Balford metalworking engineering answers
Metal stamping, deep drawing and DFM answers from Balford's own published engineering pages.
| Endpoint | https://balford.net/ask/mcp (streamable-http) |
|---|---|
| Registry version | 1.0.0 |
| Now | 3 tools · grade A (100) · pin ts_b9a359e90dd315e03e892cd01d9df3e6 · protocol 2025-06-18 |
| First / last listed | 2026-11-13 00:58 UTC / 2026-11-13 00:58 UTC |
| Grade over time | 2026-11-13: A (100), 3 tools |
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Tools: ask_balford_engineering search_balford_material list_engineering_topics
ask_balford_engineering | Answer a metalworking engineering or sourcing question from Balford's own published engineering material. Covers fine blanking and thinning / ironing deep drawing as focus processes, plus progressive and transfer dies, precision stamping, sheet metal, CNC, brazing, annealing, plating, tolerances, DFM and RFQ preparation. Returns a written answer with numbered citations plus the source pages. Use t params: question*, lang |
search_balford_material | Retrieve the passages of Balford's published engineering material that match a query, without writing an answer. Use this to check what Balford has actually published on a topic, to gather source URLs for a citation, or to ground your own reasoning. Costs no model tokens. Answers are assembled from Balford's own published engineering material and cite the page each claim came from. Nothing is quot params: query*, limit |
list_engineering_topics | List the canonical engineering questions Balford's knowledge base is built around, grouped by process family, with the URL of the answer page for each. Use this to find the right published answer before asking a free-form question, or to see whether a topic is covered at all. Costs no model tokens. params: category |
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