Chucks

The Dream Chuck Stop from Dream Tools Inc. allows end users to machine through a part by providing the clearance for cutting tools to go through the part. According to the company, it is reusable unlike soft jaws and conventional chuck stops.

BIG KAISER announces the introduction of the world’s reportedly smallest hydraulic chuck for HSK-E25 machine spindles, thus completing its extensive range of BIG KAISER Super Slim hydraulic chucks. The Super Slim type of hydraulic chucks (HDC) are suitable toolholders for precision finishing processes in confined areas with drills, reamers, ball mills, endmills, diamond reamers and grinding tools.

MAPAL offers hydraulic chucks specially for tool grinding machines, the HydroChuck Grind-A and the HydroChuck Grind-M. The advantages of MAPAL’s hydraulic expansion technology can thus now also be used for tool grinding.

RÖHM Products of America now offers a powered external clamping chuck for gear surface face grinding. The KZF-S collet chuck is especially well-suited for clamping gears/workpieces that have an external plane or gear teeth geometries accessible from the outside.