance offered by high hardness. What we needed were carbide grades designed for cold heading pins and punches.

In the early 1990’s after many years of lab work, consultation with multiple carbide suppliers and field trials with industry leading fastener manufacturers we found it in our first custom formulation: Oliphant Tool Grade OT-400. OT-400 provided the superior wear of very hard low cobalt materials while providing the toughness offered by die grades. Since then, our Carbidyne™ Advanced Materials group has developed more than a dozen grades of carbide for every cold forming application from Camtronic® and platinum to deep extrusions in A286 as well as grades designed to fight common cold heading challenges such as punch bending. With Carbidyne™ Advanced Materials grades including our new 95 RwA Carbidyne™ OT-475, our customers experience quantum leaps in pin and punch performance.

Let Oliphant Tool Company select a custom formulated carbide that was created to run the job you are running and get more hits for fewer bucks. Beware of imitators, OT grade carbides are available only from Oliphant Tool Company and licensed resellers.

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Oliphant Tool Company
15652 Chemical Lane
Huntington Beach, California
Phone: +01 (714) 903-6336 Fax +01 (714) 903-6321
Customer Service: custservice@oliphanttool.com
Technical Support: techsupp@oliphanttool.com

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Celebrating 16 years online!
Carbidyne and the “OT” grade designation are trademarks of Oliphant Tool Company