This online version of the Handbook has been designed to facilitate your selection of standard parts from the Seastrom Catalog No. 66B as you determine applications. When you identify the application you need, locate the part number in the description. This number will refer you to a section of the catalog from which you can order the specific sizes, finishes and materials for your particular requirements. A red button provided on each product page of the Handbook (see image below) allows you to instantly jump to the specific product page in the online Seastrom Catalog.

Seastrom Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Seastrom has been in business since 1928 with a tradition committed to quality products produced on time at competitive prices. We have over 45,000 stocked parts ready to ship, all of which are listed in a fully illustrated and detailed catalog available online. Furthermore "If we don't have it, we'll make it." Custom stampings can be made to meet your individual needs and specifications.
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Current price and delivery information is available online 24/7, and stock orders ship within two business days.

The Engineering Reference Handbook

The purpose of this Engineering Handbook is to help you, our customers, specify the best Seastrom part for your application. This handbook includes specialized engineering information on each of our catalog parts, as well as materials and finishes. This information is to broaden your design capabilities by acquainting you with the characteristics of each.

An informed decision on which type of part you need to specify, in most cases, will reduce your design, tooling and production costs. The specification of one of our standard catalog parts instead of a custom part will reduce your costs further and speed your order to you within two business days.

Seastrom's Method of Manufacturing

Here at Seastrom we make only Class A tooling for all of our presses. This makes us ideal for medium to long run stamping. The actual stamping procedures used include piercing, blanking, lancing, drawing, embossing, coining, shaving, bending and others, in compound and progressive tooling. Any stamping is produced by one or more of these procedures.

With Seastrom's expertise in the stamping field, and a fully integrated CAD-CAM system, we know exactly which procedures will produce the best part for you. There is no need to specify individual procedures other than heat treating, deburring and finishing.

Facts to Help You Specify Special Parts

• Seastrom has a wide range of capability to produce custom parts to your specifications.
• We range in press sizes up to 75 tons.
• We also use 4-slide presses which further expand our ability to make parts with multiple and complex bends.
• Aside from our presses, we make use of WIRE EDM and CNC Machining Center equipment. These machines provide us with the ability to produce a large range of complex tooling. They are computer programmed and operated, and provide a high degree of accuracy. Both types of machines can also produce limited quantity prototypes without the cost of tooling.
• This information about our capability should help you to specify your custom parts. Just remember the key points of how to buy stampings and we will produce for you the best and most economical part for your application.

How to Buy Stampings

The primary way to avoid the development of a special part is to include only the restrictions which are critical to the functioning of the part.

The restrictions that lead to higher production costs are:

• Over-dimensioning a part
• Non mill standard material, thicknesses and tolerances
• Unneeded temper and hardness ranges and heat treating
• Flatness better than .005 TIR per inch
• Tighter dimensional tolerances than necessary
• Extremely small percentage of burr or burr free condition.

If you have any questions regarding a part for your application, let one of our experienced engineers help you.