My goals for today are to find out how pocket knives are made, and what sort of process they go through. This will help me in determining a final cost of the materials needed.
The first step in mass producing the swiss army knives is stamping out the attachments out of a coil of stainless steel. From there they are heated up and cooled down to harden it, and from there all the stamped parts are put in a vibrating mixture of ceramic stone and water to polish it. The second part in it is stamping the parts together with a aluminium spacer and spring separating all the parts into layers, then brass bushings are screwed on to secure it together. The final step in making it is layering the casing, which is the red polycarbonate, and finally the tool is closely inspected to see if there are any faults or imperfections, and the tweezers and toothpick are added. The final product is a high quality pocket knife which has up to twenty attachments and is only one inch or two point five centimetres thick.
From what I've read and seen, I believe that this sort of setup would be perfect to mass produce a utility tool for the high school student.
The stamped out and polished scissors
Stamping the parts together on the brass rivets
The Final Stage of Production; adding the tweezers and toothpick
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