Workholding
Live Center Adjusts for Off-Line Center Holes
Riten Industries offers its Adjusta-Point radial compensating live center to maintain center hole concentricity in shafts and other parts during milling and turning.
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Quick-Change Fixture System Designed for Rotary Tables
Laser Tools Machining, a division of Laser Tools Co. Inc., offers the Gravestone, a quick-change fixture system designed to fit onto a rotary table or computer-driven indexer.
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ID Clamps Offer Precision Clamping with No Interference
Self-centering ID clamps from Carr Lane Manufacturing simultaneously locate and clamp from the inside of an existing hole or slot in a workpiece, leaving the entire outer surface clear for machining.
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Chucks Enable Efficient Machining of Pipes
Designed specifically for the oil and gas industry, Röhm Products of America’s LVE chuck system enables manufacturers to quickly and efficiently process long, large pipes as well as associated pipe couplings and connectors.
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Air Chucks Offer Extended Stroke
Samchully Workholding’s PAC series of extended-stroke Mega Bore air chucks are designed for pipe and tubular applications.
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Video: Automation Inside the Workzone
What is automation? Not just a robot. Technology for holding, moving and measuring the part inside the machine can also achieve considerable time and labor savings.
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Why Not Lights-Out Inspection?
A contract shop in Connecticut is developing a process to enable its new CMM to inspect multiple parts unattended, thereby minimizing the impact that part measurement has on the company’s bottom line.
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Workholding That’s on Point
A pin-based workholding system quickly accommodates workpieces of any shape.
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People are Part of the Process for Machining Inconel
A Tacoma shop describes its winning strategy for efficient machining of Inconel. That strategy includes careful choices of cutting tools and cutting parameters. It also includes a healthy breakfast.
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Sealed Holder Protects Chucks from Debris
Erowa will present its ITS 50 Holder C, designed to protect chucks against contamination such as copper chips, graphite dust or fine HSC chips during manufacturing processes.
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