Tooling

Toolholders

Toolholders Designed for Grooving, Turning

Schwanog’s WSI toolholding system is designed for ID grooving of complex contours, turning, or a combination of both applications.

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Workholding

The Case for Custom Fixturing

Photos of custom fixtures illustrate the types of applications that call for non-standard workholding.

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Workholding

Steel Chucks Available in Large Diameters

Royal Machine has added an 84"-diameter chuck to its line of steel-bodied, manual VTL chucks.

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Toolholders

Pin Vise Toolholders for Miniature Brushes

Brush Research’s pin vises are designed to securely hold small-diameter, miniature deburring brushes when stem diameters are too small for chucking in automated machines.

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Workholding

Upon Further (A3) Review

Using lean manufacturing’s A3 problem-solving process, Genesis Attachments found that magnetic workholding could provide greater benefits than simply getting parts on and off machines faster.

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Workholding

New Generation Rotary Table

The combiFlex system from Peter Lehmann is designed to increase flexibility on the Lehmann 500 rotary-table line.

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Holemaking

Coolant-Fed Drills Enable Deep Drillling

Cobra Carbide’s Blackmamba series of coolant-fed drills are designed to enable drilling to a depth of eight times the tool diameter.

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Workholding

Miniature Self-Centering Vise Offers Precision Clamping

Schunk’s Tandem KSP+64 is said to be a major development in miniature, self-centering clamping technology.

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Turning Tools

Single-Flute Spiral Cutting Tools

LMT Onsrud offers balanced single-flute spiral cutting tools.

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Cutting Tools

Grade Features Positive Inserts for Difficult Turning

Tungaloy has incorporated a line of positive inserts into its AH905 grade for turning super alloys and other difficult-to-machine materials.

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