Barfeeding Advances: Drilling Performance
According to this article, the short-bar barfeeders that are on the market today are not plagued by the drawbacks that have become associated with barfeeding. The units load 5-foot bar stock into a lathe rather than the longer stock loaded by earlier units. This article describes how shops can use short-bar barfeeders to keep a lathe busy with a steady flow of work and still change from one bar diameter and part program to another easily and quickly.
