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You design and build a workholding fixture. Then you install it on the machine, load the new program, and set up the tooling.
Here is a question that is as fundamental as the name of this magazine: Just what does a “modern machine shop” look like today?It seems like the right time to ask. Manufacturers were transformed earlier in this decade. Business was lean, and many shops went lean in response.
Available from Absolute Machine Tools, the Precihole SBN300/1-600 skiving and roller burnishing machine is well-suited for ID finishing operations for hydraulic tubes ranging from 1.37" to 16" ID and as long as 40 ft.
Palmary’s brochure features the OCD-3260CAM CNC cylindrical grinder that can grind various special-shaped workpieces.
The demand for extremely small precision components is growing. A look at one company's thrust to meet this demand reveals what it takes to run a micro machining business.
V-Hemoth, Micro 100 Tool Corporation’s high-velocity variable pitch end mills, feature variable flutes pitch. The carbide end mills are designed for high speed milling while eliminating chatter and vibration. All tools have AlTiN coating as standard.
Rocklin’s MoldMender micro welder repairs plastic injection molds, rubber processing molds, die casting molds and dies made of steel.
The CoolPulse ECM machine developed by Extrude Hone removes internal and external micro-burrs from metallic components, while also smoothing and polishing surfaces. The machine has been designed for two different modes of operation, with rapid selective change-over from one to the other. The ECM system is designed
Moving from cut tapping to form tapping for a notable application cut tooling costs at Siemens Energy and increased tool life a hundredfold.
For an upcoming article, I recently visited Protofab in Petaluma, California. I wanted to learn how this small job shop got into micro-machining medical implants. It turns out the shop didn’t win this work because it had the right equipment or because it was knowledgeable about machining tiny parts. The equipment a
