Tooling & Workholding
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TOOL PATHS: WEAK LINK NO MORE
No matter how sophisticated a machine tool is, it can?t do anything without a tool and tool path. Glenn Coleman of Celeritive Technologies shows how a high-quality cutting tool, driven by innovative tool path programs, can increase metal removal rates as much as 10 times.
WHAT'S NEW: END MILLS
This showcase of new end mills displays the latest designs that could make your machining processes more competitive.
General Purpose Union Butterfield Taps
These tough and affordable hand taps are ideal for mass production taper, plug and bottoming applications and more.
Next Steps in Tool Grinding Fundamentals
The Conclusion of Stop Losing Money: Our series concludes by showing the next steps of how to produce the absolute minimum relief angles that give the best edge support and grind life, and revealing a few grinding tricks that can save any shop time and money.
Do Your Toolholders Fit Your CNC Spindles?
Here are some reasons why your toolholder may be showing finish wear at the threaded area and at the gage line, how to inspect where the threads have expanded the toolholder, and how to prevent all of this from occurring.
AUTOMATING TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE
Curt Rellick of Kennametal shows how to implement a machine utilization strategy that reduce wastes, defines standard work, creates more flexibility and reduces machine setups.
MODULAR FIXTURING FOR 5-SIDED WELDING
Bluco Corporation (Aurora, IL) offers the Wolverine Clamp, specifically designed to fit Bluco Modular Fixturing tables and ready for production and high volumes of work.
DEDICATED FIXTURES, MODULAR WORKHOLDING REDUCE CYCLE TIMES
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME; Rockford, IL) can design and build Amrok ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery.
FLEXIBLE COLLET SYSTEMS INTERCHANGE IN SECONDS
Hardinge (Elmira, NY) FlexC? Collet Systems are flexible, sealed collet heads that interchange in seconds and are available with spindle mounts for all brands of CNC lathes. The FlexC line compliments their large selection of collets, step chucks, collet chucks and other workholding products.
CHUCK FOR THIN-WALLED AND EASILY DEFORMED PARTS
Clamping thin-walled and easily deformed components is challenging. With its ROTA NCR 6-jaw compensation chuck, Schunk Inc. (Morrisville, NC) offers a standard solution for this type of workpiece.
GANG CHUCKS OFFER HIGH PRODUCTIVITY
MicroCentric Corp. (Plainview, NY) has Production Milling Chucks, a low profile manually actuated concentric clamping system to integrate with tombstones and pallets for machining centers, milling machines and grinders to provide the ultimate in high productivity and high precision workholding.
VACUUM CHUCKS FOR ANY WORKPIECE IN ANY CNC MACHINE
2L inc. (Hudson, MA) adds two new vacuum chucks to its precision vacuum chuck product line. Along with the successful 8 in x 12 in Modular Vac-Vise Vacuum Chuck Systems, two larger Vacuum Chucks, in sizes of 18 in x 36 in and 24 in x 48 in, are now available. With the addition of the new sizes, 2L Vacuum Chucks can now accommodate virtually any size workpiece in any size CNC machine.
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