Workholding
Collets Support Swiss-Turning Applications
Hardinge’s Swiss-style collets are designed for precision machining of small parts suitable for the medical and aerospace industries.
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Rubber Chuck Grips Automotive Joints
A rubber chuck by Northfield Precision Instruments is designed to grip automotive “rubber coupling” drive shaft joints.
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Lighted Workstop Verifies Part Location
Electrifying the work allows a light to indicate whether the setup is correct. The simple solution turned into a standard product for this shop.
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Steady as She Goes
Machine shops are inventive operations. Learn how one uses a steady rest in a different way on one of its two-turret CNC lathes.
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Rotary Table Offers Accuracy, Repeatability
Hardinge’s DD100 direct-drive super-precision rotary table is a high-speed parts positioner with ±3 arcsecond accuracy and 4 arcsecond repeatability.
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Rotary Tables Feature High Rotational Speed
Distributed by Rotec, pL Lehmann’s 500 Generation line of rotary tables features four base modules (EA-507, 510, 520 and 530) that enable users to create more than 170 variations and combinations ranging from a single-axis fourth, with the option of multiple spindles, to a mounted tilt-rotary table fourth/fifth axis.
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An Innovative Way to Use a Steady Rest
This shop found a way to modify one of its two-turret CNC lathes so that a tricky aerospace component could be properly supported for critical operations.
Read MoreTwo-Jaw Version of Quick-Setup Chuck
Designed to increase productivity and reduce costs, the BBT200 series chuck from Kitagawa-NorthTech is a two-jaw version of the BB200.
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Lifting Magnets Offer High Strength, Compact Size
Neodymium lifting magnets, the latest addition to the company’s family of industrial material handling magnets, are suited for handling steel plate, forgings, die castings and similar flat and round ferrous components in machine shops, warehouses and industrial processing plants.
Read MoreCompetitively Priced 12-Ft. Bar Feeder
The Ideal 320 is a competitively priced 12-ft. bar feeder for Swiss- or fixed-headstock-style lathes.
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