Tooling

Workholding 9 Jun 2015

Air Chucks Available in Through-Hole, High-Speed, Quick-Change Models

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. offers air chucks suitable for lathes, boring machines, grinders or VMCs, including through-hole, high-speed and quick-change models.

Toolholders 9 Jun 2015

Video: Machine Tool Serves as its Own Robot

Schunk’s Gripper with Spindle Interface device enables a machine to load and unload workpieces on its own. See how.

Cutting Tools 8 Jun 2015

Line of Aluminum Inserts for Shell, End Milling

Millstar offers an aluminum cutting insert line featuring modular screw-on heads forshell and end mill cutters with side clearance options.

Deburring 8 Jun 2015

Adapter Enables Automated Deburring with Wheel Brushes

Tanis offers its Shell Mill Adapter for wheel brushes, designed to simplify wheel brush attachment to CNC machines and enable automated deburring.

Cutting Tools 8 Jun 2015

Drills Offer Improved Shearing of Composites

RobbJack/Crystallume will highlight a variety of cutting tools, including its PCD drills, which feature a solid diamond tip with geometry designed to shear better than typical flat-plane drills.

Workholding 5 Jun 2015

Modular Clamp System Reduces Tooling Interference

Mitee-Bite Products offers its fixture clamps in a modular system, including clamps, grips and stops designed to be fully adjustable while mounted on T-slot tables or the company’s aluminum T-Slot grid plate.

Deburring 4 Jun 2015

Deburring/Chamfering Tool Offers Adjustable Cutter Depths

Heck Industries offers its Turbo-Burr handheld deburring/chamfering tool featuring a light construction.

Workholding 4 Jun 2015

Fixture Maintains Axial Position for Unattended Tool Grinding

The Schunk Prismo3 toolholder for tool grinding directly clamps shank diameters between 3 and 20 mm without the use of collet chucks or sleeves.

Milling Tools 3 Jun 2015

End Mills’ Diamond Coating Handles Cemented Carbide

U.S. Union Tool has developed a diamond coating for its Unimax UDCBF and UDCLBF tungsten carbide end mills to improve hardness and durability for cutting cemented carbide.

Cutting Tools 2 Jun 2015

Indexable Insert Grade Designed for Productive Steel Machining

The Tiger-Tec Silver WPP05S insert grade is a wear-resistant, indexable grade from Walter USA said to deliver high performance and productivity in steel machining, particularly for roughing forged components and long production runs.