Reduce split domes with
uniformed and controlled clamping pressure. Huge air chamber behind the piston means fewer split domes.

Most bodymakers cycle too fast to ever benefit from an outboard surge tank. Air can not pass into the airline and down to a surge tank fast enough to prevent compression of the air behind the piston. Earlier models of the Pride Bottom Former already had the most consistent clamping pressure in the industry—but higher speeds and thinner can stock requires even more uniform and controlled clamping pressure to reduce (cracked) split domes.

Softer donut spring
absorbs the shock of
bodymaker overtravel.

As your bodymaker speeds up, the ram linkage stretches and the ram grows with heat at higher speeds. Pride’s soft donut spring gently absorbs the added overtravel, reducing the pinching that causes split domes and the metal fatigue that contributes to failure of bodymaker ram linkage components.