Tooling
Deep-Hole Drills Enable Peck-Free Machining
Precision Cutting Tools’ solid carbide Hi-Depth long drills are designed to increase productivity while simultaneously reducing cycle time during deep-hole applications.
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Vise within a Vise System Enables Economical Five-Axis Machining
A unique vise-within-a-vise system using Kurt workholding enables Peterson Machining Inc. to cost effectively use five-axis manufacturing for complex parts.
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Tool Management System Pumps up Plant-Wide Communication
Zoller’s Tool Management System helped Bosch Rexroth streamline tool design, product manufacturing and tool quality. As a result, the plant has seen a reduction in quality issues and an increase in production efficiency.
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Vertical Turning Centers Accommodate Large, Asymmetrical Workpieces
The Yama Seiki GV-1 series vertical turning centers offer heavy-duty cutting capabilities to complete turning, milling, contour milling and drilling applications on one machine.
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Horn offers a range of tooling for mechanical machining of pipes and sleeves for the crude oil and gas industries.
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A Hollow-Access Unit for Wire EDM
By simultaneously rotating and tilting the workpiece, this rotary tilt/turn hollow-access device from Hirschmann enables the EDM wire to cut complex openings that may have different paths at the top and bottom of the opening.
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Manually Actuated Clamping Devices Ease Tool Changes
The SVP-Mini and SVP-RM manually actuated clamping devices from Schunk are run on factory-defined set pressure.
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What to Know about Torque Motors
Torque motors are commonly used in indexing tables on machine tools. This succinct article helps you evaluate this and other applications in which power transmission for rotation calls for the advantages of a torque motor.
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Blade-Style Tooling for Internal Grooving
ThinBit, manufactured by Kaiser Tool Co., is expanding its line of DeepGroove support blade-style tooling.
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Video: 1964 Game Show Demos Drilling through Human Hair
See a clip of the founder of Maryland’s National Jet on the “I’ve Got a Secret” game show demonstrating his company’s ability to drill through something as small as a human hair.
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