Tooling
Fixture Plate System Speeds Visual Inspection
Phillips Precision’s Open-Sight fixture plate system provides lean, quick-change workholding for visual inspection.
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Video Highlights Extreme Part-Off Demos
The strength of a tough part-off tool is shown in video showing it parting off a railroad rail and sledgehammer head. Talk about significant interrupted cuts…
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Video: Re-Use Soft Jaws with Expanding Pins
When tool-and-die and contract machine shop Baklund R&D developed a workholding device to solve a challenge with one of its own jobs, the company realized it potentially had a solution that could benefit many other shops as well.
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Rigid Spindle Interface with Tool-Locking Technology
Kennametal and Haimer have developed the KM4X spindle interface with Safe-Lock toolholder technology.
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Modular Interface for Cutting Tool Heads
Haimer and Kennametal introduce the new modular Duo-Lock interface for carbide cutting tool heads.
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An Extreme Part-Off Demo Returns to IMTS 2014
The strength of part-off tools is shown in demonstrations whereby they part off a railroad rail and sledge hammer head. Talk about significant interrupted cuts…
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Tap's Multi-Layered Coating Reduces Friction, Heat
Emuge's Z-Tap line is designed with an advanced chamfer geometry and rake/flute form for use with stainless steel, high-strength alloys, tool steels and cast steels of 30 HRc and below.
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Quick-Change Chuck Maintains Accuracy
The Quick-Jaw-Change (QJC) power chuck from Samchully Workholding is suitable for both large and small-batch production in job shops with frequent part change-overs.
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Combination Chuck Enables Off-Machine Presetting
The Gripfast Combination Power Chuck from Pratt Burnerd International, a division of 600 UK, provides lathes with a chuck, collet chuck and mandrel chuck in a single unit, available in sizes ranging from 165 to 800 mm.
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Tooling Selection Keeps Big Aerospace Component In-House
Attention to the tool-up process enabled JWF Industries to launch a large-scale defense industry radar frame project, keeping production in-house and ultimately shaving weeks off of the expected production time.
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